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by Peter Margasak on October 25th 2006 - 4:23 p.m.
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Last Friday I mentioned a Tribune story about how the revamped WBEZ had altered its plans to abandon all music programming by retaining Passport and creating a one-hour, weekly jazz show with Dick Buckley and Dan Bindert. In his Sun-Times column yesterday, media reporter Robert Feder revealed that the station is also keeping Afropop Worldwide, Ken Nordine's Word Jazz, Sound Opinions, and American Routes.
It's better than nothing, I guess, but aren't you still curious about how management's much-ballyhooed listener-input concept on the station's second frequency (WBEW, 89.5) will actually sound? They're still strangely secretive about it.
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October 30th - 10:29 a.m.
Yeah, I'm curious, especially since where I live we get better reception on WBEW. So far what's leaked out sounds like blue-sky blather.
October 31st - 11:30 a.m.
What about them is secretive? On their message boards, you can read all about what they're up to and find out about the open-to-the-public production meetings that they're encouraging people to attend so they can find out what people want the new station to sound like.
November 8th - 4:20 p.m.
check out www.secretradioproject.com
December 19th - 3:18 p.m.
How can you eliminate the only 'true form of American home grown' music? I understand talk is cheap however music (jazz) is forever. It's a pity Europe embraces jazz more than the country it was found in. Rap and hip-hop will come and go but jazz is forever; if only in the rest of the world.