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WJJZ dies at 6 pm; new station debuts Monday morning

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See the radio-info.com home page. Michael Klein is reporting it in the Inquirer.

Klein speculates: Adult contemporary? News/talk?

If this is just a shift to smooth adult (the alleged successor to smooth jazz), then this is a big nothing.

Let the guessing begin!

My guess: A Sunny 104.5 station is reborn on 97.5. Reason: WOGL's people meter ratings. Soft rock from the 60s, 70s and 80s would be a likely hole to be filled in the market.

And the suits at Greater Media would love it. CBS, which owns WOGL, just took a swipe at WMGK by relaunching WYSP a more current-based classic rock to challenge MGK and MMR. What better retribution than to take a piece of CBS' pie away from WOGL.

Who could they pick up as jocks in the market?
 
...and what few smooth jazz fans there are would be too old for today's operators to want to serve. Advertisers don't see the value of the senior set, therefore radio companies don't either. What will be the last smooth jazz station standing? WNUA? KTWV? PPM begins a fall harvest of smooth jazz stations very soon...JJZ is but one of many.
 
If the new format were to embrace smooth jazz listeners, then explain why the current playlist is intended to "flush" out whatever listeners they had left this weekend.
 
RoscoeBrowning said:
Nick said:
A Soft AC format wouldn't completely alienate the Smooth Jazz fans
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Smooth Jazz fans? What Smooth Jazz fans?? If there were Smooth Jazz fans the station wouldn't be changing formats! :)
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apparently there were sj fans 2 years ago. they killed one of the most listened to stations in the area to put this on. and 2 years later we find out that it was for nothing.
 
did anyone notice that on the 97.5 banner on the RI home page, it says now is a sister station to 93.3 WMMR and 102.5 MGK
 
WJJZ dies at 6 pm 9/5 aircheck

If anyone recorded the final moments of smooth jazz WJJZ 97.5, can you please post the audio here in this board for everyone to hear?
 
Re: WJJZ dies at 6 pm 9/5 aircheck

Julius May said:
If anyone recorded the final moments of smooth jazz WJJZ 97.5, can you please post the audio here in this board for everyone to hear?
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Scroll down a couple of threads, Julius.
 
I don't know what people are talking about when they say there are no smooth jazz fans. And that if there are any they are too old??? First of all I'm 24 and i have been listening to smooth jazz since i was 11 years old. And i know plenty more who are my age and love it. I love it so much that it made me want to make my own smooth jazz music in which you can listen here. www.Myspace.com/Ojmanley

And yes the new format does alienate the fans. We want smooth jazz not rock. Will rock play Brian Culbertson or Boney James and Dave Koz??? NO. So I don't wanna hear that crap talking about nobody listens to smooth jazz.

Bring Wjjz back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't care what number it is just put it back on the radio.
 
Ummm, you are saying Now 97.5 plays rock? ROCK????

Lemme introduce you to WYSP, WMMR, WMGK and WRFF.

Sounds like an agenda poster to me (i.e. even one would be too many rock stations - a la a dance fan incognito).
 
Sounds like an agenda poster to me (i.e. even one would be too many rock stations - a la a dance fan incognito).
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Oh...my...God. Are you really still doing this? No one has ever posted to these boards with more of an agenda than you! LOL.

I think you are again looking for hidden meaning in places where there is none. The person obviously isn't that well-versed on the situation. Or he/she may simply be taking hints from the fact that the station keeps saying the phrase "soft rock" to identify itself! Geesh!

Let's be clear: There is no dance fan vs. rock fan war happening on these boards. I don't believe there ever really even was! Let's all just get along!
 
Soon Yi CIV.V said:
Sounds like an agenda poster to me (i.e. even one would be too many rock stations - a la a dance fan incognito).
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Oh...my...God. Are you really still doing this? No one has ever posted to these boards with more of an agenda than you! LOL.

I think you are again looking for hidden meaning in places where there is none. The person obviously isn't that well-versed on the situation. Or he/she may simply be taking hints from the fact that the station keeps saying the phrase "soft rock" to identify itself! Geesh!

Let's be clear: There is no dance fan vs. rock fan war happening on these boards. I don't believe there ever really even was! Let's all just get along!
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There are fans of every type of music here. Why all the discrimination against the "filly needz a danze stayshun" crowd? It would be great to have every format represented on Philly radio, but it's impossible.
 
We're totally derailing this thread so hopefully this little bit of radio board history will be enough to set things straight.

I never really understood the strange rock vs. dance thing that occurred around here for eons. You see, Rocky and I are radio message board dinosaurs. We were here since the beginning. And we developed a serious love/hate relationship over the topic. LOL. There used to be this really odd, overly serious fight on these boards that finally seems to have died down. There was a small contingent of posters who seemed bent on getting Dance music played on one of the stations in town. Some openly rooted for a pure Dance station, which is just not a reality on anything but the tiniest of sticks in anything but the tiniest of markets. I mean, anyone with any sense of the business knows it would just never work. But one of the things that made the message board community awesome back then was that we had a mix of professionals and regular joes who knew literally nothing about how the business works.

One day, I guess people got sick of seeing messages about dance music or something because suddenly another group of posters just started attacking those poor Dance posters and when the Dance posters started responding, things just got downright ugly. My mindset has always been: It's a message board. You can't tell people what to say on here any more than you can tell people what to think! So I would stick up for the Dance people. I guess I just felt like defending peoples' right to speak their mind. I mean, there was only one shopkeeper at the time and he didn't have a problem with people advocating for their favorite formats.

Things just spun out of control from there and Philadephia's radio message boards became a beautiful example of what's wrong with the Internet. LOL. It was ironic because even after the Dance people grew up and moved on, the anti-Dance people kept the argument alive and it just led to completely unnecessary fights. It was weird. For years and years afterward, these anti-Dance flames would pop up in threads where no one was saying anything about it. It was really odd and frustrating...but looking back it's laughable.

So once in a while, I see a message like that, like the one Rocky posted here. I like to think it's an inside joke so once in a while I'll take the bait for old time's sake. Hopefully, everyone knows by now that the Dance vs. Rock flamewars were insanely stupid and hilarious. I can't imagine anyone actually takes it seriously anymore. At least I hope not!

Now back to your regularly scheduled programming. (A younger approach to soft rock, I believe it was?)
 
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