[JPL] Community

[Bill Barton]

This is a very important point.  Thanks for bringing this up, Jim.  I agree
wholeheartedly.  KBCS has been consistently involved with a variety of
community events including media co-sponsorships of concerts.  When you're
talking a community radio station with an eclectic format, that's a lot of
ground to cover!  Only tangentially related to jazz, I recently "brokered" a
media co-sponsorship between KBCS and The World Rhythm Festival (coming up
April 25-27 at Seattle Center).

Bill Barton
host: *Bright Moments* www.kbcs.fm
contributor: *CODA, Signal to Noise, All About Jazz, Seattle Jazz Scene*

<<From: Jim Wilke <jwilke123 at comcast.net>
To: jazzproglist at jazzweek.com
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:03:45 -0800
Subject: Re: [JPL] JazzWeek Summit 2008 panel update/call for suggestions

...Local stations need to build strong links to the community by having a
visible presence at events and reflecting them and promoting them on
the air.   DJ/ MCs are a start, but there's much more that local radio
stations can do for community wide appeal that provides unique benefits
over corporate radio/ satellite/ internet/ ipod competition...

Jim Wilke
Jazz After Hours, PRI
www.jazzafterhours.org>>