[RjM]

Proof that checking JAM's website daily does sometimes pay off! A second new package in two days has been added to jingles.com. “Keyframes”, the custom for Q92.9 Pittsburgh is now online.

http://www.jingles.com/jam/radioids/demodl-Keyframes.html

I mentioned this package yesterday, and have been waiting for this one since hearing and loving airchecks of it earlier in the year posted by Geoff Barton.

[LenGroat]

WoW

This sounds like a 'Right on Q/ Q Cuts' series package, but crisper and I LOVE it too.. favourite is cut 5.

No lyrics to speak of but that's how some stations want it, and 'the customer is always right' + it's much better musically and vocally (and the FX) than anything I've heard from the 'other companies'.

Well done NEW JAM !

[mbMember]

I really like some of those cuts – first time for a while I've heard a package and though ohhh as I hear the cut. There are some lovely layers in those jingles. Lots of special elements.

[Maya53]

Yeah, wonder if JAM will release the new WLS custom package, I am very interested in hearing these new cuts.

As for its new custom “Keyframes”, I personally do not like the package. They sound like they are from the early 90's and is too outdated. I believe that the package itself almost resembles those of WNIC's.

[ksapergia]

I was able to hear one of the cuts, and it sounds great. I just wish they'd add an MP3 demo to their latest packages, such as “Feel The Magic”, “Gateway”, etc. I vastly prefer those to the Flash player.
Thanks.

Yours Sincerely,
Kelly John Sapergia

[cosgrovebm]

I'm pretty sure, although not completely certain, that the cut you hear in this legal id for WTMJ in Milwaukee is from our friends at 5454 Parkdale.

http://www.tophour.com/audio/Milwaukee%20WI/am0620_2005-08_wtmj_sfybush.mp3

Always hoping to hear the demo version of that one

bcoz

[JAM / PAMSMember]

I just wish they'd add an MP3 demo

Check the page again…

[mjb1124Member]

These are great jingles… so glad to finally hear the demo.

Here's what the package sounds like on WLTE “102.9 Lite FM” in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

http://jinglemad.com/e107_files/public/1252081378_10694_FT74870_1029litefm.mp3 filename:1029litefm.mp3

[mbMember]

They sound grest on air.

[Maya53]

Even though the jingles were created for WLTJ just recently, I don't see it fitting with the current generation AC format today. Today, AC has dramatically evolved from softer aongs from artists like Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Eagles, and Phil Collins to CHR ones like Christina Aguilera, Nickelback, Kelly Clarkson, Natasha Bedingfield, Rob Thomas and many others. Many of the stations playing these songs use ReelWorld while some use TM Studios. Some of the cuts in that jingle package itself sounds so outdated that it would be mostly suitable for a gold AC format(mostly playing recurrents from the 70's-90's.) or a station that previously had JAM packages.

So I prefer jingles that sound fresh and upbeat, not the ones that sounds too out-of-date.

[nostalgie]

I do not agree with you Maya.

Even some contemporary artists have a soft sound, Nickelback is a little bit extreme I think –
even though I know that AC stations play this kind of music these days. I am in my thirties
and I hate Nickelback… You see? It is more a matter of personal taste than what it “should be”.
The same thing with program directors: some of them think that their sound requires automatically ReelWorld, while others consider JAM as a better option for the overall image and their audience.

The awful issue these days is that if a “head PD” decides to go with a specific jingles company,
all the Network related to the “head station” follows (most of the time) without considering the specific needs for different markets.

[calguy]

Maya53 wrote:
Even though the jingles were created for WLTJ just recently, I don't see it fitting with the current generation AC format today. Today, AC has dramatically evolved from softer aongs from artists like Neil Diamond, Whitney Houston, Eagles, and Phil Collins to CHR ones like Christina Aguilera, Nickelback, Kelly Clarkson, Natasha Bedingfield, Rob Thomas and many others. Many of the stations playing these songs use ReelWorld while some use TM Studios. Some of the cuts in that jingle package itself sounds so outdated that it would be mostly suitable for a gold AC format(mostly playing recurrents from the 70's-90's.) or a station that previously had JAM packages.

So I prefer jingles that sound fresh and upbeat, not the ones that sounds too out-of-date.

I suppose you're entitled to your opinion, but I take the opposite view. I work at a major market AC formatted station in the US and we play most of the artists you site. Jingles from Reel World AC One for instance sound horrible for this format. They actually interrupt the station's flow. These jingles from JAM actually facilitate a smoother flow, are not irritating like the newer jingles being pushed now days from companies that put out the “Reel World” sound. They do okay work for CHR's, but just don't work well with AC music. Just my opinion. Oh and I don't think these jingles from JAM sound out dated at all, that's just propaganda from someone's home page…

[LenGroat]

The major packages from ReelWorld are all created with the same (horrible) synthetic sound, unlike any of the MUSIC the stations play. They have the dominant female vocals, the same UP end note, the same lack of lyric variety.

Basically, they are short jingles aimed at 13-23 year olds with a short attention span and no true/ long term interest in a station that is not 'local' but often has a mass of syndicated programming.

As was shown in another topic they are only used SPARSELY at the major listening time (breakfast) which is mainly TALK, so most listners are not aware of them.

ALL these are reasons the audiences are shrinking; the THINKING younger listeners are driven to find better music variety (!) via their iPods or YouTube. Just look at the 1000s of 1960-1985 songs they rave about on YouTube, often wishing music like that 'was played on the radio now'!

JAM packages are even now more INDIVIDUAL, have a variety of vocal styles, and usually heard on classier, (more individual) stations who pay attention to the local needs of listeners. The same is also true of much TM product, who although often using female vocals do it BETTER and CLEARER than ReelWorld.

As has been raised before, some of the big radio groups in America do not even PAY for their jingle packages now, so if the PD did want to change companies he probably would not be able to?

American radio was GREAT : it inspired the British Pirate stations in 1964, then BBC Radio 1 and 2, and then commercial radio from 1973, but there is nothing happening there now it can learn from.

Sydication = lack of imagiation

[OnyxPaulMember]

LenGroat wrote:
The major packages from ReelWorld are all created with the same (horrible) synthetic sound, unlike any of the MUSIC the stations play. They have the dominant female vocals, the same UP end note, the same lack of lyric variety.

I think this style (the screeching, out-of-breath up note used a million times by Reelworld,IQ Beats, N2, Music4 etc) is beginning to sound very dated itself. It may have sounded fresh 7 or 8 years ago but that synthetic sound no longer fits within today's music playlists. The JAM jingles work much better.

[nostalgie]

CHUM FM & EZ Rock were with ReelWorld for a few years, but no longer use their jingles
in Toronto… Another sign that, globally, faithfulness to a specific jingle company doesn't exist anymore.

The wheel turns, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse.

[tyty21]

you guys can say that again! just check out some montages placed on youtube! first thing comes to mind under comments, “i wish radio was like this” or “the memmories that brought back! shame radio is not like this” I'm one of those “young” listeners, and believe it or not, I'd much rather prefer the jam/tm/thompson/TGP sound over reelworld/n2 any day! the jam sound was what i grew up listening to when living in san diego in the 90's!

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