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Jack FM's Magical Mystery Tour

radiosgreatest1 said:
If CBS-FM comes back..can Joel Hollander make an apology, like was done with free fm..id get a kick out of hearing that..
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Maybe they can get Joe McCoy to apologize on his behalf...
 
The Magical Mystery Tour was great -- at least wha I got to hear of it... I had to mow the lawn after "Joey" by Concrete Blonde and then go out...

I can, however, tell you that if "Oldies 101.1" was doing an A-Z weekend, it would have been able to play its 500 songs a few times... 8)
 
Did they stop mid-way through? I turned on the radio this morning and heard "Sweet Home Alabama." I know that they couldn't have gotten all the way to S since yesterday. According to YES.com, they only completed the A-L (?) portion. Maybe they'll continue it sometime?

I won't hold my breath. While the playlist of Jack is deep, sometimes I think it's TOO deep. There can't be a person who knows almost ALL (if not only 3/4) of the songs on that playlist. I guess there are people out there who enjoy that kind of stuff. But, that's why I rarely listen. I'll take my own I-Pod in the car. ;)
 
Here in San Francisco, CBS put on the Magical Mystery Tour when they flipped FREE FM to KFRC. This is too fill air time until their air staff and programming is set.

Maybe this is how Jack FM is changing formats! Back to Oldies?
 
Maybe they'll continue it sometime?
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They're resuming it this weekend (June 1).
 
I don't know what Joel was smoking when he decided to blow up CBS-FM. Time to stick a fork in Jack. It hasn't worked and the billing has dropped like a rock.

Here's what they should do.... bring back CBS-FM in an updated form. I would suggest using Q-105 in Tampa as an example, but I would suggest an expanded playlist. Q gets pretty repetetive after a couple of days. The idea would be to center the music on 70's and 80's. Maybe go back further for a couple of real evergreens.... and maybe a Sunday night 60's thing to satisfy the hard-core oldies fans. The sound of the station should be reminiscent of late WABC and early Z-100. Trade on the heritage of CBS-FM but update the sound.

The one thing that CBS-FM got and Jack didn't.... this is about SHOW-BIZ.... not just music. Today's listener can get all the music they want from their MP3 player. Radio needs to provide those other intangibles that made this such a dyanmic business over the past half-century and will continue to do so if the owners remember that this is an entertainment medium... and not just something to deliver music to a set of headphones.
 
SonoSational18 said:
I don't know what Joel was smoking when he decided to blow up CBS-FM. Time to stick a fork in Jack. It hasn't worked and the billing has dropped like a rock.

Here's what they should do.... bring back CBS-FM in an updated form. I would suggest using Q-105 in Tampa as an example, but I would suggest an expanded playlist. Q gets pretty repetetive after a couple of days. The idea would be to center the music on 70's and 80's. Maybe go back further for a couple of real evergreens.... and maybe a Sunday night 60's thing to satisfy the hard-core oldies fans. The sound of the station should be reminiscent of late WABC and early Z-100. Trade on the heritage of CBS-FM but update the sound.

The one thing that CBS-FM got and Jack didn't.... this is about SHOW-BIZ.... not just music. Today's listener can get all the music they want from their MP3 player. Radio needs to provide those other intangibles that made this such a dyanmic business over the past half-century and will continue to do so if the owners remember that this is an entertainment medium... and not just something to deliver music to a set of headphones.
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Guys, this is getting ridiculous. A few months ago it was the country backers coming out of the woodwork and sort of repeating after themselves with the same claims about country. Now everyone is like "wow, why not bring back CBS-FM and call it classic hits?".

I will agree that there is a chance it will happen, but I don't think it's very likely. Jack is trending upwards in its demos from what I hear, so as long as it's doing that, CBS will probably stick with it (though one never knows what they are thinking, they have pulled formats with some momentum before). That being the case, if they go back to classic hits, it's going to be a big mistake if they image the station with any language resembling "oldies," "classic" or "60s and 70s." They want to make it seem like the station is younger leaning than it is. They kind of do that with Jack, which dips often into the 80s and even 70s, yet, there's nothing in the station's imaging that specifically indicates that.

More than likely, Jack will be tweaked some more, I've already begun noticing some differences, but I do think the name will probably stay "Jack." Honestly, I don't think the casual radio listener, especially the one that didn't listen to CBS-FM in the first place (96% f the audience) cares about how the format change went down or even really remembers at this point. I feel the pain of oldies listeners because I lost my favorite radio format a few years ago as well, one that probably isn't coming back, but I don't see oldies coming back either. At least it's still on HD, and probably with a wider playlist than the suits would probably ever allow on the main signal.
 
SonoSational18 said:
I don't know what Joel was smoking when he decided to blow up CBS-FM. Time to stick a fork in Jack. It hasn't worked and the billing has dropped like a rock.
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When CBS FM was oldies, their billing was steadily dropping. Why go back to a format that won't generate money? Radio is a business.

And from what I've heard, they're doing ok in their target demos.

The one thing that CBS-FM got and Jack didn't.... this is about SHOW-BIZ.... not just music. Today's listener can get all the music they want from their MP3 player. Radio needs to provide those other intangibles that made this such a dyanmic business over the past half-century and will continue to do so if the owners remember that this is an entertainment medium... and not just something to deliver music to a set of headphones.
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But the people that are listening to Jack may not have MP3 players or iPODs. They are listening for the music.
 
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