This move will save Classical 89/KBYU's classical schedule. The bottom line is that the outfit will purchase another radio outlet and to that signal will stream BYU, aka Brigham Young University, fare. You can read the narcoleptic coma inducing deets about the deal here. In Provo, Utah, no less.īYU Broadcasting has announced that it will buy an FM signal that will allow it to broadcast a bunch of educational content it planned to stuff into Classical 89/KBYU-FM, presumably obliterating the latter's popular classical music offerings. After protests, a radio station has decided to keep its classical music format. I must tell you that I was shocked to read this story. Check the end of this post for more details. A big chunk of the classical music group associated with now sadly defunct KUSP-FM will be hosting programs on the weekends. While we are on the subject, I can't wait for KSQD-FM (aka "The Squid") in nearby Santa Cruz to start broadcasting. Sunday morning is the perfect time for a community radio stations to host classical music. Marked "Andante Sostenuto" in the orchestral score, the composition begins with a violin cadenza that invokes the scene of a beautiful bird stretching her wings in a garden. Sherry started her lineup with Ralph Vaughan Williams' radiant tone poem The Lark Ascending: A Romance for Violin and Orchestra. 'What is this?' six listeners in a row immediately demanded. No sooner did the performance begin than the phones started ringing. My friend Sherry Gendelman, who hosts a popular Sunday morning classical music show on KPFA in Berkeley, started her program last week with a piece for violin and orchestra. "It’s free, it’s local, it’s live," Levine told Variety, "and it’s the only medium that deals with your community.” He predicts that terrestrial radio will last another "15 to 20 years." I am most familiar with his K-MOZART outlet, available at FM 105.1, via HD, and online. Since then Levine has operated classical, jazz, and even country music stations. He even built a makeshift studio on the site itself, where an eccentric Seven-Day Adventist-turned-engineer who literally lived off the land kept the station on for as close to around the clock as humanly possible. He acquired a transmitter from a defunct Michigan station for $1,500, had an antenna crafted out of a lead pipe, and bartered commercial time on the yet-to-air station for a $300 flag pole so they could broadcast. Forest Service for $350 a year - driving the tractor himself. Like Daniel-Day Lewis in “There Must Be Blood,” Levine bulldozed the land atop Mt. Author Roy Trakin obviously had fun writing the piece: Variety has a wonderful profile of Los Angeles radio pioneer Saul Levine, age 92, who launched his first classical music station KBCA-FM almost 60 years ago.
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