It’s been six weeks since the dulcet tones of Kenny G on Chicago’s Smooth 87.7 WLFM were replaced with the alt-rock bleating of the Plain White T’s. But Rick O’Dell isn’t holding a funeral for the ...

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 ...

Cleveland’s First Class Broadcasting Corporation is filling the Smooth Jazz vacancy left in the market after 107.3 The Wave (WNWV) closed in 2019. The minority-owned company officially announced a new ...

But it wasn’t just Kenny G. Smooth jazz, the music he’d come to be the face of, was quickly taking over the radio. Smooth jazz didn’t start with Kenny G, though he did quickly become one of its most ...

At the start of 2008, everything was going well at Chicago’s WNUA 95.5-FM. The smooth-jazz station ranked in the top five in the city in listeners age 25 to 54, and its research showed that the ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY SELF-REPORTED PLAYLISTS AND SMOOTH JAZZ RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. FOR THE LATTER, STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY MONITORED ...

A small translator signal on FM 101.1 recently switched from Hispanic music to smooth jazz. Greg Davis, owner of the station, said he is trying to fill what he sees as a void in the marketplace. The ...

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 ...

Milwaukee's only smooth jazz radio station has been sold to The Family Radio Network, an Appleton-based Christian radio chain. According to Radio Insight, The Family Radio Network is paying $850,000 ...

Originally posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com 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 ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR SONGS RANKED BY SELF-REPORTED PLAYLISTS AND SMOOTH JAZZ RADIO AIRPLAY DETECTIONS, AS MEASURED BY AND PROVIDED BY LUMINATE. FOR THE LATTER, STATIONS ARE ELECTRONICALLY MONITORED ...