WIAD is a commercial radio station in Bethesda, Maryland, broadcasting to the Washington, DC area on 94.7 FM. It currently broadcasts a Hot Adult Contemporary format as "94.7 Fresh FM".

History[link]

94.7 FM originally aired a beautiful music format with the call letters, WJMD. The WJMD call letters formed the initials of the previous owner, Joseph and M. Diener.

WJMD evolved into a soft adult contemporary music format with a change of call letters to WLTT. Under this format, the station was branded as "W-Lite".

WLTT dropped the soft adult contemporary music format in favor of a classic rock music format branded as "The Arrow". A change of call letters followed to WARW to complement the change in branding to "The Arrow". WARW was also billed on-air as "We Always Rock Washington."

94.7 The Globe/Classic Rock 94.7[link]

On February 2, 2007, an adult album alternative (also known as "triple A") music format was adopted with the branding "The Globe". The new "Globe" format also featured "green" segments between songs or before and after commercials with environmental information. These segments are called "The Green Scene". The station's call letters changed to WTGB on February 15. The airstaff remained the same as WARW's, but some spots were flipped. Weasel moved from nights to mornings, displacing the Stevens & Medley morning team. Mark Stevens, who was part of Stevens & Medley, moved to nights and was eventually replaced by Albie Dee, who would later move to mornings, replacing Weasel, in November 2008, two months after WTGB flipped back to their prior classic rock format. Jerry Hoyt would then take over evenings. The February 2007 shift to Triple-A left rival classic hits station WBIG-FM as the capital's only analog station broadcasting some form of classic rock. The Globe's HD-2 channel, then known as "The Jam" began broadcasting a mixture of classic rock.

The call letters appeared to echo those of the Georgetown University radio station, WGTB. Long time Washington radio listeners remember that station from the 1970s as a champion of the alternative rock of its time. WTGB's former DJs, Don "Cerphe" Colwell and Jonathan "Weasel" Gilbert (he left the station October, 2008), have each been involved with Washington radio for nearly 40 years, including stints for both at WHFS. When the station flipped formats, Cerphe left the air April, 2009^[1].

On August 10, 2008, WTGB dropped the triple A format and began returning to a classic rock format. Three weeks after the change, music director and midday personality Schelby Sweeney quit the station, and was replaced by Marci Wiser, formerly of New York City sister station WXRK. ^[2] The "Globe" name (but not the "World Class Rock" slogan) stayed, and WTGB-HD2 flipped to a triple A format. The format change was likely because of low ratings; the station stayed in the bottom seven for its entire life as a triple A outlet. ^[3][4] On September 1, 2008, WTGB began using the branding 'Classic Rock 94.7 The Globe' on air. On February 14, 2009, however, the station's name would change to simply 'Classic Rock 94.7', like it was for some time while the station was still WARW. ^[5] A new logo and website followed on March 9, 2009.

The station will occasionally broadcast Virginia Cavaliers basketball when rights holder WJFK-FM elects not to do so. The most recent sports broadcast on WTGB was on February 26, 2009, when the Cavaliers' men's basketball team played the Miami Hurricanes at home.

94.7 Fresh FM[link]

CBS Radio announced on March 30, 2009 that 94.7 FM would be switching to an adult contemporary format with a verge towards hot adult contemporary on Monday, April 6, 2009 and become "94.7 Fresh FM", gaining the 'Fresh' brand of Greg Dunkin. Jeff Buckley's Last Goodbye was Classic Rock 94.7's last song (the last song that signed off the original WHFS-FM on 99.1 in 2005 and the Baltimore version on 105.7 in 2007). The new format launched with P!nk's Get The Party Started at midnight on April 6. It was said to have the same branding as sister stations WWFS in New York and WCFS-FM in Chicago. CBS aims to have the new station compete with Clear Channel's Adult Contemporary WASH-FM, as well as Citadel's Hot Adult Contemporary WRQX. ^[6] The rivalry with WASH-FM is hinted at in various promotion spots using the tagline "None of that WASHed up old stuff, just Fresh new music." The station launched at midnight on April 6 as the Washington, D.C. counterpart of its WLIF sister station from Baltimore that could be heard in much of Washington, D.C., although it combined the formats of its WLIF & WWMX sisters. The Classic Rock format would return to DC via WJZW (now WMAL-FM), as 105.9 The Edge. It launched in August 2009. In 2011, when Nielsen BDS & Mediabase switched reporting panels from the AC panel to the hot AC panel (duplicating the format of sister WWMX in Baltimore particularly due to WLIF's signal targeting much of Washington, D.C.), WIAD marked it the first time since 2006 on how Washington, D.C. had two hot adult contemporary stations since the flip of WWZZ (now WPRS-FM), even though its WWMX sister station is blocked in much of Washington, D.C.

