Jazz to start airing at 8 PM

Now get more of the music you love earlier in the evening.  Starting Monday, October 6, 2008 WAER moves jazz programming back to 8 PM Mondays - Fridays.  Hear your favorite locally produced classic and contemporary jazz shows and NPR jazz programs immediately following Fresh Air.

Piano Jazz moves back to evenings

Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, a forum for jazz legends and influential performers, can now be heard Thursday evenings at 8 PM starting October 9th.  (Music Director Eric Cohen will aptly fill the vacated Thursday 3 PM time slot). For more information about Piano Jazz, please CLICK HERE.

NPR's JazzSet is added to the schedule

Since 1992, NPR's JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater has been the jazz lover's ears on the world of live music, taking listeners to hear top artists performing on stages around the world.  Grammy and Tony award-winning Dee Dee Bridgewater introduces the artists and guides listeners through the hour program each week.  Recent shows featured Kenny Barron and Eliane Elias live in concert.  JazzSet airs Tuesday evenings at 8 PM starting October 7th. To learn more about JazzSet, please CLICK HERE.

Daily music service, JazzWorks, will start airing at 11 PM Monday - Friday beginning October 6th.

Pulse of the Planet joins the lineup

Are you curious about mother earth?  Tune in to Pulse of the Planet for a sound portrait of Planet Earth, tracking the rhythms of nature, culture and science worldwide while blending interviews and extraordinary natural sounds.  Recent shows include Tsunamis, Climbing Giant Redwoods, and Ocean Dead Zones.  The two-minute modules start airing October 6th on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 10:30 AM and 2:30 PM. For more information of Pulse of the Planet, please CLICK HERE.

In an effort to better meet the needs of our listeners, WAER will cease airing NPR's News & Notes weekday evenings at 8 PM and will replace it with music programming.  Repeated listener requests to air music earlier in the evening and the declining audience for News & Notes are the reasons for the change.  The program was never able to repeat the success it had airing weekdays at 9 AM.  The move to 8 PM was necessitated by NPR's change in the show's production and satellite feed time.  WAER sincerely regrets any inconvenience that this change may cause.  Fans of the show can access the program daily on-line at www.npr.org.