Satellite radio has the traditional radio corporations scrambling for listeners. There’s no doubt about that. With repetetive playlists, increases in the time devoted to advertising and annoying-as-hell DJs, terrestrial radio is shedding listeners fast. Who would have thought just a few years ago that people would be so fed up with the state of radio that they would actually pay for new equipment and a subscription in order to get away from the wasteland that is FM today?<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the terrestrial broadcasting companies still don’t get it. After losing more and more people to satellite, which seems to really know what listeners want<\/a>, terrestrial has decided that the Jack FM fad<\/a> will save them. What is Jack FM? Well, it defies explanation really… it’s more of a “we play whatever we want” format… with, of course, all the heavy commercials, repetetive playlists, and annoying DJs still there.<\/p>\n And now they’re gotten so desperate, that they took the nations #1-rated oldies station, WCBS-FM<\/a>, and without warning, converted it<\/a>… to Jack-FM<\/a>. In the process, they pissed off and alienated the entire listener base that CBS-FM had built up over the years.<\/p>\n Way to go, Inifinity Broadcasting<\/a>. I’m no fan of oldies by any stretch, as I prefer much newer stuff<\/a>, but I had generally assumed that it made good business sense to convert the struggling<\/em> radio stations that have no lsiteners into different formats, rather than taking a successful market and turning it on its head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Infinity Broadcasting dumps the #1 oldies station in the nation, with good ratings, all to target a stupid fad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}