Is ”smooth jazz” WNUA-FM 95.5 really a jazz station? Are the station`s core musical artists like Yanni, Acoustic Alchemy, Al Jarreau, Ottmar Liebert, Bob James, Gerald Albright and Randy Crawford ...
After several days of rumors, change has indeed come to Clear Channel's WNUA/Chicago, which dropped smooth jazz after 22 years and flipped to what is being billed as "Spanish Hot AC" as "Mega 95.5." ...
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 ...
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 ...
O’Connor, who recently passed away from cancer at the age of 61, was VP of Programming at KIFM San Diego for more than a decade, establishing KIFM as the first Smooth Jazz-formatted station. At WNUA ...
You could shoot a cannonball through this place and not hit anyone. The bare walls cry out for art. The industrial carpeting desperately needs a decorative rug (or something). And the joint sounds ...
Friday was a rough day for Chicago radio listeners all over the dial, when WNUA-FM switched from jazz to Spanish hot adult contemporary and longtime hosts Kathy and Judy signed off from WGN. But at ...
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 ...
The nation’s largest radio broadcaster is moving more deeply into digital transmission. Some Clear Channel stations already had participated in HD Radio through Ibiquity testing. But now stations ...