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{OT} DC's Commercial Classical Station WGMS

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Jan 5, 2006, 2:58:06 AM1/5/06
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Posted because there's interest here in commercial classical
broadcasting.

At noon Wednesday, January 4, WGMS was moved from 103.5 MHz to 104.1
and 103.9 MHz. (Two frequencies? I'm just reading what it says. Does
this have something to do with digital broadcasting?)

See: http://www.dcrtv.org

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Bonneville Kills Z104, Moves GMS To 104.1 & 103.9, TOP To 103.5, DC
Post Radio & Nats Coming To 107.7 & 1500 - 1/4 - At noon today,
Bonneville killed off "modern music" Z104. It moved classical WGMS from
its longtime dial spot of 103.5 to Z104's 104.1 and 103.9 frequencies.
And it put all-news WTOP on 103.5. So, what's going to happen to 107.7,
which is still relaying WTOP? Bonneville's DC radio honcho Joel Oxley
announced on WTOP's airwaves at 12:23 PM that, come March, WTOP's
Warrenton FM relay and Wheaton AMer on 1500 will become WTOP-produced
Washington Post Radio, with "long-form" news, a la a commercial version
of NPR. There are also reports that the baseball Nationals will land on
1500 AM and 107.7 FM, via the Post's radio service. Looking for jobs:
Z104 Program Director Sammy Simpson, Z104 personalities Mathew Blades,
Jenny Chase, and JV, and Nationals radio man Dave Shea. On its
airwaves, WTOP called the changes "a seismic shift in Washington
radio." Also, we hear that WGMS will get a new antenna this weekend
which will "significantly boost the signal from where it is now." The
Bonneville press release is at DCRTV's PR Page. More from the DC Post,
Radio And Records, and at wtopnews.com. Says DC Post columnist Marc
Fisher in his Raw Fisher blog about WGMS leaving 103.5: "That's an
unfortunate move for the highly successful WGMS, which will now have
trouble reaching big chunks of its affluent, educated audience in upper
northwest (DC) and lower Montgomery County, where the Z104 signal is
very weak".....
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