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Radio Wed Nov 01 2006
More Sound Opinions, less Piano Jazz
Speaking of Chicago Public Radio's upcoming program schedule changes, the time is nigh for the big music programming change at the station.
While we're losing a lot of jazz programs, local jazz authority Dick Buckley thankfully remains on the board at 2pm Sundays and Ken Nordine's Word Jazz seems to still there in the wee hours of Sunday, starting at midnight (it's only on the PDF version of the schedule).
Favorites bringing world music keep going strong as Passport stays with Chicago's Tony Sarabia at the helm at 9pm Friday and PRI's Afropop Worldwide still lives at 11pm Friday nights.
Positive gains include the rebroadcast of Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot's rock and roll talk show Sound Opinions at 11am Saturday morning (they'll premier each week's episode at 8pm Friday night) and the addition of New Orleans-based American Routes program at 2pm Saturday bringing a "broad range of American music".
The week's musical treat still might come at 9pm on Sundays with a return of the Sunday Special slot just right for great music programming, should they decide to feature it there.
I, for one, will miss Richard Steele's voice while he deejayed hours of jazz throughout the night, Blues Before Sunrise, and I'll actually be sad to lose kooky Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on the weekends.