Author: Jim Feliciano

URBAN PROGRAMMER JOINS DETROIT WJZZ . . . MARCH 12, 1983

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1983

Jerry Boulding Joins WCHB/WJZZ Detroit

 

 

 

WJZZ - 106 FMDETROIT — Veteran urban programmer and personality Jerry Boulding has joined the staff of WCHB/WJZZ here in the newly created position of operations manager.

“I’m looking forward to programming one of America’s premiere jazz stations, WJZZ, “ says Boulding, who adds that the station will retainits mass appeal jazz directionfor the time being. “I foresee no immediate changes there, but I think we’ve got some very exciting things planned for WCHB, one of the country’s first black-owned stations, in spite of the fact it’s on AM,” he says.

WJZZ switched to its current modern jazz format at some point in the early 1970s. The station was formerly WCHD-FM, Detroit. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 12, 1983)

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DETROIT RADIO SIDEBAR: WLBS-FM BILLBOARD NOTES

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB RADIO notebook: 1979

Station Milestones

WLBS-FM

 

 

 

DETROIT (April 28, 1979) — WLBS-FM (Formerly WBRB-FM) in Detroit’s suburban Mt. Clemens, is planning to increase power from 17 kw to 45 kw for its new disco format. The station was recently acquired by New York-based Inner City Broadcasting, which also operates WBLS-FM New York. Billboard’s man in Detroit John Battaglia reports it has the following new on-air lineup: Keith Bell, from ABC’s WRIF-FM Detroit, from 6-10 a.m.; Pat Edwards, from WKLR-FM Toledo, from 10-2 a.m.; Brent Wilson, from WJZZ-FM Detroit, 2-7 p.m.; Jim Siciliano, from CJOM-FM Windsor, Ont., 7-midnight; and Tom Duggan, from WJZZ, midnight-6 a.m. Working weekends is Dennis Rice, from WWWW-FM Detroit. Edwards is also the music director and Wilson is the station’s program director. END

DETROIT (September 20, 1980) — WLBS-FM, Detroit’s Inner City Broadcasting outlet, collected well over 100,000 signatures for a giant get-well card to ailing comic Richard Pryor. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard Magazine. All excerpts culled as was first published from the dated editions as noted above)

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