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.
Craig Sailor: Tacoma public radio station gets $225,000 grant to boost jazz programming
News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash. 2/7/2021 Craig Sailor, The News Tribune (Tacoma, Wash.)
Feb. 7 Tacoma-based jazz and blues radio station KNKX is getting $225,000 to bolster its jazz music programming.
The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced Jan. 28 that it s providing $1.3 million to five radio stations across the nation to create a partnership in the form of a Jazz Media Lab. Each of these stations has been committed to jazz a long time and is very active in their local communities with jazz artists and education, said KNKX general manger Joey Cohn.
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Fertile Ground
A reminder that the Fertile Ground Festival of New Works continues to post premier shows on Facebook and YouTube through Feb. 7, and all shows can be watched for free on demand through Feb. 15.
For complete info: www.fertilegroundpdx.org.
Some highlights: Acting Counsel, Lakewood Theatre Company, noon Feb. 3; Hot Mess a Zombie Musical, Spectre Productions, 7 p.m. Feb. 4; Experimental Plays, PDX Playwrights, noon Feb. 5; Fezziwig s Fortune, LineStorm Playwrights, noon Feb. 6; Tales of Sex Magic and Healing, Charla Hathaway/Naked at My Age, 9 p.m. Feb. 6; Madonna of the Cat, 4:30 p.m. Feb. 7. Bachelor update
Beaverton resident Abigail Heringer, 25, is vying for Matt James heart on the dating and relationship reality television series The Bachelor. Pieper James, 23, a graduate student from Happy Valley, also is in the mix.
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”.
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.