Infinity's Jack Fm In Albany N.Y.

[mrichards]

I read posts about on a few message boards including this one in the past on how people want the Infinity Jack Fm format here in Albany N.Y. and in some of the stores i was in the people on line actually were talking about how much they wish jack was here in albany. My question is will Infinity ever buy out a station or create one here for that format? I would not mind having an Infinity owned and operated Jack Fm here either. At least they span through several formats of music at once and some of those formats Albany Radio don't even have. So Like Chad Brown GM of CBSFM was saying about a hole in the N.Y. radio market for the format to fit, theres a bigger hole for Jack to fit here too. But it can only be owned and operated by Infinity Radio since's there Jack is the best. I listened online to other Jack formats owned by some other company and they were not half as good as Infinity's.

 

[bw]

Infinity is not interest in buying markets to put Jack on. There is a good interview in Radio Ink with Joel Hollander - it is clear his mission is to fix what they have now.

 

[Oldiesmike101]

I think eventually Infinity is gonna put that format everywhere. I agree what you said about Infinity, but after what they did to WCBSFM 101.1 to me anything's possible with them. They made a super dumb move by choosing WCBSFM to go jack.And it would not surprise me at all if they bought a station or opened one up in this radio market for jack.I don't put anything past them after what they did June 3rd.
> Infinity is not interest in buying markets to put Jack on.
> There is a good interview in Radio Ink with Joel Hollander -
> it is clear his mission is to fix what they have now.

 

[DonRevert]

The JACK format is not an Infinity format. If you want it, have a decent station and can pony up the monies...you too can have JACK-FM!

Susquehanna has two (Indy & Kansas City), NRC has two (Denver/Ft.Collins, Aspen/Vail), Backyard Broadcasting one (Jackson, MI), Simmons one plus a translator in Provo (Salt Lake City), Midwest TV - 1 (San Diego) and South Central Communications - 1 in Nashville.

 

[Oldiesmike101]

so who would be more likely to bring that format here to albany?
> The JACK format is not an Infinity format. If you want it,
> have a decent station and can pony up the monies...you too
> can have JACK-FM!
>
> Susquehanna has two (Indy & Kansas City), NRC has two
> (Denver/Ft.Collins, Aspen/Vail), Backyard Broadcasting one
> (Jackson, MI), Simmons one plus a translator in Provo (Salt
> Lake City), Midwest TV - 1 (San Diego) and South Central
> Communications - 1 in Nashville.
>

 

[IKnow]

Maybe it would be well advised to check out some of those markets that have had "JACK" on for some time now and see how it's doing. Old Jack is beginning to die off!!! Can you say "fad" format? The shelf life of this is not something that I think many are willing to invest in at this point.

 

[Oldiesmike101]

I think it's gonna be like the Jammin Oldies format fads which lasted for a few years but then they all died off including NYC's & Albany's, But they were pretty good alternatives to the regular oldies stations at time. Infinity jumped the gun by putting this jack format on WCBS-FM. If they wanted to update the oldies format, they could have kept the jocks and played 80s and some 90s tunes and went back to the motown soul and great rock n roll slogan.
> Maybe it would be well advised to check out some of those
> markets that have had "JACK" on for some time now and see
> how it's doing. Old Jack is beginning to die off!!! Can
> you say "fad" format? The shelf life of this is not
> something that I think many are willing to invest in at this
> point.
>

 

[jack]

> Infinity jumped the gun by putting this jack format on
> WCBS-FM. If they wanted to update the oldies format, they
> could have kept the jocks and played 80s and some 90s tunes
> and went back to the motown soul and great rock n roll
> slogan.

Oh, sure...that would have worked or they could have asked Superman to spin around the world backwards and set the clock back five or ten years to when they had big ratings.

 

[DonRevert]

The "nothing" at the end of your name didn't register when you logged in, I guess.

JACK is #1 25-54 in Seattle for June (the station it replaced pulled a 1 share at the start of the book).

LA 12+, Jack went up by almost a share and a half. 25-54, they are the #1 English speaking station in LA (and #4 25-54).

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from OldiesCat on the Variety Hits board:

Jack in Denver seems to get dissed a lot but in the Ft Collins book released today, they've gone from below a 2 share to nearly a 6 (12+) in less than a year. Their 25-54 is even more impressive- top 3 in the market.

Kansas City- up 30% from winter.

Indy numbers soared for Jack, where they showed big-time 25-54 AND 18-34 (their
12+ was flat, obviously deceiving).

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The posted 12+ Adult numbers mean nothing.

If you don't know what you are talking about, at least admit it -- don't just rattle off information you've read some place.