KJEM Takes Five Episode 2. Dr. Sydney Freeman, Jr. from the University of Idaho discusses different ways to combat racism on higher education campuses.
Tamir is a renowned pianist who is a faculty member of UCLA and will be performing with the WSU Jazz Band in a free and public concert. Since 2000, Tamir has done tours with the Jeff Hamilton Trio and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. You can find more information at the WSU School Of Music website.
PULLMAN, Wash. – With the flip of a switch Friday, KJEM 89.9 FM, the newest radio station in the Palouse, began filling the airways with the sounds of jazz in honor of WSU alumnus and broadcast pioneer J. Elroy McCaw.
At the controls, his son Bruce R. McCaw officially signed on the station 76 years to the day after his father launched his first radio station, KELA in Centralia, Wash.
KJEM, whose call letters are derived from J. Elroy McCaw’s initials, is the newest of the 19 stations in the Northwest Public Radio (NWPR) group, the largest National Public Radio network in the Pacific Northwest. Unlike other NWPR stations, KJEM will be run by students but under the guidance of NWPR’s professional management team. Continue reading →