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The New KYOT 95.5

J

Jazz_Kat

Hello everyone, hope you have been enjoying the holidays. KYOT has now switched to BA's Smooth AC Network.

http://www.radio-info.com/news/the-new-coyote-kyot-phoenix-more-vocals

Clear Channel Smooth Jazz “Coyote” KYOT (95.5) is adjusting its sound by adding more vocals to its predominantly instrumental mix. Touting its as “the New KYOT,” Clear Channel/Phoenix Director of Programming and Operations Smokey Rivers says “Since its inception in 1994, KYOT has been innovative in creating a popular blend of instrumental and vocal music. The synchronicity of Coyote music and the Valley's good life has earned it mainstay status among Phoenix stations.” Some of the new artists listeners will hear on KYOT include Norah Jones, Beyonce, John Mayer and Alicia Keys. Rivers adds, “We are continuing our long relationship with Broadcast Architecture as a major affiliate of the newly-formed Smooth AC Network.”
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Yes, I think I was listening the day it changed. :( After hearing about 4 songs I tuned out... and probably won't tune back in. :'(
 
This really is a shame that the good stations are taking this route. It's killing the format. I recently became an XM subscriber again after cancelling several years ago. After listening to "Watercolors" again, I forgot how good this format could be.

I've said before that Smooth AC could be good for non-smooth jazz markets as kind of an intro to jazz-flavored music for that market. But I never thought that the format would be replacing jazz instead.
 
Can't see how Smooth A/C would introduce soft A/C listeners to instrumental music when they only play about 1 instrumental an hour and it's usually a song that has crossover credentials.
 
AnotherCat said:
Can't see how Smooth A/C would introduce soft A/C listeners to instrumental music when they only play about 1 instrumental an hour and it's usually a song that has crossover credentials.
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Just wishful thinking I guess. I'm trying to be optimistic about the format's future.
 
The Smooth Jazz format has no future. A format that features contemporary instrumental music that sounds like what
the "smooth jazz" artists do in their live gigs and sheds the B/EZ elements - old sounding jocks that talk slow and have announcer voices, nondescript covers of really old songs, focus on relaxation etc - could rise out of the ashes beautifully but it will require forgetting everything we were told to assume (by BA) and delivering the excitement that this music created before
it became "smooth". And it will be on the internet. Nobody under 45 goes to the radio for music anymore.
 
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