On Friday morning, right around 9 a.m., Linda Yohn will flip the switch that turns on her studio microphone at WEMU, 89.1-FM. When she does, she’ll be marking a milestone—her 25th anniversary of being an on-air host at Eastern Michigan University’s venerable public-radio station. Yes, it was on May 25, ...
Nik Thompson has been named the new permanent host of "Sunday Best," the popular traditional jazz program on WEMU (89.1-FM). Thompson has been serving as interim host of the show since longtime host Arwulf Arwulf stepped down in early February. Thompson will continue hosting 89.1 Jazz on Saturdays (5-8 a.m.) ...
Washtenaw County's two public-radio stations, WUOM (91.7-FM) at the University of Michigan and WEMU (89.1-FM) at Eastern Michigan University, have begun their annual spring fund-raising drives. Listener donations are an important source of income for both stations, and WEMU is shooting for a record today, the first day of its ...
Arwulf Arwulf, well-known local radio host, poet and general cultural presence, is ending one of his long-running gigs, as host of the WEMU (89.1-FM) program "Sunday Best."
Two of the regular live-music dates that lost their home in a recent ownership change at the nightclub Live have found new homes. Laith Al-Saadi, the local guitarist who played at Live with his band each Thursday, has announced that he has a new regular Thursday gig at Melange. And ...
WEMU, Eastern Michigan University’s public radio station, and Golden Limousine in Ann Arbor are teaming up again this year to run shuttle buses from EMU to the free Detroit Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend, Festival goers can park free in Green Lot One, off Huron River Drive, on the ...
Linda Yohn Linda Yohn—music director at WEMU (89.1-FM), the public-radio station at Eastern Michigan University—was named Jazz Programmer of the Year in a major market, for the third straight year, on Saturday at the JazzWeek Summit's annual awards brunch in Rochester, NY. JazzWeek, celebrating its 10th anniversary in August, is ...
Peter Sagal Ann Arbor listeners to the National Public Radio news quiz program "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" discovered a couple of unexpected local angles on the episode that aired Saturday. Hosted by Peter Sagal, "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me" is a humor program that has fun with ...
WEMU, the public-radio station based at Eastern Michigan University, has posted an original music video to YouTube. The song, written by Chris Benjey and sung by Sue Gillis, is called "So Glad You're Mine." It was created as part of the station's "I Am WEMU" campaign, which aims to build ...
Both of Washtenaw County's public-radio operations this week announced successful spring fund-raising drives. WEMU (89.1-FM), the public-radio station at Eastern Michigan University, recorded an all-time fund-raising record. Michigan Radio, the University of Michigan-based service that operates WUOM (91.7-FM) as well as stations in Grand Rapids and Flint, raised $133,000 in ...
Efforts to reduce — or as is now the case, eliminate — federal funding for public broadcasting are nothing new. However, current proposals to zero out the $425 million in federal support public broadcasting was expecting this year have public media outlets scrambling to rally listeners against the effort. Michigan ...
A couple of cardboard boxes. Some framed jazz prints. Pictures of his family. That’s about all Art Timko, station manager and executive director at WEMU (89.1-FM), had left to carry out of his office in Eastern Michigan University’s King Hall recently as he prepared to close a 42-year career in ...
Although Art Timko is modest about his role at WEMU, preferring instead to deflect praise to others at the station, others aren’t so reluctant to give credit where credit is due. "There is not one aspect of anything WEMU does that doesn't bear the imprint of Art Timko's vision and ...
Two weekends ago, WEMU/89.1 FM -- where AnnArbor.com's own Jessica Webster is a DJ on Sunday afternoons, playing "jazz and stuff" (as she once phrased it) -- was holding a pledge drive. (They still need to raise $300,000 to meet their Fall fundraising goal, so any contributions would be most ...
Twenty-one years is a long time in radio, and 1,000 is a lot of shows. At 1 p.m. Sunday, WEMU program host George Klein will host his 1,000th broadcast of "The Groove Yard," the station announced.
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