Will Smooth Jazz radio eventually die? Lets hope not!

[cklw800]

Nock! Bill! 'Cat.  You got it goin' on!  I'm reading and do enjoy!  Great proactive thinking.  You guys could head up the next network.  Go for it! 

[Media_Maven]

I'd love to contribute to this, as well.  Confident I have a good sense of what many bored NAC/SJ P1s are looking for in a new & improved format.  Constantly discovering new artists, and agree with Nock, AnotherCat, Double D, Bill Harmonic, Chuck Tiller, and others about what you've all been saying.  Here's two freebies: Do a YouTube search on "Summer Sun" by Koop, then go to this site: http://www.brianhughes.com/shakin.html and have a listen to the track that comes on automatically; this is where I think the format should be going...

Reach out to me at Media_Maven@hotmail.com

Media_Maven in Michigan

[AnotherCat]

The more the merrier..after all this homogenity for 10 years can you imagine how cool it would be to have multiple approaches by multiple people..kinda like radio was pre Telcom 

I just adore Brian Hughes. Used to play him a lot on my shows..which had ratings. Hmmmmm....

[Nock]

Brian has a new live cd out that is very good. 

Remember the days when you would actually heard 3 or 4 cuts in rotation from a cd and not focused on a single?  I got to thinking about the days when I listened to Love 94 out of Miami.  Late 80's and they were all over the latest David Benoit, Kim Pensyl and Richard Elliot cd's.  What made me realize how they were going so deep into these cd's was when I put one on recently.  That is where the format needs to revisit.  On a side note I actually saw all 3 of these artists at Sunfest in WPB.  Those were fun times for the format!!  English guy (Hutch?) on Love 94 did a great afternoon drive show.

Nock 

[spiritof67]

Nock,  Hutch is John Hutchinson.  For at least three years (1981-84), he worked in the St. Louis market for KWK, when it was an AOR.  Hutch also hosted a show here called "Freeform," which played a lot of modern rock cuts mixed with groups like Traffic and Captain Beefheart.  In 1998 I heard him on Love 94--he sounded as great as ever.  He was working in Boston a few years ago.

[Nock]

Actually met him at a remote.  I had an Arbitron Diary in my hand with Love 94 cover to cover.  Needless to say I left with some swag.

Nock

[AnotherCat]

Here's a review of the Brian Hughes live CD.
http://www.smoothviews.com/cdreviews/bhughes-brianhugheslive.htm

[salemjedi54]

How do yall feel about Hiroshima and Alex Bugnon?  Love Season was the first song I heard when I started listening to KOAI in late 1988.  I ran out and got that cassette.  I saw Hiroshima on tv one night and just fell in love.  I have always be fascinated by Asian culture and Hiroshima's sound always spellbounded me.   To me Bugnon and Hiroshima are they best of the format.  Of course you just don't hear them on the radio anymore.

[orange434]

for some reason a lot of the BA stations still play "one wish" from hiroshima.  i absolutely love this song, but it sticks out like a sore thumb inbetween mariah carey and alicia keys.  anyone know why that particular song has stuck?

[Bill Harmonic]

BA only plays a song for one reason...it tested well enough around the country to get spins. No more...no less. They have no one there who can make an emotional connection and they don't want that. It's all about the numbers. They have 3 instrumental categories. Powers which get beat to death. Secondaries which get a play once an hour...maybe. Then they have a fill category which gets in every blue moon. More so at night or on the weekends. The total active library, including vocals, currents, etc. is around 425 songs in which half of those are the foundation. Simple math! They claim they have a library of over a 1000 songs and that may be true but the movement of tunes in and out of the core is very very small. For them its all about the reps of the library.