It's still smooth jazz, even after CBS sold the Hartford cluster to Entercom, and even after the HD3 flipped from carrying WBZ-FM to WEEI-FM. So what is the source of the smooth jazz format. I'd always assumed it was a CBS operation, like iHeart's Format Lab. Did Entercom buy it as part of the CBS deal? If not, who does create and supply the format?
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WRCH HD2
- Thread starter CTListener
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I'd say it' done right at WRCH as they have been doing a smooth jazz program on the main station for a long time, just as they must have a massive Christmas music collection as well doing that format pretty much at will and on whatever schedule they choose (didn't they do it right up thru NYE last year? This year it was over 12AM on 12/26)
WNEW-FM in NYC, also a convert from CBS ownership to Entercom, continues its Smooth Jazz subchannel on 102.7. I listen to it in my kitchen, where there is a small HD radio.
It seems the station is airing the same playlist over and over, the same Smooth Jazz songs and vocals. I don't mind because it is a format I like. But I assume once it was set up, no one does anything with it, never adding any new songs. So we hear the same four Luther Vandross songs, the same four Anita Baker songs, the same four Sting songs. Hey, I like those songs. But with their large libraries, you'd think there'd be a bit more variety. I didn't listen on Christmas Eve or Day, but leading up to Dec. 24th, I didn't hear any Smooth Jazz Christmas music.
It doesn't play any commercials. Once or twice an hour it runs a national PSA. Early Sunday, it simulcasts the 6am public affiairs show from WNEW-FM, then its back to music at 6:30.
I'm not complaining. If there are no commercials, this is fine by me. I wonder if that's how WRCH HD2 is programmed?
It seems the station is airing the same playlist over and over, the same Smooth Jazz songs and vocals. I don't mind because it is a format I like. But I assume once it was set up, no one does anything with it, never adding any new songs. So we hear the same four Luther Vandross songs, the same four Anita Baker songs, the same four Sting songs. Hey, I like those songs. But with their large libraries, you'd think there'd be a bit more variety. I didn't listen on Christmas Eve or Day, but leading up to Dec. 24th, I didn't hear any Smooth Jazz Christmas music.
It doesn't play any commercials. Once or twice an hour it runs a national PSA. Early Sunday, it simulcasts the 6am public affiairs show from WNEW-FM, then its back to music at 6:30.
I'm not complaining. If there are no commercials, this is fine by me. I wonder if that's how WRCH HD2 is programmed?
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