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.
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.
Dr. Fauci says concerts could return in the fall
With vaccinations against COVID beginning to roll out across the country, tours and festivals have also been revealing rescheduled dates, some for later this year. Live Nation President Joe Berchtold expressed optimism in December that concerts could be held this summer, but the actual timeline may wind up being more delayed, especially as vaccinations are happening more slowly than anticipated. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director
Dr. Fauci recently made his own estimate about the return of live performances. The
New York Times reports that Fauci, speaking at a conference held by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals, said that he thought theaters and music venues could reopen some time in the fall of 2021.