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Why VH Works--from a listener's perspective

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Tiburon

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I've been lurking on this board, just reading, never registering, for almost 2 years now--just because I enjoy music and radio. Funny thing happened though, I decided to register mainly because I see the posts in this forum, about "What's right and wrong with JACK," and the like.As a radio listener in a top-10 market (Philadelphia), let me tell you why JACK works:Mainly, radio in Philadelphia is horrendous. You have the seemingly endless parade of urban stations, whether CHR-Rhythmic, Urban, or whatever they want to call themselves. Basically two stations in town (WRDW and WIOQ) play the same 20 songs in a seemingly endless rotation. The other two urban stations (the Beat and Power 99) play 10 of the same songs as the first two and 10 different songs, also in seemingly endless rotation.We only have one rock station in town, which can be listenable at times. The other rock station was taken over by FREE-FM, and though I like Opie and Anthony, I really listen to FM for music. Sorry.Then you have the sorta-Philadelphia CHR station (WPST) that sounds almost identical to WIOQ. Unfortunately the latest frequency switch left them basically unlistenable anyplace south of Philadelphia, which happens to be where I live. We have two classic rock stations, one that has an older sound to it, the other an even older sound to it, but at least you can find some decent music there.We have the token country station, the token smooth jazz station, the easy listening station, and the resident AC in town, which is probably the best music "format" in town. However, for the most part, if the average radio listener wants to hear anything but the same re-tread music over and over again, the only outlet is the JACK outlet here, BEN-FM.I wonder if radio executives might one day realize that the formats as they are today are a major part of the shift to satellite radio? I mean, you hear CC's Rhythmic AC in this town, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to find it's sister station somewhere else--it sounds EXACTLY the same.I'm by far not a JACK hugger, far from it, but I can tell you that it's at least something a little different in the barren landscape that is terrestrial radio today.
 
listener's perspective

thanks for your perspective- it is shared by many around the country now migrating to Variety Hits stations in pretty sizable numbers.
 
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