What is your source that says the jingles were done by AI processes? If that is the case, I'd like to explore this some more. Maybe someone can link a sample of the jingles?
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Why Radio Is Making A Comeback & The AI Influence
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Listen online to KJO 105.5 and they are a lot between songs.
I should have said “One of the jingles sounds AI generated to me”, because one of them repeats a part of the jingle twice in a row. You can stream the station and hear the one I mean. Like @tall_guy1 said, the jingles play pretty frequently:
By the way @tall_guy1, KKJO added in some Christmas songs recently:
There's a rock sounding one and one with kind of a simple melody. Neither really struck me as AI.I should have said “One of the jingles sounds AI generated to me”, because one of them repeats a part of the jingle twice in a row. You can stream the station and hear the one I mean. Like @tall_guy1 said, the jingles play pretty frequently:
The one I mean that sounded AI generated to me, repeats part of the jingle near or at the end. I think it repeats “K-JO”, but I’ll keep listening to the stream to be sure.
I'm waiting for All-AI radio. The DJ,s are AI, the music is all AI created. All the elements, traffic weather, news, commercials - all AI. Since it will be automated, you'll have AI running the AI radio station. Oh, the possibilities...I can't wait!
It goes "Kjo, Kjo 105.5. From early morning to the afternoon drive. Kjo, kjo 105.5." The melody flows to me. The other rock one, "Kjo, kjo, your favorite songs on the radio. Kjo, kjo." Still flows.
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Joel Denver has started an AI based online radio channel:
SonicTrek.ai Debuts With Futuri Partnership.
Joel Denver and Mike Agovino have teamed with Futuri Media to launch SonicTrek.ai, a next-generation audio syndication company using artificial intelligence to deliver fully localized, 24/7 radio formats. The new
They're using AI to provide localized show prep.
The first one is the one I’ve been talking about. I haven’t heard the second one.
What makes you think its made with AI?
The way the singer of the first KKJO jingle you mentioned sounds.
Listen to these jingles sung by humans and you’ll hear the difference between them and the first KKJO jingle you mentioned that we’ve both heard. Skip to 1 minute 51 seconds, because the beginning is just musicians playing instruments:
Could be. They're a small town station so don't know how they go about gathering audio like that. It kind of sounds like pop singers doing those jingles. But interesting to see those people recording the jingles in that clip. Yes, I've listened to some of the Christmas songs on Kjo recently as well.
I'm 66 and we're between Cincy and Dayton so I get both markets. I listen to AM only for 5 minutes of news and weather. Gave up on FM as well since its pretty much all the same. Pick a decade but play something different the the other stations are. Classic Rock, 80-90's they're all the same. Thankfully I've got a few thumb drives with songs I listen to in the car. No innovation from the big guys. Honestly I'm not sure who is listening but I guess they're getting the ratings they need. No one in my family listens to AM/FM, just whatever tunes they've loaded on their phone
How often do you change or update the music on your thumb drives? Statistically, what we see is that when people control the playlist, they listen to the same songs over and over. Quite often by the same artist. That's why you see streaming charts with ten songs by Morgan Wallen in the Top 20. Not because of radio. But because of people who are free to pick their own music. You may be different. If so, good for you. Commercial radio doesn't program music to people who want big playlists. There's simply no money in it. You might find what you want in non-commercial radio.
The innovation from the big guys is taking place in digital media. The broadcast business for them is declining. Big playlists won't change the fact that people want what they want when they want it for free and without interruption.
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I listened to one of the SonicTrek live streams for a while, the classic hits one.Joel Denver has started an AI based online radio channel:
SonicTrek.ai Debuts With Futuri Partnership.
Joel Denver and Mike Agovino have teamed with Futuri Media to launch SonicTrek.ai, a next-generation audio syndication company using artificial intelligence to deliver fully localized, 24/7 radio formats. The newwww.insideradio.com
They're using AI to provide localized show prep.
Let's just say that it's a lot of cutting edge technology being employed to sound like an unpolished small town AM or high school radio station from the 1990s.
The AI announcer sounds uninterested and emotionless backselling songs and reading announcements and mispronounces names frequently.
Google says under "AI Overview" that on last night's "Simpsons" episode Homer got rabies when he played in a charity basketball game.
In fact I was looking for the name of the K-Pop band. Homer was unable buy tickets for Lisa to watch this band in concert because someone bought them all and sold them for an insane amount.
Google's AI Overview is often spectacularly wrong, but I'm holding my laughter, because AI has the potential to learn rapidly, and those gaps in its knowledge could be very few in the near future.
I've only listened to Starship.fm so far. I had to check it out when I saw that this is a reimagining of Classic Rock from the father of AOR Les Abrams. I like it, this would actually get me to listen to Classic Rock again. Yes, I could tell it was AI, but the presentation (and interesting song selections) make it worth listening to.Joel Denver has started an AI based online radio channel:
SonicTrek.ai Debuts With Futuri Partnership.
Joel Denver and Mike Agovino have teamed with Futuri Media to launch SonicTrek.ai, a next-generation audio syndication company using artificial intelligence to deliver fully localized, 24/7 radio formats. The new
They're using AI to provide localized show prep.
In other words, despite being AI...I would listen to it.
It's no worse than the syndicated format on WCGY Lawrence/Boston, WKFM Fulton/Syracuse and other stations in the '70s. Two songs would play, then an unemotional voice -- always male -- would back-announce "That was 'Ventura Highway,' America, and before that, Billy Swan, 'I Can Help.' " I listened to WCGY through an entire summer of boring office work between my freshman and sophomore years of college, and appreciated its minimalist approach.
"Lee" Abrams, not "Les".