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BA - Smooth Weekends

ASchuelke said:
I'm not sure if the full-time BA Smooth Jazz format is like this at all (mainly because I don't have any playlists to look at -- at least not that I've found) but for BA, this looks pretty damn good.

http://www.fmtalk1011.com/goout.asp?u=http://images.radcity.net/5134/4944279.txt
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WZTK's weekend music has been provided and programmed by Dial Global, programming which evolved out DG's absorption of Jones Radio Networks Smooth Jazz in 2008. A number of these tunes were on Jones' playlist, and former Jones PD Steve Hibbard and I had e-mail discussion about this very thing. BA may well be calling it its own these days, but it always has been a completely different animal altogether. There are a number of cuts here, namely older stuff, BA never played.
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INTERESTING.

I was unaware that people from JRN were still (at least somewhat) active since the merge.
That certainly explains a lot. When I stumbled upon these playlists, I thought they very much looked like JRN programming. Especially, as you pointed out, the gold. Billy Joe Walker Jr, Strunz & Farah, John Jarvis, etc...
 
Not sure what Steve is doing these days, but I hope he's doing well and is, in some way, involved with this format at some level. As you said, the artists you mention, that's all Jones, and Jones was Steve (as well as Laurie Cobb and Cheri Marquart early on). For my money, next to Ted Hasiuk of Cafe Jazz, no one had a sharper ear for this music. Some have argued Jones presentation was too "soft." I disagree. These are the kind of tunes/artists that separated Jones from everyone else. They were only familiar to diehard fans of the genre who see this music for more than just pleasing background listening. BA would not touch these artists with a 10-foot pole---didn't spin a single one---and that is a fact for any BA apologists lurking out there. I have repeatedly talked about Jones and Steve's influence on my programming, and for good reason. Only in their final year or two (most likely capitulating to outside pressure) did they start to appeal to the lowest common denominator and get bitten by the Smooth A/C bug. But even then, IMO, they were far and away better than anyone else, to include Watercolors.
 
Oh I absolutely agree. I worked at a Jones affiliate here in Wisconsin. It was my introduction into the genre. Boy what a first impression, huh? This would have been 1996 and 1997 when Steve was just starting to take over from Terry Hickman. Steve Hibbard really took control and evolved the network into a true Smooth Jazz offering.
 
ASchuelke said:
Oh I absolutely agree. I worked at a Jones affiliate here in Wisconsin. It was my introduction into the genre. Boy what a first impression, huh? This would have been 1996 and 1997 when Steve was just starting to take over from Terry Hickman. Steve Hibbard really took control and evolved the network into a true Smooth Jazz offering.
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Terry Hickman, wow. Now there's a name I have not heard in a long time!!! Here's another: Paul Riann. Wonder what he's up to these days? Man, it's hard to believe it's been 16 years since Jones got up and running. Where has the time gone?
 
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