When I reposted my review of stations I had previously set but had long since abandoned when I first started this site, one of the stations I brought up was Jammin’ 105.5 KKKJ/Klamath Falls, Oregon. I did not return to the station for another year or so, until one Saturday evening last March. You will recall that at the time of the original post, the station was running pretty much nothing but hits from 2010-2011. When I returned to the station, I discovered that the station was actually dayparted in an incredibly strange way. The station would play a couple hours f hits from 2010-11, then flip to a fairly broad mix of hits centered around 2005 but going back as far as 1997 at times for a couple hours, then flip again to an hour of hits from 2019, then repeat, all while running sweepers stating things like “You’re hearing the hits.” They also have a promo stating “We’ve got the bigger stick, and we’re not afraid to use it.” I’m not sure what this refers to, as their current closest format competitor is also on a class C2 signal as is 105.5. The previous CHR in the market was a class A signal, but that was sold several years ago and is now running K-Love. As it’s been several weeks since I’ve posted a commentary here, I figured I’d return to the station and give it a fresh listen. The station still appears dayparted, though one section has been pushed forward to be centered around 2013-14. Here’s the station at 11:15 A.M. on July 29, 2024:
- Kat Graham – Power
- Bonnie McKee – American Girl
- Lana Del Ray – Summertime sadness
- Cold War Kids – Miracle Mile
- Charly XCX – You (Ha Ha Ha)
- Far East Movement f/Riff Raf – The Illest
- Avril Lavigne – Rock and roll
- Selena Gomez – Slow down
- Pink f/Lily Allen – True love
- Phillip Phillips – Where we came from
- Taylor Swift f/Ed Sheeran – Everything has changed
- Demi Lovato – Made in the USA
- Over Drive – Lovesick room
- Quick Sauce – It’s you
- Macklemore f/Ryan Lewis – White walls
- Demi Lovato – Neon lights
- Avicii – Hey brother
- 1975 – Chocolate
- MKTO – Classic
- Austin Mahone – Banga Banga
- Justin Bieber – All bad
And here’s the station at about 4:15 P.M. later the same day. Note there was absolutely no warning ahead of the music shift in this monitor:
- Chainsmokers – #selfi
- Wiz Khalifa – We dem boyz
- Demi Lovato – Body say
- Staind – Right Here
- Warren G Ft. Nate Dogg – Regulators
- R Kelly – Bump N’ Grind
- Montell Jordan – This is How We Do It
- Snoop Dogg – Gin and Juice
- Ditty – Paperboy
- Notorious B.I.G -Big Poppa
- Dr. Dre Ft. Snoop Doggy Dog – Nuthin’ But a G Thang
- Snoop Dogg – What’s My Name?
- Naughty By Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
- Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick
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