Mary Kate Leming's Blog Posts Tagged 'radio' (9)

By Jenny Staletovich

   

    Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.

    The 40-year-old station, started to educate migrant workers and home to local public affairs broadcasting as well as national radio programming, will be known as WPBI.

It becomes part of radio empire American Public Media, which owns Classical South Florida… Continue

By Jenny Staletovich



MIAMI —The sale of WXEL, the station started more than 40 years ago to educate local migrant workers, moved closer to joining the nation’s biggest team in public radio when the Florida Board of Education granted a lease transfer Dec. 17.

The sale, which has pitted listeners against Barry University and its suitor, Classical South Florida, now goes to the Federal Communications Commission.

Barry and Classical South Florida, owned by American Public Media,… Continue

By Angie Francalancia



The Community Advisory Board of WXEL has a seat on the bus for anyone willing to help show the state Board of Education that there’s local opposition to the public radio station’s sale to Classical South Florida. The Board of Education is set to consider the sale at its Dec. 17 meeting at Miami Dade College’s Wolfson Campus, 300 NE Second Ave. It’s a required step before the sale can be closed.

A small group of loyalists gathered last month in the parking lot… Continue

By Angie Francalancia

For the first time since the sale of WXEL-FM 90.7 was announced six months ago, the

public broadcasting station’s Citizens Advisory Board had a chance to tell its board of trustees why the members and the community oppose the sale.…

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By John William Johnson

Boynton Beach city commissioners have opposed the sale of local public radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida, citing the potential loss of jobs — and perhaps local programming.…

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By Kelly Wolfe

Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL public television and radio at a public forum June 29.

The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community Broadcast Foundation are both interested in buying WXEL, despite…

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By Kelly Wolfe

Loyal WXEL listeners said they were not pleased to learn their favorite public radio station was sold in April to a Miami classical music station.

“I just think it would be a tremendous loss,” said Marna Hirshhorn of Delray Beach. “I love classical music to death,…

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By Kelly Wolfe

Barry University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to sell its public broadcasting radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida for $3.85 million in

April.…

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By Thomas R. Collins



Palm Beach County public radio station WXEL President Jerry Carr is retiring from the station he has piloted for 13 years.

Carr ushered WXEL’s TV and radio operations into the digital age and led the station through repairs after Hurricane Wilma in 2005.

“It’s been a phenomenal ride,” Carr said. “No question about it.”

Carr will depart on March 31. His contract actually ran out at the end of the year, but… Continue