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 ...

I wrote a column about a month ago on how the demise of KYWL-FM (Wild 103.9) left Spokane hip-hop fans up the creek in regard to commercial radio. Since then I’ve heard from several 7 readers with the ...

CALL HIM POP. Call him jazz. Call him, if you must, a smooth operator. But whatever you do, don’t call the music that trumpeter Chris Botti makes smooth jazz. “We’re not smooth jazz,” Botti says, ...

At 3 p.m. May 18, the daily soundtrack for thousands of lives in the Bay Area was altered. That’s the moment the FM radio station previously known as KKSF-FM 103.7 said goodbye to Boney James and ...

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The smooth jazz format at 106.9 on the FM dial is going to HD radio, with a new format replacing it shortly. But what you're hearing at noon isn't the final product. Watch Tim Cuprisin's On Media on ...

Last week, HD Radio smooth jazz station 103.7-HD2 The Oasis had been running a countdown on its Facebook page, leading up to a big announcement. This led to some speculation — in some cases, call it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Milwaukee added a new Christian music station on Thanksgiving — and it's playing Christmas music. The Family Radio Network, the Appleton-based Christian radio chain, completed its acquisition of ...