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URBAN PROGRAMMER JOINS DETROIT WJZZ . . . MARCH 12, 1983

Motor City Radio Flashbacks logoFrom the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1983

Jerry Boulding Joins WCHB/WJZZ Detroit

 

 

 

WJZZ - 106 FMDETROIT — Veteran urban programmer and personality Jerry Boulding has joined the staff of WCHB/WJZZ here in the newly created position of operations manager.

“I’m looking forward to programming one of America’s premiere jazz stations, WJZZ, “ says Boulding, who adds that the station will retainits mass appeal jazz directionfor the time being. “I foresee no immediate changes there, but I think we’ve got some very exciting things planned for WCHB, one of the country’s first black-owned stations, in spite of the fact it’s on AM,” he says.

WJZZ switched to its current modern jazz format at some point in the early 1970s. The station was formerly WCHD-FM, Detroit. END

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(Information and news source: Billboard; March 12, 1983)

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