Dear Fellow KMFA Listeners,

It’s a new year, and KMFA has new goals in mind for improving our service to YOU! One major goal is to expand the programming content on our website. In the past, if you were listening to one of our syndicated programs, like the BP Chicago Symphony Orchestra Broadcast, and you heard something you liked and wanted to know what it was, that information was not readily available. Many of you called and wrote to let us know that you would like to see that content on our website. We listened, and we heard, and we are working on making that new content a reality!

KMFA has only nine full-time staff members, and each of us has a full plate at all times! As KMFA’s Music Director, much of my time is spent scheduling the music you hear during the day, listening to new CDs that arrive at the station, and fulfilling database and library management tasks.  In order to take on a new responsibility like the one outlined above, I needed to free up some time. It is in the spirit of improving the overall quality of KMFA’s product to our listeners that I have decided to voluntarily relinquish my position of host of Banquet Music.

I’ve been hosting this program since 2005, and I have sincerely enjoyed having dinner with you each weekday evening! Not to worry — I will continue to host Ancient Voices with great pleasure (and let me take this opportunity to remind you of Ancient Voices’ new time: Sundays at 9am and 4pm), and I’ll also be hosting a new KMFA program that will showcase new releases (called, appropriately enough, What’s New?). Jeffrey Blair, Dianne Donovan, Rich Upton and I will host the show on a rotating schedule. I’ll host the first installment on Saturday, January 9th at 9pm. I hope you’ll join me then!

Best regards,

Sara Hessel

KMFA Music Director