A fine-arts station since its debut, WFMT-FM Chicago has always had a reputation for classical music and utmost audio quality. Station engineers once designed their own audio processors because ...

Rita Jacobs Willens, 62, a founder of internationally recognized fine arts radio station WFMT-FM, died Saturday of lung cancer in her Barrington Hills home. Mrs. Willens was a West Side native and ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. WFMT will celebrate its 70th anniversary on Monday, December 13 with a day of ...

Chicago’s WFMT will shift distribution of its music and spoken-word radio programming to Public Radio Exchange as of July 1, ending its use of the Public Radio Satellite System. PRX and WFMT announced ...

Chicago’s WFMT Radio Network is collaborating with local and international broadcasters to air a local jazz festival worldwide. During the Chicago Jazz Festival Thursday through Saturday, broadcasters ...

The WFMT Radio Network has launched a subscription website where classical music enthusiasts can stream hundreds of archived hours of the network's internationally syndicated "Exploring Music with ...

Caption has been updated to identify Birgit Nilsson. The author is director of syndication for WFMT Radio Network, which creates and distributes popular arts and culture audio programs. WFMT Radio ...

Chicago-based WFMT Radio Network has agreed to provide classical music programming to the Shanghai East Radio Co. as part of a cultural exchange between the U.S. and China. The groundbreaking ...

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WFMT head Steve Robinson met performer Hershey Felder at a party in Felder’s digs at the Four Seasons Hotel in March. Felder invited Robinson to the Royal George to see his one-man show, George ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- The Renée Crown Public Media Center in the North Park community was evacuated Wednesday evening due to a telephone threat. The building at 5400 N. St. Louis Ave. houses WTTW-Channel 11 ...