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Longtime WFMT program director Norm Pellegrini and former WFMT president Ray Nordstrand

WFMT’s 70th Anniversary

A Q&A with WFMT’s General Manager and Music Director

By Keegan Morris

This month marks WFMT’s 70th anniversary. Naturally, it’s a time that prompts retrospection, whether that means remembering Dmitri Shostakovich’s visit to the station in the 1970s, the moment when WFMT became the first station in the world to broadcast a CD, or Studs Terkel’s legendary 45-year run on air.

And WFMT is also looking forward, with the addition of new voices to the hosting team as well as Oliver Camacho’s appointment as the new music director. With general manager George Preston, Camacho is working to evolve the music, celebrate unheralded and underrepresented artists and composers,