WGMC (90.1
FM) is a listener-supported
station licensed to
Greece, New York
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and serving
Rochester, New York
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. It airs a
Jazz
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radio format
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. On air, the station is identified as "Jazz 90.1" in reference to its FM frequency. WGMC specializes in all styles of
jazz
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, but is also an important outlet for music and voices that do not make it onto commercial radio.
Owned by the
Greece Central School District
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but operated independently, the WGMC studios are located in the
Greece Olympia High School media center.
Programmimng
Alongside standard jazz, the station hosts a blues show on Sunday evenings, a soul jazz program (''The Soul Jazz Spectrum'') on Friday nights, a program of avant-garde jazz (''Northstar Sounds'') on Tuesday nights, and other specialty shows featuring subgenres of jazz. The station also airs
NPR
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's
Jazz Night in America
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.
On June 6, 2009, WGMC added its first call-in talk show, ''
Sound Bytes'', which had previously been broadcast on
WHAM
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Stations
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and
WXXI and airs on Saturdays. Other then SoundBytes, the station also airs ethinic programming during the day on the weekends including a Polka program.
When Rochester's other jazz station
WJZR
WXXI-FM (91.5 MHz) is a public, listener-supported radio station in Rochester, New York, airing a classical music radio format. Its programs can also be heard in Houghton on WXXY 90.3 FM and also on a digital subchannel of WXXI-TV on 22.7. The ...
left the air on July 10, 2022 upon the owner's retirement, WGMC became the Rochester market's only full time jazz station. After the demise of WJZR, some shows formerly broadcast on that station such as JazzTrax with Art Good moved to WGMC.
Disc jockeys/online personalities
WGMC's regular DJs and on-air personalities include:
* Derrick Lucas
* Mike Velazquez
* Phil Dodd
* Rob Linton (station manager)
* Lynda Wildman
* Dan Gross
* Otto Bruno
* Rick Petrie
* Jon Greenbaum
* Matt Shackelford
* Jake Longwell
* Scott Ferris
* Rankin Shaver
* Brian King
* Steve Pearl
* Nate Jones
* Alan Colletta
* Sally Poole
* Kyle Jameson
* Andy Heinze
* Tom Pethic
* Max Wheeler
* Cory Halloran
* Hal Johnson
* Kim Corcoran
* Dave Tomaselli
* Chuck Ingersoll
*Jeff Harris (Big Road Blues)
* The hosts of ''
Sound Bytes'': Nick Francesco, Dave Enright, and Steve Rea.
See also
*
List of jazz radio stations in the United States
References
External links
*
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Jazz radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1975
Jazz in New York (state)
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