In Wednesday’s (4/4) Post-Dispatch (St. Louis, Missouri), Sarah Bryan Miller writes, “St. Louis could have a new classical radio station this summer, before the second anniversary of the silencing of the old one. The Radio Arts Foundation-St. Louis, which provided considerable financial support to the old ‘Classic99,’ KFUO-FM, hopes to be on the air with a new FM station in early June, pending FCC approvals. The new station, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, will broadcast over a combination of regular analog radio, an HD-2 channel and live streaming over the Internet. St. Louis currently has one classical option, KWMU (90.7 FM), which offers live broadcasts of St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concerts on its analog station and programming from Minnesota Public Radio on the station’s HD-3 channel and at stlpublicradio.org. The proposed analog station will be audible ‘in the Highway 40-I-44 corridor,’ said station manager Jim Connett. … Connett said the fledgling station is shooting for at least $2 million before June. ‘It’s a fast ramp-up from nothing to on-air,’ he said, ‘but as committed as this community is, when they consider what we have lost and what we will gain, it shouldn’t be a problem.’ ”
Posted April 5, 2012
