Super Hi-Fi & Connoisseur Ink Partnership
• Super Hi-Fi this week announced a strategic partnership with Connoisseur Media that will see Connoisseur re-platform select stations nationwide utilizing Super Hi-Fi’s AI Radio platform.
It was concurrently announced that Jeff Warshaw, CEO of Connoisseur Media, will join the Super Hi-Fi Board of Directors. “Our mission is to have the best live and local radio experience in every market across America and Super Hi-Fi’s unique capabilities will allow us to do that in ways the industry just didn’t have before,” said Warshaw. “We’re excited to work with them to drive forward and deliver the most compelling radio products in the industry.”
As the press release states, “At the center of the partnership is the deployment of Super Hi-Fi’s AI Radio platform — an end-to-end, cloud-native operating system designed specifically for radio. The platform is anchored by ‘Program Director,’ the industry’s first true Radio Operating System, powered by a suite of proprietary AI technologies that master, schedule, produce, and deliver each station directly to a Super Hi-Fi playout device at the transmitter. The result are stations that sound and feel more local and more engaging, allowing program directors to deliver world-class listening experiences that really stand out as the best of what radio has to offer listeners.”
Zack Zalon, CEO of Super Hi-Fi, commented, “We’re extremely honored to have Jeff on the Super Hi-Fi board and look forward to working with him to not only make Connoisseur the best sounding and most profitable radio group in America, but also to make Super Hi-Fi a better product, a better service, and a better company overall.”
The partnership is expected to support select stations with operational transformation by modernizing station operations and replacing outdated workflows with Super Hi-Fi’s AI-driven services, delivering lower overall operating costs while elevating audio production standards and most importantly – the overall station experience.
The companies have already launched the initial phase of re-imagined Connoisseur stations using Super Hi-Fi’s AI platform services including WERV (95.9 The River) in suburban Chicago and KKUS (104.1 The Ranch)/Tyler, TX, as well as stations in Columbia, SC, San Antonio and Lincoln, NE, with more expected to launch throughout 2026.
