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Thursday, December 22, 2011

San Francisco classical non-profit buys a South Bay translator for $205,000

KDFC 90.3 and 89.9 Classical Public Radio Network needs signal help in the South Bay, since it took over the KDFC branding and classical library from Entercom and moved off of KDFC's traditional frequency of 102.1. The classical programming is now at the non-commercial frequency of 90.3, being LMA'd from the University of San Francisco. Read More

Thursday, October 27, 2011

California owner Saul Levine wants classical music back in Monterey

Levine tells the Monterey Herald “we’re negotiating for an over-the-air station" in Monterey. Such a station would fill the hole created when Mapleton’s commercial-classical “K-Bach” KBOQ was replaced by soft oldies “B103.9” about 10 days ago. Read More

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

The FCC wants to know more about the sale of San Francisco's KUSF (90.3)

The local "Friends of KUSF" group has raised enough doubt about the LMA prior to closing for the FCC to question the "Public Service Operating Agreement." Audio Division Chief Peter Doyle has written seller University of San Francisco and USC-owned buyer Classical Public Radio Networks, and Doyle is asking for answers to 15 questions about the agre… Read More

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Making Moves: Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Making Moves New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi will expand his time on sports WFAN-AM (660), agreeing to appear with Mike Francesa in afternoons before nearly half of all Yankee games this season. Terms were not disclosed ... Read More

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

San Francisco's longtime classical KDFC (102.1) is moving to non-com signals

Entercom logo Last week Entercom announced it will pay $9 million for San Jose’s “K-Fox” KUFX (98.5), and now it says it’s dropping the classical format on its own KDFC, San Francisco at 102.1 and simulcasting K-Fox there as a "classic rock superstation." That begins Monday, January 24. The new home of classical in the Bay Area: A newly-linked non-com simulcast … Read More

Monday, November 8, 2010

Making Moves: Monday, November 8, 2010

Making Moves Radio-Info has confirmed that "Mouth 2 Mouth" has been silenced in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The WOOD-AM (1300) late-morning team of Scott Winters & Michelle McKormick has been cut loose, replaced by the syndicated Glenn Beck ... Read More

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Four Christmases IV: Lost 45s, KDFC, WODS, WASH

As the all-holiday format has spread and become codified over recent years, it has coalesced, and for cause, around a relatively cohesive body of music and a relatively small number of titles (if not interpretations). There’s a reason for that, of course. Read More

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

"Renaissance personality" John Evans to KCBS-AM&FM San Francisco

CBS Radio’s “all News” KCBS-AM/FM (740/106.9) hires radio journalist and music personality John Evans. He’ll serve as the station’s evening news anchor and work other shifts. Read More

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Making Moves: Tuesday Morning

In Atlanta, Radio One hip-hop WHTA “Hot 107.9” cuts out midday host Rashan Ali. She was a member of the station’s former morning show, before it added the syndicated Rickey Smiley Show … Also gone from his midday shift is Jason Lee, who exits Greater Media’s WBEN-FM (95.7) Philadelphia. Read More

Friday, May 22, 2009

Making Moves: Friday Afternoon

Norfolk’s WPTE-FM (94.9) “The Point” changes “The Morning Point” into “The Afternoon Point,” as the syndicated Kidd Kraddick morning show starts June 1 and bumps the current morning show to another daypart … Former Delmarva-area DJ Gary Edsall is returning to radio, cooking up a new morning show on Salisbury, Maryland’s WCEM-FM (106.3) starting Jun… Read More

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