Boynton Beach commissioners and the city’s arts advisory board are in a dispute over a sculpture the board approved for installation at WXEL’s office plaza on Congress Avenue.
ABOVE: A model of the sculpture, Harmony, by artist Patti Warashina, who li
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By Mary Hladky
One year after announcing they were exploring a merger, WXEL-TV and WPBT2 have agreed to join forces.
The two public broadcasting stations will combine as South Florida PBS, reaching 2.42 million households from Key West to the S
The 12th-annual event themed ‘Friends of A Feather Flock Together’ honored women while empowering local children by supporting education in art, journalism, science and other disciplines. The theme symbolizes the 45th year of ‘Sesame Street’ and Big
The 10th annual multinational award-winning Women with Wings and Wisdom luncheon and Bloomingdale’s fashion show was held at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach. The sold-out event recognized Henrietta de Hoernle as well as Connie Frankino and Michele
A group of WXEL-TV supporters, including its president and CEO, its chief fundraiser and area education and media executives, have until Dec. 31 to work out a purchase agreement to buy the station from Barry University before
Seven years after it was put on the selling block, WXEL-FM finally sold to Classical South Florida after the Federal Communications Commission approved a deal with Barry University May 16.
The 40-year-old station, start
MIAMI —The sale of WXEL, the station started more than 40 years ago to educate local migrant workers, moved closer to joining the nation’s biggest team in public radio when the Florida Board of Education granted a lease transfer D
The Community Advisory Board of WXEL has a seat on the bus for anyone willing to help show the state Board of Education that there’s local opposition to the public radio station’s sale to Classical South Florida. The Board of Edu
By Angie Francalancia
For the first time since the sale of WXEL-FM 90.7 was announced six months ago, the
public broadcasting station’s Citizens Advisory Board had a chance to tell its board of trustees why the members and the community oppose the s
By John William Johnson
Boynton Beach city commissioners have opposed the sale of local public radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida, citing the potential loss of jobs — and perhaps local programming.
According to some commissioners,
Two competing nonprofits showed how they would revamp and re-energize WXEL publictelevision and radio at a public forum June 29.
The Delray Beach-based Strategic Broadcast Media Group and the Community BroadcastFoundation are both
By Kelly Wolfe
Loyal WXEL listeners said they were not pleased to learn their favorite public radiostation was sold in April to a Miami classical music station.
“I just think it would be a tremendous loss,” said Marna Hirshhorn of DelrayBeach. “I
By Kelly Wolfe
Barry University’s board of trustees unanimously agreed to sell its publicbroadcasting radio station WXEL to Classical South Florida for $3.85 million in April.
And although the announcement was made in a celebratory fashi
