current.org
The station is a cultural treasure.Classical California reduces workforce due to funding cuts
The organization is losing $1.1 million in annual revenue with the rescission of CPB funds.
Yes this involves the parent organization of KDFC San Francisco and KUSC Los Angeles.
What is the expense and departamental cost breakdown of these two stations? I have run a fulltime classical station... 50 years ago... for just a few thousand a month. This budget of over $20 million is about $1.5 million a month.Classical California reduces workforce due to funding cuts
The organization is losing $1.1 million in annual revenue with the rescission of CPB funds.
Yes this involves the parent organization of KDFC San Francisco and KUSC Los Angeles.
The problem is that good fund raisers are in short supply, so they can expect to be well compensated.Let's take a guess, executive and management positions?
Of course we know it's the talent. It always is. Highly doubtful any of the leadership gave up even a small pay reduction to soften the impact of the CPB cuts.
Donors need to start placing restrictions on their gifts to prohibit this sort of behavior. Presumably they give because they value the content and the creators, not to give immunity to the C-suite club..
You make it sound like the only people who are competent at selling broadcast underwriting also demand out-of-scale comp packages. Some people are just as competent and do what they do because they love the programming their operations produce and want them to survive. I would think that classical music stations are high on that list. And nobody needs mid-to-high six figure compensation to live comfortably, especially since more than half of that comp will be going right back to the very same administration that put them in this situation, because of one whiny orange kvetch.
I couldn't agree less. What you are suggesting would make it sound like college radio and would only appeal to a smaller number of listeners.
A lot of students are more than likely barely interested in radio, and even less would be interested in playing classical music.
For many, yes. But he also has a point about "Classical California" giving the operation a monolithic feel, one that lacks the charm of locality. My simple cake-and-eat-it-too solution would be to have the announcers introduce themselves by name and location.
Outside of commercial broadcasting where money has come to mean everything, anything even approaching "consensus favorites" programming shouldn't be the exclusive mode of a publicly supported classical music station. I understand the need for it to be the majority. But I would bet lots of people would be happy if just five hours daily were dedicated to the lesser-known pieces. Since most radio listening happens in cars, and since the most serious classical connoisseurs are more likely to listen in environments unspoiled by road noise, I would personally program the less familiar, less accessible material during hours where most of my listeners were likely to be awake, not working, and not driving. Probably meaning 7 AM to noon on Saturday and Sunday mornings, and 8 PM to 1 AM on weekday nights. (Do serious classical music purists even go near prime time television?
)True, but why not service the purist audience sufficiently enough to provoke their just-as-green financial donations too, especially in a climate where every contributor now counts double? Yes. from their perspectives, internet streams that focus exclusively on deep cuts might be superior. But the purist demographic also happens to be extremely evangelistic of the artform. They know it's dying away and many of them would happily support (perhaps handsomely) a platform that exposed the unschooled and unwashed to what they believe is the loftier side of classical music.
which might be why Classical California programs the often obtuse Metropolitan Opera broadcasts then.
I'd love to see the market or perceptual research data you apparently have on this issue. Quantifying this "purist demographic" might be of great benefit to many who might otherwise be struggling in the aftermath of having their budgets slashed.
kxsc.org
Most colleges are selling or shutting down their student-run stations.
The current student station is KXSC:
KXSC Radio
KXSC is the University of Southern California's radio station and is completely operated by USC students.
The link in your post isn't coming up - it gives me an error page.
Correct. Yours was a page with a cc description. My link was KUSF online.
