Happy Friday, everyone!
Here is this week's poll question:
What is your favorite radio station format - and why?
Looking forward to reading your answers!
Smooth Jazz with a LIPSapp.com Radio twist.
I've been a software engineer and entrepreneur since 1984. I've logged more hours behind a keyboard than the best athlete in the world has ever played sports. In much of that time, I've listened to a Smooth Jazz format while working. It allows me to enjoy great Music while still being able to focus and work.
My children grew up with Smooth Jazz playing from my home office. For 16 years, every Sunday morning, we all listened to Stu Grant and Sunday Jazz Brunch on a local station from Fort Lauderdale known as Love 94.
I was on a Smooth Jazz themed cruise with Dave Koz, Richard Elliot, Rick Braun, George Duke, Mindi Abair and many others. We sat and talked several times on the cruise about the state of Radio and especially Smooth Jazz Radio and the outlook was not good. The cruise ended toward the end of Oct or Nov, been a few years now, and on Christmas day at noon, Love 94, after all those years, suddenly switched formats. The last hold out for Smooth Jazz in South Florida was gone.
I decided then and there that not having a Smooth Jazz station in what had become my home area was unacceptable, so I began on an online version of what I loved so much. For a while I called it RJS Smooth Jazz Radio and now this one Radio station created out of necessity of heart, has morphed into 12 Local and 12 Global stations, and more to come. But I still listen to Smooth Jazz almost every day.
Now we play more Blues, R&B, Soul, AC and Latin than the original Love 94, along with the great Smooth Jazz, and we play more Locally performed Music than ANY other station.
And guess what? I've approached the DJ we listened to so many years to do our Sunday Jazz Brunch. Cross your fingers and stay tuned.
I literally love the formats on both of my stations. My FM station is Classic Rock and the AM station is Classic Country. They are my two favorite formats.
The one that makes money! Over the years I have managed stations in almost every format but feel I mostly likely am more at ease with Classic Hits. This format gives you the opportunity to slide one way or the other to adjust to market demographics. Hope you all have a great weekend.
Tom
I like classic rock to listen to, but we have classic rock country and our AM is new talk and sports, they are all awesome formats and our listeners are all great, so all in all great formats.
Just as I saw this, I was listening to Dean Brody sing Bob Marley. I was thinking how cool the words were and how it reminded me of childhood and my grandma and when I first started really noticing Music. Yes, country is great.
Sports Talk/Talk... Original content less hassles with royalties and can be very informative... Does not matter if it's AM or FM I have come to find out people are not really that concerned if you are in stereo or mono if you have solid content. Have good topics and the ability to be YOU and there is nothing more entertaining and informative than a Talk Format.
Dr. Michael W. Prince
OBN-Radio
My format, of course! Contemporary Christian Music station. I sell something that can change someone's life forever ~ and I want to be a part of that! And I am passionate about inviting businesses to partner with the cause.
I really like smooth jazz with a little classic R&B thrown in to round it off.
Talk and News have been my favorites since my 20's. I quickly got bored with music stations, even though I worked for them most of my life. These days I get to work with a News/Talker!
