WJJZ is back

[PhillyWatch]

I tuned in for the TOH this morning and realized that the station is still WDAS, yet calling itself "JJZ" with a website of "WJJZ.com".

WDAS-AM/WISX HD-2, "JJZ"

Clusterfudge would be an under-assessment.

I think the real question is- Who is Michael Tozzi snogging at CC PHL for this whole ordeal to have taken place?

 

[deepstblu]

I tuned in for the TOH this morning and realized that the station is still WDAS, yet calling itself "JJZ" with a website of "WJJZ.com".

WDAS-AM/WISX HD-2, "JJZ"

The WJJZ call sign now belongs to an FM station in Vermont. CC could try to make a deal with them to allow use of the letters on an AM, but I suspect that they may not bother.

 

[jhguthlac]

I had listened to the oldies on 1480 and enjoyed the format. But I had also enjoyed WJJZ 106.1 and now am enjoying the new version on 1480. Listen on-line at work and on the radio down in Newark DE. Yes, it comes I well. I'm glad to have smooth jazz back in any form. And I'm glad they don't air all the Motown vocals. I can hear that on 98.1 or WDAS-FM.

 

[Radio Wreck]

I can tolerate oldies on AM but I've tried to listen to smooth jazz on 1480 but I can't take the fidelity (or lack there-of). Maybe it's because I listened to oldies on AM for so many years that I got used to it but I've only ever heard smooth jazz on FM. That said, I've streamed it online and it sounds fine.

 

[Fakeem]

Execpt on Sunday Nights, I can't remember the last time I heard a "Motown Vocal" on WDAS-FM. They all but ignore Old R&B that hasn't been sampled at some point in a rap song or has been "okayed" by a hip-hop deejay.

 

[jay1986]

That's not going to work. They can continue experimenting with formats but 1480 is just a bad signal. After the original WDAS am Amen! The only format that made a little bit of money without having a sales team dedicated to that station and voice track all day was Rumba. They had a good and steady income every month from the phillies, a few brokered shows a a few national accounts.

 

[MarcB]

Sell or donate 1480 to Amtrak. I was getting it (along with 1340) crystal clear at 30th Street Station yesterday on my Walkman.

 

[John1]

'Smooth Jazz" was a fad that caught on for a few years in the early 1990's. The format picked up some listeners as beautiful music stations went away as sort of an alternative to that format with mostly instrumentals. But unlike easy listening most of the songs were not familiar & frankly to the non-SJ fan all sound somewhat the same. The R&B oldies that WDAS-AM was playing had a 40-50 year history & even young people probably know them from film soundtracks or commercials. The smooth jazz songs have a very limited audience of people who know the songs. I was surprised the WDAS revival drew such little numbers & the untimely death of Butter also spelled the death of the station. My thought to CC is donate the station to Temple & let them run their real jazz format on 1480 - right now its only online or WRTI's HD channel during the day.

 

[benale]

Does Clear Channel actually think Smooth Jazz on 1480 will get better numbers than Soul Oldies? How about serving people over 55 with mainstream 50's or 60's oldies, standards or a hybrid oldies-standards mix? Yeah..high demos, can't sell it, etc,etc...but is the smooth jazz airing now serving anybody? That is the worst possible music for AM.

I see 610 AM didn't even show up in the latest PPM's. What a great signal..wasted. I would imagine 94.1 and 97.5 have the sports audience sewn up. How about something people would actually listen to on 610?