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Jack & Nine

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JeremyAndrews

Here's some more comments:

1. Both have same processing. They sound alike in that way.

2. Jack is predictable. Nine isn't. I heard exactly what I expected:

Yello - Oh Yeah
Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way

and several others. Jack is a cookie cutter format. Same songs on every station. Same voice guy. Same jingle package. Same logo (At least on KCBS, WCBS and WJMK)

3. This is the second time 92.7 & 92.5's format was taken by one of the BIG stations. Ain't that a shame.

4. They both have the SAME jingle package.

5. Nine plays more genres of music then Jack. Including the 60s oldies that WJMK just threw down the toilet.

6. Ratings wise, as musicloverII said in another post, I say they'll stick around in the 2s. KJKK in Dallas peaked at just below 3.0 before moving down a few.
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> 3. This is the second time 92.7 & 92.5's format was taken by
> one of the BIG stations. Ain't that a shame.

Huh? Dude, NINE tried to clone JACK-FM. They even named the NINE midday guy "JACK EFFEM" until they got a C&D. We all said that it was only a matter of time until the real thing came to town and they flipped to pay for play block programming.
 
> Here's some more comments:
>
> 1. Both have same processing. They sound alike in that way.
>
> 2. Jack is predictable. Nine isn't. I heard exactly what I
> expected:
>
> Yello - Oh Yeah
> Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
> Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
>
> and several others. Jack is a cookie cutter format. Same
> songs on every station. Same voice guy. Same jingle package.
> Same logo (At least on KCBS, WCBS and WJMK)
>
> 3. This is the second time 92.7 & 92.5's format was taken by
> one of the BIG stations. Ain't that a shame.
>
> 4. They both have the SAME jingle package.
>
> 5. Nine plays more genres of music then Jack. Including the
> 60s oldies that WJMK just threw down the toilet.
>
> 6. Ratings wise, as musicloverII said in another post, I say
> they'll stick around in the 2s. KJKK in Dallas peaked at
> just below 3.0 before moving down a few.
>


It's a mistake to think that signals that were intended for suburban coverage, better yet collar county coverage can compete against signals intended to cover the entire metropolitan area. The Nine FM's are just not good to listen to simply because the signals are not solid enough traveling through out the metro area from North to South or outer collar counties into Chicago. Most people don't want to play with the dial or their presets.

From my location on the near south side of Chicago, 99.9 has an ok signal on my car radios with some intermod distortion from the big downtown FMs. The house radios have a hard time with 99.9. 92.7 and 92.5 are virtually non existent until one travels west and northwest. Not a good formula for success.

99.9 might be a good candidate for Air America coverage for the south suburbs and beyond. Air America has the same problems as the Nine FM with trying to use a collar county signal (currently WCPT only) for Chicago metro coverage.

In theory, IBOC on the big Chicago FM's should solve the diversity in programming issue but I'm sure the corporate types will screw this up somehow!
 
> Here's some more comments:

Jermey,

Here is a lil fact:

> 6. Ratings wise, as musicloverII said in another post, I say
> they'll stick around in the 2s. KJKK in Dallas peaked at
> just below 3.0 before moving down a few.
>

KJKK is Top 5 25-54. 12+ means nothing. Infinity is hoping for the same here on JMK.<P ID="signature">______________

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> Nine should try CHR/Dance again.

Thank goodness the moving van is still parked outside...
 
> Here's some more comments:
>
> 1. Both have same processing. They sound alike in that way.
>
> 2. Jack is predictable. Nine isn't. I heard exactly what I
> expected:
>
I agree with #1 but I am not too sure about #2. I was a big fan of Nine until recently. Nine has become more more predictable since Sky Daniels has left. So far the music of the new Jack sounds like Nine, the weekend after Sky left. I do agree that Nine does play some different stuff but everything I have heard on Jack, Nine plays. I turned Jack on about an hour ago and with the exception of a couple stock 70's songs and Fountains of Wayne's Stacy's Mom, every single song has been a stock 80's song. I am sooo sick of this music. It's ok when a stock song is thrown in every now and then (like Nine used to do) but when it's every song, it's really tiring.
 
Website Change

> Thank goodness the moving van is still parked outside...
>

I just saw....now it says "ALL UNPACKED. A NEW WEBSITE IS COMING SOON. WE AREN'T KIDDING THIS TIME!"

Hmmmm...a year later they unveil the website? Sounds to me they plan to flip...THEN turn on the NEW (or first in this case) web site
 
Re: Website Change

> Hmmmm...a year later they unveil the website? Sounds to me
> they plan to flip...THEN turn on the NEW (or first in this
> case) web site
>
Not only a year later, but they put that message the same day a major station does jack fm. I did listen to the jack. I wasn't all that impressed by it. Hopefully they will tweak things a bit.
 
> Here's some more comments:
>
I'm hoping maybe nine will go all eighties pop. We could really use it.
 
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