[Barras]

Any chance you could please add to this list and let me know which stations are using JAM these days ?

Contributions welcome, thanks David Barras.

WODS Boston

WOCL Orlando

WCBS New York

WCTK New Providence

[bland75Member]

Off the top of my head, there is KOST of course which you can hear outside the US via http://www.thestreamcenter.com

I'll think of some more and add to the list!

[bland75Member]

There is also WLYF in Miami

[Barras]

Thanks for them, got some more here…

WABC New York
WNIC Detroit
KFKF Kansas
KXKL Denver
XM
Sirius
WFAN New York

[ratnobMember]

WWFS New York

[Maya53]

blandy wrote:
There is also WLYF in Miami

I think WLYF switched from JAM to Jones TM a few years back. They have a custom titled “South Beach” and “South Beach Update”

Other than that, none of the stations in the area I am living are airing JAM jingles. The only station I heard them using JAM is WOGL from Philadelphia, which I listen to them every time I travel there.

[mjb1124Member]

WSNY Columbus
WKLI Albany

[ratnobMember]

WCFS Chicago
WRNQ 92.1 Lite FM, Poughkeepsie, NY

[jlehmann]

WPRO-FM Providence, RI

WWYZ Hartford, CT

New Jersey 101.5, maybe some during the week, more on weekends when they play music.

WTKU Atlantic City, NJ

WLNH Laconia, NH

WALK-FM Long Island, NY

[kcmike]

WOMC Detroit
WCOL-FM Columbus

[LenGroat]

Blandy

THANKS for the tip about the streamcentre! Suddenly in the middle of Portugal I've got Ross Brittain on

W O G L !!

and the first thing I hear is a re-sing from Positron ..

'It's a Music Summmerrr ~ on W ABC !'

Short punchy & clear, a GREAT vocal block at the end, and though it's nearly 30 years old…

.. still a FRESH and perfect jingle ….

[Bigdave]

Hope you're well,Len!

Have got OGL on this morning…great music,great jingles!!!

[Barras]

Thanks again to everyone for adding JAM stations to this post, please keep `em coming !

Speaking of WOGL…

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1202427537_3680_FT57839_wogl.mp3

David Barras

[Barras]

ratnob wrote:
WWFS New York

Spotted this summary about Fresh on an American radio site – if you swap “Fresh” for “The better music mix” (a format heard across the UK in the 90s) it`s very similar…

How to Be A DJ on Fresh-FM
Posted by Craig on December 09, 2007 at 02:06:06:

First, never say your last name.

Second, be content with only being on the air a few times an hour, and have nearly everything you say written for you.

Third, even when you do go on mike, you're finished in a matter of seconds.
And don't expect to talk about the music. You'll only mention two or three artists per hour of the dozen or so songs you play. You'll make almost no references to New York, you won't tell us the Giants score, you won't discuss anything about your personal life. Only once an hour will you even tell us the weather.
Here's a typical hour of programming on Fresh FM:
Play the first song of the hour but don't say anything. The hour I listened, it was Nelly Furtado's “I'm Like a Bird.”

Then, you'll open the mike and say “Just like you, we're all about today. That's why we only play Today's Fresh Music. I'm (say only your first name) and here's The Plain White Tees.” Don't even say “on Fresh-FM” because they have a jingle that does that for you. I know how silly you'll feel saying “we're all about today” but try to say it with conviction anyway. And, of course, don't refer to Nelly Furtado or do anything that isn't in the script you've been given. Ad libbing is NOT encouraged.
Play “Hey There Delilah,” and follow that with a Christmas jingle and the song “Frosty The Snowman.” I'm not sure who sings this version of Frosty The Snowman but that doesn't matter. She's young and she's female and that's all that really counts.
Play a pre-recorded liner attacking Lite-FM. You'll do this several times an hour. This one has a male voice telling us “This is the Old Lite.” Then a riff from a Captain and Tennille song plays, and a female voice says “That's too old and too light!” Then the male voice comes back on and says “This is Today's Fresh Music” and a riff from a Nickelback song comes on. Then the jingle singers harmonize on “Fresh FM.”
Now here's the odd part… the next song is by Madonna. So Tony Tennille is too old but Madonna, who's hit 50, isn't. And, of course, Lite-FM doesn't play any Captain and Tennille songs anymore, but that doesn't matter.

