Chicago Tonight - Jazz Radio in Chicago

[Mikey Mike]

Just a heads-up:

Tonight on WTTW they are going to take a look at WDCB, one of the only jazz stations left in the city.

Chicago Tonight at 7pm on WTTW (the PBS affiliate).

 

[Veronica Williams]

It was an important decision, for WBEZ administration, to discontinue Jazz programing. However it was necessary to do, many of the Advisory Board Members, and Administrators are jazz lovers. Yes we will miss Richard Steele,Dan Bindert, and Sara Israel. However, let us not forget the untireless, efforts of Music Director,Chris Heim,Larry Smith,Dick Buckley,Niles Franz.. and many others..

 

[uncamark]

It was an important decision, for WBEZ administration, to discontinue Jazz programing. However it was necessary to do, many of the Advisory Board Members, and Administrators are jazz lovers. Yes we will miss Richard Steele,Dan Bindert, and Sara Israel. However, let us not forget the untireless, efforts of Music Director,Chris Heim,Larry Smith,Dick Buckley,Niles Franz.. and many others..

I would tend to agree with you (and I've been supportive of CPR on their boards the more rabid jazz buffs who don't like news-talk), except that there was the opportunity of moving music to WBEW/WBEQ. Instead, we're going to get this experimental "Secret Radio Project" that's aimed at an under-25 audience that doesn't listen to terrestrial radio. Of those who do, the Q101 audience is not going to turn away from music for what may turn out to be minor-league versions of "This American Life." Therefore, I see them going after the college radio audience and perhaps destroying those stations irreparably. I just see the "SRP" as potentially one of the biggest failures in public radio history and if it had to be implemented, it should've been during the daytime with jazz at night on WBEW/WBEQ instead of 24/7, as is planned.