813:. The campaign was credited with a 48% increase in RAJAR listening figures from 437,000 to 650,000 in the last quarter of 1997. Later in 2002 a poster campaign by WARL was started with the chameleon peering through a misted window with the tagline "Come into the Cool". Other slogans include "The Rhythm of the City" and afterwards, during the GMG era, "Get It On" created by Kitcatt Nohr Alexander Shaw, though on-air it was swiftly replaced by "Smooth Jazz and Classic Soul". The £5 million relaunch with Manning Gottlieb over three years from 2003 brought an end to the Jazz FM chameleon because extensive research carried out by GMG Radio found that few people could associate and recall the chameleon with Jazz FM. The Bespoke Music Company created the Jazz FM jingles which were in use since 1 January 2003, until 102.2 Jazz FM was relaunched as 102.2 Smooth FM.
567:, had been waiting for a 220p-per-share bid, but agreed to the 180p-per-share bid in late May. Herald Investment Management, which had a 7.7% stake in the company, and Aberforth Partners were unhappy with the 180p-per-share bid. On 6 June, GMG raised its bid to 195p per share to secure the institutional shareholders who were holding out for a better bid. Richard Wheatly announced that he would leave Jazz FM once the takeover was complete. The offer was declared wholly unconditional on 5 July. In December 2002, GMG moved its sales operation from Clear Channel Radio Sales to the
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Wheatly was appointed chief executive officer in 1995 to revive JFM which was running out of money due to both JFM and sister radio station Viva AM, a radio station for women. When
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Executive Officer Richard Wheatly noted the station format was in trouble because of its serious straight jazz playlist. To counteract this downturn in listeners to Jazz FM, beginning in 1998, Wheatly introduced varied jazz into the daytime playlists. Beginning in February 1998, smooth jazz and
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Beginning in 1998, Jazz FM wanted to expand its operation across the UK. The station made bids to run stations on FM frequencies in
Central Scotland, the North East of England, South Wales, Yorkshire, the West Midlands, and Glasgow. Jazz FM withdrew from bidding for an FM licence in the East Midlands
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British jazz singer Kay Garner was asked by Dave Lee, founder of Jazz FM, to sing jingles for the station when it began in 1990. Jazz FM has had other jingles and slogan. The most well known was the "Listen in Colour" (featuring the Jazz FM chameleon) strapline, poster advertising campaign and CD in
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Authority (embodied into Ofcom, the UK government's communications regulator) investigated Jazz FM after it received two complaints from listeners that the station was playing more pop music after changes to the playlist in January 2003. Musicians played on Jazz FM which were
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On 28 February 2008 GMG Radio's chief executive John Myers announced that Jazz FM would return in London, the North West, and the West
Midlands on DAB. Myers also said it would make more sense to have a dedicated radio station for jazz listeners than the 45 hours of jazz on Smooth FM, as required by
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feeds) on 7 June 2005. During the last few weeks before the start of Smooth FM, Jazz FM changed its jingles slightly from "Smooth Jazz and
Classic Soul" to "London's Smooth Favourites" as an indication to listeners of the change to come. Jazz FM in its previous form closed on Friday 27 May 2005. The
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and other Jazz FM Records CD sales, a move of Jazz FM's sales team to Clear
Channel's control, saving Jazz FM plc £1 million every year and increased revenues from advertising due to higher audience figures. Jazz FM also announced in 2001 that it had made full year profits before tax of £134,000 to
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and Jazz FM plc made a deal whereby
Ministry of Sound would distribute all Jazz FM records. Jazz FM Records was renamed Enterprise Records, which in turn was bought by the Ministry of Sound record label from GMG for an undisclosed sum in January 2006. However, under plans to relaunch jazzfm.com as
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Jazzfm employee Mark Doyle created and marketed many of the later Jazz FM compilations and created the Hed Kandi label, running and compiling the albums until his departure in 2005. From 2000 Hed Kandi began to market events appearing at nightclubs around the world. The most successful events were
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were added to appeal to the 25-45-year-old market. This was especially true after GMG Radio took over the running of the station and in
November 2004 after an agreement with Ofcom, when jazz was dropped from the daytime playlists. John Simon, GMG programme director, said that the station was never
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Jazz FM faced insolvency in its early life. Broadcast
Investments made an offer of £348,000 to purchase the station. Broadcast Investments withdrew the offer when Golden Rose Communications made a higher offer of £500,000 for the station. Golden Rose Communications took over the station in 1991.
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platform on 30 October 2002. Both were preceded by test transmissions. Jazz FM was available on DAB digital radio on MXR multiplexes in England, South Wales, and Central Scotland (excluding MXR North West, which hosted the defunct 100.4 Jazz FM service for the North West) and the Switch Digital
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In 1994, the name of the station was changed to JFM by the station's management in order to appeal to more listeners who may have been put off by the name "jazz" in Jazz FM, and who thought that Jazz FM only played jazz records. The station spent £500,000 on publicising the name change. Richard
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requirement dropped. John Myers said, "The policy we are going on is ratings by day, reputation by night. Jazz is much more of a night-time listen so the changes fit well." As a result, jazz was increased from 40 to 45 hours and the Dinner Jazz programme hours were increased from two to three.
