Classical South Florida facts for kids

Classical South Florida was a special group of radio stations in South Florida. It was like a big family of stations that played classical music for listeners. The network was owned by a company called the American Public Media Group.

These stations played music from a service called Classical 24. They also broadcast popular shows like Performance Today, SymphonyCast, Pipedreams, and Saint Paul Sunday. Besides music, the stations were also connected to National Public Radio (NPR). This meant they shared hourly news updates from NPR with their listeners. Some stations, like WPBI-HD2 and W270AD, even had special channels that played news and talk shows from NPR and other places.

Radio Stations of Classical South Florida

Classical South Florida had a few main radio stations that broadcast its programs. Each station covered a different part of South Florida.

Main Stations

• WKCP 89.7 MHz, in Miami, Florida. This station is now known as WMLV.
• WNPS 88.7 MHz, in Fort Myers, Florida. This station is now known as WDLV.
• WPBI 90.7 MHz, in West Palm Beach, Florida. This station is now known as WFLV.

Helper Stations

Some stations also had smaller "helper" stations that rebroadcast their signal to reach more people.

• W214BD 90.7 MHz, in Gifford, Florida (near Vero Beach, Florida). This station helped WPBI reach listeners in that area.
• W270AD 101.9 MHz, in West Palm Beach, Florida. This station was special because it relayed, or re-broadcast, the HD2 channel of WFLV (which was WPBI-HD2). It was known as "101.9 WPBI News" and played NPR's talk programs.

Why Classical South Florida Changed

Unfortunately, Classical South Florida faced a challenge: it didn't have enough money to keep going. Because of this, the entire network was sold in July 2015.

A different organization called the Educational Media Foundation bought the stations. They changed the programming to play CCM, which is modern Christian music. Their main network is called K-Love.

However, the NPR news broadcasts and the HD2 channel (which had NPR's talk shows) continued on the West Palm Beach station, which was now called WFLV. Later, this station also changed its programming to another Christian music network called Air1. So, Classical South Florida stopped broadcasting its classical music programs.