91.3 FM : WQXR Goes ESPN?

John Bailey

ue, 28 Apr 2009 14:54:00 GM

The same can be said for . WGMS. and WETA. Should WQXR drop their sixty five year history of classical music, I would expect WNYC to shift all news/talk programming to their AM station and go strictly classical on . FM. . In all three cases, ...

god rest ye - wgms - fm

Kerfuffles

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:46:45 GM

classical music and commentary from . wgms. -. fm. is no more, having suffered extinction at the greedy hands of redskins owner, dan snyder. (see dan snyder - the grinch who stole washington's christmas .) however, weta, one of washington's ...

Rants and Raves of a DCTXn: RANT: 104.1 is now "Praise" 104

DCTXn

Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:31:00 GM

MC Hamme said... Gospel??? I must have missed that one! Man, I miss it when it was Z104, way back in the day. The whole shifting of . WGMS. to 104.1, followed by its eventual disbanding, still breaks my heart. Because that's two great stations that were lost. ... I am very glad to have an . FM. radio station. I used to listen to 1580, but here in Northern Virginia, the signal is very weak in the evenings and early AM. Now I can listen to gospel all day and all night. ...

WCRB 99.5 FM to go sporting? | Universal Hub

BStu

hu, 16 Aug 2007 14:33:06 GM

With the demise of Washington, DC's . WGMS. -. FM. , WCRB is definitely the worst so-called classical station in a major market in the U.S. The type of person who goes out of his or home especially in a New England winter to take in a play, ...

rip wgms !

MC Hamme

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:09:00 GM

that effectively orphans one more radio preset in my car, since weta left the airwaves of 90.9 . fm. last year, right around the same time z104 was absolved when . wgms. transferred from 103.5 to 104.1. that just leaves me with wbjc, 91.5 . fm. , ...

dc's wgms drops classical programming after 60 years

unknown

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:58:34 GM

[link:www.wtopn​ews.com/index.p​hp?nid=25&sid=1​039635|classica​l music moving to weta 90.9 . fm. ] [link:www.washi​ngtonpost.com/w​p-dyn/content/a​rticle/2007/01/​22/ar2007012200​579.html|weta to resume classical music broadcast] ...

The Great Debate: Will Classical WETA- FM , In Nation's Capital, Be ...

Garth Trinkl

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:42:00 GM

WETA-. FM. Broadcast facilities. (Mr Allison and probably now Mr DeVany and other senior WETA executives -- is well aware that . WGMS's. internal listener-survey​s indicated that . WGMS. listeners disfavored American classical music, ...

weta may fill classical music gap left by wgms - washingtonpost.com

Mike

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:34:00 GM

weta-. fm. in washington, dc, might return to airing classical music if the city's sole classical outlet, a commercial station, switches to sports news, reports the washington post. weta abandoned classical for news/talk last year after ...

harvey corman makes a miracles with yor room

Francisco Johnson

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:41:00 GM

5 pm -- . wgms. -. fm. (103.5) rush harvey corman harvey corman. rachmaninoff: symphony no. 2; cpe bach: flute concerto in d minor. 8 pm -- weta-. fm. (90.9) performance today with host fred child. 8 pm -- . wgms. -. fm. (103.5) harvey corman at eight. ...

Two Small Steps For Mankind? ... For One Weekend, Classical WETA ...

Garth Trinkl

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:28:00 GM

[During its first weeks starting in late January 2007 after WETA-. FM. abandonned its all-news experiment and following the takeover of Classical-WETA by refugee managers, announcers, and critics from junior WETA-. FM. /. WGMS. -. FM. merger partner ...

pan cogito almost falls off his limb after hearing stravinsky's ...

newmusicrebloggers

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:54:34 GM

with only a slight break for dishwashing, he then turned on reactionary weta/. wgms. -. fm. , so-called public radio in the nation's capital, and was startled to hear stravinsky's the firebird. this was not a usual evening in greater washington ...

fm trend reversed?

LarryC

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 19:46:50 GM

now, that's just been reversed -- as of last night, weta-. fm. (90.9 in the dc area) went back to classical. see the washington post article radio stations harmonize on classical music: . wgms. ditches its old format but helps orchestrate its ...

by: neddy

unknown

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:54:30 GM

age 53 is not old especially in washington where government officials do not retire until they are well past 90! wouldn't it be wonderful indeed, j. scott, if we the people were to buy back that wonderful treasure, . wgms fm. ?

radio radio big radio doings in dc today, as wtop...

Blackdogred

hu, 05 Jan 2006 01:22:00 GM

big radio doings in dc today , as wtop, the all-news goliath at 1500 on the am abandons am for . fm. , taking over the signal of . wgms. , the remaining classical station in dc while that station moves to a different and far weaker signal. ...

my new presets

bdure

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:39:00 GM

1) wmmj, 2) whur, 3) wpgc-. fm. , 4) wtop, 5) wash, 6) wkys, 7) wmzq and wiht, 9) wmal, 10) wjzw, 11) . wgms. , 12) wwdc, 13) wlzl and wbig, 15) wrqx, 16) wjfk-. fm. , 17) warw, 18) wava, 19) wtem, 20) wfre and wwxx, 22) wpgc-am, 23) wfls and wtnt ...

weta regains its soul, loses its mind

NickPenning

Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:33:41 GM

one of arlington's jewels, weta-. fm. radio, made an abrupt and radical move less than a month ago, when it hit the brakes on its two-year-old all-news, no music format, and, with virtually no advance notice, dropped everything to return ...

National Symphony And Radio, In Crisis, Fail To Prepare ...

Garth Trinkl

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:30:00 GM

It will be increasingly difficult in a city which allows its major orchestral conductor to open the season with two Viennese waltzes and to devote subscription weeks to "Serious Fun" programming -- and where the public WETA/. WGMS. -. FM. ...

Merry Christmas . . . and a gloomy new year

Gina Dalfonzo

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:15:14 GM

Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has reached a preliminary agreement to buy classical music station . WGMS. -. FM. in a deal that would expand his budding sports-talk radio empire and likely be the swan song for the area's only ...

radio one lmas bonneville's wxgg/washington dc

unknown

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:07:16 GM

radio one inks a local marketing agreement (lma) with bonneville to operate the former . wgms. -. fm. (104.1)/washing​ton, dc, now wxgg, which most recently broadcast bonneville's "george 104." the move comes three months after bonneville moved ...

good news for dc classical music fans maybe.

Rebecca Hartong

Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:04:01 GM

public broadcaster weta (90.9 . fm. ) is considering dumping its news-and-talk programming and returning to being a classical broadcaster if the music dies on . wgms. , weta's management said yesterday. this would be great. ...