[jedi35]

Hi guys,

Sorry that I've been away so much. Right now I'm back up in MI teaching for the 12th summer. I won't be back in town until the second week of August. I'm hoping that someone can help me. As you all know, we are losing our beloved classical music station tomorrow, July 6. The cutoff time is set at 10pm. I'm hoping that someone can record the final hours for me, as I'm away from all my goodies. In fact, I'd be interested in getting as much of the final day as can be recorded, if it's convenient. I hope that someone can do this for me. I'd really appreciate it.

All the best,
Adrian

[electricbear]

Sorry Adrian , I have not way of recording it. Would it be available on the internet feed?

[jedi35]

Yes, Tim. I would imagine that it is available that way. I'm hoping to be able to listen in, but I still can't record the online stream. Anybody else?

[dwarfed centipede]

old school boombox and record onto a tape?

[jedi35]

Hi, I don't really have a working tape deck anymore. However, I would suggest that you go ahead a record what you can, as a backup. Was hoping for something digital. I acknowledge that beggars can't be choosers. LOL

[BPT]

Adrian:
Sorry, I don't know how to record this digitally for you.
Chris H.

[thunderbrick]

Hey, Adrian, I was thinking about you just the other day.  Glad to hear you're still kicking!

I hate that KFUO as we know it is going away.  Hell, even their SQ was great, and their on-air folks weren't afraid to have a little fun.

Like we need another pablum station in STL.  Sheesh!

[no1maestro]

No digital recorders here either, sorry. The station will be missed. I got up this morning and realized I had been in denial for the last two years thinking that cooler minds would prevail but they didn't. There aren't enough quality stations or programming left and the last thing we need here is another cookie-cutter contemporary Christian station. It was great while it lasted!

[jedi35]

Thanks for your comments, guys. Of course, you all have to know how I feel about all this. Strange, it's about 2am here, and there is still classical music being streamed on the website. I hope that continues. A student of mine took pics at a candlelight vigil for the final hour of broadcast. She said that over 200 people showed up to listen together, and it was organized on Facebook. That sounded so cool, and I would have been all over that!!

Bob, we will have to reconnect. There are some exciting things happening in my life, and this time they are good!! Let's talk soon.

Thanks to everyone who posted, I appreciate your concern.

Adrian

[mitch stl]

I listened to Classic 99 on the way home from work Tuesday. While I knew the change was coming, it really caught me off guard when I started the car this morning and found myself in the middle of a bad imitation of Regis and Kathy Lee doing their morning DJ shtick.

Out of morbid curiosity I listened a bit longer. I hope I don't insult anyone, but it didn't take long to reconfirm every bad perception I have about contemporary Christian music - insipid, banal, vapid and so on.

Like many others, I'm mourning the death of an old friend right now. It's like they tore down the Tivoli or Ted Drewes so they could build another McDonalds. I'm just glad I still have a lot of other ways to access the music I love.

PS - I'm listening to Thomas Tallis' "Lamentations of Jeremiah" - seemed appropriate to play some real Christian music as a response to the new pop fizz now in residence at 99.1.

[jedi35]

I'm deeply concerned about another aspect of losing Classic 99. We can get classical music through a number of  sources, including satellite radio, online streaming sources like Pandora, or we can just provide it ourselves with cds, LPs, Ipods, Squeezeboxes, or whatever. I will miss all the great local advertising for arts organizations and their upcoming events, news, stories, features, and the host of other things that make the arts community in St. Louis come alive. Satellite radio and the other things I mentioned can't do this for St. Louis.

Hey, I did hear some news today that lightened my heart. It's my understanding that KWMU (90.7 FM) has now gone to the HD radio format. Behold, there is classical music being broadcast in St. Louis!! I don't have an HD radio tuner, but it's something to look forward to. There is yet hope!!

I also heard that the Classic 99 website will continue streaming classical music for about another month.

Adrian

[electricbear]

The format on 90.7 HD3 is being streamed from a Minneapolis NPR station with some local content being injected. You will not have the same great presenters and will not be able to interact in quite the same way. The station is limited on power and on a good day will have a range of approx 26 miles.
For those interested I have one of the Sony HD tuners set up here at the store f you want to check the station and it's sound quality out.

[BPoletti]

Anybody know what happened to the KFUO "DJs"?  Some, especially Tom Sudholt (sp), were among the best I've heard anywhere.

[mitch stl]

Anybody know what happened to the KFUO "DJs"?  Some, especially Tom Sudholt (sp), were among the best I've heard anywhere.

I haven't heard anything further, but apparently they were offered severance packages that said they couldn't work elsewhere for the duration of the buy-out without forfeiting it. If still the case, I would imagine these people will lay low. I would also think the odds are against them appearing on another radio station in the near future since local radio DJ jobs are hard to come by and I know of no realistic plans for a new classical station in St. Louis.

[BPoletti]

I haven't heard anything further, but apparently they were offered severance packages that said they couldn't work elsewhere for the duration of the buy-out without forfeiting it. If still the case, I would imagine these people will lay low. I would also think the odds are against them appearing on another radio station in the near future since local radio DJ jobs are hard to come by and I know of no realistic plans for a new classical station in St. Louis.

Severance packages are probably tied to markets.  They would likely not be permitted to work in the St. Louis listening area but could be able to work in Atlanta or Dallas as long as the program wasn't syndicated.  At least that's the way it used to work before global internet streaming broadcasts.

I have traveled extensively and not found any classical radio station personality as good or even in the same league as Tom Sudholt.  This includes the better stations in Europe.  BTW, he was an audio hobbyist before he got into radio. 

[mitch stl]

Severance packages are probably tied to markets.  They would likely not be permitted to work in the St. Louis listening area but could be able to work in Atlanta or Dallas as long as the program wasn't syndicated.

I distinctly recall that was not the situation in this case. Supposedly any work, even in an unrelated field and whether local or not, would cut off the severance package. There was quite a bit of commentary on that point given the package was offered by a religious organization who ostensibly should have been a bit nobler than your run-of-the-mill employer.

[BPoletti]

That's an unusual arrangement.  I hope they got a fatter package because of those kinds of restrictions.