Hmmmm.....
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:07 am
But wasn't Indie the first in the L.A. area?
RADIO AIRWAVES GO JACK
A new format is hitting radio hard: Jack-FM,
pioneered in 2000 by longtime Island Park, New York,
DJ Bob Perry, on-air alias CADILLAC JACK GARRETT.
Jack features wildly eclectic playlists selected
to appeal to the Everyman -- with artists ranging
from MARVIN GAYE and VAN HALEN to QUIET RIOT and
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS -- and has been replacing
oldies stations coast to coast. While most stations
air the same 300 or 400 songs repeatedly, the
average Jack station rotates at least 1,200 --
almost entirely hits. "Radio has been dominated by one
train of thought for twenty years, and we broke
it," Mike Henry, CEO of Denver media consulting
firm Paragon Media Strategies, told Rolling Stone.
"There will still be classic-rock stations,
country stations, urban stations, but they're not
going to be as narrow as they once were."
RADIO AIRWAVES GO JACK
A new format is hitting radio hard: Jack-FM,
pioneered in 2000 by longtime Island Park, New York,
DJ Bob Perry, on-air alias CADILLAC JACK GARRETT.
Jack features wildly eclectic playlists selected
to appeal to the Everyman -- with artists ranging
from MARVIN GAYE and VAN HALEN to QUIET RIOT and
A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS -- and has been replacing
oldies stations coast to coast. While most stations
air the same 300 or 400 songs repeatedly, the
average Jack station rotates at least 1,200 --
almost entirely hits. "Radio has been dominated by one
train of thought for twenty years, and we broke
it," Mike Henry, CEO of Denver media consulting
firm Paragon Media Strategies, told Rolling Stone.
"There will still be classic-rock stations,
country stations, urban stations, but they're not
going to be as narrow as they once were."