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Is Jack the New HitRadio?

G

Garrett

I've talked about this before. Remember when WHTT was Top 40 "hitradio," many of the other stations in the CBS radio chain were using the same line.

Now, today this Jack format comes along and it seems like an awful lot of the same markets are in the being talked about. Infinity is really the radio unit of the Viacom/CBS empire, so in a way it's the same people. Then you've got WCBS and KCBS both Jack FM's. Plus, back in the 1970's, CBS used WCBS in New York as the mother ship for KNX FM (now KCBS), WEEI FM (now WODS), WCAU (now WOGL)and WBBM FM, for to spread one big networked format. So the question, I guess, is this: It's not exactly the same format, but is this the modern day version of the HitRadio format?
 
> I've talked about this before. Remember when WHTT was Top 40
> "hitradio," many of the other stations in the CBS radio
> chain were using the same line.
>
> Now, today this Jack format comes along and it seems like an
> awful lot of the same markets are in the being talked about.
> Infinity is really the radio unit of the Viacom/CBS empire,
> so in a way it's the same people. Then you've got WCBS and
> KCBS both Jack FM's. Plus, back in the 1970's, CBS used WCBS
> in New York as the mother ship for KNX FM (now KCBS), WEEI
> FM (now WODS), WCAU (now WOGL)and WBBM FM, for to spread one
> big networked format. So the question, I guess, is this:
> It's not exactly the same format, but is this the modern day
> version of the HitRadio format?
>

I think that it is just the latest flavor that they are trying. Remember that before there was Jack FM, in the late 80's they switched a real lot of their stations to Oldies.
 
> I think that it is just the latest flavor that they are
> trying. Remember that before there was Jack FM, in the late
> 80's they switched a real lot of their stations to Oldies.
>

Yes! My point exactly. CBS Radio (now called Infinity) still has the same habit of doing things wholesale. In the 70's, WCBS was the flagship (with the "young should piped out to KNX FM, WEEI FM (WCAU FM?), and again, when they went oldies WCBS was the flagship. So this more of the same.
 
> > I think that it is just the latest flavor that they are
> > trying. Remember that before there was Jack FM, in the
> late
> > 80's they switched a real lot of their stations to Oldies.
>
> >
>
> Yes! My point exactly. CBS Radio (now called Infinity) still
> has the same habit of doing things wholesale. In the 70's,
> WCBS was the flagship (with the "young should piped out to
> KNX FM, WEEI FM (WCAU FM?), and again, when they went oldies
> WCBS was the flagship. So this more of the same.
>

Time will tell if Oldies is Jacked.
 
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