Michael Tozzi Announced starting tomorrow at Noon Wjjz is back on 1480am Wjjz.com
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WJJZ is back
- Thread starter radiogeeklove
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J
Jul
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If they really want to make this work, this time, they must address the signal issues the station has.
Is WJJZ going to takeover WDAS AM 1480's soul oldies format.
J
Jul
Guest
yes.jimmyt1962 said:Is WJJZ going to takeover WDAS AM 1480's soul oldies format.
Wow. I hope/guess the excellent WDAS(AM) Soul Oldies format will continue online (iHeart).
Tozzi's been running his iJazz Global smooth jazz station online since the demise of the 97.5 version of WJJZ. Maybe this is a way to hook iJazz Global up with iHeart. I can't imagine that 1480 signal being very good at building penetration in Center City. I can barely pull in 1480 6 miles north of its tower, yet car reception in Northern DE is stellar.
CC already runs Smooth Jazz on WISX HD2. I guess this will replace it. So what shows up in the other HD slot? The 8 of us with radios will let you know!
Tozzi's been running his iJazz Global smooth jazz station online since the demise of the 97.5 version of WJJZ. Maybe this is a way to hook iJazz Global up with iHeart. I can't imagine that 1480 signal being very good at building penetration in Center City. I can barely pull in 1480 6 miles north of its tower, yet car reception in Northern DE is stellar.
CC already runs Smooth Jazz on WISX HD2. I guess this will replace it. So what shows up in the other HD slot? The 8 of us with radios will let you know!
Michael Tozzi's site http://www.ijazzglobal.com/ with banner announcing change to
"Smooth Jazz JJZ 1480 AM - 106.1 HD2" on "Monday . Six . Ten . Two Thousand Thirteen . Twelve Noon"
ijazzglobal Listen Live options page: http://www.ijazzglobal.com/listen-live/
ijazzglobal Listen Live player: http://www.ijazzglobal.com/newplayer/player.html
ijazzglobal Listen Live streaming URL: http://184.154.145.114:8017/
1480 AM station website links: http://www.wjjz.com/main.html (new-as mentioned above) and http://www.wdasam.com/ (old-redirects to new www.wjjz.com)
1480 AM iheart Listen Live player link: http://www.iheart.com/live/3405/?autoplay=true
1480 AM Listen Live streaming URL (copy + paste only):
http://wuba-am.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/177/20054/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/wuba-am
"Smooth Jazz JJZ 1480 AM - 106.1 HD2" on "Monday . Six . Ten . Two Thousand Thirteen . Twelve Noon"
ijazzglobal Listen Live options page: http://www.ijazzglobal.com/listen-live/
ijazzglobal Listen Live player: http://www.ijazzglobal.com/newplayer/player.html
ijazzglobal Listen Live streaming URL: http://184.154.145.114:8017/
1480 AM station website links: http://www.wjjz.com/main.html (new-as mentioned above) and http://www.wdasam.com/ (old-redirects to new www.wjjz.com)
1480 AM iheart Listen Live player link: http://www.iheart.com/live/3405/?autoplay=true
1480 AM Listen Live streaming URL (copy + paste only):
http://wuba-am.akacast.akamaistream.net/7/177/20054/v1/auth.akacast.akamaistream.net/wuba-am
I just hope and predict that WJJZ signs on with "New Day for You" by Basia. I also predict that there will be a montage similar to the one that signed off 106.1 WJJZ/signed on 97.5 WJJZ.
I also think that it would be a bit ironic if WDAS signed off with "She's Gone" by Hall and Oates.
I also think that it would be a bit ironic if WDAS signed off with "She's Gone" by Hall and Oates.
Such a shame. WDAS was pretty good, and I listened to them occasionally on IHeart. First Groovin' 1580 in Lexington now this. Urban oldies is a dying format, now replaced by smooth jazz, another dying format.
J
Jul
Guest
I just started rolling tape for the format change. I hope everyone is doing the same thing.
J
Jul
Guest
that was not one of the smoothest format flips.
I heard the change on iHeartRadio. Last song was "Please, Please, Please" by James Brown, followed by a brief introduction by Michael Tozzi, then a legal ID. WJJZ started with "Peace on Earth" by Paul Hardcastle.
Why bother? 97.5 was a complete failure so what makes anyone believe that a format that died on FM ten years ago will be viable on an inferior AM signal? The smooth jazz format audience left the building with 106.1 and they won't come back to hear the music on 1480.
The station probably won't do any better or worse with the format change because who's listening in the first place? If anything, it will do worse because the smooth jazz audience is more suburban than the r&b audience and 1480's signal hardly reaches the burbs.
