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WILL K-Rock flip to Smooth Jazz?

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SJFAN

There have been rumors that CBS wants to do a Smooth Jazz station in New York. With K-Rocks low ratings CBS could flip KRock to Smooth Jazz. Smooth Jazz is returning to Denver later this month. Bostons Adult Hits station is also flipping to Smooth Jazz. Even though New York, Washington,DC and Houston lost their Smooth Jazz stations that doesn't mean that the format is dead. New York has a diverse enough audience for a Smooth Jazz station if done right.
 
I would love to see the source of these "rumors"... then again, it may be hard to take your post seriously, "SJFan"... :eek:
 
I'd love to see a posting that talks about rumored formats coming not use the phrase, "if done right." Done right according to who?
 
You mean blow up a legendary heritage rocker that everyone's heard of for a dying and even lower revenue producing format?

After the mess with JACK FM?
You guys are funny...
 
legendary heritage rocker

Wait... I thought we were talking about K-Rock.
 
i think we are talking about k rock. it aint going anywhere. if a crappy station like ZZO can survive in allentown, with an excellent active rocker called the bone kicking its ass, then K-Rock can survive in the NYC. its a heritage station. not the mention ZZO is worse and even if they dont go as heavy as they should, no one else in the market is heavier. RXP seems good, but theyre not as heavy as K Rock. in my opinion, its the best rocker in the NYC. Q104 is good for the classics, and so is RXP if you want some of the safer new stuff, but K Rock ais a combination of the two. i do however agree that more modern rock is n order, but leave the occasional classics in the mix, but instead of black dog, play achilles last stand, and instead of money, play Pigs, and instead of more than a feeling, play dont look back.

see what im saying?
 
SJFAN,

It's unlikely that CBS will switch the station @ 92.3 FM to Smooth Jazz after renewing Opie and Anthony's contracts.

I would like to know where did this rumor come from.




Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
 
Kevin L. Sealy said:
SJFAN,

It's unlikely that CBS will switch the station @ 92.3 FM to Smooth Jazz after renewing Opie and Anthony's contracts.

I would like to know where did this rumor come from.




Thanks,
Kevin L. Sealy
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I was going to say the same thing, Kevin, as soon as I saw the headline to this post.

Unless they put O&A on the other two frequencies? CBS? Fresh?

There is no doubt that K-Rock needs to be tweaked but I doubt it's going anywhere.
 
This station has been a big loser ever since Howard left...first with the "free fm" disaster and K-Rock since its been back...the ratings continue to slide...the fact that they just renewed those lame Howard imitators for mornings means nothing if the ratings don't improve...they WILL change format...CBS is doing particularly well with KTWV in Los Angeles...
 
There's a "rumor" that Opie & Anthony will play Smooth Jazz for 30 seconds every hour to please the Smooth Jazz fan, I mean fans, in New York :D
 
Hey if it would help to improve their pathetic ratings perhaps they should consider it...
 
I wouldn't flip any rocker right now. The new sampling by Arbitron is being very friendly to these outlets. It's probably a major reason why SJ has been replaced by RXP at 101.9.
 
I find this alleged rumor highly suspect too, but there's one good thing that could come of it. If K-Rock did flip to NAC (aka "Smooth Jazz") then they could call it Mellow 92 again. ;)
 
eyg2181 said:
if a crappy station like ZZO can survive in allentown, with an excellent active rocker called the bone kicking its ass, then K-Rock can survive in the NYC.
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WZZO is pulling a mid-6 12+ compared to The Bone's upper-1 12+. Who's kicking who where exactly?

Smooth jazz died in DC, it's not doing anything impressive in Baltimore, and it's in 20th place (6+ PPM cume) in Philadelphia. Why would a NYC station flip to smooth jazz?
 
There have been two separate Smooth Jazz stations in the Albany market. Now...one is Modern Rock and the other is Active Rock....
 
Which Boston station is flipping to smooth jazz? None of them. The rumor was Mike 93.7 supposedly,
which has gotten good ratings with hardly any effort/money poured into it. SJ has been a three time
loser in Boston; if someone tries it and it flies, then great, but I doubt Cheapercom would switch Mike
at this point. I could be proven wrong, but the rumor about WMKK Lawrence/Boston MA switching, for
me, is right up there with "Obama drops out of the race to unite the party"...
 
Or ... What kind of crack are people smoking?

slickkicker said:
I wouldn't flip any rocker right now. The new sampling by Arbitron is being very friendly to these outlets. It's probably a major reason why SJ has been replaced by RXP at 101.9.
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CD 101.9 was blown up after 20 years because it wasn't bringing in advertising revenue. Emmis made that fact clear when "The Rock Experience" hit the air 3 months ago.
 
Emmis destroyed WQCD by flipping to chill for a year. Emmis pissed off many SJ listeners by played the same 20 SJ songs over and over again. They didn'y play any if it all new SJ music. WQCD deserved to go out of bussiness. Emmis flipped 25 year herritage LA,CA station KZLA country back in 2006. Emmis claimed that country doesn't sell in LA. Ten months later LA got another country station by a different owner. At the same time San Francisco and Seattle fliped thier only country stations to other formats. San Francisco and Seattle both have gotton country radio returned to them.

Here in LA we have had 4 different triple A station. Two months ago we got a 4th triple A station owned by Bonneville on 100.3FM called the sound. The 100.3 format was a Urban AC station.

I like to think positive that if we keep our fingers crossed another SJ station will come to New York.
 
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