What I said is I don't see them. I looked again, and they get 4 spins a week. I still don't see Coolio, so maybe that was the only time it was played. The surprise to me is that Jack played One Direction from 2011. Perhaps in the context of Liam Payne. That stood out to me.
One other thing about Jack is that if Audacy is going to use the Jack brand, they have to follow some musical guidelines. I know that KJKK is programming their own music, and that the person doing it also programs the music at KSPF.
Because they're all going after the same demo. So the songs are similar, but the way they're played (as in frequency) is different. If you look at the playlists in Mediabase, which is organized by the amount of plays, the lists are very different.
There was a lot more format separation in the 70s and early 80s. Run DMC and several others broke hip hop into the mainstream in the late 80s. When you look at the radio charts in the early 90s, you see a lot of the same songs in several formats. That's having an effect on the classic hits format now.
What he's talking about is a possible merger of Cumulus and Audacy. If that were to happen, it would lead to some station sales in Dallas. This is Lance's article from last April.
Last night Semafor publicly reported on something that has been whispered for much of the past year; a potential combination
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The Audacy bankruptcy plan was just approved by the FCC. There are still some issues that need to be resolved (foreign ownership waiver). I think it's a long way off. The main thing is that somebody has to come up with a lot more money. Right now, the money on the table isn't enough, and they aren't going back in debt to do this. There are other ways to combine operations without an actual merger.
