A few years ago I blogged about the brief mid-aughts existence of JACK FM, the DJ-less radio format that took over the oldies station WCBS 101.1 FM before the owners realized what a huge mistake they'd made -- and "jacked" it.
Therefore I was surprised to find out -- almost 20 years after the ill-fated experiment of JACK FM in NYC and almost 5 years since my original blog post -- that JACK FM is still in existence.
No, it hasn't made comeback anywhere on the NYC radio dial but the JACK FM network (or whatever it is) is still stinking up the airwaves in various radio markets across the fruited plain -- and Canada.
Egads.
What's interesting is that JACK FM was supposed to be an IPod on the radio but, funnily enough, the IPod is now even more of a museum piece than radio (literally, I once saw an IPod in the Smithsonian). Now people stream music via apps on their phones via Spotify, etc. and even stream radio stations.
So I don't know jack about what JACK FM is trying to do these days, and I don't care -- just so long as they keep it out of NYC.
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