Jonathan Schwartz is an American radio personality

Radio personality

A radio personality is a person with an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality can be someone who introduces and discusses various genres of music, hosts a talk radio show that may take calls from listeners, or someone whose primary responsibility is to give news, weather,...

, known for his devotion to traditional pop music

Traditional pop music

Traditional pop or classic pop or standards music denotes, in general, Western popular music that either wholly predates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s, or to any popular music which exists concurrently to rock and roll but originated in a time before the appearance of rock and roll,...

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Schwartz (the son of composer Arthur Schwartz

Arthur Schwartz

Arthur Schwartz was an American composer and film producer.Schwartz supported his legal studies at New York University and postgraduate studies at Columbia University by playing piano before concentrating his talents on vaudeville, Broadway theatre and Hollywood.Among his Broadway musicals are The...

) worked at New York's WNEW-FM from 1967 to 1976, followed by stints at WNEW-AM, WQEW

WQEW

WQEW is a Radio Disney affiliate licensed to New York City. Its transmitter is located in Maspeth, Queens. WQEW has a transmitter power of 50,000 watts and is listed as a Clear-channel station...

, and currently WNYC-FM (Saturday Noon-4pm, Sunday Noon-4pm). Schwartz also served as programming director for XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional...

's now-defunct High Standards

High Standards (XM)

High Standards, originally called Frank's Place, was a music channel on XM Satellite Radio offering a pop standards format. Its program director and on-air voice was Jonathan Schwartz, while the music director was Buddy Ladd....

 channel, and continues to host a daily show (also called "High Standards") on Sirius XM's '40s on 4 channel Monday-Friday at Noon-3pm ET and Saturday Noon-3pm ET, Sunday Noon-4pm ET (also on WNYC-FM).

Schwartz is best known for his two four-hour-long weekend broadcasts, The Saturday Show on WNYC-FM and The Sunday Show, which comprise about half talk and half an eclectic mix of music.