The station is still on. Out of Jersey city or Bergan Co.
More I-pod inspired radio, and a legendary oldies station is gone. "101.1, WCBS-FM...Newwww Yorrrrrkkkkk...."
WCBS-FM was reminiscent of the Top-40 AM stations of the 60's and 70's. That's where Cousin Brucie and Harry Harrison came from.
This is disastrous.
WJMK Chicago went Jack radio. It's as if my 14 yr.old nephew
controls the radio dial. Annoying.
04:02 PM ROD STEWART Maggie May
04:07 PM BILLY JOEL Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
04:11 PM RAY CHARLES Hit The Road Jack
04:13 PM THE SILHOUETTES Get A Job
04:16 PM CHUCK BERRY Johnny B. Goode
04:18 PM THE COASTERS Charlie Brown
04:21 PM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Glory Days
04:24 PM CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG Woodstock
04:28 PM FRANK SINATRA Summer Wind
Then a pre-programmed package featuring:
04:35 PM FRANK SINATRA New York, New York (w/ Tony Bennett)
Jack is born:
05:01 PM THE BEASTIE BOYS (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right
05:02 PM EMF Unbelievable
05:06 PM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
05:09 PM JAMES BROWN & THE FAMOUS FLAMES I Got You (I Feel Good)
05:12 PM ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS Radio Radio
05:15 PM BLACK EYED PEAS Let's Get It Started
05:19 PM BELLE STARS Iko Iko
05:22 PM THE GREG KIHN BAND Breakup Song
05:25 PM NO DOUBT It's My Life
05:29 PM LED ZEPPELIN D'yer Ma'ker
05:33 PM THE ROMANTICS Talking In Your Sleep
05:37 PM C&C MUSIC FACTORY Gonna Make You Sweat
05:41 PM THE ROLLING STONES Ain't Too Proud To Beg
05:45 PM KID ROCK Cowboy
05:49 PM THE OHIO PLAYERS Love Rollercoaster
05:54 PM TOM PETTY Runnin' Down A Dream
05:58 PM THE B-52's Rock Lobster
Huh! Good point. I hadn't thought of what effect iPods (and for that matter, Sirius/XM) might be having on traditional radio.
"WPLJ executive Tom Cuddy said he was "shocked" by the move.
"It's off the map," he said. "It's rap to rock to pop to one-hit wonders. Now there's no oldies station in the world's largest radio market."
"...oldies stations are "changing now at the rate of one or two a month" because they no longer deliver the younger listeners advertisers demand."
(In other words, they're saying, move over, grandpa... So
much for oldies in NYC and elsewhere.)
It's interesting when a station changes its format with no warning (which is the norm these days). In the late 70s, Boston's WWEL 107.9 and AM 1430 were playing elevation music but one day they re-emerged as "Kiss 108 Disco". That was a bit jarring for the "beautiful music" listeners! (These
days the _AM side_ of what is now WXKS AM and FM has
Air America crap).
Remember the first episode of WKRP in Cincinnatti when
DJ Johnny Caravella (Howard Hesseman) re-emerged as Dr.
Johnny Fever, dragging a needle across a record of
elevator music: "OK Cincinnatti it is time for this town to get down! You've got Johnny--Dr. Johnny Fever--and I am burning up in here, whoa!" And he launched into raucous
rock'n'roll.
But they still had sponsors from their own incarnation,
including 'Shady Hills Rest Home'...
The station is still on. Out of Jersey city or Bergan Co.
More, from the NY Daily News:
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/315843p-270182c.html
The move stunned longtime listeners.
"I came home and I turned the radio on and it was not there," said Pamela Hall, who lives in the Bronx. "I thought I was going to faint . . . I really am sick. Part of my family is gone."
"This is the largest, the biggest abandonment of a loyal market segment in the history of New York radio," said listener Howard Bailen, of Manhasset, L.I. "I tuned in and heard a song you'd never hear on CBS. It's the last thing New York needs."
There are "Jack" stations in both LA and San Diego also. The LA station, 93FM, had CBS in its call letters too.
For me, that was Sam Riddle, The Real Don Steele, Robert W. Morgan and more.