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92.7 FM playlist this morning

S

SuperRadioFan

The Station sometimes Formerly Known As 92.7 JILL-FM is promising "new and improved".... And currently "We play Everything!"

The playlist from 2 am today posted below....

A few trainwrecks worth noting:

Stealers Wheel into Katy Perry
Dixie Chicks (Landslide) into Marvin Gaye (Sexually Healing)
Train into Amii Stewart
U2 into Barry White LOL!!
[Train played at 3:07 and 4:31 an hour and a half apart]
The O'Jays into The Outfield into Tim McGraw
[U2 played twice in 1 1/2 hrs]
Mambo #5 into Tiny Dancer LOL
Hootie into Skynyrd into Sting YIKES
Sheryl Crow into Ohio Players
and other artists repeated Marvin Gaye; Queen

Those are just a few of my favorite TrainWrecks

What are yours?
Why does this station exist?
Who would listen to it? Who is listening? (Recent PPMs do show improvement)
Cool 94.3 was something like this in the early 2000s but IIRC they stayed mostly away from pop/CHR stuff

Some sweepers (not ads) still mention JILL-FM

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Just the Way It Is, Baby
The Rembrandts
8:14am
While You See a Chance
Steve Winwood
8:11am
Need You Now
Lady Antebellum
8:04am
Raspberry Beret
Prince & The Revolution
click to expand 8:01am
I'm the Only One
Melissa Etheridge
click to expand 7:53am
Love Rollercoaster
Ohio Players
click to expand 7:50am
Soak Up the Sun
Sheryl Crow
click to expand 7:46am
Cars
Gary Numan
click to expand 7:43am
Waiting On the World to Change
John Mayer
click to expand 7:37am
Another One Bites the Dust
Queen
click to expand 7:33am
If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
Sting
click to expand 7:25am
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
click to expand 7:22am
Only Wanna Be With You
Hootie & The Blowfish
click to expand 7:17am
Isn't She Lovely
Stevie Wonder
click to expand 7:13am
How to Save a Life
The Fray
7:05am
Let the Music Play
Shannon
7:02am
All I Want
Toad the Wet Sprocket
6:55am
Cherry Bomb
John Cougar Mellencamp
click to expand 6:50am
You Belong With Me
Taylor Swift
click to expand 6:43am
Tiny Dancer
Elton John
click to expand 6:37am
Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)
Lou Bega
click to expand 6:28am
Careless Whisper
Wham!
click to expand 6:23am
She Drives Me Crazy
Fine Young Cannibals
click to expand 6:17am
Margaritaville
Jimmy Buffett
click to expand 6:12am
Breakeven
The Script
click to expand 6:06am
Rosanna
Toto
click to expand 6:02am
Because the Night
10,000 Maniacs
5:54am
In Your Eyes
Peter Gabriel
click to expand 5:50am
Let's Get It On
Marvin Gaye
click to expand 5:43am
Semi-Charmed Life
Third Eye Blind
click to expand 5:39am
Hot Legs
Rod Stewart
click to expand 5:34am
No Surprise
Daughtry
click to expand 5:26am
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper
click to expand 5:23am
Mysterious Ways
U2
click to expand 5:19am
Peaceful Easy Feeling
Eagles
click to expand 5:14am
One Week
Barenaked Ladies
click to expand 5:10am
Upside Down
Diana Ross
click to expand 5:07am
Live Like You Were Dying
Tim McGraw
click to expand 5:02am
Your Love
The Outfield
4:59am
I Love Music
The O'Jays
click to expand 4:55am
Uptown Girl
Billy Joel
click to expand 4:52am
I Hope You Dance
Lee Ann Womack
click to expand 4:48am
Swingtown
The Steve Miller Band
click to expand 4:42am
Baby, I Love Your Way
Big Mountain
click to expand 4:38am
Suddenly Last Summer
The Motels
click to expand 4:34am
Hey, Soul Sister
Train
click to expand 4:31am
Evil Ways
Santana
click to expand 4:28am
A Moment Like This
Kelly Clarkson
click to expand 4:24am
On The Dark Side
John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band
click to expand 4:22am
I'll Be There
Mariah Carey
click to expand 4:16am
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
click to expand 4:10am
You Found Me
The Fray
click to expand 4:06am
I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
Daryl Hall & John Oates
click to expand 4:03am
Man In the Mirror
Michael Jackson
3:57am
The Reason
Hoobastank
click to expand 3:54am
Ladies Night
Kool & The Gang
click to expand 3:50am
No Rain
Blind Melon
click to expand 3:47am
I Get Weak
Belinda Carlisle
click to expand 3:42am
You're the First, the Last, My Everything
Barry White
click to expand 3:38am
Sweetest Thing
U2
click to expand 3:34am
Too Much Heaven
Bee Gees
click to expand 3:30am
Save the Last Dance for Me
Michael Bublé
click to expand 3:26am
The Tide Is High
Blondie
click to expand 3:22am
Kiss from a Rose
Seal
click to expand 3:19am
Already Gone
Eagles
click to expand 3:15am
Knock On Wood
Amii Stewart
click to expand 3:11am
Calling All Angels
Train
click to expand 3:07am
Shake You Down
Gregory Abbott
click to expand 3:03am
Big Girls Don't Cry
Fergie
2:59am
Photograph
Nickelback
click to expand 2:55am
It's So Easy
Linda Ronstadt
click to expand 2:52am
Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye
click to expand 2:48am
Landslide
Dixie Chicks
click to expand 2:45am
Running On Empty
Jackson Browne
click to expand 2:37am
Strong Enough
Sheryl Crow
click to expand 2:34am
Devil Inside
INXS
click to expand 2:31am
Teenage Dream
Katy Perry
click to expand 2:26am
Stuck In the Middle With You
Stealers Wheel
2:23am
Desert Rose
Sting
2:19am
True Colors
Cyndi Lauper
2:16am
Satisfied
Richard Marx
2:11am
Barracuda
Heart
2:06am
I'm Yours
Jason Mraz
2:03am
 
