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Free FM sounds great right now - Jack should take this road

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Brooklyndon

I'm so happy its the weekend and rock is back in New York on Free FM. Though I do love Hot 97, I mostly listen to it for lack of rock radio. But free FM is mixing new rock by Jet, Foo Fighters, and Evenecense with classics by Cream, the Doors, Creed, Motley Crue and Ratt. It's so nice to hear an alt leaning active rock station again. Jack FM plays alot of rock - like an "I drive my Camaro to the mall in New Jersey listening to Faster Pussycat" amount - I wonder if an eclectic dj-less station is an easier sell than a rock station for the burgeoning gen-y?

All thoughts welcome.
 
IMHO, 92.3 FM should play music after Opie and Anthony. The talk format did not catch on at 102.7 FM and will not at 92.3. 101.1 FM should be a personality driven station featurin music from 1964-88 with one specialty show with 50s early 60s music. The NYC radio audience will not accept the Jack format. It worked in some markets but will never work in the Big Apple.
 
Or 92.3 can move to a different format and 101.1 can become rock. Starts things on a clean slate.

Here's what I would like to see with Infinity's stations:

92.3: AC
101.1: Rock
102.7: Oldies
 
BruceS8852 said:
IMHO, 92.3 FM should play music after Opie and Anthony. The talk format did not catch on at 102.7 FM and will not at 92.3. 101.1 FM should be a personality driven station featurin music from 1964-88 with one specialty show with 50s early 60s music. The NYC radio audience will not accept the Jack format. It worked in some markets but will never work in the Big Apple.
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The reason why WNEW didn't succeed is because there was no morning show. Plain and simple.

JV and Elvis are apparently building an audience, and if Ron and Fez are thrown into the mix at FreeFM (which has been rumored for a while) then the lineup will be bolstered even more.
 
Kevin said:
Or 92.3 can move to a different format and 101.1 can become rock. Starts things on a clean slate.

Here's what I would like to see with Infinity's stations:

92.3: AC
101.1: Rock
102.7: Oldies
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YOu have your formats ok but your frequencies all worng. IF your list were to happen...which it won't, why wouldn't you put oldies on 101.2 were they were, Rock after O an A and AC on 102.7 where women have been tuning to for over a year. AC after O and A makes no sense.

That said, Oldies and Rock simply have no demo left in NY as much as us old guys who post on message boards would like to believe. 104.3 is all this market can tolerate and you can tell me about the rating of CBS FM befoe the switch but they couldn't sell it. That demo is not attractive to advertisers. Period
 
I'm well aware that O+A wouldn't make since on an AC station.

I'm saying, start fresh, which would mean oldies on another station and rock on another station. Then throw in some AC competition.
 
BruceS8852 said:
IMHO, 92.3 FM should play music after Opie and Anthony. The talk format did not catch on at 102.7 FM and will not at 92.3. 101.1 FM should be a personality driven station featurin music from 1964-88 with one specialty show with 50s early 60s music. The NYC radio audience will not accept the Jack format. It worked in some markets but will never work in the Big Apple.
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nailed it to a T on both stations. I agree 110%.
 
Radaioman said:
Kevin said:
Or 92.3 can move to a different format and 101.1 can become rock. Starts things on a clean slate.

That said, Oldies and Rock simply have no demo left in NY as much as us old guys who post on message boards would like to believe. 104.3 is all this market can tolerate and you can tell me about the rating of CBS FM befoe the switch but they couldn't sell it. That demo is not attractive to advertisers. Period
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BULL!!!! Any agency person who thinks hat 50-somethings don't have considerable disposable income should be flipping patties at Burger King. The "cliche" demo was 18-49 in the 60's and 70's and gave way to 25-54 in the 80's. With the baby boomers (and all that spending power) aging, don't be surprised is the most called-for avails in the coming years are 35-64.
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I still think there is some backlash over how the change was done at 101.1. Hollander and his crew of morons blew off the entire WCBS-FM audience. If the change had been done with respect to listeners who were loyal to WCBS-FM for years, at least some of them would have listened to JACK-FM as their third or fourth station. To quote Scott Shannon "Old listeners are better than no listeners"
 
Hell offer Eddie Trunk Friday and Saturday night rocks on free Fm, not just fridays on q-104.3 that could be interesting...
hey just my opinion...
Starscream said:
BruceS8852 said:
IMHO, 92.3 FM should play music after Opie and Anthony. The talk format did not catch on at 102.7 FM and will not at 92.3. 101.1 FM should be a personality driven station featurin music from 1964-88 with one specialty show with 50s early 60s music. The NYC radio audience will not accept the Jack format. It worked in some markets but will never work in the Big Apple.
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The reason why WNEW didn't succeed is because there was no morning show. Plain and simple.

JV and Elvis are apparently building an audience, and if Ron and Fez are thrown into the mix at FreeFM (which has been rumored for a while) then the lineup will be bolstered even more.
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Jack Garrett said:
Check out RadioX on Long Island...Jack's young kid with ADD. www.radiox.fm

CJ
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Jack,

I'm glad you brought that up. I've been meaning to ask someone this question:

I started listening to Jack.fm several years ago, when it was an internet-only format. I hadn't listened in a while. I went to the site a couple of weeks ago to listen, but got RadioX's web stream instead. Is that intentional?
 
Well, while the prototype JACK-FM stream normally still streams on jack.fm all these years later...the program server suffered a security problem (read "hacked") that required me to take it off-site to fix it. In the meantime, I relayed the RadioX feed to keep the Shoutcast server busy and have also used Buzznet's Rhythm & Gold demo stream and right now Howard Hoffman's "Great Big Radio" feed is playing.

The JACK program server is feeling better and I hope to have it back on-line before I wander off to do some work at Arbitron this week.


CJ
 
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