New Voices at WFMT

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Chicago audiences get to hear two new voices on flagship station WFMT. Candice Agree was formerly on the air at WQXR in New York, WETA in Washington DC, Sirius-XM, and WDAV in Davidson NC, and is a well-known off-camera voice on CBS news in the mornings. She’s taking the 3-7 pm slot on WFMT, in place of George Preston, who is the new GM at KCME in Colorado Springs. Suzanne Nance is is leaving her job as Director of Music, Performance and Cultural Affairs at Maine Public Broadcasting and host of Morning Classical Music.  She starts her new gig at WFMT in September.  However, her departure … Continue Reading

Catching Up on Some News Bits

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KCME in Colorado Springs welcomes George Preston as its new General Manager.  If you’ve been in the radio biz for a while, you know George as a presence on WFMT in Chicago and producer/host of the Chicago Lyric Opera broadcasts.  Before that he was Music Director and overnight host at WNYC in New York.  He is replacing Jeanna Wearing, who ran the station for 18 years and is staying on to help with development. In Kansas City, defunct classical station KXTR is coming back as an internet station.  Radio Bach is streaming classical … Continue Reading

Tom Taylor Now Newsletter

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If you’re a regular reader of Scanning the Dial you’ve benefited for years from the excellent work of Tom Taylor in keeping us up-to-date on radio news.  Last fall, I lost him.  I always used to cite his Radio-info.com column but just like a station changing format, overnight it changed to a newsletter that doesn’t help us in the classical realm. Well, Tom got in touch yesterday and he has a new newsletter called “Tom Taylor Now,” and it’s the outstanding work we’ve always relied on.  He’ll keep you informed about the FCC, how radio is … Continue Reading

Full-Time Classical Coming in Wilmington?

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Our friend Cleve Callison at WHQR in Wilmington was interviewed in the Greater Wilmington Business Journal about the station’s potential good news: WHQR-FM is in talks to buy a second radio station in the market, station manager Cleve Callison said Tuesday during a fundraising event. If the deal goes through, the second station would be an all-classical music format, allowing the existing public radio station at 91.3 FM to expand its offerings of news and information shows, Callison said. …Callison said station officials were in talks with an unnamed company about the acquisition. He said the … Continue Reading

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