WFPK Louisville Changes

Where is the user input? This is obviously made by a decision of only talking to each other, more sad sack hippy jams? Sounds good. In my family everyone from my grandmother to my college aged sister loved the sunday jazz.

So out of touch from your listeners.

Where is the user input? This is obviously made by a decision of only talking to each other, more sad sack hippy jams? Sounds good. In my family everyone from my grandmother to my college aged sister loved the sunday jazz.

So out of touch from your listeners.

Don’t we have enough sad nostalgic rock on the radio… the new sunday lineup stinks. Please return the jazz.

I’ve been a donor for years, but I didn’t renew this year because you dropped the jazz. The Jazz Pulse was the best. I listened every week. Other friends I’ve talked with are all super confused and disappointed. Please reverse course. You’ve made 91.9 more generic and less diverse.

I am very very disappointed in WFPK’s decision to drop jazz programming. Been a faithful jazz listener of this station and WFPL when they programed jazz for many years. I was going to suggest that Sunday was the perfect time to run jazz all day long. The best genre to relieve us from the “hangover” of a weekend format. As a former contributor, I was thinking about re-newing. Now, I don’t think so, but never say never. If jazz returns, I just may do it. Please, make me a believer and future contributor – bring jazz back to public radio.

My wife and I love the Sunday jazz. It’s part of our weekend routine. I heard what replaced it and can only say – Please bring back the jazz! It was a staple.

Really?
No Jazz.
NO MONEY!
I hope y’all rethink this one.
What? You do not think there are any Jazz fans in Louisville?

Please give us back our Sunday Jazz been listening for over 30 yrs .

Jazz and Woody take it on the chin for some rather uninspiring replacements. I was not a donor, but now I doubt I ever will be a donor.

So disappointed. Dropping my donations. Could Jazz fans please recommend streaming shows for me. I’ll miss the announcers and their expertise.

Talk about burying the headline. Goodbye, Jazz! :'(

Argh!
I return from vacation to find they’ll killed Jazz?!
Wasn’t it bad enough we lost everyday jazz many years ago? Now you also want to take away the one little island that remained?
Well, obviously I can’t pay a streaming service to get jazz while supporting the station that used to provide same. So don’t expect to see the check you’ve been getting for the past several decades.
Please reconsider; however I won’t hold my breath.

I was considering renewing my membership, but taking away Sunday jazz makes it entirely not worth it. Why would I tune in on Sundays just to hear the same stuff I hear all week? Literally heard a Michelle Branch song today I heard Thursday. Boring. Weekend programming should be different than the rest of the week.

Musical consistency is not I come to wfpk for. I can listen to literally any other station in Louisville if I want to hear the same Harry Styles song 5 times a week.

Unique and deeply experiential radio broadcasting is dying and I’m deeply disappointed that LPM has pulled the rug out from under some truly world class jazz programming. I’m sure this decision wasn’t made easily, but I agree that it is shortsighted. At the very least, this decision sends a message loud and clear that the music that defines, celebrates and holds a mirror back at our country, in a way that no other genre can, is disposable. A “consistent music experience” sounds boring at best and aligns your very special gift a of a radio station with every other non-imaginative, ratings seeking schlocky product. This reads as a myopic, selfish decision that points to stoking your own egos than what is best for listeners and the community at large. Stacy Owen: as the PD of a community supported radio station, this decision really doesn’t jive.

I leave town for a week and come home to find my favorite radio programing, Jazz on Sunday morning has been dropped? When I moved to the city 20 years ago, Jazz could be heard any night of the week. Today, increasingly hard to find. As others commented, I can understand the need to refresh the music offerings on 91.9, that’s what makes it such a good station. But there is a big difference between mixing things up, changing schedules and dropping completely a music genre that is so entwined with our history and our musical roots. For a station that embraces such a broad range of music, dropping Jazz is dumbfounding.

This is so disappointing. I’m not going to drop my membership because LPM does so much good in the community. But turning the light away from Louisville’s jazz community is neglecting so much great music and so many musicians that are the heart and souls of the scene. I like the idea of shaking up the cast of hosts to be more diverse but I think it was tone deaf to drop the jazz programming. It was by far, my favorite part of WFPK, and frankly, the only time I tuned in. So sad.

Melbourne, Florida’s NPR….WFIT WILL START RECEIVING MY MONTHLY DONATION FROM NOW ON. YES THEY STILL HAVE JAZZ, BUT IT IS NOT MY OWN HOMETOWN STATION, ONE OF MY FEW CONNECTIONS LEFT TO MY HOMETOWN THAT I MISS SO MUCH AND MY HOMETOWN JAZZ.

81 year old, long time contributor, now, living in Florida and starving for anything from “BACK HOME”. LIVING IN A JAZZ DESERT IS UNCOMFORTABLE. Therefore, one of my few joys has been, jazz every Sunday and other hometown connections on WFPK.. I can listen to my hometown music and buddies on computer every Sunday. Now, no more jazz fix on Sunday with hometown friends. Stopped my monthly donation the day I heard that jazz programming was gone. There are many NPR stations south of me in Florida that I can tune into…but, nothing like my own NPR from home.

Yep. I’m gone. So LESS music is not good. Bad call, Stacy…BAD call.

Royce P.

I hate losing our only jazz day. I listen everyday but I do look forward to Sundays. Jazz is always playing Sundays in the nursery at Bardstown Rd Presbyterian.
It was hard to lose wfpl jazz years ago but at least we were left with Sundays.
Say it isn’t so!

Amen, I cancelled my sustaining membership of $300 a year. Dropping Woody, the Jazz programming and the Grateful Dead hour was too much. WFPK has had Jazz for over 6 decades. I dont think its made the listening experience.

No more Woody’s = No more donations.

You’ve really dropped the ball on this one. Perhaps you underestimate the number of jazz followers that exist within the community. Not to mention the number of talented jazz musicians and artists. May want to rethink this one. I’m very sorry to see jazz programming disappear from our local stations.