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JACK format based on an IPod Playlist? HA!

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PuertoRicanSoul

Ok I don't know which radio-industry genius says that JACK formats are based on what you would find on any given IPod playlist. I have close to 3,000 songs on my IPod, and something tells me that JACK's IPod is nothing like mine.

I mean damn, AT LEAST make the JACK format in New York tailored to what you may find on a New Yorker's IPod, not a Ohioan's IPod.

A sample of songs on MY IPod that I doubt 101-1 JACK FM will play:

1. Me Myself and I -- DE LA SOUL
2. Move Your Body -- MARSHALL JEFFERSON
3. The Bottle -- GIL SCOTT HERON
4. Promises Promises -- NAKED EYES
5. Try Yazz -- 2 WITHOUT HATS
6. Raggamuffin Love -- FRANKIE PAUL
7. Release Yourself -- THE ALEEMS
8. You Gotta Believe -- LOVE BUG STARSKI
9. Open Your Eyes -- BOBBY CAULDWELL
10.Hot Music -- SOHO

Let's see them add these to the playlist, buwahahahahahaha!!!
 
Jack turns out to be a Jack%#@

Lovin your playlist, PRS. Can we arrange a download? (Just kidding, I don't really have that much to offer in return. but kudos to you for having taste)

Anyway... I was listening to Jack for quite a while today -- at least 90 minutes I'd say. For me, it just gets worse the more I listen. Wish I had written the songs down. There were a couple of ok ones, but lots and lots of stuff that got a lot of play in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and tired the hell out of me well before stations stopped playing them. Now it's just bad radio.

Reminds me a lot of PLJ actually, in that a lot of their material just makes me want to go over to their studios and set things straight. What a waste of frequency.

Right now though they're playing "Runaway" by Bon Jovi. I rest my case. (Although I'd admit to liking to hear a song like that once in a while, sort of a "so bad it's good" kinda thing for me.)

But you're so right. It really DOES sound like it's programmed for OHIO or IOWA and not NYC!!!!

LMAO

icybluelake
 
Certainly CBS FM didn't play those songs when it was an oldies station so it thats what you want to listen to, you probably weren't listening to CBS FM in the past.
 
> Certainly CBS FM didn't play those songs when it was an
> oldies station so it thats what you want to listen to, you
> probably weren't listening to CBS FM in the past.
>
Apparently you missed my point. I know full and well that CBS-FM went nowhere near my IPod's playlist, as it was an oldies station. But being that they dare to liken their new "JACK" format to "anyone's IPod playlist," my point was that they must've took someone's IPod from Ohio, rather than New York. As a lifelong NYC resident, I can assure you that their new "JACK" format's playlist is far off the mark of what I and many others like me grew up listening to.
 
Re: Jack turns out to be a Jack%#@

My IPOD's top 10 songs played:

Rock And A Hard Place - Supreme Beings Of Leisure
Jungle Fever - Chakachas
Devil's Gun - CJ & Co.
Until You Suffer Some - Poison
Ain't That A Kick In The Head - Dean Martin
Make Love To Me - Jo Stafford
Golden Time Of Day - Frankie Beverly & Maze
I'll Be Good - Rene & Angela
Laid - James
Your Wife Is Cheatin' On Us - Little Milton

There's also some Lou Rawls, Mr. Lee, Fast Eddie, Taana Gardner, Alton McClain& Destiny, E,W&F, Pink Floyd, Genesis, Kool Moe Dee and Queen Latifah

A radio station can't possibly play everyone's IPOD at once. It's a stupid idea and one helluva button puncher.



> Lovin your playlist, PRS. Can we arrange a download? (Just
> kidding, I don't really have that much to offer in return.
> but kudos to you for having taste)
>
> Anyway... I was listening to Jack for quite a while today --
> at least 90 minutes I'd say. For me, it just gets worse the
> more I listen. Wish I had written the songs down. There
> were a couple of ok ones, but lots and lots of stuff that
> got a lot of play in the 70s, 80s, 90s, and tired the hell
> out of me well before stations stopped playing them. Now
> it's just bad radio.
>
> Reminds me a lot of PLJ actually, in that a lot of their
> material just makes me want to go over to their studios and
> set things straight. What a waste of frequency.
>
> Right now though they're playing "Runaway" by Bon Jovi. I
> rest my case. (Although I'd admit to liking to hear a song
> like that once in a while, sort of a "so bad it's good"
> kinda thing for me.)
>
> But you're so right. It really DOES sound like it's
> programmed for OHIO or IOWA and not NYC!!!!
>
> LMAO
>
> icybluelake
>
 
Re: Jack turns out to be a Jack%#@

> But you're so right. It really DOES sound like it's
> programmed for OHIO or IOWA and not NYC!!!!

Well its programed out of Texas, Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston (same difference since they are both not New York.

As for my ipod top ten:

1. Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Perpetuum Mobile
2. Dave Brubeck - Brandenburg Gate
3. Edd Kalehoff - NBC Stations - Long Close
4. David Shire - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three - End Titles
5. Appalachian Spring: As At First (Slowly) (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic)
6. Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring - Doppio movimento (Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic)
7. Frou Frou - Let Go
8. Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
9. Jem - Come on Closer
10. Edd Kalehoff - The Price is Right - Come on Down

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> >
> Apparently you missed my point. I know full and well that
> CBS-FM went nowhere near my IPod's playlist, as it was an
> oldies station. But being that they dare to liken their new
> "JACK" format to "anyone's IPod playlist," my point was that
> they must've took someone's IPod from Ohio, rather than New
> York. As a lifelong NYC resident, I can assure you that
> their new "JACK" format's playlist is far off the mark of
> what I and many others like me grew up listening to.
>


I second that 100%! This JACK is JACK! I console myself with the fact that I don't think it will last.
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WQCD, NY. Chill, Finally some creative radio!</P>
 
> Certainly CBS FM didn't play those songs when it was an
> oldies station so it thats what you want to listen to, you
> probably weren't listening to CBS FM in the past.
>
He probably wasn't but I don't think that was the point. He's right! 101.7 sounds like something out of Ohio.<P ID="signature">______________
WQCD, NY. Chill, Finally some creative radio!</P>
 
Re: Jack is Texas radio for NY.

> But you're so right. It really DOES sound like it's
> programmed for OHIO or IOWA and not NYC!!!!
>
actually aren't the Jacks getting programmed out of Dallas, TX? Guess that explains why they sound like a Texas radio station.<P ID="signature">______________
WQCD, NY. Chill, Finally some creative radio!</P>
 
not

No. Only a few days ago did Infinity assign one of their Programming Veeps (who happens to be in Dallas) to oversee the format nationally (BTW, all companies have similar set-ups).

This absolutely stupid "somebody's programming a computer in one place to run all the stations" mindset is an indicator of one thing- anybody who says it shows how uninformed or totally cynical they must be.


> actually aren't the Jacks getting programmed out of Dallas,
> TX? Guess that explains why they sound like a Texas radio
> station.
>
 
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