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No more Jack?

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I was listening to WCBS-FM HD2 for a bit last night, and all the liners I heard simply referred to the station by its call letters. And now I see that ilikejack.com has been reduced to links taking you directly to the streams for "101.1 HD2" as well as the main CBS-FM channel. The music mix was the same as it's been on Jack in recent months, though it's definitely edgier than it was back in July. Are we seeing a station in transition here?
 
Do they still have Howard Cogan as the voiceover on that station?
 
Maybe they flip this jack format to a CBS FM oldies format with the real oldies format 50's and 60's as it was before CBS flips to jack.
 
If they were going to flip to oldies, I think they would just get on with it instead of going through some type of transitional period. If anything I think they might be transitioning towards some type of new eclectic rock-based format - perhaps a pre-emptive strike against Clear Channel's new "eRockster" format. Then again, they already have the WNEW HD2 channel providing a progressive rock format of sorts.

By the way, they haven't used Howard Cogan in a couple months. Pat St. John has been the voice of "Jack" for the last couple months and still is voicing the new "101.1 HD2" liners.
 
From Tom Taylor's newsletter this morning:

“Jack FM” is truly gone from New York, with the expiration of a license.
CBS Radio ran “Jack FM” over the air on WCBS-FM for nearly two years starting in June 2005, then migrated the crown-wearing character to his HD-2 channel and online stream when it returned 101.1 to classic hits/oldies under PD Brian Thomas. But now the licensing deal with Sparknet is over and Jack’s no longer a New Yorker. Did Sparknet not want its franchise confined solely to HD-2-ville and streaming, or did CBS not want to pay a full licensing fee for a subsidiary channel? Can’t blame them. Chances are that nobody else is going to grab the identity. So CBS goes on operating an 80s-centered adult hits/variety format – name To Be Determined. (Say...how do you like “Dan”, for Dan Mason?)
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Yay! "Jack" is dead on 101.1 on HD2, time to bring back the 50's and early 60's songs on CBS-FM like the way Joe McCoy was PD back then. Bring back the "Doo-Wop Shop" on HD2 and put Don K Reed on Sunday nights for its grand re-opening until he will do the NY Radio GReats for the last Sunday of every month.

The one things that CBS-FM HD2 needs to bring back, is the reverb. I love the reverb when CBS-FM did years ago. I guess both CBS-FM HD1 and HD2 stations are going to bring back the reverb forever. Will have to wait and see.
 
They haven't been using the Howard Cogan liners for months now....I believe they've had Pat St. John using the liners.

disney fanatic said:
The one things that CBS-FM HD2 needs to bring back, is the reverb. I love the reverb when CBS-FM did years ago. I guess both CBS-FM HD1 and HD2 stations are going to bring back the reverb forever. Will have to wait and see.
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Kind of contradicting yourself by saying they will bring back the reverb, then saying we will have to wait and see. I guess we'll have to wait and see ;D
 
It doesn't seem "oldies" (rather than the Classic Hits on HD1/analog) will be coming to HD2... unless they're really just keeping it under wraps for now... (bolded by me for emphasis)

From All Access:

New York Is Jack-less
The JACK FM name is MIA from CBS Adult Hits WCBS-HD2, both on the signal and the website. CBS RADIO VP/Classic Hits Programming and Oldies WCBS-FM PD BRIAN THOMAS confirms to ALL ACCESS, "It's gone from HD2, with a new name coming. The format is more of an 80's based Adult Hits format than JACK."
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erwin33 said:
Maybe they flip this jack format to a CBS FM oldies format with the real oldies format 50's and 60's as it was before CBS flips to jack.
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They do that and watch the sales of HD radios go way through the roof!All the oldies fans will run to best buy.
 
As a follow up, it seems the 80s-based Adult Hits format on 101.1 HD2 is here to stay...

...from an article today on FMQB about the "second generation" of HD2 stations (bolded emphasis by me) - http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=701164

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Some of these new HD stations will air archive performances while other stations that have recently been flipped are finding new life on HD2. These include "Live Rock - WMMR Archives" (Greater Media/Philadelphia); "WNEW" (CBS Radio/New York); "80s Based Adult Hits" (CBS Radio/Las Vegas; McAllen-Brownsville-Harlingen and New York); "Radio Free Hawaii" (Clear Channel/Hawaii) and "Haney's Big House 96.1 HD2" (Beasley/Ft. Myers-Naples-Marco Island, FL).

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