psychohist wrote:
You know you're a sniveling liberal when ...
... you're unaware that there are commercial classical music stations in most major U.S. cities.
Not in St. Louis, Missouri; not anymore.
http://www.classic99.com/faqs.htm#2Classic99.com wrote:
What happened to CLASSIC99 on the radio?
The owners of KFUO-FM/CLASSIC99 sold the station in early 2010. After more than 62 years of broadcasting-the longest-running FM station in St. Louis-KFUO-FM went silent on July 6th, 2010. The loss of the St. Louis region's only voice exclusively dedicated to classical music and the arts left a deep void in the lives of thousands of loyal listeners, and an entire community. KFUO-AM (850) continues to broadcast from the same facilities, located on the Concordia Seminary campus in Clayton, Missouri.
Note that the station was always associated with Concordia Seminary, which doesn't make it quite commercial although it wasn't public in the sense of NPR or PBS.