Jazz station 91.9/WCLK has gotten a bit smoother and a bit younger in its sound to try to gain a bigger audience. Wendy Williams, the general manager, said membership (at 1,900) and listeners (at ...

Yesterday, after 19 years of pumping smooth jazz onto the airwaves, KWJZ 98.9 switched formats to the “Seattle Sound” of modern music as The Click, featuring the likes of the Kings of Leon, the Black ...

There was a time when listening to jazz on the radio was a highly personal experience. Disc jockeys like New York City’s Symphony Sid laid down a carpet of lush-toned introductions, their tune ...

Ralph Nozaki, known professionally as Rick O’Dell, has had many titles throughout his career at various radio stations in the Chicagoland area. Soon, the pioneer of the smooth jazz format will have ...

Whenever I’m asked to provide a “fun fact” about myself, I usually say that I worked as a smooth-jazz radio announcer back in college. It wasn’t the kind of unsuitable, faintly ironic part-time job ...

Originally posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 by RODNEY HO/[email protected] on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog Rene Miller, a long-time radio veteran in Atlanta, has landed her first radio job in three years at ...

Dwain Segar hosts "The Segar Jazz Affair," a smooth jazz radio show and concert series in Athens, Georgia. Segar's interest in smooth jazz began in his 20s when he discovered the genre on the radio.

On Monday, WAUK-AM (540) was rebranded as "The 'Sha." For now, the station is picking up progressive-talk programming from Madison's "Devil Radio," which airs on WTTN-AM (1580) and 92.7 FM. The ...