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Poss.: WGBH to buy WCRB?

How will this affect W-Bach, the "Classical Stations of Maine"?
They run a similar schedule with the same announcers.
 
While I'm happy to see classical music will be preserved in anohter major market in non-commercial form, I do hope that WGBH will retain their jazz programming at night on the 89.7 frequency. Though I could hardly blame them if they chose to make that freq. a full time news/talk outlet. If that is indeed the case, that makes me wonder what will become of the jazz programming? Would they consider splitting the time on WCRB between classical and jazz? That is already being done in markets like Philadelphia and Detroit. Or, would such programming be simply relagated to an HD subchannel and a webcast?

While I absolutely love jazz music on public radio, I am fully aware that interest in the format is dying, and that a station will make far more money with news/talk than jazz. :(

As to the W-Bach network, which I presume is sitll run as a commercial operation, my guess would be that they would have to find an alternative programming source, as they probably won't be able to carry the new WCRB feed. This won't be an easy task, as I don't think there are any commercial satellite services offering classical music anymore.
 
JakeLongwell said:
...I don't think there are any commercial satellite services offering classical music anymore.
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Perhaps WCN?
I even think they share one of the announcers.
 
ai4i said:
JakeLongwell said:
...I don't think there are any commercial satellite services offering classical music anymore.
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Perhaps WCN?
I even think they share one of the announcers.
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Or Beethoven Radio, which was being carried on WCCC Hartford's HD-2 until the station abandoned HD (due to financial distress, according to posters on the Hartford board) this summer.
 
Sorry to hear about WCCC-HD2. Their little AM station runs a bunch of sports and other stuff.
WCCC never had a network of more than two co-owned stations in Hartford.
We worked at WTMI in Miami before they morphed into this, several years ago.
 
ai4i said:
Sorry to hear about WCCC-HD2. Their little AM station runs a bunch of sports and other stuff.
WCCC never had a network of more than two co-owned stations in Hartford.
We worked at WTMI in Miami before they morphed into this, several years ago.
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Actually the little AM (1290) still runs Beethoven Radio, at least part-time, but its signal is unusable at night unless you're standing next to the transmitter, and it's not much better in the daytime. I'm only 18 miles south of Hartford and it's a tough listen here.

Beethoven Radio, to be honest, isn't much value to any but the most casual of classical music fans. It leans toward the ultra-familiar and even considers movie music to be "classical." Even Sirius XM's "Pops" channel, which is supposed to be classical music's greatest hits, goes deeper than this.
 
JakeLongwell said:
While I'm happy to see classical music will be preserved in anohter major market in non-commercial form, I do hope that WGBH will retain their jazz programming at night on the 89.7 frequency. Though I could hardly blame them if they chose to make that freq. a full time news/talk outlet. If that is indeed the case, that makes me wonder what will become of the jazz programming? Would they consider splitting the time on WCRB between classical and jazz? That is already being done in markets like Philadelphia and Detroit. Or, would such programming be simply relagated to an HD subchannel and a webcast?
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WGBH is saying that they will keep jazz at night and the specialty music shows on weekends (folk, Celtic, blues, etc...). Just the classical will all go to 99.5, replaced by news/talk during all the weekday daytime and drive-time hours on 89.7.

At least that's what they're saying now, but if public radio news/talk delivers for them, I wouldn't be surprised if they change that when/if it does.
 
Before someone corrects my last post, I know the Miami station became 93 Rock. My fingers were moving faster than my brain ;)
 
CTListener said:
Actually the little AM (1290) still runs Beethoven Radio, at least part-time, but its signal is unusable at night unless you're standing next to the transmitter, and it's not much better in the daytime. I'm only 18 miles south of Hartford and it's a tough listen here.

Beethoven Radio, to be honest, isn't much value to any but the most casual of classical music fans. It leans toward the ultra-familiar and even considers movie music to be "classical." Even Sirius XM's "Pops" channel, which is supposed to be classical music's greatest hits, goes deeper than this.
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AM 1290 still runs Beethoven 24/7, but they also carry West Hartford High School Sports. I think despite its limited signal reach it's nice that they serve their City of License by carrying West Hartford High School Sports.

http://wcccam.com/sports.php
 
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