WPFW was kind of like D.C. And Pacifica was its Congress, with 1993 its control board era. In a decade or two, when Internet radio comes standard in every new car, we might all be listening to the same jazz programming everywhere. Miyuki Williams 48. Still, in WPFW board meetings, town-hall gatherings, and discussions with programmers and management, you wont find many people who believe the station should preserve the status quo. Page Three jtemplate.ru - free extensions for joomla. Spirits Known and Unknown continued with its workshop concept for young African American announcers, and in 1980 Hot Jazz Saturday Night, with Rob Bamberger, premiered and is still on the air today. 30. How Dangerous Is Getting Shot in the Shoulder? Like most of his listeners, I bought into his stories. community.". In 1976 I participated in getting a new station on the air as part of the Pacifica Network that would play jazz, blues, and world music. document.getElementById('cloak49599').innerHTML = ''; . The daily blues show at noon survived the changes, and an hour of jazz has been inserted in the afternoon. addy29915 = addy29915 + 'wpfw' + '.' + 'org'; Hughes, who had been chief operating officer of Howard Universitys TV station WHUT, came on in 2011. Theyre not the peoples station, said another. Volunteer Coordinator Vincent Jack vjack@wpfw.org 202-588-0999 ext. The bigger hurdle is Pacificas fundamentally broken model. For the most part, that meant excising music from rush hour and the workday. Hughes says that unlike many radio stations, WPFW has its highest listenership on Saturday and Sunday, which are dominated by music. On August 6, 1995, I interviewed Thomas Barrett on his eightieth birthday. I hosted concerts with Wynton Marsalis and Sonny Rollins. I also interviewed New York saxophonist Noah Howard, who had come to Washington for a performance at the New Thing that didnt work out. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. Focus on the silver lining., After a momentary pause, she said, Look for the Silver Lining by [jazz trumpeter-vocalist] Chet Baker. CMS recognizes and celebrates the positive changes to the program schedule brought about recently since Katea Stitt and Miyuki Williams were put in charge of programming. Porter thinks the stations been going downhill since 1993, and sees little hope; staffers like Stitt, Minott and Muhammad think it can thrive with limited corporate underwriting; everyone wants more transparency and dialogue. Thies asked Hughes to respond to Yates article. District Line Daily: Our news, politics, arts, food, and sports coverage in one email every weekday. Talk to WPFWs mainstays and you hear the same prescription (WPFW has to change), the same caveats (but it should change sensitively, and stay true to itself), and a diversity of forecasts. Museums/Galleries document.getElementById('cloak9275').innerHTML += '' + addy9275+'<\/a>'; The assassination of Rev. //