“Classical music is returning to the AM radio dial, right where K-Mozart used to be,” writes Lee Margulies on a Los Angeles Times blog Saturday (2/7). “Starting Feb. 15, KGIL-AM (1260) will devote a four-hour block every Sunday to the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony. The orchestras’ broadcasts will air back to back from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. And beginning Feb. 16, there will also be a classical music interlude from 8 to 9 on weeknights: ‘Exploring Music With Bill McGlaughlin.’ ” The station, featured all-classical music programming before changing to talk in October 2007, along with it’s call letters, originally KMZT-AM. “Now some classical fare is returning. In a news release issued late Friday afternoon, KGIL described its decision as a response to “popular demand,” noting also that the two orchestras would supplement the blocks of Great American Songbook programming that is already part of the Sunday schedule.”
Classical returns to LA airwaves
Posted on: February 9, 2009