Five Jazz Stations To Receive Grants For Jazz Media Lab Lance Venta, radioINSIGHT.com Share
KUVO Jazz is honored to be one of the distinguished stations selected by the prestigious Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Five Jazz stations will receive a combined $1.3 million in grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
89.3 KUVO Denver, 88.3 WBGO Newark/New York, and 90.1 WRTI Philadelphia will each receive grants of up to $275,000 over three years. The purpose of the grants will be to establish a Jazz Media Lab program to “provide these stations with a peer network, support system and contracted resource team for exploring and advancing strategies to diversify their listening bases, invest in new media platforms, engage with venues and community organizations, and establish meaningful relationships with jazz artists”.
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WBGO To Receive Grant From The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) has announced the launch of the Jazz Media Lab, through which some of the country’s most dynamic and forwarding-thinking nonprofit jazz radio stations will receive more than $1.3 million to participate in a program aimed at bolstering their individual strength and collective resilience as essential players in the jazz ecosystem. KMHD (Oregon Public Broadcasting) in Portland, Ore., KNKX (Pacific Public Media) in Tacoma/Seattle, Wash., KUVO (Rocky Mountain Public Media) in Denver, Colo.,
WBGO (Newark Public Radio) in Newark, N.J. and WRTI (Temple University) in Philadelphia, Pa. will each receive grants of up to $275,000 over three years to support their involvement in the collective, and supply them with core support and innovation capital.