East Bay Times

MediaNotes: KDFC makes classical radio classy

A VALENTINE TO the Bay Area’s classy KDFC-FM: I have a special place in my heart for 102.1 FM. I had the pleasure to know the station’s founder, the late Ed Davis, who told me “DFC” stood for “Damned ...
East Bay Times

MediaNotes: Loss of KDFC’s old signal the real story

The media coverage of radio-chain owner Entercom’s dumping of KDFC, the nation’s first classical station ever to be the top-rated music station in a major market, has mostly missed a bigger story.
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

KDFC radio announces Classical Stars

KDFC?s Classical Star Search has announced its Bay Area winners for 2009, with a 12-year-old violinist nabbing the youth award from a field of five semi-finalists that included Sonoma violinist Nigel ...
Business Wire

USC and Entercom Communications Make an Exchange Agreement That Preserves KDFC as the Classical Music Station in the Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an effort to assure the long-term availability of high quality classical music in the Bay Area, the University of Southern California (USC) today announced it has ...
Current

San Francisco’s classical station becomes offspring of L.A.’s KUSC

A subsidiary of L.A.’s classical music giant, KUSC, has organized a new pubradio nonprofit to operate San Francisco’s 63-year-old classical stalwart, formerly commercial KDFC. In the complex deal ...
Napa Valley Register

KDFC classical music radio moves to Napa Valley

Classical music station KDFC vanished from its radio spot at 102.1 Monday, but it now broadcasts a strong signal on 89.9 MHz from its transmitter atop Mount St. Helena. This replaces the signal from ...
BroadwayWorld

California Symphony, Classical KUSC, and KDFC Radio Join Forces To Present New Series

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. California Symphony and its music director, Donato Cabrera, are joining forces ...
KQED

Classical KDFC to Expand to Monterey, Carmel and Big Sur

The LA-based owner of two music stations on the Central Coast has decided to unload them. But classical music fans there have nothing to fear. San Francisco classical music station KDFC is scooping ...
The Business Journals

$1 million gift could secure future of Classical KDFC Radio

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. When it was controlled by a profit-driven corporation ...
SFGate

CLASSICAL MUSIC: TUNING UP FOR THE 21ST CENTURY / Radio stations balance quality with capitalism

Travel to just about any American city these days, and the odds are you'll have to work harder than ever to find the music of Bach, Brahms or Stravinsky on the radio dial. From Florida to California, ...
SFGate

LETTERS TO DATEBOOK

Editor -- OK, now that "The Producers" is the biggest hit on Broadway financially and critically and has earned a record 15 Tony nominations, I am compelled to ask: Did Steven Winn catch the show on a ...