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Posted by dEsidEL on Jun-06-2003 05:15:

the END of KISS 92.5 FM

this is old news now .. but in case some of you haven't yet heard..

http://micro.newswire.ca/releases/J...91.html/16336-0

quote:

92.5 JACK FM - "Playing What We Want"

TORONTO, June 4 /CNW/ - KISS 92-5, "Toronto's No. 1 hit music station",
today launches as 92.5 JACK FM adopting a format that has swept the country.
JACK differs from conventional radio in that it programs to a specific
demographic target rather than a musical genre. It recognizes that today's
modern listener is diverse in all ways and is not looking for "cookie cutter"
radio.
"The JACK format transcends normal definitions of a radio format," said
Chuck McCoy, VP and GM, Toronto Radio Cluster, and General Manager for 92.5
JACK FM. "Our listeners have been telling us over and over that they want more
musical variety. They like more than one type of music and that's what they'll
hear on JACK."
The musical format of JACK will include a variety of genres from
different decades. There is no restricted play list. Listeners will experience
a range of music from the likes of Aerosmith, Madonna, and the Eagles to Duran
Duran and Prince. Programming that would traditionally sound like five
different stations is one music set on JACK.
"More than just a change in music" said Chuck McCoy, "JACK is a change in
attitude. The station's tag line, 'playing what we want' reflects the
station's irreverence and 'says it all'."
Rogers Media also announced 2 new appointments within the company's
Toronto radio cluster. Derek Berghuis, VP and General Manager, 680 News has
been given additional duties and has been appointed General Manager of the FAN
590. Julie Adam, former Program Director of KISS 92-5, has been appointed
General Manager and Program Director of CHFI.

Rogers Media Inc., a division of Rogers Communications. Inc., operates
Rogers Broadcasting and Rogers Publishing. Rogers Broadcasting has 43 AM and
FM radio stations across Canada. Television properties include Toronto
multicultural television broadcasters CFMT (OMNI.1) and OMNI.2, televised and
electronic shopping service, the Shopping Channel, regional sports channel,
Rogers Sportsnet and the management of three digital television services.
Rogers Publishing produces many well-known consumer magazines such as
Maclean's, Chatelaine, Flare, L'actualit� and Canadian Business and is the
leading publisher of a number of trade publications. All media properties are
integrated with their own popular web sites.
To get a flavour for JACK click here:
http://webcast.newswire.ca/archive/rogers/JackFM.wma

-30-

For further information: contact: Chuck McCoy, Vice President and
General Manager, Toronto Radio Cluster, and General Manager, 92.5 JACK FM,
(416) 935-8290;
Archived images on this organization are available through CNW E-Pix at
http://www.newswire.ca. Images are free to members of The Canadian Press.

and on a funnier note .. a friend of mine was telling me today:

"i wonder what happens to all their djs now.. you knwo what's funny.. i was listening to flow this morning.. and then the dj goes... welcome to the former listeners of kiss 92 pwahah"

Posted by AmbiguousBliss on Jun-06-2003 05:35:

Re: the END of KISS 92.5 FM

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
this is old news now .. but in case some of you haven't yet heard..

http://micro.newswire.ca/releases/J...91.html/16336-0

and on a funnier note .. a friend of mine was telling me today:

"i wonder what happens to all their djs now.. you knwo what's funny.. i was listening to flow this morning.. and then the dj goes... welcome to the former listeners of kiss 92 pwahah"

lol @ Your friend's comment.

I had heard about this from a friend of mine who was asking me if I knew anything about it, but I stopped listening to that station aaages ago, so I had no idea what was going on. Oh well. Boo-hoo.

Posted by Endlesswave on Jun-06-2003 05:38:

Yeh what a shock. I'm in TEARS. lol more power to the new station.

Posted by rahvin on Jun-06-2003 16:46:

Wicked news, that station was shit. All they ever played was top 40 and hip-hop.

Posted by ryanm on Jun-06-2003 16:50:

Thank God, They were ok when they came out until they started playing the same song about 15 times a day. Funny though, I thought Kiss 92 was amongst the highest rated stations in Toronto and this sorta came outta nowhere. Oh well, no real loss...and Jack is fairly good, I don't mind it at all

Posted by charmscars on Jun-06-2003 17:07:

but i wonder if having KISS go off the air will make 103.5 more mainstream/hip hop oriented. i had always hoped that they would veer off in a more dance music direction. i mean, like the digital TV chanel BPM, it's mostly Euro. but they have some more undergroud stuff as well. i would handle a radio station like that easy. it seems viable enough.

taraxo

Posted by torontotrance on Jun-06-2003 17:45:

toronto radio sucks ass

cept 680 news...when ya need news

frankly I've given up on the radio

Matt the Hammer Wreggit claiming...danny d is the greatest

playing radio edits of songs that i heard played out a year before

besides the history of new music with alan cross and the chumfm sunday funnies...frankly I listen to sets and cd's.

Posted by Z1D on Jun-06-2003 18:01:

PFFFF you think toronto radio is bad?!!?!
Try Edmonton radio, basically the only choices are top 40 /rock/classic rock. I'd kill for an electronic station.

Posted by charmscars on Jun-06-2003 18:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Z1D
PFFFF you think toronto radio is bad?!!?!
Try Edmonton radio, basically the only choices are top 40 /rock/classic rock. I'd kill for an electronic station.

we don't have an electronic station at all. college stations and CHIN sometimes play electronic stuff late late at night, but for th emost part, we are stuck w/ the same shit as you.
taraxo

Posted by beatjunkie on Jun-06-2003 18:25:

When Global Groove goes live to air some nights --
Usually after 12:00pm - Mystic Mike is halarious, it is the most unorganized radio show in the nation but they play killer tracks and are halarious!!

