Another US city slashes classical radio

Another US city slashes classical radio

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norman lebrecht

November 05, 2017

It’s Salt Lake City.

Read about it here.

 

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  • MWnyc says:
    November 6, 2017 at 7:28 am

    Norman, KBYU has a transmitter that broadcasts into Salt Lake City, but the station is not actually in Salt Lake City; it’s based at Brigham Young University (hence the BYU) in Provo, more than 70 km away.

    Here’s the article about it from Provo’s newspaper, The Daily Herald:

    http://www.heraldextra.com/entertainment/television/byu-broadcasting-to-consolidate-tv-radio-operations-in-june/article_0262cf62-db08-5f71-89c8-74eb6ced5f3f.html

    And here’s The Daily Herald‘s editorial (“leader”, as y’all say over there in Blighty) about it:

    http://www.heraldextra.com/news/opinion/herald-editorials/herald-editorial-consolidation-will-help-byu-make-better-broadcasting/article_cbe7a8b0-e482-5030-be6c-42754aa6012e.html

    Since (as far as I can tell with Google’s help) KBYU-FM is/was the only full-time classical radio station in the entire state of Utah, your headline might be more dramatic as well as more accurate if it said that an entire state is losing classical radio.

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    • norman lebrecht says:
      November 6, 2017 at 8:02 am

      Thanks…. I’m a Utah innocent.

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      • rg says:
        November 7, 2017 at 12:50 am

        Off-topic, but southern Utah has some of the most extraordinary and beautiful landscapes in the world. Like being on a different planet.

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        • MWnyc says:
          November 7, 2017 at 12:52 pm

          And Salt Lake City’s orchestra has had a good reputation for a very long time. So does its ballet company. And it is a city like no other.

          Could be worth a visit next time you’re over here, Norman!

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