jack fm ever coming to infest this area?

[ceaser]

Just wondering if the formats known as jack or movin are ever coming to this market.They, especially jack have worked in some markets not in most others.Any way what do you think?

 

[Nairda]

I think you have too much free time.

 

[scmidlapp]

There are at least three stations that could qualify as a JACK sataion----they just don't fall into the format trap of referring to themselves in that manner---
QFM, the RIVER and MAGIC---yeah, I said MAGIC. I don't listen, and the last time I heard they were selling themselves as a HotAC...but I was driving my wife's car the other day (she's a DEVOUT Magic listener) and what I heard just struck me as a JACK-type format! My Gawd they're playing EVERYTHING!!!!!

 

[Nairda]

They certainly do appear to be reacting to something

 

[ceaser]

There are too many soft rock stations in this market,in my opinion.

 

[Nairda]

We certainly are blessed to have someone with your depth and insight on this board. Thank you so much for your observation. What else do you think?

 

[KellyGreenonFroggy101]

I personally like the JACK format very much, and last time I listened to it, it was more than soft AC..... And a big part of the feel of it was the Imaging.

Kelly

 

[scmidlapp]

Well, let's face it, everything old is new again. It just goes back to the days when radio played EVERYTHING. I remember when I was a kid, in the same half hour I heard The Beatles, The Doors, Frank Sinatra and Johnny Cash....all on the same radio station. It all goes back to the original philosophy of pop radio being the jukebox playing the biggest songs no matter what the genre.

 

[masterg]

Well, let's face it, everything old is new again. It just goes back to the days when radio played EVERYTHING.

Yessir, and a lot of us who started in radio back in the 70s worked for at least one station that was doing Jack before anyone ever thought of calling it anything.

 

[Nairda]

Yessir, and a lot of us who started in radio back in the 70s worked for at least one station that was doing Jack before anyone ever thought of calling it anything.

What's that old saying? Everything old is new again? Weren't all stations pretty much JACKs back in the 70's? I remember working at a top 40 AM that played all country early in the morning then switched out of the 7am news. Weekends were talk, music, remotes, churches, syndicated stuff and ethnic with a heavy concentration of German music Oom Pah Pah stuff.

 

[ElectricNoodle]

I remember working at a top 40 AM that played all country early in the morning then switched out of the 7am news. Weekends were talk, music, remotes, churches, syndicated stuff and ethnic with a heavy concentration of German music Oom Pah Pah stuff.

We used to call it Block Programming. Now they call it Jack, Fred, Bob, Henry, Crap (where the "C" is silent), Cookie Cutter, Same Old - Same Old, Boring....

 

[GeneKlien]

It's not block programming it's playing the hits. That's it. Look at it this way, in the 70's Top40/CHR would have played a song like "Friends in Low Places" by Garth Brooks in heavy rotation, however the newer "more knowledgable" programers and record executives decided not to.