The Madonna song is about 5 years old. It's the one that sounds like the CD is skipping but I forget the name. When the song ends, DON'T TALK. Just play the recorded liner that says “Never too hard, never too old,” and the jingle goes Fresh-FM.
Then you play five commercials. When the spots end, play the jingle “Fresh Forecast.” You can now tell us the weather but only for today and tonight. Don't say anything about tomorrow. That's not allowed. You wrap up by telling us your name again (but remember, only your FIRST name) and say “Here's another long set of Today's Fresh Music.” Good. You've already now said more than half of everything you'll say this hour.

The next song is Bon Jovi's “You Can't Go Home” but you won't announce it. When it ends, you'll play another Fresh jingle and play “Waterfalls” by TLC. By the way, this will be the only song you play this hour by a black artist. When WWFS says “Today's Fresh Music” they also mean “Today's Almost All White Music.”

Okay, now it's time again for you to go on the air. But you don't have to think of what you're going to say. It's already written for you. “We're keeping it fresh, all weekend long. We only play Today's Fresh Music. I'm (say your first name) and here's Black Velvet from Alannah Myles.”
That's followed by a Fresh jingle and “I'm Going Home” by Daughtry, then another Fresh jingle and Maroon 5.

Here comes the last time you'll talk in this hour. When the song ends, say “That's 'Makes Me Wonder' by Maroon 5. Check out our website at Fresh 1027 dot com where you can get $10 off tickets for the Winter Bash at WAMU Center at Madison Square Garden, from the all-new 1027 Fresh FM!”
That's it. Don't say anything more. Don't deviate from the script. Just play the next five commercials, including the legal I.D. (“WWFS-FM and WWFS-HD1, New York” said as fast as possible by the female voice), then it's time to mock Lite-FM again. The male voice says “Here's the difference. The old Lite station is yesterday.” Then the female voice says “Fresh is today.” At that point the jingle singers take over with “102 point 7.”

Then we hear Daniel Beddingfield's “If You're Not The One” and a Christmas jingle.

Then it's “Last Christmas” from Wham and another jingle.
That's followed by “All I Want to Do Is Make Love to You” by Heart. And the last thing we hear this hour is what should be the legal I.D. but it really isn't because that was played around :47 past the hour. The male voice says “This is New York's fresh new music.” The female voice says “Not like the old Lite.” And jingle singers finish with “102 point 7, New York.”
It's beyond me why DJs are so limited in what they say and they can't say their full names. Is the ghost of Joel Hollander still roaming the halls of CBS, determined that if he can't eliminate DJs as he tried at Jack, he'll at least reduce their role on Fresh-FM and even their identity so they can be hired and fired at will? Someone mentioned on this board that Dead Air Dave from the old K-Rock, who frequented the Howard Stern Show, is now doing weekends on Fresh. But who can tell? No one on the station calls himself Dead Air Dave.

Why hide the legal I.D.? The FCC says it has to be as close to the top of the hour as possible in a natural break in programming. Yet they put a false legal I.D. in at the top of the hour and bury the real legal I.D. between commercials around :47. I understand when Z100 and WKTU try to hide their city of license, since it's not New York. But Fresh's legal I.D. is WWFS-FM New York. They chose the call letters that refer to the term “Fresh.” Why hide the calls?
Why all the Lite-bashing? I can understand it in the TV commercials. But whoever is listening has already moved from Lite to Fresh. Why keep kicking Lite in front of listeners who've already switched over? Surely that gets fatiguing so many times an hour.
And even the promise of only playing “Fresh” music rings hollow. I've heard Madonna, Heart, Annie Lennox, Rod Stewart, all artists over 50. And many songs come from the early 80s. On the other hand, they can't play any contemporary artist who's too mellow either. So it seems like they'll play Celine Dion's current song because it's relatively uptempo. But none of her other hits air, not even “My Heart Will Go On” from the 90s, because that's too “tired.” And I heard no Josh Grobin or Michael Buble. I wonder if they're considered too “light,” even though they're young. It must be hard mocking Lite for being old and tired, then trying to flesh out a soft AC playlist without doing what you accuse Lite of doing.
But the worst move by Fresh, in a city like NYC, is limiting black artists to one spin per hour. It happened everytime I listened this past week. Above, we heard TLC. One hour it was Alicia Keys. And once it was Jimmy Cliff. To have a Soft AC station that relegates African-American artists to once an hour only is a sin.
I think there's a reason why Fresh came on strong when it first signed on, but then plateaued outside the top 10 in both the 12+ and 25-54 numbers. The station is overly-programmed and too tightly controlled. All the creativity has been eliminated.

