Will the last smooth jazz station to leave the air blow out the candles? Houston’s own The Wave has flipped formats from the soothing sounds of Paul Hardcastle and Candy Dulfer to a contemporary hits format which according to the station manager will feature tracks from “Alicia Keys, Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Gwen Stefani, the Jonas Brothers and Christina Aguilera” as well as presumably other sorts of urbanish selections white people can feel comfortable with. By my count, this leaves 26 terrestrial stations reporting to the “Smooth AC” format. Citizens of Sacramento, enjoy “Smooth Jazz 97.4″ KSSJ while you can, before the unsophisticated hoi polloi take over your station, I beg of you! [Houston Chronicle]
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wait, Candy Dulfer is smooth jazz? damn. guess i’d better rip all those posters off my wall.
Hah! The only goddamn station that comes in clearly on my alarm radio is WSJT 94.1, a smooooooth jazzzzz station out of Tampa. It’s terrible, and decidedly unsmooth to hear a masturbatory sax solo first thing in the A.M. A format change would be fine by me.
@Maura Johnston: Club radio! I’m telling you, in NYC at least, it’s gonna be all KTU/four-on-the-floor, all the time.
i’m really curious as to what the cabbies/car service drivers of america are going to listen to now as a result of this mass format switch. classical? npr? the sound of their cell phones humming expectantly?
Will no one think of the fans of bad instrumental music? The classic “beautiful music” Muzak arrangements of pop hits in the grocery stores have long been replaced by boomer oldies and now Smooth AC is dying too? Music of any genre sounds like ass on FM these days– it apparently starts out at the playback source pinning the yellow zone and then each local signal is further compressed to the point of distortion. Painful.
What am I going to do without Delilah giving me love advice at 8pm and dedicating “Wind Beneath My Wings” to my dead Nana?
Don’t forget post offices! Every post office in Atlanta has smooth jazz playing nonstop.