After 50 years, Jack Mindy retires from the talking side

July 1, 2009 – Meaghan M. McDermott • Staff writer •  Democrat & Chronicle – After a five-decade career, radio man Jack Mindy is hanging up his headphones. Mindy, 66, has spent the past eight years manning the mike at Greece’s Jazz 90.1, also known as WGMC-FM (90.1), but his career started in high school. “There was this little radio station in Fredonia looking for high school kids to do a radio show,” said Mindy, a native of Buffalo. “So I sent in a post card and that was it. I started playing disc jockey.” (more…)

Greece still home to one of fewer than 10 such stations nationwide

Alan Morrell – Staff Writer

Derrick Lucas got into jazz at a young age. He was just 4 years old when he asked his parents for his first record – Spectrum, by jazz drummer Billy Cobham. Cobham’s sound, he said, changed his young life. “I never heard anything like that,” said Lucas, now 38 and the music director for WGMC-FM (90.1) radio. “I went crazy.” Thus began his lifelong love of jazz, one he has shared through WGMC, a jazz-centered station celebrating its 35th anniversary this month. The station signed on in 1973 as a student-run station, run by the Greece Central School District that broadcast for 4½ hours on weekdays, but was off the air on weekends and school breaks. (more…)

Jessica Spies – Staff Writer – Greece Post

Greece, N.Y. – The small radio station WGMC-FM has found supporters in its hometown, Greece. And in Athens, Greece. While that station – now Jazz 90.1 – only reaches about 50 miles from it headquarters, Greece Olympia High School, 1139 Maiden Lane, it can be heard all over the world these days thanks to the Internet. All jazz all the time. (more…)

Old school radio meets new, and it works

Colleen M. Farrell, staff writer

(March 20, 2008) Greece, N.Y. – Spin the radio dial around, away from the three-digit station numbers on the right, and you’ll land on one of the last vestiges of old-time radio, back when disc jockeys were local and callers could actually talk to the person spinning records.
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School adds cool learning tool

Jazz station WGMC moves into Olympia High media center

Victoria E. Freile, Staff writer

(June 15, 2005) — GREECE — Until recently, many Olympia High School students didn’t know the Greece Central School District housed a radio station.In fact, many still don’t know much about it.
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On Saturday November 1, Jazz90.1 WGMC-FM celebrated its 35th anniversary. The radio station, which is owned and operated by the Greece Central School District, first went on air November 1, 1973 broadcasting from Greece Athena High School. WGMC began as a student run station, broadcasting only four and a half hours per day, and signing off on the weekends and during school holidays and recesses. Later that year, WGMC expanded to seven hours per day, and increased it’s on air hour time to nine hours a day one year later. (more…)