The awards for Station of the Year and Programmer of the Year
Iowa’s Jazz Station, 88.3 KCCK, swept the Small Market Awards at the recent JazzWeek Summit in San Jose, California. KCCK has been named JazzWeek Station of the Year for 2014, the fourth time the station has been honored. Program Director Bob Stewart was on hand to accept the award and to pick up an honor himself.
Stewart won the inaugural Bobby Jackson Programmer of the Year award. Jackson, a well-known jazz radio personality from New York, passed away in 2013. Prior to the award’s re-naming, Stewart had won it five times, making him one of the nation’s most-honored jazz programmers.
“Bob has always had a finger of the pulse of modern jazz listeners,” KCCK Director Dennis Green said. “It’s a great honor for him and the station to be recognized once again by his peers in radio and records.”
Jazz radio programmers, record company executives, record promoters and jazz musicians elect nominees for the JazzWeek awards, announced at the JazzWeek Summit. Artists, jazz radio stations, internet broadcasters, program producers, record labels and management in San Jose, California, attended the summit.
JazzWeek has published weekly national jazz radio airplay charts since 2001 out of their headquarters city, Rochester, New York.
Jazz 88.3 KCCK-FM is a locally-programmed public radio station owned by Kirkwood Community College, broadcasting in analog FM and HD Radio at 88.3 FM. Iowa’s Jazz Station is also on any IOS and Android phone or tablet, webcasts at www.kcck.org, and on Johnson County translator at 106.9 FM.
KCCK provides the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area communities with a variety of on-air programs and community outreach activities, including free concerts like Jazz Under the Stars and education programs including Schoolhouse Jazz and the Corridor Jazz Project.