Globe, Herald on the Mike/Jack phenomenon

[Bob Nelson]

(by the way I heard 93.7 ID as WMKK last night. One of these articles
says it is supposed to adopt those calls next week.)

Clea Simon, Boston Globe: 

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2005/04/21/change_is_in_the_air_for_boston_radio/

excerpt: 
"What is ''Jack"? Put simply, it's a format that abandons the
conventional wisdom that listeners respond to song repetition and
station self-promotion. Instead, it substitutes a broad playlist of
familiar hits that cross musical genres and programs them with
virtually no talk."

Dean Johnson, Boston Herald: 

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/tvNews/view.bg?articleid=79464 

"But it's still not as wild as this: the Monkees, Frank Sinatra, the
Electric Prunes, Stevie Wonder, Herman's Hermits, Donovan and Neil
Diamond. Now that's an exotic blend: Motown, garage punk, bubblegum
pop, middle-of-the-road stuff, folk and, well, whatever you want to
call what Neil Diamond does. Those artists were in the Top 30
countdown on WBZ-AM (1030) during the first week of December 1966!"