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CALL THE NEW FORMAT - 97.5 MONDAY 9am

PhillyWatch said:
As reported on the front page, WJJZ ends tonight at 6 (IS SOMEBODY ROLLING TAPE), with stunting until Monday morning at 9. Throw out your ideas here.

HAS ANYBODY UPDATED THE WIKIPEDIA YET ;)
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Just learned about it. Didn't record the sign off. Where's the audio of it.
 
Oh Lord ! Oh Lord ! Please, oh please, not another chick station. No more B's. Not another Wired or Q, or MMR, or YSP or Power or RFF or MGK or OGL. Please make it something better than all that garbage that's tired and/or juvenile or dysfunctional and just goes blah blah blah for hours and hours during drive times. Please don't waste an FM on talk or news.

How about a music station for men 35+ who can read, write, be productive and establish something that at least resembles a successful life. Amen.
 
My call: "The Smooth AC Network".

As far as I can tell, there's been no official announcement that Tozzi & Co. are out of a job, or that WJJZ is no longer a BA affiliate. Let's not rule out the possibility that WJJZ could re-launch as "Smooth 97.5" and be the flagship station of sorts for the BA Network's new "Smooth Adult Contemporary Network". Have we seen an official goodbye online? Did we hear a thank you for being there type message when they closed out? My call is "Smooth AC" with the BA Network. Staff could still be out of jobs since the network hosts would still be relevant and can do the work. Kep is not going to let another one go this easy, maybe why they held out so long.
 
Just speculation on my part....

what are the chances you guys think of something happening here similar to what occurred in Denver (ie the Sports moving to 97.5 FM, and 950 going back to a pre-Beatles Oldies format)??

I really can't see any 'big formatic hole' left in Philly, and it is a rather fervent sports town.
 
Rockin Rob said:
radiosanchez said:
Nobody's actually mentioned what they're playing on 97.5 now, besides the tease announcements.

The music sounds like a cross between the "Club Ben" HD-2 and regular BEN.

Wonder if there's any relation to the music we're hearing now on the station and what will debut Monday?
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Something tells me, perhaps, something totally opposite of/nothing related to what's on now....
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Yeah I would agree with you, especially since jjz and ben are owned by the same company.
 
it could be country, but XTU has the signal advantage so it probably wouldnt beat them, unless they had some incredible programming.
 
If the "Listen Monday 9 a.m." box is any clue---and I know full well it's just a wild guess--it looks like a font that would fit some kind of "movin" or "fresh" station (obviously it can't be named Fresh thanks to B 101).
 
They're building a rock wall:

97.5 is a new active/alternative rock station to fight WRFF and keep YSP from going younger
WMMR alters itself to make it a brand v brand war to counterprogram WYSP song for song
WMGK stays right where it is, maybe free to annoy WOGL a little more
 
Sunny 97.5, soft AC to go against WOGL and WBEB
97.5 is temporarily on my presets, whether it stays there depends on the new format
 
From a Philadelphia native by way of Florida...if it were mine to do, I'd build a station that flanked both WOGL and WDAS-FM...R&B Crossover oldies. Not focused on dance, not exclusively 60s and 70s, no Tom Joyner hate rhetoric, but a mass appeal full signal old school station. Talk about Oldies stations performing well in PPM...taking WOGL head on would be suicide..but a station as described above would enjoy sharing patterns with WDAS-FM and WOGL-FM...and maybe bring back some listeners who have said " F*#@K to radio" altogether. Do the obvious, or take the contrarian position and shake things up? This move would require testicles...and this industry doesn't have any. So look for 50 minutes of easy going taxi tested tough favorites with absolutely no talk for your workday that everyone at work can agree on, continuously, all in a row, one right after the other, guaranteed to not make your teeth ache, your nose bleed or make you sterile. Don't criticize my humor...I wasn't being funny.
 
PhillyWatch said:
Female liners plugging "Something new, something now" coming Monday 9 am. I'm guessing a Mix-type station aimed at B.
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1. Sports on FM will NOT be successful in Philadelphia without major-league play by play. Then what do you do with 950? No, sports will not be moving to FM.

2. The odds of this being something exciting (to the radio geek community) are very small. This is major market radio (i.e. 97.5 is a multi-million dollar stick that GM needs to make money with). Think mainstream AC, Hot AC, or something oldie- er, classic hits oriented. Whatever it is, it will target either the 18-34s or 25-54s - not kids (CHR), not old people (standards).

3. 97.5 becoming the 5th rock station in town? No way. Even in the rock-friendly PPM world.
 
I, too, would be very surprised if it were a rock-based format.

I think it'll be one of two things:

--A new country format using the "Wolf" imaging

--An Adult CHR station. These have been doing very well in the other PPM markets. Will Philadelphia be home to the first "Virgin Radio"-branded station in the United States? The first one in North America debuted in Toronto on 99.9 FM last week.
 
I would see Greater Media going country to try and steal some of WXTU's thunder. Everyone talks of taking on B-101 but I think they coulkd achieve quicker results by being an alternative to WXTU. Greater Media has a very well programmed country station in Boston, so why not try it here. Maybe you go more fast paced modern country than XTU, or go for more of a male leaning presentation. I'd bet on Country. It has to be something that will not hurt MMR, BEN, or MGK. I think that was why they gave Smooth Jazz so long. The only other alternative I see is perhaps bringing back a format similar to the old "Magic 103" format. "Magic 97.5" perhaps? We shall see but I would bet it's country.
 
fennessy said:
From a Philadelphia native by way of Florida...if it were mine to do, I'd build a station that flanked both WOGL and WDAS-FM...R&B Crossover oldies. Not focused on dance, not exclusively 60s and 70s, no Tom Joyner hate rhetoric, but a mass appeal full signal old school station. Talk about Oldies stations performing well in PPM...taking WOGL head on would be suicide..but a station as described above would enjoy sharing patterns with WDAS-FM and WOGL-FM...and maybe bring back some listeners who have said " F*#@K to radio" altogether. Do the obvious, or take the contrarian position and shake things up? This move would require testicles...and this industry doesn't have any. So look for 50 minutes of easy going taxi tested tough favorites with absolutely no talk for your workday that everyone at work can agree on, continuously, all in a row, one right after the other, guaranteed to not make your teeth ache, your nose bleed or make you sterile. Don't criticize my humor...I wasn't being funny.
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Taxi Tested! lol! AHHHH!!! That's exactly what your going to see. And when that doesn't work, they can always break out the Shulke tapes still in storage. lol. AHHHHHH!!!
 
I'd like to see a real oldies station playing hits from the 50's, 60's, and 70's with a few standards tossed in. I know it goes against all the logical discussions that have been brought up, but IF DONE PROPERLY, It may just succed one more time. We still have many talented DJ's that could fill the time periods.
 
For those of us in Central Jersey that lost the 97.5 signal 2 yrs ago..... If you wanna hear WJJZ's stream, try this link

mms://bdcast-greatermedia-wjjz-fm.wm.llnwd.net/bdcast_greatermedia_wjjz-fm (should work with most media players..)
 
Simulcast the internet station "The CockRoach" while they're on the air. Play Italian Music the rest of the time. Radio Italiano USA de Philadelphia. ;D

I know Rockin' Rob was just joking, but female talk will not work. Granted all 3 were programmed different and none were 100% Female, Female Talk has failed in Hartford, Albany, and Baltimore. Plus the entire Greenstone Network went belly up. Hartford and Albany carried some programming from that network.


I sadly agree it will be yet another female oriented music station going after the ever shrinking piece of that pie, but if it's not I'll check it out during my upcoming trip to the Philly area.
 
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