Update on KFUO

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Last week came and went, and St. Louis’s KFUO-FM is still a classical station — at least for now. The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which owns the commercial station, has decided that it will continue pursuing “multiple negotiations” regarding the station’s future. Local media has already reported that the prospective buyer is Gateway Creative Broadcasting, a Christian broadcaster. (Does “multiple negotiations” mean others are interested?) The board gave a committee full authority to approve a sale. For more details, you can read the full press release on the LCMS website. We’ll keep you … Continue Reading

Station Beat: St. Louis’s KFUO still in play; KCRW plans new stream

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It’s the end of the week and still no word on the fate of KFUO-FM, the commercial classical station in St. Louis that might be sold by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. This even-handed editorial in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch said the synod’s board was expected to decide yesterday, but I don’t see any updates online. In a poll tallied up this week, a majority of Post-Dispatch readers opposed the sale of the station.

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Music Writing and Classical Radio

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The death of classical music is not only an old topic, but broad as well. Looking at a few recent posts on classical music blogs, the discussion appears to be focusing more on specific aspects of classical music’s supposed morbidity.

Anne Midgette (blogging at the Washington Post’s Classical Beat) wonders whether the classical CD business is dying, and in response British music commentator Norman Lebrecht wrote that ways of communicating about classical music are disappearing.

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News roundup: More on WUFT; Arizona station moves classical to AM

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The Gainesville Sun reports that unhappy fans of the classical music aired until recently on WUFT have been, um, scanning the dial for alternatives — and finding cause for offense. Like WUFT, Gainesville’s Rock 104 is owned by the University of Florida. Former WUFT listeners have been turning to Rock 104, and they’re complaining about a morning show that airs on the station. What this article doesn’t explain is why these classical fans would turn on a rock station and then feel let down about what they find there — as if this weren’t entirely predictable. What did they expect? I’m baffled.

Meanwhile, the newspaper is still running letters from the miffed classical fans.

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