The lean non-profit had lost listeners, donors and advertisers during a messy, public infight involving staff complaints against management. Once a slate of members under the banner “Save Jazz.FM” won the board elections on Feb. 15, they set out to hire new management. “The first thing we did was to find a way to hire Heather Bambrick back,” says Russell. An 18-year station veteran, Barker weathered the storm and stayed. They are the Mount Rushmore of jazz.” Jazz.FM began in 1949 as a Toronto campus station and transformed in 2001 into a 24-hour all-jazz station transmitting from the CN Tower.

Source: thestar June 13, 2019 13:52 UTC