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Name change format

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Smooth Jazz fans, get ready for a name change. Welcome the new format name," Smooth A/C" .
 
I saw this in an email from Arbitron. Oy!

Some how the word "jazz" has been made a negative phrase in the 21st century - like "oldies" or "community-minded station".

Time to create a new format and get Arbitron to call it "Rough AC".

CJ
 
Pre smooth it was NAC- New Adult Contemporary or Adult Alternative. Since hand me downs from other formats don't create an alternative and these stations rarely play anything new I guess Smooth A/C is a good description. When it comes to pop songs I prefer Hot A/C myself, or CHR, the smooth A/C pop library is too old and too boring. There is great adult alternative vocal music out there (beyond chill too) but it ain't gettin played..
 
I have that format...created it myself...it's called RHYTHM & ESSENCE (I hold the rights to the name)...it's a mix of soul/gospel/jazz flavors (smooth, NuJazz, etc), oldies, and 'alternative' flavors and it got some airplay for a few years on a paid slot I did out of Hartford CT (cyberstationUSA.com) - it's off air for the moment and I've been looking for a brick and mortar or virtual spot to move it to...

-Bill Alley
Mystic CT
 
Actually the original NAC was not R&B heavy, That was Quiet Storm. NAC played R&B but also more of the pop/rock sounding stuff like Everything But the Girl, Kevyn Lettau, Julia Fordham, Leslie Lettven, Michael Franks, Basia, Full Swing, Nicky Holland etc and a lot more guitar based stuff that was not Benson-influenced like Ripps and Acoustic Alchemy, Pat Metheny and even some flamenco/world like Strunz and Farah and Ottmar Liebert. There was R&B in the mix but it was not exclusively R&B and it was also not nostalgia driven. The content was largely within a 10 year period.

San Francisco had stations in both approaches: KBLX (?) was Quiet Storm and KKSF was NAC. Several other markets had both also, either fulltime or as specialty segments.
 
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