Originally posted Thursday, August 16, 2018 by RODNEY HO/rho@ajc.com on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog
Rene Miller, a long-time radio veteran in Atlanta, has landed her first radio job in three years at the new Smooth Jazz 101.1/1310 AM.
Miller starts today at WJZA-FM as program director and afternoon host from 3 to 7 p.m.
She had previously worked at WAOK/AM 1380, Jazz Flavors 104.1 and Smooth Jazz 107.5.
“Jazz is still a viable format,” Miller said, “which is evident by the number of sold-out concerts, venues and international festivals we see. Atlanta is too large not to have a commercial jazz station. I am pleased Davis Broadcasting had the forward thinking vision to bring it back to the Atlanta market.”
Miller has also been a mid-day lottery host for the Georgia Lottery Corp., seen daily on WSB-TV for the past quarter century.
The smooth jazz station, on a modest translator signal mostly inside the Perimeter, launched last October and is owned by Davis Broadcasting.
The station now has live jocks from 3 a.m. to midnight.
"We're delighted to have her on board," said Greg Davis, who owns Davis Broadcasting. He hopes to make this a viable station and make sure the jocks are active in the community.
Davis owns six radio stations in Columbus and three other ones in Atlanta: La Raza 102.3 and 100.1 and Mega 96.5, both playing Hispanic music.
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