He hosted the station's local week-nightly classical series The Evening Program,[1] until retiring on February 18, 2022.
From 1983 he hosted the Sunday night syndicated classical music program The Record Shelf.
[4] While admitting that they sometimes have turned out excellent recordings, Svejda has been critical of such illustrious musicians as Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini, as well as Herbert von Karajan (whom he has excoriated for his Nazi past) and especially Nikolaus Harnoncourt, whom Svejda has called an "incompetent bozo.
"[4] Svejda is also an occasional film critic, with his reviews syndicated on the CBS Radio Network.
Svejda's replacement, KUSC Resident Artist Lara Downes was announced as his successor on March 18, 2022.