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Review - Jam'n 94-5

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BoscoGoldBear

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As much as I hate the all-gangbanger crap, it IS popular with young audiences, and - as I pointed out last month - is #3 among mainstream adults. I still can't believe that soccer moms would listen to Snoop Doggy Dogg or the late Tupac Shakur yell "yo yo MF" while dropping the kiddos off at school - unless they were smoking crack cocaine. [EDIT] :mad:


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I find Jamn to be a case of a station that knowingly serves an audience that "doesn't know any better." Most listeners in the market don't even know what such a station is supposed to sound like! Yes, they have good (large market) personalities, but the playlist is short and very heavy on the hip hop (versus the R&B). But, they get good ratings for being the only game in town.

When compared with out of market stations (the only comparison that you can make, really), Jamn's music mix is vastly inferior to WZMX or WPHH (both Hartford) or to any of the comparable stations in Philly (Wired 96.5, Power, the Beat, etc.). Jamn seems heavier into the wannabe gangsta stuff and into repeats. Aside from the morning show, it is not an easy listen - and I tend to enjoy rhythmic music (even hip hop - when it's good).

It is only because Clear Channel holds title to both CHR-ish stations in Boston that you get one dull fem-CHR (Kiss) and a HipHop station that is more punk than rhythmic (Jamn). Both collectively keep out the competition.
 
Steve N. said:
As much as I hate the all-gangbanger crap, it IS popular with young audiences, and - as I pointed out last month - is #3 among mainstream adults. I still can't believe that soccer moms would listen to Snoop Doggy Dogg or the late Tupac Shakur yell "yo yo MF" while dropping the kiddos off at school - unless they were smoking crack cocaine. [EDIT] :mad:


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Not to be the 10th person to say that these "reviews" are very lacking, but there's much more to a station than what type of numbers it pulls. In the case of a station like WBOS, Greater Media is continually putting cash and actual effort into the station, whether it be Earthfest, Studio 7, etc; while the station's 12+ ratings are terrible the billing is acceptable. On the other hand, as BRNout stated, WJMN is a very poor excuse for an R/CHR. Despite a successful local morning show, voicetracked slots and a lame playlist are only the start of complains. Jam'n is successful only because there is really no alternative, save for the almost equally poor playlist of Citadel's WWKX 106.3, a rimshot for many areas south of the Pike.
 
"Thank 4 the B S Radio One ."

Or

"Thanks for the BS Radio One."

But hey, there is clearly an educated audience with $$$ to spend that listens to this music, huh?
 
the people I know who listen to rap are white boys in the suburbs who are trying (and succeeding) at driving their parents crazy. Bad grammar, calling women ho's, threatening to kill police, are all surefire ways to do this, which work well because they don't involve tattooing or piercing in visible places that will in any way endanger their future employment as investment bankers or executives in media corporations when they finish with their rebellious period (which is directly related to the period of time their parents subsidize them + 1 year).

These kids have PLENTY of spending $$$. And, they also know grammar, as does rapking, I suspect. Hence my plea.

Besides, rap started as loving the language, rhythm with the words, saying the same 'ol in a new way, with a beat, didn't it? The first rappers could do it off the top of their heads, brilliant improvisation (yeah, I'm old enough to remember). It went down hill when any old yahoo who could find a rhyme and 'dared' say something about someone's mama could get a record deal, and the record dealers' sons, craving for attention, started buying it.

Bring rap back to what it was, I say.
 
Yeah I Know...Only Sports,Racist Talk and Rock , Work for this Old southern City , that Happens, to be up north .
 
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