KUSF Sale Completed

The FCC has approved the  transfer of KUSF's license to the Classical Public Radio Station. The sale had been held up because of questions surrounding the payment for programming provided by KUSC (The Classical Public Radio Network. The FCC does not allow non-profits radio stations to sell air time for profit.

The sale was not universally appreciated in the community.

If you are following along at home here is how the deal is going to work according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

"KUSF can now transfer its broadcast license to the nonprofit Classical Public Radio Network, a classical music station operated by the University of Southern California. The sale was announced in January 2011, with KDFC, the Bay Area's only classical music station, moving up the FM dial to 90.3 and booting out KUSF's student radio programming.

The student radio station retained use of the KUSF letters, but is now only accessible online."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/06/07/BA0Q1OUKC6.DTL#ixzz1xDgDVo4v

Public Radio Rediscovers Classical Music

Classical Music’s Comeback, on Public Radio - New York Times

The New York Times has an article about Public Radio and the resurgence of classical Music.
The key to success seems to be single format stations as opposed to hybrid formats (classical music with news and other formats) and market exclusivity. Check out the comments by Marc Hand. A third factor may be market size.  I'm not sure about this but, it may be worth considering when it comes to sheer number of listeners needed to support the station and its programming. The three successful stations mentioned in the article are WQXR, New York, WCRB, Boston and WETA, Washington. Not mentioned in the article are the successes experienced by KUSC, Los Angeles and KSJN, Minneapolis.