Looks good to me. Real variety. I'll bet a lot of women would like that.
"Trainwreck" is a radio insider term. Listeners don't think that way.
All those songs are very familiar.

The whole Jack format is based on this concept. A wide list of familiar music.
Jill's imaging should reinforce this. I haven't listened, so I don't know. It's an important element.
 
I take it they're going under a "modern AC" format.
 
Hey now, wait a second. I LIKE these trainwrecks and judging by the playlist, I (Gasp!) like the station. There I just (musically) outed myself.

Unfortunately here in Metropolitan LA and Downtown Glendale, I cannot actually HEAR the station. And no, I am not going to their online stream (assuming they have one) just to hear 30-year old ABBA records. I've got better dopey streams for that!

As for the trainwrecks, that is what made Jack so much fun when it launched, and to a lesser degree, Pirate Radio back in the day. Who could forget Benny Mardones into the Beastie Boys? Of course both got boring, formatic, and bit the dust (that is DID bite the dust, and WILL bite the dust, although Jack has a few more years yet).

What we do get here (sort of... on a good day... if you don't mind a bit of static...) is KCSN. Their music is definitely AAA, but as I said months ago when it launched, it is still so sleeeepy (Zzzzz) - No Rock. So, although I do like new and adventurous and fun AAA, between the two, I woluld probably listen to...JILL.

I of course just lost what remains of my musical friends. But hey, they told me that is what the internet is for!
 
Personally, I find KBIG to be kind of a musical trainwreck, although a more modern music trainwreck with music from the past 15 years and today. I actually like the direction they're heading in, though. I enjoy the shift between a Katy Perry or Pink song from today to a 90s hit like Everlast to Usher's "Yeah". Its very "adult", if you will, in its approach and doesn't get stuck in the formatics of radio as much, save for the fact that it is technically a Hot AC or Adult CHR, so they don't touch much hip hop or the harder rock. Its a good survey of the music of the last 15 years, though.

The above statement is a sure sign that I am, in fact, rapidly approaching my 30th birthday. I would have laughed and turned this station 10 years ago.
 
I've been listening to 92.7 since they moved there KELT-FM now KAJL-FM transmitter to Quartzite Mountain just north of Victorville. 92.7 was sounding good as Lite FM then the switch to Jill FM came in 2005. Well we all know Jill FM sounded kinda funky since then until now. I love the mixture of music. I drive around all day with the iPod and know I can get the same music on 92.7 FM that I have on the iPod well, including the commercials but, you know what people gotta make the green stuff! What do you think they will do next to 92.7 FM? I heard that there are more changes in the works but, I wanna know what your thought are.
 
Kinda hard to tell with that signal. I perfer the female adult hits format. But a fresh sound AC would be nice like WWFS is New York. Are they still moving to their new studios?
 
New Name: Playlist 92.7 FM

As of midnight, the station has rebranded to Playlist 92.7. The announcement is posted on their Twitter feed and on their new URL - Welcome Playlist 92.7 to Southern California! Check out our playlist at www.playlist927.com! The old URL (927jillfm.com) is now a copy of the new URL, which is actually not recommended for SEO as it is not good to have multiple web addresses serving up identical content. It would be better to have the former Jill URL serve as a redirect into the new Playlist URL. Also, note that there are still some Jill references lingering on the website - such as Jill's Datebook.

