WGMC is a listener-supported station in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in Monroe County, New York, south of Lake Ontario in the United States. Known as The World's Image Centre, it was also once known as The Flour City, and more recently as The Flower City...

, USA, broadcasting on 90.1 MHz

Hertz

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 FM

FM broadcast band

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 and streaming on the Internet at www.jazz901.org. On air, the station is identified as "Jazz 90.1" in reference to its FM frequency. WGMC specializes in all styles of jazz

Jazz

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, but is also an important outlet for music and voices that do not make it onto commercial radio. WGMC's longest-running show is Polka Bandstand. The Lithuanian-language Dainos Aidas, a Turkish-language show and The Latin Essence, a four-hour program of Latin music broadcast in Spanish, also have their home on the station.

The station also hosts a blues show (Muskie's Juke Joint) on Sunday evenings, a soul jazz program (The Soul Jazz Spectrum) on Friday nights, a program of avant-garde jazz (Northstar Sounds) on Tuesday nights and other specialty shows featuring sub-genres of jazz.

On June 6, 2009, WGMC added its first call-in talk show, Sound Bytes

Sound Bytes

Sound Bytes is the title of a weekly program that airs on WGMC, a Rochester, NY radio station. It can be heard Saturdays starting at noon Eastern Time, and lasts approximately two hours...

, which had previously been broadcast on WHAM

WHAM (AM)

WHAM is a clear-channel talk radio station in Rochester, New York, owned by Clear Channel Communications. Its 50,000-watt transmitter is located in Chili, New York, and the station broadcasts on 1180 kHz.The station first went on the air in 1922...

 and WXXI

WXXI (AM)

WXXI is a National Public Radio member station in Rochester, New York, broadcasting news, talk and informational programming on a 24-hour daily schedule...

.

The WGMC studio is located in the Greece Olympia High School media center.

Disc jockeys/online personalities

WGMC's regular DJs and on-air personalities include:

• Al Meilutis
• Andy Heinze
• Charles Benoit
• Chuck Ingersoll
• Derrick Lucas
• Ed Trefzger
• Eric Gruner
• Gary O
• Hal Johnson
• Jan-Mikael Erakare
• Javier Rivera - Esencia Latina
• Laurylann Romeo
• Mike Kincaid
• Mike Yaroschuck
• Otto Bruno
• Paul Conley
• Phil Dodd
• Ray Serafin
• Rick Petrie
• Rip Savage
• Rob Linton
• Sid O'Connor
• Tabita Torres
• Tracy Henton-Williams
• Garret Voorhees

• The hosts of Sound Bytes
  Sound Bytes
  Sound Bytes is the title of a weekly program that airs on WGMC, a Rochester, NY radio station. It can be heard Saturdays starting at noon Eastern Time, and lasts approximately two hours...
  
  Nick Francesco, Dave Enright, and Steve Rea.

External links

• Jazz901.org Homepage
• http://hearchucknow.com/Soul_Jazz_Spectrum.html