There are 31 article(s) tagged WYXR:

• October 2020

  • Pat Mitchell-Worley on Memphis music, how music can empower youths and a band called Saliva

    Pat Mitchell-Worley, the executive director of Stax Music Academy and host of Beale Street Caravan, joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.

    By Eric Barnes October 14, 2020

  • Robby Grant of WYXR on his life as a musician

    Daily Memphian CEO Eric Barnes talks with musician and the executive director of WYXR about music, his career and the new radio station in The Extra podcast.

    By Eric Barnes October 08, 2020

  • ‘At WYXR, Memphis is our format’

    The vision for the new era of the radio station is to truly, purely and honestly represent Memphis and its surrounding area. 

    By Jared Boyd October 05, 2020

  • The Memphis 10: Best craft beer names, Barrett on the bench and more

    Craft beer naming is an art, or at least an, um, craft, and one that the growing number of Memphis breweries take with proper seriousness. In honor of the Virtual Memphis Beer Festival, we take a spin through local brewery websites to ponder beer names present and past. 

    By Chris Herrington October 01, 2020

• August 2020

  • The future of radio on WYXR

    Contrary to early rumors, University of Memphis radio station WYXR – formerly WUMR – will still play jazz, there will be lots of Memphis music but other music as well, and U of M students will continue to be involved in the station.

    By Eric Barnes August 05, 2020

• July 2020

  • Crosstown radio partnership announces new names

    “I’ve been wanting to help make a change with Memphis radio, specifically community radio, for a long time. ... We are going to amplify voices in Memphis and the Mid-South."

    By The Daily Memphian Staff July 06, 2020