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John Hill To Host Jazz Beginning Monday Night

Chicago native John Hill will be taking over the hosting duties for the Jazz Network

weeknight shows beginning Monday April 2 at 9:00 PM. Hill will host Monday - Thursday

nights. Dee Alexander will  continue to host on Fridays.

Hill has over 35 years of Jazz radio experience working for commercial and public radio

stations as a host, producer and a Program and Music Director. Currently he is employed at

the News and Blues-formatted WNIJ at Northern Illinois University. And now he has a daily

program on the Jazz Network at WFMT in Chicago which serves hundreds of stations with their

jazz and classical programming.

Mike Jacobs has been with KIOS since 1988 while attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Mike began his career at KIOS working weekends acting as local host for NPR’s Weekend Edition. He also hosted Morning Edition from 1990-1996. Mike began hosting the weekly blues program “Blues in the Afternoon” in October 1994 and took on the responsibilities of jazz programming and maintaining the music library in 1996. He has held the position of Music Director since 2002. In addition to hosting “Jazz in the Afternoon” on Wednesdays and Thursdays, Mike also helps with assembling music for “Jazz From Studio One” hosted by the advanced radio students at the Omaha Public Schools Career Center. Mike is an Omaha native and graduated from Technical High School in 1984.