Boston’s Classical Shapeshifting

By Marty Ronish, Scanning The Dial
Posted December 17, 2009
Before I talk about Boston, I want to thank those of you who made suggestions about better Xmas programming. Even without actually hearing the music you suggested, I can hear it in my head and it makes me smile. The wonderful trio from Berlioz’s L’enfance [...]

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North Carolina Station Prepares Spanish Classical Music Station

Here’s the English translation of an article that appeared in Yahoo News, produced by the EFE News Agency.
November 10, 2009
Charlotte, NC: Next year a FM radio station in North Carolina will launch the first classical music station in Spanish in the country, reported its promoters today.
Under the name “Concierto,” the station will be broadcast on [...]

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WDAV to air more local flair

From the May 16, 2009 edition of The Charlotte Observer
By Mark Washburn
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/413/story/726682.html
Stations looking to cut costs are turning increasingly toward syndicated shows.
But WDAV-FM (89.9), the classical music voice of Davidson College, is turning the other way.
Beginning July 1, WDAV will drop its overnight service “Music Through the Night,” which originates from Minnesota Public Radio, and [...]

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Funding runs low at public broadcasters

From the April 11, 2009 edition of The Charlotte Observer
By Mark Washburn
Things have never been worse in that stretch of imagination from Sesame Street to Lake Wobegon.
Public broadcasters, supported largely by donations from “viewers like you,” are facing the biggest cash crunch in their six decades of existence.
In the Carolinas:
WTVI (Channel 42) laid off four employees [...]

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WFAE Names new Community Advisory Board members

Thought  you might be interested in seeing who’s joined the WFAE Board.    From Mark Washburn’s column in the Sat. 2/21 Observer:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/413/story/550391.html
At WFAE-FM (90.7), executive officers and new directors have been elected to its governing board: Eileen Friars, executive in residence [...]

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Charlotte Radio Rankings, Charlotte Observer, Jan 2009

“Huge surge for Davidson College’s classical music voice”
Mark Washburn, The Charlotte Observer
January 25, 2009
Click the link below to see how local radio stations performed in the latest Arbitron rankings, listeners 12 and older, for the fall quarter.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/business/story/493776.html

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