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...clock signals 11 a.m., and work-weary Dallasites bide time until their noon lunch break, a smattering of songs streams over their radios. Pink kicks off a four-song music block, followed by Lenny Kravitz, Tina Turner and Led Zeppelin. These days radio listeners usually have to surf different stations to hear those four sounds, as the range of genres doesn't fall within a typical station's playlist. But not at one Dallas station--a station that has topped the ratings charts for five of the nine months since it switched formats...
Music aficionados, don't touch that dial: 100.3 Jack FM is in random-shuffle mode, and a finicky channel changer might miss the next segment of generation-spanning sounds, which at noon includes Prince, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Men at Work. Jack FM is an example of terrestrial radio's answer to the satellite challenge, a hodgepodge of sound and attitude that marries prolonged music streams--sans DJ interruptions and caller requests--with limited commercials and shorter ad blocks. And when there are commercial breaks, a Jack announcer all but apologizes. "Time to pay the bills," he says...
...concept of more music, fewer commercials and no DJs was birthed in Vancouver, B.C., in 2003 and later spread stateside with the formation of the first Jack FM station, in Denver, in April 2004. Last August, Dallas--Fort Worth radio listeners were baptized in the new Jack format during their 8 a.m. commute, when the former occupant of the dial space, Wild 100.3, suddenly went jockeyless and played a selection of movie theme songs and sound bites that said "Jack." The station ranked 20th in its debut, then skyrocketed to No. 1 four months later. It has been there ever...
...weeks following the conference, there were articles, editorials, op-eds, and letters to the editor about Prof. Norwood’s research in newspapers from coast to coast, and as far away as Turkey, India, Israel, Malta, and New Zealand. Prof. Norwood also appeared on a number of radio talk shows to discuss the issue. The combined reading and listening audiences that were made aware of Harvard’s relationship with the Nazis totalled in the hundreds of thousands, if not millions. Stimulating this kind of public discussion of the Harvard-Hitler issue was a major goal...
...consumers to enjoy better sounding music in the cutting-edge formats we all desire. Again and again, we have embraced the technological advances that have allowed tens of millions of people around the world to enjoy the music we create. From scores of download and subscription services to Internet radio to ringtunes, we are aggressively licensing music to a host of legitimate services...