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Solk said, “In my many decades in this business, I have never witnessed such an outpouring of love and appreciation for one of the greatest who has ever been behind a microphone, or more importantly for a truly caring and giving person who has spent most of her career giving back to the community that she loves so deeply.” In a staff memo that was published by Chicago media journalist Robert Feder, WXRT OM/PD Greg Solk confirmed the date of Hemmert’s final midday show will be Tuesday, July 9, and announced the station’s new weekday on-air schedule.

It was recently announced that, after 45 of fulltime service to Entercom Triple A WXRT/Chicago, beloved market legend Terri Hemmert was planning to step back from the 10am-1pm shift she has held down since 1992, while continuing to host Breakfast With The Beatles every Sunday morning and fill-in as necessary - including July 23 and August 31-September 6.

It’s going to take a while for us to stop looking for the legacy orange app logo … but we expect to spend a lot of time in the new Slacker experience. Slacker’s marketing emphasizes the content changes more than cosmetic changes, but the design re-think is deep, and the re-branding is significant. The TODAY ON SLACKER page now opens the app, funneling users to what Slacker wholeheartedly regards as its premium programming. You can still find the day/mood stations and the in-house genre stations, but those experiences no longer take the lead. The app’s user design is clean as a spring morning, and re-balances what Slacker wants us to see and hear. The new logo puts the classic-rock biker emblem in the past, where it retires as an honored symbol of Slacker’s pioneering spirit. On the design side, Slacker’s iOS upgrades are substantial and attractive to our eyes. YouTube personalities Tyler Oakley and comicbookgirl19 are on board. We found 26 so-called artist takeovers - e.g.

Duncan Orrell-Jones is unabashedly targeting his service against his perceived deficits of terrestrial radio: “Radio has always been important to audiences, but its personality got lost to corporate consolidation and an inability to keep up with the technology that listeners demand.” The station a good listen, blending radio-style personality with low ad load and the ability to skip through tracks.

What is the best dog name? Elvis) came up from time to time. Entertainingly, short segments in which Jonas answers rapid-fire “What is the best (whatever)” questions (e.g. We listened to the “Nick Jonas: I Am The DJ” station, which presented Jonas’ favorite tracks interspersed with his commentary and intros. In the updated iOS app, new humanized playlists are helpfully surfaced on a new TODAY ON SLACKER screen. We’re making a big bet that you really need hosts and the human voice, the sense of humanity actually in the listening product.” He noted that curated stations outperformed non-hosted playlists by three to one. We discuss these in every programming meeting. In a conversation with RAIN News early this year, SVP of Strategic Development and Content Programming Jack Isquith told us how Slacker emphasized human-powered programming: “We focus our programming team on three C’s: Curation, Community, and Context. Slacker has always been strong in the hosted playlist department. The target audience? “The post-YouTube/Netflix generation.” In what CEO Duncan Orrell-Jones calls “radio for the post social media & time-shifting entertainment era,” the new Slacker has brought in musicians and YouTube stars to host some playlists. Slacker Radio has joined the year-end rush of music service upgrades ( Rhapsody, YouTube Music Key, Shazam, Musx, Tidal) with a new iOS app that doubles down on Slacker’s signature hosted playlists.