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Listen to Bobby’s WNIJ Radio Show, “Jazz Spectrum”
Bobby hosts his radio show on Northern Illinois University’s WNIJ, NorthernPublicRadio.org. The show will air on Fridays, from 7 – 9PM CST. It features jazz music curated by Broom. “This is a most exciting venture for me,” Broom says. “I’ve been told for years that I have a radio voice. I think that hearing that, planted a seed as something that I wanted to do that has finally bloomed.”
The weekly show began airing on June 14th,2024 and has continued every Friday. It can be heard at wnij.org, via the “play” button. It’s also available via mobile apps for iPhone
, iPad, and Android devices.
WGN Evening News “Chicago’s Very Own” Feature
Bobby was featured on “Chicago’s Very Own,” the WGN Evening News segment produced by Emmy winning Anchor, Micah Materre. After Materre attended a couple of Broom’s live performances, pre and post pandemic, the news crew shadowed him, capturing him during his teaching duties as tenured Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University and Ravinia Jazz Mentor to Chicago public high schoolers.