One thing I have not found since moving from Jacksonville is a radio station that seems to have…read morepirated my grandparents record collection to play on the air. My grandfather had this spherical blue radio from which I first heard the sounds that I would come to love. Perhaps I was crazy being the only young male listening to the easy listening hits of a bygone era, and even a few more contemporary hits remixed to the soothing mantra of Jones College. On second thought, "remix" is the wrong word. Yes, Jones College Radio became the butt of some jokes, but in the end I loved it. No noise. No distortion. No irritation. Just good music.

I love music. Seriously, my taste is all over the map. But when it comes to radio in Fl, the…read morechoices seem to be: 1. Country 2. Hip Hop 3. Angry yelling god person All three raise my blood pressure, so I usually go left of the dial looking for the soothing, dull tones of NPR. Imagine my surprise the day I discovered Jones College Radio. People called it "elevator music", "Musak®", "Music to get your teeth extracted by". If you were young and dumb and full of... um, something, you HATED this music. But that's because you were stupid. You didn't know better. Soon you would. My love of easy listening (what Jones calls "beeautiful music") probably started around when my then gf (now wifey) dropped the needle on this Percy Faith cover of "Goin' Out of my Head". It was like having Thorazine pumped into my ears. Going out of my head? HAH! I don't think so. I can't fucking move! Anyway, it was a little much, but it made a deep impression. The real gateway drug to EL though, was undoubtedly the great Antonio Carlos Jobim, particularly the Wave record. O.M.F.G. This record is so stunningly, awfully, gorgeous that I am tearing up just thinking about it. Most of the songs clock in at around 2:30. They're just little pieces of perfection making you beg for more. I've played Mojave 20 times in a row. I know what you're thinking... "Crack". You're right. You don't hear this stuff in elevators or doctor's offices anymore. Now it's "Cool Jazz", which is right behind babies screaming, and country music as most annoying sounds on earth. Anyway, this has been all about me. The station is great. They don't play all my favorites, and sometimes I'm like "wtf is this?", but overall they do a great job of providing something that you rarely get anywhere else. WKTZ IS the best thing in Jacksonville. 90.9 is programmed on all of my car radio buttons, because really, there's nothing else on the radio, and I don't care.

I attended an Arboretum event at WJCT Public Broadcasting. They had a huge Auditorium. First we…read moretravel down a long hallway where we checked out beautiful pictures of the Arboretum along the way. The pictures were stunning! Then I stopped off in the restroom which was clean and smelled fresh. Once inside the large auditorium we enjoyed appetizers and adult beverages. After some mingling there was a presentation. There was a stage in front of the room with a projector screen behind the panelists. I would absolutely attend another event at WJCT!

4/7 the WJCT rents out their studio to different groups like health research groups BUT today was…read moreby AARP and it was on frauds, scams. Interesting (but not surprising) that Florida is 2nd in the nation for scams; as the speakers explained is seniors have the wealth. Ok..maybe; anyway the three speakers were from Homeland Security, FINRA and FBI. The numbers for them should be on the AARP.org/FLFraud site. It was sad hearing how these scammers play older adults and if they send their money out thru Bitcoins...it's gone to some other country and there is little that can be done to get it back! These terrible scammers always make it seem you are in trouble or either with AI, it is a loved one that needs you respond right now! That you need to lie to your bank (where you are taking your money out of) and that is a red flag! Others get scammed bec they think they are going to make all this money and you need to invest...NOW (again this sense of urgency). What everyone should know, no government agency-police, IRS, FBI-will call you to tell you they need your money!

A decently strong signal for this radio station that worked well during my time sightseeing in and…read morearound Jacksonville. "80's, 90's and Today" with not too many commercials was good. Easy 102.9 is contemporary adult music. A few tunes we heard while it was on the dial included some Britney Spears, Steve Perry, Adele, Bananarama and Bonnie Raitt. Yeah, it goes back a while and that's why it's called "adult" music. WEZI is owned by Atlanta-based Cox Media Group. studios and offices are located on Belfort Parkway in Jacksonville's Southside district and the transmitter in the Arlington neighborhood. The signal reaches as far north as the Georgia coast and as far south as Saint Augustine. [Review 15750 overall - 1333 in Florida - 1254 of 2021.]