D.C. Radio Stations Reshuffle Formats, But Classical Stays On

WRC TV, Washington, D.C. & AP ^ | January 22, 2007 | NBC 4.com

[GAB-1955]

WASHINGTON -- Classical music lovers in the D.C. area could breathe a sigh of relief Monday: The format will not disappear from the airwaves as previously feared.

The company that owned the region's only classical station, WGMS-FM, had been in talks to sell it to Daniel Snyder, the owner of the Washington Redskins, who was expected to make it into an outlet for sports programming. ...

As Salt Lake City-based Bonneville International Corp. and public radio WETA-FM were announcing the deal at 3 p.m., a disc jockey on WGMS informed listeners that the station was signing off. Bonneville's new station, called George 104, immediately began broadcasting its mix of "'70s, '80s and whatever we want."

Meanwhile, WETA, which had dropped the classical format in 2005 for all news and public affairs programming, was to go back to classical at 8 p.m. Monday. Bonneville has agreed to donate its 15,000-disc classical library to WETA...

[raccoonradio]

>>We have commercial classical radio in Boston.

The famed WCRB, now at 99.5 FM. It (102.5) was sold to Greater
Media, which owned 5 stations (adult album, talk,
country, classic hits, and adult contemporary) and the FCC
said one of them had to be sold off due to an ownership cap, so they moved the
country to 102.5 and sold off the 99.5 frequency (antenna
a bit further away from Boston). New owner of THAT station,
Nassau Broadcasting, said they would move the WCRB
call letters and format there, and they did.

[raccoonradio]

(of course you know that, but am just explaining to those
from outside the area!)

Howie Carr rules! Howie Carr ping only on FR!

[GAB-1955]

Actually, there are two, if you count WBJC in Baltimore. The other public stations are Pacifica jazz, C-SPAN, and another jazz station.

[Borges]

And Dziga Vertov and Boris Barnet...at that time in the Soviet Union artists had to do stuff like that or be killed. And unlike LR Eisenstein didn't make film directly glorifying Stalin. His work is mostly historical films. Actually the 'Ivan the Terrible' films were a burlesque of Stalin's secret police. You could call Shostakovitch a propagandist as well. He set all sorts of Stalinist panegyrics to music. He was also much more explicit than Eisenstein.