This reminds me of the WFIL AM "Beautiful Music" fiasco of the 80's which couldn't gather an audience back then and that was 25 years ago.
The station probably won't do any better or worse with the format change because who's listening in the first place? If anything, it will do worse because the smooth jazz audience is more suburban than the r&b audience and 1480's signal hardly reaches the burbs.
This reminds me of the WFIL AM "Beautiful Music" fiasco of the 80's which couldn't gather an audience back then and that was 25 years ago.
I just hope and predict that WJJZ signs on with "New Day for You" by Basia. I also predict that there will be a montage similar to the one that signed off 106.1 WJJZ/signed on 97.5 WJJZ.
Well, they managed to play "A New Day for You" at 3:18PM. No real big montage, a played back, amateur 10-second intro with the next song.
I love how they are more smooth jazz and nearly all songs are instrumental or have the 90's, early 2000's smooth jazz feel to it!
So, the big question is...From those of us "not in market":
What's on 105.3 HD-2 now?
What's on 105.3 HD-2 now?
HD2 Shuffle
DAS(AM)/JJZ on 106.1 HD2 as advertised. WDAS-FM HD2 is back in 'Quiet Storm' mode. Damned shame that iHeart doesn't appear to have picked up the DAS(AM) version of Classic Soul. A real loss.
DAS(AM)/JJZ on 106.1 HD2 as advertised. WDAS-FM HD2 is back in 'Quiet Storm' mode. Damned shame that iHeart doesn't appear to have picked up the DAS(AM) version of Classic Soul. A real loss.
Smooth Jazz on a weak AM signal won't work. Many Jazz fans are also audiophiles. It's okay for an FM-HD2 but I fail to see it working on analog AM.
In my opinion they should have kept the R&B/Soul Music format on 1480 and 105.3-HD2. They could have just added Smooth Jazz WJJZ to 106.1 HD2 and maybe pick up an analog FM translator (WXHL's 97.1 has a pretty good signal).
In my opinion they should have kept the R&B/Soul Music format on 1480 and 105.3-HD2. They could have just added Smooth Jazz WJJZ to 106.1 HD2 and maybe pick up an analog FM translator (WXHL's 97.1 has a pretty good signal).
JerseyShor said:Smooth Jazz on a weak AM signal won't work. Many Jazz fans are also audiophiles.
Two different audiences. Smooth Jazz is background pop music. Jazz is what WRTI plays at night, and WRTI seems to pay attention to their audio as do most of the Jazz webstreams.
As for 1480, it's AM, and it's never going to be powerful enough to cover the area with a clean signal, but they can start by turning the stupid HD off and widening the analog bandwidth to something listenable on available radios.
1480AM isn't an adequate signal, but it has to have at least 400 times the audience of an HD channel. I think of 1480 in terms of a royalties-discounted platform for a webstream and/or an FM translator. (This is why I'm somewhat surprised that CC isn't keeping the DAS(AM) Classic Soul format on iHeart. Maybe they were draining audience from the FM?)It's okay for an FM-HD2 but I fail to see it working on analog AM.
In my opinion they should have kept the R&B/Soul Music format on 1480 and 105.3-HD2. They could have just added Smooth Jazz WJJZ to 106.1 HD2 and maybe pick up an analog FM translator (WXHL's 97.1 has a pretty good signal).
I'd be surprised if offers haven't been made. It doesn't seem that FM translators are for sale in the area. Though I see the licensee of 96.9 W245AG switched from relaying WBMR to Word FM, and has a CP to move north from Roxborough (COL "Gladwyne") to the Maiden Lane tower ("Glenside"), it appears that WRDV and the religioncasters want to hold on to their Philly area translators.
WWFM has been trying to get back in Philly since they lost their 107.9 translator, and the best they've been able to do is WKVP HD2, which I assume is a relay point looking for a future analog translator allocation.
Smooth Jazz is a worthy at-work format if you can sell the demos, but you won't be able to hear 1480 at work. Now, if you're commuting from Philly to Wilmington, you can listen on the ride...
musichead and Julius:
There's a reason 1480 blasts into Delaware and is so pisspoor around Center City:
It runs a very tight DA-2 with a drop to 1 kW at night from 5 kW daytime to protect the 1480's in New York City and Cincinnati;it also must give adjacent-channel protection to WBCB 1490 and WSAN 1470. It's pretty well boxed in.
There's a reason 1480 blasts into Delaware and is so pisspoor around Center City:
It runs a very tight DA-2 with a drop to 1 kW at night from 5 kW daytime to protect the 1480's in New York City and Cincinnati;it also must give adjacent-channel protection to WBCB 1490 and WSAN 1470. It's pretty well boxed in.
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