Craig

[mjb1124Member]

The jingles are pretty much the only good thing about Fresh – there might be the occasional song I like, but they're few and far between. I'm no huge fan of Lite FM either, but I can't stand how Fresh constantly takes cheap shots at them, most of which are based on lies and exaggerations. Why don't they try to sell themselves based on what THEY have to offer? I guess it's to hide the fact that they're really just regurgitating the same old stuff.

[Barras]

jlehmann wrote:

WPRO-FM Providence, RI

WWYZ Hartford, CT

New Jersey 101.5, maybe some during the week, more on weekends when they play music.

WTKU Atlantic City, NJ

WLNH Laconia, NH

WALK-FM Long Island, NY

Thanks for these Jeff…just jingle-airchecked JAM`s top-of-hour cut for WLNH, another excellent TOH cut from JAM !

Here it is for those who havent heard it…

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1203002456_3680_FT57839_wlnh_01_toh.mp3

David Barras

[ratnobMember]

This all feels a bit hysterical to me. I've been listening to Fresh NY and Chicago a lot and they're perfect background for working to. I think we have to accept that listeners use radio for different reasons these days. We listen to Fresh for upbeat A/C, not for personality jocks, etc. The conspiracy theory about the number of black artists seems to me spurious – is someone counting how many white artists are played on KISS?

We know that the Fresh stations are programmed by Gary Berkowitz, who is deep-rooted in great radio and knows what his audience likes – hence jocks who don't intrude, but say enough to make the station more personal than a JACK-clone; a music mix that is more upbeat; and – since Fresh is carving out a niche for itself which is different from LITE-fm – liners which keep reinforcing the way that the station isn't LITE.

Personally, I can't get too worried about the jocks not saying much: radio is for the listeners, not the presenters, and there are plenty of other stations to listen to with DJs saying what they want.

I think we should just be pleased that the JACK-fm experiment wasn't a hit. Listeners want SOME personality, but not too much; they want a station that delivers more than an iPod; and they appear to be enjoying the tightly-programmed sound that comes from music, low-key presenters, and great JAM jingles.

Love that TOH cut, btw, David – JAM on top form.

G

[mjb1124Member]

ratnob wrote: since Fresh is carving out a niche for itself which is different from LITE-fm – liners which keep reinforcing the way that the station isn't LITE.

They could easily assert that they're a more contemporary and upbeat AC station without directly attacking Lite, and certainly without flat-out lying about the type of music they play. Furthermore, by proclaiming that certain songs/artists are “too old, too light”, they're more likely to alienate certain listeners than they are to draw any in. They really should just emphasize the type of music they DO play – this type of negativity does not bode well for an “adult” station.

That aside, I see your point: the mix of music is fine for what it is, and I understand that AC stations aren't really meant to be “personality radio”.

[jr2479]

Barras wrote:

Thanks for these Jeff…just jingle-airchecked JAM`s top-of-hour cut for WLNH, another excellent TOH cut from JAM !

Here it is for those who havent heard it…

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1203002456_3680_FT57839_wlnh_01_toh.mp3

Thanks David, PRO Choice, one of my favorite packages.

[Barras]

No problem Jeremy and for anyone reading this – who may not be aware of Jeremy`s superb off-air montages, including jingles from JAM, TM Century, N2Effect, Reelworld, Thompson Creative and others, check them out at this link…

Excellent montages !

http://jingles.jeremyrichardson.com/offair.html

David Barras

[ratnobMember]

A timely reminder, David.

Jeremy – the off-air montage collection on your site is amazingly diverse and rich. Great work. I'll start to check it out more often.

G

[jr2479]

Thanks for the plug David, I need to update the site though!

[GlennaMember]

Great site Jeremy!!!

[Barras]

Just in case you haven`t heard them, there`s a couple of JAM montages in February`s Podcast from Jingle Network News…

“TheStreamCentre.com off air imaging montage comes from Magic 100.9 in Albany, NY. And February
Montage of the Month comes from WCOL 2007 JAM Composite”

Hear them here…

http://www.thejinglenetwork.com

David Barras

[mattii70]

A couple more to add to the list:
WNNK Wink 104 Harrisburg using Z+
WFAS-AM Westchester

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