{"id":5410,"date":"2011-01-18T17:07:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2011-01-18T17:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:07:38","slug":"kusf-goes-internet-only-damn-classical-music-takes-the-airwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kusf-goes-internet-only-damn-classical-music-takes-the-airwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"KUSF Goes Internet Only; Damn Classical Music Takes the Airwaves!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5411\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5411\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5411\" title=\"KUSF_(19)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KUSF_19-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KUSF_19-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/KUSF_19.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lou Reed...The Way His Records Were Meant to Be Filed<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usfca.edu\/Newsroom\/Community_News\/KUSF_Moves_to_Online_Only_Format\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of San Francisco, California\u00a0website<\/a>\u00a0attempts to pitch this with a positive Spinal Tap-style spin, this seems like a bummer for radio listeners in that area who had 90.3 FM programmed on their radio dial, not to mention the DJs, whose work now holds no more value than that cat who does episodes of\u00a0<em>Saturday Night Shut-In<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The move to online-only distribution gives KUSF a powerful opportunity to grow its worldwide audience. Previously, the station was limited to 100 online listeners at a time, but capacity will be increased to accommodate thousands of listeners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the station&#8217;s place the airwaves will be filled by a Public Radio station playing long\u00a0cover tunes, primarily\u00a0from the 15th through 19th centuries.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to Townsman dbuskirk, a former KUSF DJ, for passing along this news.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the University of San Francisco, California\u00a0website\u00a0attempts to pitch this with a positive Spinal Tap-style spin, this seems like a bummer for radio listeners in that area who had 90.3 FM programmed on their radio dial, not to mention the DJs, whose work now holds no more value than that cat who does episodes of\u00a0Saturday <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kusf-goes-internet-only-damn-classical-music-takes-the-airwaves\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}