Articles tagged: WEMU
WEMU announces retirement of Program Director Clark Smith
Posted: May 01, 2013Clark Smith, a well-known presence and 30-year employee at WEMU (89.1-FM), is retiring effective this Friday, the station announced. Smith has been both news director and program director at WEMU, the public-radio station at Eastern ... Read more »
Michigan Theater to launch Motor City Movies series
Posted: Sep 10, 2012Recent Detroit-centric film releases have inspired the Michigan Theater programming staff to create a series called Motor City Movies: Discovering Detroit, which will run every Monday at 7 p.m. from Sept. 14 through Nov. 26. ... Read more »
WEMU's Linda Yohn wins top jazz radio award for 4th straight year
Posted: Aug 31, 2012Linda Yohn Linda Yohn, music director and on-air host at WEMU, was named Jazz Programmer of the Year in a major market for the fourth straight year Thursday at the JazzWeek Summit's annual awards dinner ... Read more »
WEMU offering shuttle to Detroit Jazz Festival
Posted: Aug 30, 2012Want to hit the annual Detroit Jazz Festival this weekend but don't want to deal with driving and parking? WEMU and Golden Limousine will again this year offer a shuttle service between Ypsilanti and the ... Read more »
WEMU names David Fair news director
Posted: Aug 27, 2012David Fair WEMU has announced that David Fair has been named the station's news director. WEMU (89.1-FM) is the public-radio station at Eastern Michigan University. Fair has long served as WEMU's local host for "Morning ... Read more »
With his scary 'Tiny Terrors,' broadcaster Bob Eccles finds literary satisfaction comes in small bites
Posted: Aug 20, 2012Bob Eccles By day, Bob Eccles is a newsman for WEMU, the public-radio station at Eastern Michigan University. But when he’s not on the air, Eccles has a passion for something frightfully different. Eccles is ... Read more »
Linda Yohn celebrating 25 years playing jazz at WEMU
Posted: May 23, 2012On Friday morning, right around 9 a.m., Linda Yohn will flip the switch that turns on her studio microphone at WEMU, 89.1-FM. When she does, she’ll be marking a milestone—her 25th anniversary of being an ... Read more »
WEMU names new host for 'Sunday Best'
Posted: Apr 06, 2012Nik Thompson has been named the new permanent host of "Sunday Best," the popular traditional jazz program on WEMU (89.1-FM). Thompson has been serving as interim host of the show since longtime host Arwulf Arwulf ... Read more »
poll: Do you donate to public radio?
Posted: Mar 15, 2012Washtenaw County's two public-radio stations, WUOM (91.7-FM) at the University of Michigan and WEMU (89.1-FM) at Eastern Michigan University, have begun their annual spring fund-raising drives. Listener donations are an important source of income for ... Read more »
WEMU: Arwulf Arwulf stepping down as host of 'Sunday Best' jazz show
Posted: Feb 08, 2012Arwulf Arwulf, well-known local radio host, poet and general cultural presence, is ending one of his long-running gigs, as host of the WEMU (89.1-FM) program "Sunday Best." Read more »
Two gigs displaced from Live get new outlets
Posted: Jan 27, 2012Two of the regular live-music dates that lost their home in a recent ownership change at the nightclub Live have found new homes. Laith Al-Saadi, the local guitarist who played at Live with his band ... Read more »
WEMU offering shuttles to Detroit Jazz Festival
Posted: Aug 22, 2011WEMU, Eastern Michigan University’s public radio station, and Golden Limousine in Ann Arbor are teaming up again this year to run shuttle buses from EMU to the free Detroit Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend, ... Read more »
WEMU's Linda Yohn named top jazz radio programmer for third straight year
Posted: Jun 20, 2011Linda Yohn Linda Yohn—music director at WEMU (89.1-FM), the public-radio station at Eastern Michigan University—was named Jazz Programmer of the Year in a major market, for the third straight year, on Saturday at the JazzWeek ... Read more »
with audio: NPR's 'Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' nods at Ann Arbor - twice
Posted: May 02, 2011Peter Sagal Ann Arbor listeners to the National Public Radio news quiz program "Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me!" discovered a couple of unexpected local angles on the episode that aired Saturday. Hosted by Peter ... Read more »
Original music video extends radio station's 'I Am WEMU' campaign
Posted: Apr 11, 2011WEMU, the public-radio station based at Eastern Michigan University, has posted an original music video to YouTube. The song, written by Chris Benjey and sung by Sue Gillis, is called "So Glad You're Mine." It ... Read more »
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