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In Reply to: RE: Which classical music streaming service ? posted by Tadlo on January 16, 2017 at 13:22:32
The best classical internet service, it feeds the live broadcast stream from the FM station (atop Sears tower, I think, still), 24x7. If you like radio, they play a great spectrum of composers and a delightful "feel" comes across in their broadcasts. Announcements are very restrained and I always chuckle here in SoCal when they say its 14 degrees with 40MPH winds.
WFMT was America's first radio "superstation" that I first heard via one of those 10-ft diameter satellite dishes in 1980 or so. I was agog, there was no classical music broadcast in Washington and Oregon's Great Inland Desert then. WFMT sent the CSO to Europe, the Soviet Union and China and amazed me by having the b*lls to broadcast the Ring Cycle live from Bayreuth.
Their popup player offers several format choices and the sound is superb!
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I have been listening to WFMT since grad school at the University of Chicago in the 70's. I still live in Chicagoland so I can listen on FM, but I sometimes use the streaming if bad weather causes too much noise in the FM signal. A lot of what I have learned about classical music came from listening that station, which many people say is the best in the US.
In my law school apartment in the 80s, I used a cable splitter and ran the TV cable into my stereo to listen to WFMT. Thems were the days.
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