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Despite fliers circulating through Chicago’s jazz community warning that public radio WBEZ-FM 91.5 is planning major cuts in its jazz shows, station program director Torey Malatia says cuts will be minimal. Regarding planned schedule “refinements” in January, Malatia says the station’s 55 weekly hours of locally originated jazz shows will be cut back only “three to five hours.” WBEZ’s jazz programming airs from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekdays. Rumors of jazz music’s demise on WBEZ have been floating around since former programmer Ken Davis’ internal memo suggesting increased news/talk programming was leaked to the press in September 1992.
