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Smooth Jazz 105.9 WJZW, what's up with them??!

Another Oldies station. C'mon people.....we already have one. Believe me I don't hate oldies (I was born in '49). WJZW was the only smooth jazz station in the DC area. The only gripe I had was that they played the same tunes over and over and a lot of remakes. Should have followed the jazz station in Atlanta.....much better playlist. But if I wanted to listen to oldies, I'd go to WBIG. I'll just have to skip 105.9 and listen to another jazz station online. Too bad---the personalities on the station were great.
 
I'm psyched that the oldies are back!!! I really missed Oldies 100 and the 60s-70s version of oldies at BIG 100 before they went classic rock. It's too bad we had to lose the smooth jazz format, and I think Al Santos is one of the best DJ's ever. I've followed his career for years and listened to him on WMMR in Philadelphia when they were a Progressive Rock station.
 
That sucks that they pulled the plug on WJZW. They did it to themselves though, they put up cheap programming and people got tired of listening. When will stations and these big radio corp heads get it. It's the programming!! WJZW just 5-10 years ago sounded a lot different than it did recently, it was more smooth jazz and less Phil Collins (and certaintly not Timbaland and Fergie) type pop music that we've been hearing in the last few years. It's not that this market doesn't like jazz, because it does, look at the attendence over the years at the Capital Jazz Fest. Hopefully another station will pick up the format and actually do it right. Just look at station's like KIFM in San Diego, who have good program directors and continue to do excellent in ratings.
 
Joy1949 said:
I am really upset! I had no idea that smooth jazz was going away AND I hate oldies stations. Where am I going to get my daily dose of smooth jazz in the metro Washington DC area now?
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Get yourself an HD radio. Wash has it on theri hd2 signal or, of course, you can get satellite.
 
From what I've read, the move was to a more "PPM-friendly" format. The thing I don't get is the trend nationally is to ditch Smooth Jazz to attract a younger crowd (that being the 25-44's). To that extent, this doesn't make sense. But, with Citadel being in their financial trouble, sure, why not slap our station on the bird? It's cheaper and radio is a business. Also, Smooth Jazz is not in the roster of ABC network offerings (altho, Adult Standards/MOR is - "Timeless"). Put me down as being split on this move. I have nothing against Smooth Jazz and I do agree that, eventually, it will become a soft Urban AC format, maybe with some light AC titles mixed in for a broader appeal.
 
Yeah, but does oldies really attract the same demographic of people as smooth jazz? SJ attracts a diverse group of people something no other format really does if you think about it. Most happen to be upper middle class to affluent, something the DC area is full of. You would think other stations would be drooling at the opportunity to get that segment of listeners and their advertisers.
 
Very few smooth jazz stations are doing well right now. On the other hand, in the past 5 years, we've seen all 50s and most 60s oldies wiped out by programmers in fear of demos that are "too old." PPM has tended to balance that playing field a bit and we're seeing a bit of a resurgence of this music - which remains pretty popular. Ratings in major cities have borne that out.

Personally, I think that "true oldies" has a far bigger potential audience than smooth jazz has. If you like SJ, you;d better get an HD radio.
 
The HD stations are playing a 1:1 ratio of pop vocals and instrumentals. It's not worth buying an HD radio for. Internet radio is the place to be if you like smooth jazz without Celine Dion and Phil Collins.
 
The Smooth Jazz format is commiting suicide with the help of their consultants.
 
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The Smooth Jazz format is commiting suicide with the help of their consultants.
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Not "consultants" there is only one. That's the root of the problem. Too much power in too few hands. Like all the power in one hand.
 
I'm lost...I used the smoothjazz 1059 calendar so that I could remind myself what was happening in the area....

for example there is a disabilities job fair that is going to be held in Montgomery county sometime...somewhere and I was planning on attending...but now that there isn't a community calendar...I'm totally lost and will probably miss this event, which I NEED and which I was planning on attending...but didn't mark it on my calendar because I routinely referred to this community calendar offered on this station.

Please 1059....please post your calendar of events again... or at least tell us where we can go to find this information.

Does anyone know of a calendar this comprehensive that another radio station might list??

Thanks for reading and if you feel led, I would very much appreciate any help someone might want to offer... :-X
 
"Smooth jazz: gentle into that good night?"

A question posed by the Washington Post yesterday.

Unfortunately their writer didn't report the real reason for the format flips: D.C. (and now Atlanta) dumped Smooth Jazz for oldies thanks to Citadel's heavy red ink. New York dumped Smooth Jazz for rock based strictly on ad billings.
 
Phil said:
The Smooth Jazz format is commiting suicide with the help of their consultants.
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Finally! Someone who sees (hears?) the light!
 
Rockin Rob said:
From what I've read, the move was to a more "PPM-friendly" format.
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How many malls stores have you been in lately that play oldies over their speakers?

I can't believe SJ wouldn't be "PPM friendly"... more so then oldies... ???
 
You can blame Wall Street and Madison Avenue for this; they refuse to acknowledge the humungous amount of disposable income that adults over the age of 55 have, and are obnoxiously obssessed with the twentysomethings and thirtysomethings out there.
 
Marv-L.A. said:
You can blame Wall Street and Madison Avenue for this; they refuse to acknowledge the humungous amount of disposable income that adults over the age of 55 have, and are obnoxiously obssessed with the twentysomethings and thirtysomethings out there.
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Right. That's why they went Oldies.....
 
There is only one truth to present about Smooth Jazz...........

It ain't Jazz!
 
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