I've been wondering why there was never a station in Boston that was smooth jazz. Wouldn't that format do well in this market? Is there not an audience for it? How come there never was one?
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Smooth jazz in Boston?
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spilot113
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icycool7227 said:
What rock have you been hiding under?
99.5 was Jazz as "The Oasis".
96.9 was Smooth Jazz WSJZ
99.1 Was Smooth Jazz off the bird
92.5 was Smooth Jazz as "The Wave(?)" (off the bird)
spilot113 said:
Well that may have been before my time. Do you have dates that these stations existed to and from?
Do you or anyone have any logos of these stations?
In the fall of '99, IIRC, smooth jazz at 96.9 changed to the current talk format. For a short time they
put in Imus in the morning followed by smooth jazz all day, then they installed the talk with Stacy Taylor
at 10 am and then later Jay Severin. Severin could be heard saying he hoped he'd do his job well and
attract listeners, "otherwise you'd start to hear Kenny G again..."
WMWM's jazz show (Salem State) Sun 3-6 pm will often have Brian Vita on playing smooth jazz (he also
does a Sun night 9-mid. show called Sun night chill which may feature it--he most plays something called
chill music, relaxing stuff). It's possible some other small stations have some specialty smooth jazz shows.
The WMJX HD station was mentioned and those with sat radio can no doubt find channels with SJ.
put in Imus in the morning followed by smooth jazz all day, then they installed the talk with Stacy Taylor
at 10 am and then later Jay Severin. Severin could be heard saying he hoped he'd do his job well and
attract listeners, "otherwise you'd start to hear Kenny G again..."
WMWM's jazz show (Salem State) Sun 3-6 pm will often have Brian Vita on playing smooth jazz (he also
does a Sun night 9-mid. show called Sun night chill which may feature it--he most plays something called
chill music, relaxing stuff). It's possible some other small stations have some specialty smooth jazz shows.
The WMJX HD station was mentioned and those with sat radio can no doubt find channels with SJ.
spilot113 said:
92.5 was never smooth jazz. The first one was 96.9 WCDJ "CD96.9," which lasted from 1990 until 93 or so. Then both 99.5 The Oasis and 99.1 Smooth FM began sometime around 1995. 99.1 later became "Jazzy 99.1" when the "Smooth FM" satellite service went ouf of business. 99.5 The Oasis moved to become Smooth Jazz 96.9 WSJZ in 1997. I think it was 1999 that the format went away completely with 96.9 becoming WTKK, and 99.1 becoming Easy.
BTW... someone really needs to give 96.9 WTKK an overhaul on wikipedia. It's in really bad shape. Someone posted that they were WCDJ from 1990-99!
you can go edit the Wiki entry yourself. That's the whole idea of it.
ZRXOA 5248 said:
mmm no they have a nerd patrol in wikipedia that if you don't take it seriously, they ban you.....I didn't think they would get that mad when I tried to change the man who founded Medfield Massachusetts to "Hurricane" Peter McNeeley but I guess they did.
jlehmann said:
Oh yes it was....!
Sometime in between 1982 and 1985 they were running something off the bird. This was when "The Wave" in LA and WNUA Chicago was getting a lot of talk. "New Age" music was the big thing...
I think Silverburg wanted to get on the bandwagon and flipped it to a sattelite smooth jazz format.
Jackie Brush (or WMJX and WSRS) was one of the jocks on the bird format...this was before she came to Boston to live.
Thanks for the replies. I'm glad to know at least there was smooth jazz in Boston and it's nice/interesting to know the history behind it.
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There is History behind it , but there no future in front of it . Boston radio suck !icycool7227 said:
Ed's comment may have been ineloquent, but it was also accurate. Smooth jazz probably isn't coming back to Boston and it's been sucking wind elsewhere. The ratings are lackluster and have been shrinking a bit and the demos aren't great either. All in all, it's a bad combo. In a radio market like Boston, which has so many glaring needs, I just don't see SJ making a return to Boston.
At this point, I'd say that fans of smooth jazz should thank their lucky stars that there's an HD subchannel that offers the format.
At this point, I'd say that fans of smooth jazz should thank their lucky stars that there's an HD subchannel that offers the format.
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