On December 16th, 2009, WTGB became WIAD, becoming the only Fresh FM station not using "FS" on the calls. KEZK-FM in St. Louis, Missouri followed suit the following year.

CBS Radio now lists WIAD as a hot AC on its website since the logo change.

HFS2[link]

On June 10, 2009, 94.7's HD2 subcarrier started broadcasting a Progressive Rock format under the branding "HFS2". The channel previously played Triple A music. WHFS was a legendary rock station that broadcast from November 11, 1961 to January 12, 2005 on various frequencies in the Washington area. The callsign is now "parked" on an AM talk station.

On August 1, 2011, "HFS2" was dropped from 94.7 HD2 and moved to Baltimore's 106.5-HD2 and FM translator at 97.5 FM. However, the next day, "HFS2" was added back to 94.7 HD2. However, "HFS2" was dropped again on December 30, 2011 for a simulcast of WNEW-FM. ^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• 94-7 Fresh FM Online
• HFS2
• Query the FCC's FM station database for WIAD
• Radio-Locator information on WIAD
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for WIAD

Coordinates: 38°57′50″N 77°06′18″W / 38.964°N 77.105°W / 38.964; -77.105

Eric Reiss in 2010

Eric Reiss is the author of Practical Information Architecture (ISBN 0-201-72590-8), Web Dogma '06.^[1] and Usable Usability (John Wiley & Sons), which is scheduled for release in July, 2012. He has also contributed to several other books and publications, including Designing Web Navigation (ISBN 0-596-52810-2), Pervasive Information Architecture (ISBN 978-0123820945) and commentary to the online Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction.^[2] Reiss was President of the Information Architecture Institute for two terms and is the current Chair of the European Information Architecture Summit. Reiss is active in the information architecture/usability/user experience/service design scene. In 2010, he was named in a blog as "One of the Top 10 European Content Strategists to Watch".^[3] In recent years, Reiss has also been an outspoken critic of innovationists who do not differentiate between innovation and invention. Reiss argues that innovation is a later stage than invention and that it is always a planned activity and never accidental.^[4]

Early life and education[link]

Born in San Antonio, Texas in 1954, his family relocated to St. Louis prior to his first birthday when his father accepted a position at Washington University School of Medicine. Reiss is the son of two prominent physicians who played pivotal roles in bringing about the nuclear test-ban treaty of 1963 (see Linus Pauling "Activism"). His Viennese-born father, Eric Reiss, M.D., performed early and groundbreaking research on parathyroid hormone (PTH). His mother, Louise Zibold Reiss, M.D., as Director of the Baby Tooth Survey, was involved in mapping levels of radioactive Strontium-90 in the U.S. food chain secondary to nuclear fallout.^[5][6] His family moved to the Chicago suburb of Highland Park in 1964. He was active in theatre and the performing arts while at Highland Park High School from 1968–1972. During this time, Reiss started restoring player pianos and jukeboxes. He formed his first company, Reiss Player Piano Service, at age 16.

Reiss returned to St. Louis to study at Washington University in 1972. A ragtime pianist, Reiss was Musical Director on the Goldenrod Showboat on the Mississippi River levee during much of 1975, where he also participated in the National Ragtime Festival along with Dave Jason, Terry Waldo, and the Black Eagle Jazz Band. In 1976, he graduated with degrees in Performing Arts and Political Science.

Career[link]

After his graduation, Eric Reiss moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to become a stage director at the Royal Danish Theatre. He was originally apprenticed in the fall of 1976 to Danish director Sam Besekow, where he assisted with the production of Eduardo de Filippo's play Saturday, Sunday, Monday. In early 1977, Reiss was granted full director status by the theater. In 1977, his original play, Marionettes, was awarded first prize at the Illinois One-Act Play Festival.^[7]

Following a 10-year career in the Scandinavian theater world, publication of the first Danish-language adventure game (Skabet),^[8] and a short stint studying Egyptology, Reiss' first book, The Compleat Talking Machine (ISBN 1-886606-18-8) led to a career change in 1986 when he migrated from theater to professional writing.

Reiss wrote the talking machine book, now in its fifth edition (10th printing).^[9] Reiss has since worked almost exclusively in developing business-to-business communications materials and marketing strategies.

With the advent of PC-based multimedia in the late 80s and the World Wide Web a few years later, Reiss combined his knowledge of theater, communication, and computers to build interactive business tools. In early 1997, he developed an on-line communications concept for his employer, Cross-Border Communications. The resulting microsite, Rick's Cafe, was an interactive precursor to a blog and was subsequently voted Macromedia Site of the Week.

