Enjoying Jack FM

[radiolover78]

I've been spending a lot of time in my car lately and I've been listening to Jack FM. Lately they've been sounding pretty good. Acoustic Sunrise is pretty good too.

Is it true Kim Ashely is doing news, traffic, and weather mornings on Jack FM? That's what I heard.

Also, I heard Jack in a local deli. Anyone hear Jack in other places?

 

[TheLaffer]

You enjoy Jack? YOUUUUU are one of the few.

Thank's for checking in Brian Thomas

 

[housemusic]

for some reason the Laffer thinks he is funny...but I hear Jack more often lately. not in the nail places the laffer gets his back waxed in, but in more stores. i like to read these boards, not try to decipher the obnoxious jokes people like the laffer thinks are funny. step up and be a part of public opinion, just don;t be a a weasel.

 

[SoulCrusher]

Meh. Jack sounds too similar to WPLJ. I do hear the occasional surprise (i.e. Metallica's "Enter Sandman"), but it's not enough to distinguish it from the competition.

I'll say that at least the music is more interesting than PLJ, but at the same time, it's a glorified jukebox.

Oh yeah - put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU. Q-104 (forget the calls) should tinker with its playlist to include more new Rock - seriously, not having even one station that plays it is just completely absurd. NYC is even worse than the radio market in Philly.

 

[radiolover78]

You enjoy Jack? YOUUUUU are one of the few.

Thank's for checking in Brian Thomas

: You made me laff, not!

Get a life.

 

[neo11]

Count me in as a Jack FM listener (when in the car...at home, I typically stick to my mp3s these days)...I think their music mix is much better than PLJ. It seems to me that PLJ backed off from their expanded playlist which they seemed to be going towards last year (they had started airing a lot of 70's and 80's music they previously hadn't touched, in the months before Jack FM came on the air). Their 80's show on Saturdays, which was also once great, now sounds scripted and plastic.

I've heard Jack FM at at least a couple of establishments...an auto insurance office and a hair salon, as far as I can recall. I can't recall ever hearing PLJ on in any establishment I've been to (or for that matter, other office-friendly stations like CD101.9).

 

[housemusic]

well, if jack is on in more places, does cd1019 have any life left as a choice? i know emmis just changed their underperforming la station. rumors at the labels are circulating.

 

[italianstallion]

interestingly enough, i've actually been hearing jack alot more in stores and retail places around NYC. granted, that doesnt translate into arbitron numbers or even an audience, but i just find it interesting that at some point throughout the day i'm bound to hear Jack somewhere.

 

[Herb999]

"put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU."

The problem is that this is a business and the goal is to make money. Ktu and plj make more money now than a country or rock format will ever make in NYC.

 

[SoulCrusher]

"put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU."

The problem is that this is a business and the goal is to make money. Ktu and plj make more money now than a country or rock format will ever make in NYC.

You're probably right, but it's just a matter of time before the advertisers get frustrated with the low ratings of each station and decide to take their business elsewhere. Unless, of course, their ad rates are priced in a competitive manner.

A Rock format can definitely do well, if programmed correctly and not in the timid CBS/Infinity style. But what happened to K-Rock is what I explained in the last paragraph. Free-FM is actually doing worse than K-Rock ever has. If ratings don't improve, they should drop every talk show except for O&A and The Doghouse, and play a rock format the rest of the time (preferably Active or Alternative, instead of this AOR thing they've got going on now). Even as safe as K-Rock had been over the years, it would still be better than nothing.

 

[disney fanatic]

I don't really enjoying listening to "Jack". It plays too much 80's rock, but it doesn't look right after oldies was dropped by WCBS-FM last year. I used to listened to WCBS-FM when it was oldies a long time ago, but now it's gone. Thanks to WBPM's Cool 92.9 up in the Hudson Valley. They still play oldies too than WCBS-FM was.

 

[sfradio]

"put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU."

The problem is that this is a business and the goal is to make money. Ktu and plj make more money now than a country or rock format will ever make in NYC.

You're probably right, but it's just a matter of time before the advertisers get frustrated with the low ratings of each station and decide to take their business elsewhere. Unless, of course, their ad rates are priced in a competitive manner.

A Rock format can definitely do well, if programmed correctly and not in the timid CBS/Infinity style. But what happened to K-Rock is what I explained in the last paragraph. Free-FM is actually doing worse than K-Rock ever has. If ratings don't improve, they should drop every talk show except for O&A and The Doghouse, and play a rock format the rest of the time (preferably Active or Alternative, instead of this AOR thing they've got going on now). Even as safe as K-Rock had been over the years, it would still be better than nothing.

advertisers don't care about +12 numbers, they care about the higher ones, and the stations probly have better ratings in the other books

 

[neo11]

"put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU."

