MusicTown In Downtown Motown

CBS Radio Detroit, in association with Olympia Entertainment, has begun construction of MusicTown, a new venue designed to host and celebrate music, culture and entertainment in the city of Detroit. The venue will be located inside the Hockeytown Café, which is within the 50-block, mixed-use sports and entertainment development known as The District Detroit.

MusicTown will contain a broadcast studio, recording studio and performance space, in addition to national and local artist performances inside the intimate City Theatre adjacent to Hockeytown Café. MusicTown will also serve as remote studios for WYCD, WDZH (98.7 AMP Radio), WOMC, WXYT (97.1 The Ticket) and WWJ Newsradio 950 when broadcasting from major downtown events. Through a partnership between CBS Radio Detroit and Michigan State University, MusicTown will also host educational workshops, musical performances and lectures by MSU professors and musicians — much of which will be free to the community. MusicTown’s state-of-the-art recording studio will also be made available to local talent, choirs and schools at no charge.

“We are strongly committed to continuing Detroit’s tradition as a great ‘Music City,'” said Debbie Kenyon, SVP/Market Manager, CBS Radio Detroit. “By identifying new talent and sharing the many music stories that Detroit has inspired, this initiative will help celebrate a once booming industry in our great city, stimulating significant economic growth in the region along the way.”