Reiss is currently CEO of the Copenhagen-based FatDUX Group ApS, which designs online and offline interactive experiences. He is a past president of the Information Architecture Institute, serves as Chair of the European Information Architecture Summit - EuroIA, and is on the Advisory Board of the Copenhagen Business School (Department of Informatics) and the Romanian Institute of Information Architecture. Between 2009-2011, Reiss was an Associate Professor of Usability and Design at IE Business School (formerly Instituto de Empresa) in Madrid, Spain, where he received several awards for his teaching, including the "Best Professor" prize in 2009.^[10][10]

Reiss is still active as a performer and musician, working regularly with Vivienne McKee's London Toast Theatre in Copenhagen. He was also a regular on the MTV-produced candid-camera show, Rent Fup, during the season 1998–1999. Other acting credits include the Danish film, Miraklet i Valby (1989) and off-screen dubbing for Lars von Trier's Dancer in the Dark (2000).

Reiss and his wife Dorthe make their home in Copenhagen, Denmark.

References[link]

External links[link]

• (i.a. podcast) FatDUX Eric Reiss on Leadership
• (2008 IA Summit) E-service: What we can learn from the customer-service gurus
• Interview with Eric Reiss on Web Dogma '06
• IA Voice podcast interview with Eric Reiss
• Finderati – Eric Reiss
• Round-robin interview with Eric Reiss, Bob Goodman, Peter Jones, GK Vanpatter
• Video – Increasing your conversion rates with CMS, Reiss speaking at Sitecore conference in Copenhagen (in Danish)
• IA Voice podcast "Seven Trends in Information Architecture" Eric Reiss speaking at EuroIA 2006 in Berlin
• Interview "Five Questions to Eric Reiss" on the Hot Strudel blog (in German and English)
• Interview with Eric Reiss "User centered design or user driven design?"
• Video – Eric Reiss keynote on innovation at Italian IA Summit in Trento, November 16 2007 in Italian and English (part 1 of 2)
• Video – Part 2 of Eric Reiss's innovation keynote in Trento, Italy
• Video – two interviews featuring Eric Reiss and other IA leaders compiled by Kent State University
• Video – Eric Reiss lecture at Akademia Pedagogiczna in Krakow, Poland "Architektura informacji. Czyli jak zachować zdrowy rozsądek w erze cyfrowej" (in Polish and English)
• Eric Reiss quoted in Fortune Magazine January, 2008 (PDF in English)
• Editorial in Bulletin for American Society for Information Science, February 2008 "It's not what you think, but how you think"
• Interview with Prof. Eric Reiss in Polish magazine Konspekt "We are all information architects" (in English and Polish)
• Video – "Branding dangers: how NOT to build a brand digital?", Eric Reiss speaking at Brand Festival Digital in Budapest, Hungary

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Peter Morville is president of Semantic Studios, an information architecture and findability consultancey. For over a decade, he has advised such clients as AT&T, IBM, Microsoft, Harvard Business School, Intenet2, Procter & Gamble, Vanguard, and Yahoo!. He serves on the faculty at the University of Michigan's School of Information and on the advisory board of the Information Architecture Institute. He delivers keynotes and seminars at international events, and his work has been featured in major publications, including Business Week,Fortune, and The Wall Street Journal (Morville, Ambient Findability).Peter is best known as a founding father of information architecture, having coauthored the field's best-selling book, '"Information Architecture for the World Wide Web"' (ISBN 978-0596527341, AKA "the Polar Bear Book") (Morville, Ambient Findability). He is co-author of "Search Patterns" (ISBN 978-0596802271, AKA "the Butterfly Book"), and author of Ambient Findability (ISBN 0-596-00765-5, AKA "the Lemur Book").

Peter was also a co-founder and past president of the Information Architecture Institute.^[1]

Biography[link]

Peter Morville was born in Manchester, England.

He has a graduate degree in Library and Information Science, and built on the organization of information practices of this domain, going beyond it to find a way to put some useful order in Web sites.

In December 1993 he graduated from the library school at The University of Michigan.

Together with Louis Rosenfeld he headed Argus Associates, the consulting firm which was at the forefront of the nascent field of information architecture until its demise following the Dot-com bust of 2001.

Peter Morville is now President and Founder of Semantic Studios, a leading information architecture, user experience design, and findability consulting firm.

Peter teaches at the University of Michigan.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Peter Morville — Userati
• Semantic Studios (Morville's consulting firm)
• Interview with Peter Morville (2005)