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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...
...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 since. "People listening to the radio don't want...
...live national radio show, guests of a gay-and-lesbian duo named Derek and Romaine who were celebrating their second anniversary on the air. With a bartender mixing martinis in the studio, the scene was suggestive of radio's party days, before Big Radio ate the AM/FM dial, demanded quarterly profit growth and sucked the fun right out of the control booth. Except that a wannabe big corporate entity was footing the bill for the show, broadcast from a gleaming new studio in a Rockefeller Center skyscraper. And the Glamazons were tame compared with the time Romaine invited a male...
...somewhat less outspoken dead one in the second. However, the show’s performance in the Loeb Ex causes several problems. The small performance area makes for a confusing set, where rooms supposedly on two separate floors are placed side-by-side with only an elevator dial to hint at their true locations, a fact that becomes significant in the relationship between Plumb and Maggie. Furthermore, the actors’ make-up, while well conceived, sometimes seems obviously artificial even from a far viewing distance. Additionally, the lack of a full combo or orchestra limits the score?...
...broadcast networks will announce their new slates of shows to eager TV junkies. Because of year-round scheduling, though, most won't debut until fall or much, much later. In the meantime, the multichannel universe thankfully offers plenty of choices to discover--or rediscover. Do touch that dial...