Musically, the playlist of songs I sampled this morning in the 6a hour all sound like Jill, are AC hits from years past, and are very "safe" and unadventurous IMO. Examples:
I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
Should've Known Better - Richard Marx
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia
September - Earth, Wind & Fire
 
Pandora will influence what happens on broadcast radio. What you are hearing should of been done years ago. As long as they play the hits, it doesn't matter if it is a "Trainwreck" unless it it is something silly like Melanie "Brand new Key" into Usher "Yeah". I think the decades 50/60's 70/80's etc. will determine how music will be fragmented as opposed to artist..tempo..etc. Note: Stations it is time to connect with your community on a local level. Morning shows are still doing that somewhat. Radio has lost younger demos because they can't connect or relate to a station. Remember when you could call a station between 7-Mid, get your request played, and possibly be on the air. The younger demos can interact with Facebook, Twitter, etc. They got tired of calling stations and no one picked up, they figured it out. While the phone lines flash and the VT machine plays on and on. The Kids have moved on and not coming back. If radio doesn't figure out how to capture those lost listeners (If possible). Broadcast radio will go the way of the CB radio.
 
I've listened for hours. Same old same old variety hits format. When are consultants, or other creators of such formats going to stop BS'ing us that they created something original. Its the same researched songs, barely larger than any other regular playlist. So the name is different, BIG deal!
 
David beat me to the punch... Heard the new name this morning around 6:45 as I was on my way to get gas for my wife's car.

"The Kids" moved on? The 'kids' haven't been with this station ever .... BUT I'm not sure fans of Green Day (Blvd of Broken Dreams) are big Whitney fans (I Wanna Dance With Somebody) either... though those two tracks were separated by a traffic/news break.

As for the same ol' same ol, couldn't agree more. They're boldly going where every AC station has gone before. As David @USC put it, 'unadventurous' better describes the playlist rather than as the station describes it in their press release -- 'eclectic'. Yikes!! I guess if you consider the dictionary version of the word, might apply, but in my understanding of radio parlance, eclectic means something a little more different than what can be heard on 92.7 FM.

As to the 'variety' while I am not listening an awful lot, during the times I have sampled them over the last few weeks, I have heard many songs repeated!

BTW, David, what is "SEO"?

Side note: I never understand why so many posters use the wording "should of" when the correct usage is "should have" or "should've" (the contraction)
 
Umm.... I said radio in general. I didn't say this station. ::) Try again. As far as variety, with about 100 memorable hits each year per format you can have "variety" instead of playing the same 375 songs on your station over and over.
 
SuperRadioFan said:
David beat me to the punch... Heard the new name this morning around 6:45 as I was on my way to get gas for my wife's car.

As for the same ol' same ol, couldn't agree more. They're boldly going where every AC station has gone before. As David @USC put it, 'unadventurous' better describes the playlist rather than as the station describes it in their press release -- 'eclectic'.

BTW, David, what is "SEO"?
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SRF...Excellent post in so many ways. Good recap and feedback to multiple folks who have commented in this thread.

Regarding your question - SEO is "search engine optimization". I was commenting on a commonly seen mistake in website content creation. It appears that playlist927.com was pushed live before it was ready. Several Jill FM references on the site that were there in the 8 am hour are now gone in the 10 am hour today (Monday, Feb 14). Much of that prep work should have been done while the site was still in beta. And the SEO mistake refers to how the former Jill URL is serving up identical content as the new Playlist URL, rather than simply redirecting into the new URL, as is the common practice.

For example, note how KYSR’s former domain, star987.com, instantly takes you to 987fm.com, which is their website address today. Ditto, if you type in kysr.com, it also redirects you to 987fm.com.
 
musiconradio.com said:
What you are hearing should of been done years ago. As long as they play the hits, it doesn't matter if it is a "Trainwreck"
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I agree. What some people consider a trainwreck is called a mash-up to someone else. Strict music formats are 20th century. Music radio shouldn't focus so much on format as they should on demographic. That's what radio sells. If a certain group of songs will deliver the demo you want, then you play that group of songs regardless of genre.
 
375 titles? There are very few, if any radio stations playing only 375 titles. Try 500 to 600. And while you may call it variety, we call it the same researched 750 to 1000 songs on every and any variety hits station.
 
Several CC stations have 375 titles or less (Not counting CHR stations).
 
It's not the size of the song list that matters. It's the songs in the list, and how they get rotated. The average person has less than 200 titles on their iPod. Size doesn't matter.
 
Personally, I LOVE the playlist. But it is a very very ballsy playlist, for radio. I can't imagine what their TSL is like.
 
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