Also, the William R. Kenan Jr. Charitable Trust has chosen its next leader, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation tapped a new chief program officer.
The three-year grant program backs five stations as they build digital platforms, sponsor intergenerational music collaborations and rethink the definition of jazz.
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Wayne Shorter and Terri Lyne Carrington are among the first artists to benefit from Creative Inflections, a new funding initiative of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
While the past year has challenged media outlets, there have been a few bright spots for KUVO.
Last year, the jazz station at 89.3 FM which had been based at the Five Points Media Center since 1994 and its hip-hop channel, the Drop, officially moved into the Buell Public Media Center, at 2101 Arapahoe Street. Offically, the new center also houses Rocky Mountain PBS, Rocky Mountain Public Media, the Colorado Media Collaborative and the Community Media Center, although most employees of those outlets are working remotely.
Tina Cartagena, KUVO’s senior vice president of radio and new media, who has been with the station since 1990, says that because of COVID-19, most of KUVO’s staff are still working from home, though the offices are open to on-air hosts and engineers. Other staff could start working on site in May. Eventually, KUVO will broadcast concerts from the building s Bonfils-Stanton Performance Studio.