The results of the Culture Club KFUO-FM poll are in.

1,008 votes were cast in the poll over the course of a week. The results are startling: 924 - 92% - believe that the loss of KFUO as a classical…

Speak up now.

No one from the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has yet responded to my calls or emails asking about last week’s decision by the LCMS’s board of the directors on the fate of KFUO-FM, “Classic99:” Will they sell to “Christian…

One regular reader of the Culture Club blog - and regular listener to KFUO-99.1FM - has gone to the considerable effort of making a transcript of the Joy-FM audio files that were posted in this space after they were removed…

The whole secrecy thing isn’t working out so well for the board of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the folks - “Joy FM” - to whom board member Kermit Brashear of Omaha and his committee want to sell St. Louis’s…

Cally Banham

Reporter Charles Jaco of Channel 2 News (Fox 2; http://www.fox2now.com/ ) will have a story on the possible sale of classical music station KFUO-99.1 FM on tonight’s 10 o’clock news.

Among those interviewed: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra English horn player Cally…

KFUO-99.1 FM has broadcast classical music and supported the arts in St. Louis for more than six decades.

For virtually all those years, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has  turned a profit on laity-founded “Classic99,” through listeners who support the programming both…

So glad that’s been straightened out: The world premiere recording of John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” Symphony, performed by David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, was scheduled to be released on Tuesday by Nonesuch Records.

So the SLSO’s director of…

As previously noted, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will hold a radiothon before and during the performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the “Choral,” this Saturday, May 9, starting at 4 p.m. on KFUO (99.1 FM) and ending about six…

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra president Fred Bronstein has another new initiative, and it’s one that will benefit everyone within earshot of KFUO-FM (99.1) by radio or by Internet: broadcasts of the SLSO, both live and archival performances.

They’ll start at 7:30…

I had an incredible amount of material for my article on KFUO-FM and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod’s plan to quietly sell it. A lot of worthwhile points of view didn’t make it in. This one had to be cut because…