Smooth Jazz returns this week...

[jeffdfw]

...but where?  Here is a tease from R&R:
BA Smooth Jazz Network Update 
By Carol Archer

Here are just a few of the highlights coming up on the Smooth Jazz Network the week of September 3rd.

Pop quiz: Is a new full-time Smooth Jazz Network satellite affiliate signing on next week? Is it in a top 50 market west of the Mississippi? Is this a market where no Smooth Jazz station exists? Stay tuned.
 

[little1]

Top 50 leaves an awful lot of room...

[jeffdfw]

Just found out it is not D/FW.  It's closer the #50 than the #1 

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

If only it was top 52, we may have had a shot. Crap. 

[jeffdfw]

Oklahoma City. 

[jd]

Oklahoma City. 

You're right...market #48.  It's KOCD 103.7 Okemah, a move-in from Wilburton (McAlester).  Definitely a rim-shot for OKC, but with about the same signal strength into Tulsa, which is pretty poor:
www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KOCD&service=FM&status=C&hours=U 

[Talktalk]

If you guys want smooth jazz so bad, why don't you get your buddy Robert to move some Disco out to make room?  It's not like he has any advertiser to please...or listeners for that matter.  Anyone listening, is doing so for a different experience than the dreaded and feared commercial stations anyway...how bout it Robby?

[txchipk]

Oklahoma City. 

You're right...market #48.  It's KOCD 103.7 Okemah, a move-in from Wilburton (McAlester).  Definitely a rim-shot for OKC, but with about the same signal strength into Tulsa, which is pretty poor:
www.radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KOCD&service=FM&status=C&hours=U 

This will be another smooth jazz outlet with no ratings.  Because of KMGL and KVSP, its tower is way too the east of Oklahoma City.  It will only be a C1, not a C0 or full C, and the tower is located almost 70 miles east of downtown OKC.  It will not have a decent signal over much of the market.

[little1]

I keep saying it and you guys keep ignoring it.  Smooth jazz is on the descent because it's main appeal is to folks past the 25-54 demo. 

Basically it's the MOR of the "Oughts".

Sure it might hang around as a boutique format (a la KAAM) but as a mass appeal format? 

Dead. Over the next 5-10 years you're going to see more stations drop it.

On sure, you'll have some stations that pick it up.  After all, better to be #1 on a hill that no one else wants (Smooth Jazz) than the 6 country station, the 8th talk station, etc, but it's dead and dying....

[VERITAS DE VOCE]

And this my friends is God allowed Steve Jobs to create the famed iPod.