WBEZ ANNOUNCES “RESET” NEW DAILY NEWS/TALK PROGRAM & NEW WEEKDAY SCHEDULE

Jenn White

Earlier this week, WBEZ in Chicago announced a new midday show, Reset, hosted by Jenn White.  Reset will air from 11am – 1pm, Monday – Friday beginning October 14^th.

White joined WBEZ in 2016. Previously at WBEZ she had been a local host for NPR News news magazines. Prior to moving to WBEZ, White worked at Michigan Radio as Director of Media Outreach and Community Relations and was the local host for ATC.

Her impressive resume also includes several years as the Executive Producer and host of the television program Out of the Blue: The Michigan Difference. The program aired nationally on the Big Ten Network.

According to a press release written by Steve Edwards [link], WBEZ’s Chief Content Officer, guests set to appear on Reset during the program’s first week include former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power; historian and Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Lonnie Bunch; poet Saeed Jones; and A Game of Thrones author, George R.R. Martin.

Reset is part of a “schedule reset” of weekday shows on WBEZ. Beginning October 14^th this will be the weekday schedule for WBEZ:

5am – 9am Morning Edition

9am – 10am BBC Newshour

10am – 11am 1A with Joshua Johnson

11am – 1pm Reset with Jenn White

1pm – 2pm Fresh Air with Terry Gross (Monday – Thursday)

1pm – 2pm Science Friday (Friday)

2pm – 3pm Here and Now

3pm – 7pm All Things Considered

Marketplace airs 4:30pm – 5pm

In the September Nielsen Audio PPM ratings for Chicago, WBEZ edged up to a 2.9 AQH share. 

The September book was conducted between August 15^th and September 11^th. 

The majority of the data is actually from August.

According to Nielsen, there are 13 “months” in a year.

Jazz & Blues WDCB’s estimated weekly listeners were up a bit.

Urban Alternative Vocalo is still looking for an audience.

Also in the September sweeps, commercial AAA WXRT had a 3.5 AQH and 1,072,800 weekly listeners.

In New York, WNYC-FM became the number two source of radio news beating legendary commercial station WCBS in AQH share.

Classical WQXR went down in estimated weekly listeners but went up in AQH share from previous months.

In the NYC Contemporary Christian (CCM) race, live and local WAWZ (AQH share: 1.0) beat K-Love repeater WPLJ (AQH share: 0.4).

K-Love repeater KKLQ in Los Angeles remained the top noncommercial station in the September Nielsen Audio PPM ratings.

NPR News/Talk KPCC remained the top noncom station in AQH share.