Posted by King_Mack on Jun-06-2003 18:33:

I actually like this station better than Kiss 92. Can hear some good 80s

Posted by cono_sur on Jun-06-2003 18:43:

i wake up to Kiss92....or used to wake up to it.

I'm disappointed...but oh well. I'll have to find a new station to wake up to...

Posted by Czaoth on Jun-06-2003 19:06:

Lol that's funny, in Ottawa we had a station change it's name to Bob. In TO it's Jack. Who is the marketing 'genius' behind this? Radio sucks anyways, better to pick your music than get spoon fed garbage.

Posted by Time2Burn on Jun-07-2003 04:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Czaoth
Lol that's funny, in Ottawa we had a station change it's name to Bob. In TO it's Jack. Who is the marketing 'genius' behind this? Radio sucks anyways, better to pick your music than get spoon fed garbage.

Sounds like dumb marketing ploy to me. WTF is Jack? they claim its some new fancy special music formatt. To me it sounds like the same old bs in a different package.

When the hell is somebody gonna realize that the electronic music scene in Toronto IS economically viable and bring us a hip new cutting edge station that plays only the goood shit?

Posted by ryanm on Jun-07-2003 04:27:

quote:
Originally posted by Time2Burn
Sounds like dumb marketing ploy to me. WTF is Jack? they claim its some new fancy special music formatt. To me it sounds like the same old bs in a different package.

When the hell is somebody gonna realize that the electronic music scene in Toronto IS economically viable and bring us a hip new cutting edge station that plays only the goood shit?

Probably never

Posted by dEsidEL on Jun-07-2003 05:26:

hehe ..

http://www.z1035.com/popup.html

Posted by Time2Burn on Jun-07-2003 05:51:

quote:
Originally posted by ryanm
Probably never

You know it just pisses me off!!

As raves and "after hour" clubs across North America face tight scrutiny and persectution. As Mp3s and net radio are constantly under attack from the financial elites. It seems that our choice of music and culture are under attack.

Meanwhile, we got radio and television stations popping up all over the place playing shit hop, cRock, and Adult "contempt-ary" because the so called marketing "geniuses" say that this is where the media companies will make their money.

Here is a tip to any multi millionaire reading this: If you build they will come. Record companies will soon catch on, radio stations won't be too far behind. Soon enough some chump out there will realize that electronic music and rave culture is a cash crop - ready for the picking. (and don't forget to hire me )

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Posted by AmbiguousBliss on Jun-07-2003 12:18:

quote:
Originally posted by dEsidEL
hehe ..

http://www.z1035.com/popup.html

Posted by dEsidEL on Jun-07-2003 17:22:

some more interesting reading reg. the end of 1groove.com and 89.5 FM..

quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Trance on tribe.ca on 03-12-02

Thanks for everything
Basically, what it has come down to is this: Iceberg Media is run by suits who have no clue what they're doing. They know nothing about broadcasting (web casting), and they make no effort to learn.
The CEO of this company is a book seller, for fuck's sake (he was the CEO of Indigo.ca). When a book doesn't sell, you take it off the shelf and put another one on.
When the initial 6 Iceberg channels didn't sell, he put 300 (!) new ones on the shelf with Bonzaroo, which is one giant juke box playing every kind of music imaginable. One would think it would be easier to sell ads on THAT puppy, but it hasn't happened yet, maybe because of the CEO's bright idea to restrict listeners to Canada because he figures you can't sell ads in the U.S., where many internet audio sites have gone out of business in the last year. The problem is, most of those sites were purchased by Clear Channel, which then shut them down to avoid competition with their 1700 radio stations. So our CEO's logic is a bit warped in this case (hell-in all cases; the guy's a dildo).
At any rate, it turns out that with our live DJs, it cost over twice as much to keep us running as any of the other channels here that are all automated. The figures didn't compute, and since this guy knows nothing of our scene and what makes it tick, he doesn't realize that without the live djs, we...sorry, HE will lose a lot of listeners.
BY the way, we were far and away the most listened to channel on the Iceberg site, and for that I, and everyone who worked very hard to keep this project going over the past 3 years, thank you very much.
See ya 'round!

don

source:
http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/...ht=1groove+89.5

Posted by DamnDirtyApe on Jun-07-2003 19:12:

Man, some of the stuff they say on Tribe about the radio business is scary. How would like to be taken out to lunch with your coworkers, then discover that you've all been locked out of the building and fired?

Posted by AmbiguousBliss on Jun-07-2003 20:02:

quote:
Originally posted by DamnDirtyApe
Man, some of the stuff they say on Tribe about the radio business is scary. How would like to be taken out to lunch with your coworkers, then discover that you've all been locked out of the building and fired?

I was sorta thinking along the same lines...

Posted by Ninjapimp on Jun-07-2003 21:20:

They also switched one of the newly formed hip-hop stations in Calgary to Jack as well. EXACT same format. Must be part of the same media group. I wish I knew how it was doing there. I'm guessing the T.O. one will follow the same path......

Posted by E*Master on Jun-08-2003 01:14:

Man, Looks like Tarzan Dan is out of a job again. man that guy has worked so man different places in th lasat 10 years. I wonder if he ever gets sick and tired of having his employers go out of business. As well as being pushed out of the Hitlist (or quit I dunno).

Posted by AmbiguousBliss on Jun-08-2003 01:22:

quote:
Originally posted by E*Master
the Hitlist (or quit I dunno).

I remember when that show was so cool, hahaha... Then they switched it over to these two crazy-ass ditzes...

Posted by Plavka on Jun-08-2003 01:31:

hmmm is it a coincidence that every radio station tarzan dan works at scraps their format?

anyways, Z is trying to get a license to start a radio station in Edmonton with the same format. So Edmontoners, get ready for some bon jovi with your ja rule

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