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<\/a>BYU Broadcasting has announced that it will buy an FM signal that will allow it to broadcast a bunch of educational content it planned to stuff into Classical 89\/KBYU-FM, presumably obliterating the latter’s popular classical music offerings. You can read the narcoleptic coma inducing deets about the deal here<\/a>. The bottom line is that\u00a0the outfit will purchase another radio outlet and to that signal will stream BYU, aka Brigham Young University, fare<\/a>. This move will save Classical 89\/KBYU’s classical schedule<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Salt Lake Tribune<\/em>‘s Scott D. Pierce has a nice piece<\/a> on the protests on behalf of Classical 89.\u00a0\u201cMy wife loves it,” one fan exclaimed at a meeting. “She says, when we leave the home, \u2019Leave it on, because the plants love it, too’.”<\/p>\n I’ve even mapped out the process as the Five Stages of Format Change Grief<\/a>.<\/p>\n But this time they actually listened to the listeners. I’ll be damned.<\/p>\n![\"Classical](\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-29-at-5.26.29-PM.png\")
<\/a>To which I usually say ‘yeah yeah, good luck with this.’ Most radio station managements almost never\u00a0<\/em>renege on a format change after they announce it. Protests be damned. “We have to be realistic,” they always declare, stone faced, at The Big Meeting. “Times have changed. Plus: blah blah blah and here’s a lawyer and engineer to explain why you are screwed.”<\/p>\n