“The city of Dallas is inviting proposals to take over management of city-owned classical-music radio station WRR-FM (101.1),” writes Scott Cantrell in Monday’s (7/12) Dallas Morning News. “Both KERA, the local public radio and TV operation, and the Dallas Symphony Association are interested. A request for proposals went out June 17, initially with a July 5 deadline for questions and a proposal submission deadline of July 15. The deadlines have been extended to, respectively, July 9 and July 29…. The city’s Office of Arts and Culture, which oversees WRR, says: ‘WRR 101.FM has operated at a deficit for eight years in a row, with a declining fund balance in operating reserves of $5.1 million since 2012…. If the station’s operating and capital reserves were exhausted, the City would not be able to require it remain a classical station.’ … The Friends of WRR asked supporters to email members of the Dallas City Council, requesting delay and reconsideration of the RFP process and timeline…. In addition to being unusual as a city-owned radio station, WRR … depends on revenue from on-air advertising, a challenge for a station with a relatively small share of the area radio audience.”
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