Last night, as I was setting my hotel room’s clock radio, I couldn’t find my favorite Chicago radio station, Oldies 104.3 WJMK. It’s been replaced with JACK-FM: “We play what we want!” I can no longer go to sleep with Dick Biondi and wake up to Paul Perry! I want my Oldies station back!! So does all of Chicago.
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Interestingly enough (well, to me at least) “Jack” is the name of a radio format that’s spreading across the country. The format is made up of about 1000 rock, pop, disco and popular “alternative” songs from the 70’s through the present. It’s supposed to mimic someone who has loaded up an iPod and puts it on “shuffle”.
I have the sinking feeling I’ve just committed a Claven.
Oh God.
The same thing happened to the oldies station
in New York City. Now it’s a JACK station. If you want to hear music pre-1970 you have to listen to AM now. I live in the Dallas-Ft Worth area, which is the 5th largest radio market in the US. It’s unbelievable what’s happened to radio in the past 20 years…where there was once one talk radio station on the dial, there are at least five now. And there are three times more stations on the air now vs. 20 years ago.