Save All Night Jazz on WUSF

Sad day for the Tampa Bay music scene. Just another in a string of poor decisions made by WUSF FM management over the years. Friends there are plenty of other arts organizations here that deserve your financial support in lieu of donations to / for WUSF FM. (Facebook, 10/30) So WUSF FM just did a…

Bob Seymour was a longtime host of “All Night Jazz,” which WUSF recently announced would be leaving the airwaves. Now he’s returning to WMNF. By Gabrielle Calise (10/31) Local music fans around Tampa Bay were devastated when WUSF 89.7-FM announced the sudden ending of its 56-year-running radio show, “All Night Jazz.” Now, a longtime host of the…

By Paul Wilborn (10/31) Here is the message I sent to the WUSF-FM administration today (10-31-22) regarding the end of jazz programming: Speaking for the Palladium and our audience, we remain very upset with the decision to remove jazz programming from the radio.  From our viewpoint, the decision was made without a chance for public…

By Sharon Kennedy Wynne (10/27) TAMPA — The decision to end the “All Night Jazz” radio show after 56 years at WUSF 89.7-FM drew jazz fans to the station at the University of South Florida on Thursday. The station announced that last week that as of Monday, the late-night jazz show would be replaced with…

By Camila Gomez and Bailey Wegenast (10/28) While driving from the Miami International Airport to Tampa, adjunct professor Pablo Arencibia turned on the radio and listened to All Night Jazz for the first time.  “I heard about this program even before I put my foot on Florida,” Arencibia, who organized the event, said. “[All Night…

Too often, I have seen Jazz placed in less-than desirable hours, but given high fundraising goals, (how much money do you think “Whadya Know would have raised up against “Seinfeld”, or the multitude of streaming options people use at night,  instead of its’ cozy Saturday morning slot?), then be told, since it isn’t “making as much…

How HEARTBREAKING! Poor Tampa! I am actually building something that could use great Jazz hosts and podcasters…if any of your people there want to find out more, please give them my email or phone number 720-584-6353. Not sure yet how much it will pay, but will know more soon. (via Jazz Programmers List)

Unfortunately, these stories of jazz getting the shaft at larger split format NPR stations are not new. Jazz has been steadily getting gentrified out of public radio neighborhoods since the ’90s. Especially as the news/talk stations have become more corporate in structure, it’s likely to keep on happening. Numerous public media execs in the “system” have actively…

Everyone in the Tampa Bay music world was shocked and saddened to learn last week that WUSF radio plans to cancel all jazz programming at the station at the end of October, officially ending a 56-year commitment to presenting jazz in our community. WUSF’s “All Night Jazz” has been a fixture in the central Florida…

Please @WUSF, don’t let All Night Jazz die. (Twitter, 10/27)