The problem is that this is a business and the goal is to make money. Ktu and plj make more money now than a country or rock format will ever make in NYC.

You're probably right, but it's just a matter of time before the advertisers get frustrated with the low ratings of each station and decide to take their business elsewhere. Unless, of course, their ad rates are priced in a competitive manner.

A Rock format can definitely do well, if programmed correctly and not in the timid CBS/Infinity style. But what happened to K-Rock is what I explained in the last paragraph. Free-FM is actually doing worse than K-Rock ever has. If ratings don't improve, they should drop every talk show except for O&A and The Doghouse, and play a rock format the rest of the time (preferably Active or Alternative, instead of this AOR thing they've got going on now). Even as safe as K-Rock had been over the years, it would still be better than nothing.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that it's not the 12+ numbers that count. If PLJ is successfully reaching specific demographics that it can then sell to advertisers, that's what counts. 12+ is just for mass consumption and the newspapers. Judging by PLJ's billing, they have no reason to worry and their advertisers must be pretty satisfied.

 

[neo11]

I don't really enjoying listening to "Jack". It plays too much 80's rock, but it doesn't look right after oldies was dropped by WCBS-FM last year. I used to listened to WCBS-FM when it was oldies a long time ago, but now it's gone. Thanks to WBPM's Cool 92.9 up in the Hudson Valley. They still play oldies too than WCBS-FM was.

Your point is?

 

[mikesingh]

I don't really enjoying listening to "Jack". It plays too much 80's rock, but it doesn't look right after oldies was dropped by WCBS-FM last year. I used to listened to WCBS-FM when it was oldies a long time ago, but now it's gone. Thanks to WBPM's Cool 92.9 up in the Hudson Valley. They still play oldies too than WCBS-FM was.

Your point is?

The point was to advertise Cool 92.9... do a search for the station on this board... 95% of the threads are started by df. I have no problem with Cool 92.9 or df... I'm just pointing out the obvious. Visit the Hudson Valley board to see what I mean.

 

[Herb999]

True PLJ has decent adult female numbers, but nothing special. However, what their sales dept. does with those numbers is nothing short of fricking amazing. The Plj sales dept. could sell Osama Bin Laden Camel turds, they are the best. Also, remember that a majority of those who run ad agencies are of this demographic, and while it seems unprofessional, they truly do over emphasize the low 30's to low40's female demo. True, these are the demographic that is most likely to respond to ads, since they spend all the money and are impressionable, but I still think they prop up stations like plj and star LA way too much for what they truly bring to the table ratings wise.

As for 923, the talk thing isn't going to work. Keep O and A in morning and play a good mix of rock the rest of the day seems to me like what they should be doing. As for 1027, they need to think about trying to appeal to the rest of the tri-state area that realizes that there is an R at the end of the name Cher.

 

[Shredder]

Count me in as a Jack FM listener (when in the car...at home, I typically stick to my mp3s these days)...I think their music mix is much better than PLJ. It seems to me that PLJ backed off from their expanded playlist which they seemed to be going towards last year (they had started airing a lot of 70's and 80's music they previously hadn't touched, in the months before Jack FM came on the air). Their 80's show on Saturdays, which was also once great, now sounds scripted and plastic.

IF you're talking about the comedy, it was always scripted from day one, wasn't it? That's why I don't listen to it at all. No offense to Todd P and Harry, but in this case, I don't find Scripted to be as funny as the stuff you get live. I'll always miss the 70's show they had with Al Bandero. I tuned into that regularly.

 

[Shredder]

"put PLJ on the list of stations that should be dropped for an Active/Alternative Rock or Country format, along with WQCD and either WNEW or WKTU."

The problem is that this is a business and the goal is to make money. Ktu and plj make more money now than a country or rock format will ever make in NYC.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that it's not the 12+ numbers that count. If PLJ is successfully reaching specific demographics that it can then sell to advertisers, that's what counts. 12+ is just for mass consumption and the newspapers. Judging by PLJ's billing, they have no reason to worry and their advertisers must be pretty satisfied.

I wonder if most of the listeners are satisfied? I'd rather pay for a commercial free version of the station with a better music choice from all erras than what we're getting now...

 

[Hardrocker9]

Hell Yeah! Bring back Active Rock K-Rock! With O&A mornings NY's Real Rock 92 min rock blocks all day! The New K-Rock! would be #1 preset for me.

 

[radiolover78]

Hell Yeah! Bring back Active Rock K-Rock! With O&A mornings NY's Real Rock 92 min rock blocks all day! The New K-Rock! would be #1 preset for me.

#1 preset for you, but #1 in ratings? Seriously doubt it.