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Smooth Jazz returns this week...

J

jeffdfw

...but where? Here is a tease from R&R:
BA Smooth Jazz Network Update
By Carol Archer

Here are just a few of the highlights coming up on the Smooth Jazz Network the week of September 3rd.

Pop quiz: Is a new full-time Smooth Jazz Network satellite affiliate signing on next week? Is it in a top 50 market west of the Mississippi? Is this a market where no Smooth Jazz station exists? Stay tuned.
 
If only it was top 52, we may have had a shot. Crap. ;)
 
If you guys want smooth jazz so bad, why don't you get your buddy Robert to move some Disco out to make room? It's not like he has any advertiser to please...or listeners for that matter. Anyone listening, is doing so for a different experience than the dreaded and feared commercial stations anyway...how bout it Robby?
 
jd said:
jeffdfw said:
Oklahoma City.
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You're right...market #48. It's KOCD 103.7 Okemah, a move-in from Wilburton (McAlester). Definitely a rim-shot for OKC, but with about the same signal strength into Tulsa, which is pretty poor:
www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KOCD&service=FM&status=C&hours=U
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This will be another smooth jazz outlet with no ratings. Because of KMGL and KVSP, its tower is way too the east of Oklahoma City. It will only be a C1, not a C0 or full C, and the tower is located almost 70 miles east of downtown OKC. It will not have a decent signal over much of the market.
 
I keep saying it and you guys keep ignoring it. Smooth jazz is on the descent because it's main appeal is to folks past the 25-54 demo.

Basically it's the MOR of the "Oughts".

Sure it might hang around as a boutique format (a la KAAM) but as a mass appeal format?

Dead. Over the next 5-10 years you're going to see more stations drop it.

On sure, you'll have some stations that pick it up. After all, better to be #1 on a hill that no one else wants (Smooth Jazz) than the 6 country station, the 8th talk station, etc, but it's dead and dying....
 
And this my friends is God allowed Steve Jobs to create the famed iPod. ;D
 
TalkTalk typed:

...Anyone listening [to KEOM], is doing so for a different experience than the dreaded and feared commercial stations anyway...
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No, when I listen to KEOM it's because they are playing a song that I like, or because the person on the air is saying something that's interesting to me. If KEOM had commercials, I'd still listen.

It's sad that many other DFW stations can't figure this out.
 
dude, we just saaid the same thing...except for the part about "other stations in dfw" which is odd, I don't know what you mean...Last I checked, not every person gets a radio station programmed to their EXACT specs...but that is why you have an iPod, so what good is KEOM to you anyway?
 
Talktalk said:
dude, we just saaid the same thing...except for the part about "other stations in dfw" which is odd, I don't know what you mean...Last I checked, not every person gets a radio station programmed to their EXACT specs...but that is why you have an iPod, so what good is KEOM to you anyway?
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Talk,

There are two schools of thought...

One of them is, 'It's about the listener, stupid" and the other is "It's about running a business, stupid". Some people need experience in both schools, to truly understand things a bit better. That's just the way it is...

R
 
You know, I am going to make a "Smooth Jazz, Non-Com, Anti-Listener" hater post. Then, most of us can sit back in our recliners and watch the stat-happy and overlord corporate folk go crazy. Good times. ;D
 
Robert Bass said:
There are two schools of thought...

One of them is, 'It's about the listener, stupid" and the other is "It's about running a business, stupid". Some people need experience in both schools, to truly understand things a bit better. That's just the way it is...

R
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Yeah, I think of Viacom and how they changed MTV. Just look at what a succesful business model that is !!! Not to nit pick about what a "Music" listener might expect to see on "Music" TV....

So taht's the way it is..... Since Viacom took over, I understand little about MTV. But as long as revenues keep coming in..... they "Must" be doing the right thing. Silly listeners.... what the heck do they know... ? ? ? Nothing it appears. Which is hwy they watch!! 8)
 
LOL yeah, I miss my MTV. :( I want my MTV!!! My folks used to have to get up in the wee hours of the night and make me turn off my MTV. :D

O to be young again... ;)

R
 
Yeah - Well I don't know about JAZZ - but I miss my VH-1
 
Robert...once again, you minimize an issue to make a misguided point...The two issues ARE the same. The part about running a business is dependant upon making a format as attractive to as many people as possible. If you ARE going with a NICHE format, make sure you are on target...KOAI was in a situation where neither was served...and it is because the product was bad and the format was off target.

Veritas said that he listens for songs he likes, so, he loves his iPod...load in all the KC and The Sunshine band he can take and he doesn't need you anymore. That's the fact, jack!
 
Talktalk said:
Robert...once again, you minimize an issue to make a misguided point...The two issues ARE the same. The part about running a business is dependant upon making a format as attractive to as many people as possible. If you ARE going with a NICHE format, make sure you are on target...KOAI was in a situation where neither was served...and it is because the product was bad and the format was off target.

Veritas said that he listens for songs he likes, so, he loves his iPod...load in all the KC and The Sunshine band he can take and he doesn't need you anymore. That's the fact, jack!
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Um, you may wanna tap on those brakes just a little. And not just because I like the guy and dig the music, but I listen to radio for the same reason I jam up my iPod - it's what I like. DJ's enhance the product. It's like a model wearing a pair of jeans. You don't buy the model (although many of us would like to), but the jeans are hanging in your closet slightly because of that imagery.

I do listen to my songs like crazy... at work. On the road, I am flipping the dials looking for good tunes, great personality and a nice mix of the two. I am in the media business because I love what it is... AND who I have an ooportunity to meet and work with. There is no separating the two, John Winger. To continue the analogy, RADIO is my big toe ;D
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
It's like a model wearing a pair of jeans. You don't buy the model (although many of us would like to),
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LOL!!!!!!! ;D

Talk,

My points are not misguided, they simply don't match your feelings. That's all...

R
 
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