Green Bay's New Smooth Jazz FM

[Double D]

if you think 106.9 plays bad smooth jazz, a lot of the HD2 Clear Channel smooth jazz stations stink.

Just to clarify, I think that Kepler's BA Network is the culprit, not WJZX-FM per se'.

WJZX-FM doesn't use Kepler's BA Network all the time...they do depart from the network midday during the work-week, and weekend afternoons.  They will actually play songs that you don't hear on BA.  I think WJZX-FM sounds decent when they break free of the mundane, predictable, unimaginative, overly-researched playlist used by Kepler/BA.

[Double D]

Kepler's BA Network is acquiring Jones SJ effective 9/30/08..I think I want to vomit!! 

[Double D]

Kepler's BA Network is acquiring Jones SJ effective 9/30/08..I think I want to vomit!! 

I would like to send my heartfelt thanks and appreciation to the Jones Radio Network's Smooth Jazz crew on this their final day of operation. 

I have been saddened deeply by the announced end of JSJ.  I have been one of their most outspoken supporters on this forum, and I too have very fond memories of JSJ having been first introduced to JSJ on WASJ 105.1 FM Panama City Beach FL back in '99. 

I will forever remember enjoying myself immensely in the fall of '99, '00, and '03 while vacationing on The Emerald Coast @ PCB, and winters since '02 @ Destin, having JSJ - WASJ as my listening partner almost constantly as I rode my bike, jogged the beaches, or enjoyed a evening cocktail and cigar on the condo patio overlooking the white sand beaches of PCB/Destin, FL.

I still vividly remember listening to Steve Michaels on a Saturday evening in September '03, playing some incredibly beautiful SJ music which I had never heard before, much less played on my local SJ FM station here in Milwaukee.  I asked myself why I had never heard these beautiful songs before, and why other commercial SJ programmers didn't have the creativity and imagination to sound more like JSJ?

This makes the departure of JSJ a very bitter pill to swallow, especially when they have been taken over by a cartel whose product is so vastly inferior that it makes listening virtually impossible.  JSJ was and is the absolute best syndicated SJ product...they make Kepler's now SJ monopoly product sound like an amateurish joke.

My very best wishes go out to the JSJ crew....Steve Michaels, John Evans, Laurie Cobb, Keith Riker, Loni Taylor, David Washington, Kenny Cortes and support staff...you and your station will be deeply missed, but never forgotten!

Best Wishes,
DD
West Allis, WI

[Double D]

Just to clarify, I think that Kepler's BA Network is the culprit, not WJZX-FM per se'.

I returned to Green Bay last week to visit my folks; my Dad is a SJ fan and a regular listener to the Smooth Jazz format through Sirius and WAUN-FM, Green Bay, WI.  I've informed him how lucky he was to have a Jones affiliate in town, highlighting the quality of their programming when the format first arrived. 

So, when I returned to GB, I made no mention of the station takeover by BA following JSJ's 9/30/08 discontinuance.

One of the first things he says to me is "Our Smooth Jazz station has changed!!" 

I asked him what he thought, and he says "They hardly play any smooth jazz songs anymore!!"

It was then I explained to him what had happened, and that JSJ was no longer.

He had a sad look on his face (he an I are a lot alike) and said "that's terrible news...well, at lest I still have Sirius!!" 

So, another anecdotal account of a "Joe 6-Pack" SJ fan who is mourning the loss of JSJ, and has flatly rejected the BA cartel!

DD©