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 posted on future happenings.

About Mike Janssen

Mike Janssen Served as Scanning The Dial's original co-authors from Mar, 2008 to Jan, 2010 and is a freelance writer, editor and media educator based in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. He has written extensively about radio, mostly for Current, the trade newspaper about public broadcasting, where his articles have appeared since 1999. He has also worked in public radio as a reporter at WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he began his career in journalism and filed pieces for NPR. Mike's work in radio expanded to include outreach and advocacy in 2007, when he worked with the Future of Music Coalition to recruit applicants for noncommercial radio stations. He has since embarked on writing a series of articles about radio hopefuls for FMC's blog.

Mike also writes regularly for Retail Traffic magazine and teaches workshops about writing, podcasting and radio journalism. In his spare time he enjoys vegetarian food, the outdoors, reading, movies and traveling. You can learn more about Mike and find links to more of his writing and reporting at mikejanssen.net.

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2 thoughts on “Update on KFUO”

  1. Thanks, Mike. You’d think that the Lutheran Church would rather keep the station ecumenical or secular than sell it to a rival Fundamentalist religious group.

    Here’s hoping Beethoven (the multiple?) wins out over Elmer Gantry…

    -Robert Ready
    Vermont

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