WFMT in Shanghai?

From Tom Taylor's NOW column this morning...

Chicago’s commercial-classical WFMT (98.7) will supply programming to “Classical 94.7” – in Shanghai, China. The Chicago Tribune says it’s part of a cultural exchange between the U.S. and China, with WFMT supplying concert performances from the New York Philharmonic, the L.A. Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony. The WFMT Radio Network already produces and distributes such programming to affiliates in the U.S. and elsewhere, and now its GM Steve Robinson is ready to hop the Pacific Ocean. WFMT will literally be traveling to Shanghai in April, to record at the Shanghai International Music Festival – and those performances will air back in the U.S. on the WFMT Radio Network. The two-way exchange is being underwritten by Chicago-based Abbott Laboratories, which the Tribune says has “a major presence in China, headquartered in Shanghai.” WFMT is a rare commercial-classical station, operated by the not-for-profit Window to the World Communications. Shanghai’s Classical 94.7 is supposedly the only “professional classical music station in China.”