wfmt.com.<\/a><\/p>\n\"I feel so fortunate to work at this station, and lucky to have arrived at a time that allowed me to meet and even work with some WFMT\u2019s greats, including our incredible former program director Norm Pellegrini, the legendary Studs Terkel, and longtime host Andy Karzas,\u201d Polk said in a statement. \u201cI'm proud to be a part of this great radio tradition and honored to help carry it on into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
As chief announcer, 26-year station veteran van de Graaff will coach on-air staff and continue to host both the Beethoven Satellite Network and Lyric Opera broadcasts. \u201cHaving missed being behind the microphone full-time this past year, I am looking forward to returning to what brought me to radio in the first place \u2014 announcing, and also to devoting more time to my singing career,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, WFMT ranks 33rd in the market with a 0.7 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 231,300. In the same period last year, the station was tied for 29th with a 1.1 share and weekly cume of 235,500.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Polk, the 30-year-old host and producer of an award-winning music series on WFMT FM 98.7, has been named program director of the classical music station. Polk succeeds Peter van de Graaff, who served just one year as program director and now shifts to a new role as chief announcer. Both moves are effective Jan.... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1542,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}