{"id":1976,"date":"2014-01-07T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2014-01-07T04:59:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T10:59:15","slug":"hubbard-adds-smooth-jazz-to-hd-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/01\/07\/hubbard-adds-smooth-jazz-to-hd-mix\/","title":{"rendered":"Hubbard adds smooth jazz to HD mix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Rick O'Dell<\/p><\/div>\n

Chicago\u2019s premier smooth jazz programmer is teaming up with Chicago\u2019s premier radio station group to bring the mellow music format to HD Radio.<\/p>\n

Rick O\u2019Dell\u2019s SmoothJazzChicago.net <\/a>will be simulcast on Hubbard Radio\u2019s WTMX 101.9 HD2, the secondary digital audio channel linked with the modern adult contemporary station, starting at noon Tuesday.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Dell, who pioneered smooth jazz in Chicago and was its signature voice for more than 25 years at WNUA FM 95.5 and WLFM LP 87.7, launched<\/a>\u00a0the site as a free 24\/7 streaming digital station in November 2012. In addition to O\u2019Dell, SmoothJazzChicago.net<\/a> features Bill Cochran, Scott Adams and Patti Genko.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Rick and his very high quality programming of \u2018Smooth Jazz Chicago\u2019 and look forward to bringing this product to many starved Chicago smooth jazz fans at 101.9 FM HD2,\u201d Greg Solk, senior vice president of programming for Hubbard Radio, said in a statement. \u201cRick has proven through the years to be a masterful programmer of jazz music and he\u2019s beloved by Chicagoans. Welcome aboard!\u201d<\/p>\n

To accommodate \u201cSmooth Jazz Chicago,\u201d Hubbard will move the all-\u201980s format \"Totally '80s\u201d from WTMX 101.9 HD2 to WILV 100.3 HD2, replacing \u201cThe Voice of Russia.\u201d Hubbard\u2019s third station, WDRV FM 97.1, will continue to air \u201cDeep Tracks\u201d on WDRV 97.1 HD2.<\/p>\n

For O\u2019Dell, the move brings him back to where he started smooth jazz in February 1987 as host of \"The Sunday Lite Brunch\" on what was then Bonneville Broadcasting\u2019s WCLR. Seven months later, WNUA hit the air with a full-time smooth jazz format and soon after hired O\u2019Dell as music director and midday host. He's been synonymous with the genre ever since. WCLR subsequently became WTMX and was acquired by Hubbard.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this affiliation, smooth jazz has come full circle in Chicago,\u201d O\u2019Dell said. \u201c'Smooth Jazz Chicago' gets to extend its brand by partnering with one of the most respected companies in the industry. Hubbard Radio gets some unique, branded, local content. And smooth jazz listeners in Chicago get a new terrestrial option for listening to their favorite music.\u00a0I'm thrilled and grateful that we could do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

To hear the secondary programming channels, listeners have to buy HD Radio receivers.\u00a0Almost 17.5 million HD Radio receivers have been sold, with more than 15 million factory-installed in new cars or auto aftermarket units, according to iBiquity Digital Corporation,<\/a> developer of HD Radio Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago\u2019s premier smooth jazz programmer is teaming up with Chicago\u2019s premier radio station group to bring the mellow music format to HD Radio. Rick O\u2019Dell\u2019s SmoothJazzChicago.net will be simulcast on Hubbard Radio\u2019s WTMX 101.9 HD2, the secondary digital audio channel linked with the modern adult contemporary station, starting at noon Tuesday. O\u2019Dell, who pioneered smooth... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}