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to encourage more listeners who were put off by the 'Jazz' in the station's name. Richard Wheatly was appointed in 1995 to turn the station around when there was only three months' money left to run the station. He made a number of sweeping changes to the playlist, selling a sister station and
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as part of his cost-cutting plans. After 15 months of being branded as JFM, in the autumn of 1995 the name reverted to Jazz FM after Wheatly asked the Radio Authority for approval to change the name of the station back from JFM to Jazz FM. The change back to Jazz FM was reported to have cost
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stated that Jazz FM had to dedicate at least 50% of the daytime output before 19:00 to jazz, and that the music "must sit well with the label jazz". However, from 15 November 2004, as part of an agreement with GMG, Ofcom agreed to allow GMG to change the format, with the 50% jazz in daytime
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said, "As sorry as we are to say goodbye to Jazz FM, it's a sad fact of life that it has never made a profit in its 15 years of existence." However, in 2001 Jazz FM plc did make a profit before tax for the six months to December 2000 of £60,000, with most of the profit coming from
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A four-hour show playing jazz and soul music, included the Million Sellers at 3 pm, which only played songs that sold a million records or over and the Top 3 Most Requested at 5 pm, where a listener requests three pieces of music to be played in sequence on the
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said Jazz FM had turned into a "tragic and swift disaster story" and that the change of playlist was "responsible for both the attempted rape and (fortunately abortive) re-definition of the music" to which no-one within the Jazz FM coverage area would forgive.
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Hed Kandi had two parts: between 2 am and 5 am, presenters Mark Doyle and Andy Norman played dance music for the "post-clubbing generation". Then, for one hour between 5 am and 6 am, the Hed Kandi Chillout Hour played more chilled out
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figures, that the Jazz FM name discouraged people from listening, and that the station wasn't playing enough jazz for the purists. The latter situation was solved by GMG Radio when it invested in the ejazz.fm website and changed the name to
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which started broadcasting in 2003. Jazz FM did become a member of the MXR consortium and did launch on DAB multiplexes operated by MXR as well as Switch Digital multiplexes in London and Central Scotland.
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music during the daytime. In 2004 with the agreement of Ofcom, jazz was dropped from the daytime schedules, but a requirement of 45 hours per week of jazz was retained, this to be played during the night.
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changing the name back to Jazz FM, as well as starting up a record label and spin-off business deals and opportunities which helped Jazz FM swing into the black and make a profit in 2001.
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On 12 December 1999, Golden Rose Communications changed its name to Jazz FM plc. In January 2002, Jazz FM plc made a £20 million bid for London talk radio station
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which failed. The station was purchased by EMAP and rebranded
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377:. A travel service in partnership with
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3110:"Smooth jazz radio in the UK – Part 2"
2979:
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2810:Whitehead, Jennifer (2 October 2001).
2707:
2451:
2372:"Jazz FM upbeat despite digital blues"
2169:
2136:
2117:"Smooth jazz radio in the UK – Part 1"
2021:
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763:". Grammy Award-winning jazz musician
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3017:Chapelard, James (28 February 2008).
2888:
2838:"Jazz fm trumpets first ever profits"
2636:"Jazz FM boss to quit after takeover"
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1963:Garrett, Alexander (1 January 2001).
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1369:Garrett, Alexander (1 January 2001).
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3046:
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2986:Andrews, Amanda (28 February 2008).
2607:
2601:
2558:"GMG ups the tempo with Jazz FM bid"
1998:from the original on 26 October 2012
1907:from the original on 3 November 2012
1881:Hebditch, Stephen (September 1993).
1645:Graham, Stephen (9 September 2010).
1479:
995:The Late Lounge with Rosie Kendrick:
3486:"Jazz FM to launch poster campaign"
3233:Byrnes, Sholto (18 February 2005).
2753:Tomlinson, Heather (8 April 2001).
2659:
2653:
2582:Whitehead, Jennifer (23 May 2002).
2045:MacDonald, Marianne (4 June 1996).
2022:Minter, Rachel (3 September 2001).
1985:
1965:"MONEY, MEETINGS AND ALL THAT JAZZ"
1919:
1827:Perry, Michelle (11 October 2002).
1794:"Broadcasters battling to be heard"
1543:"Jazz FM goes for new smooth title"
1473:
1371:"Money, Meetings and All That Jazz"
1275:The Very Best of Jazz FM – Volume 2
823:digital radio in the United Kingdom
563:Jazz FM plc's largest shareholder,
13:
4111:Radio stations established in 1990
3532:. Brand Republic. 20 February 2003
3458:Beale, Claire (27 February 1998).
3074:Leapman, Michael (13 April 1994).
2170:Newman, Cathy (17 December 1997).
2079:"102.2 Smooth FM (Greater London)"
1835:from the original on 19 April 2013
1738:. 25 February 2012. Archived from
1705:. Ofcom. July 2006. Archived from
1263:The Soul of Smooth Jazz – Volume 2
1202:Late Lounge Presents Boudoir Beats
1001:Tony Blackburn's Real Party Night:
933:Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis:
300:Independent Broadcasting Authority
14:
4142:
4131:2005 disestablishments in England
3874:
3775:Wilkes, Neil (26 February 2004).
3554:. Marketing Week. 23 January 2003
3488:. Brand Republic. 10 January 2002
3236:"Jazz killed by smooth operators"
3179:Matthews, Sam (15 October 2004).
3131:"Jazz FM broadens daytime output"
2818:from the original on 6 April 2012
2812:"Jazz FM posts first-ever profit"
2791:from the original on 18 July 2011
2710:"TV version of Jazz FM to launch"
1929:Donovan, Paul (5 December 2004).
1618:Hobbs, Steve (13 November 2006).
1608:, London, England, 05 March 1990.
837:
3915:
3798:Gritten, David (30 April 2009).
3462:. Brand Republic. Archived from
2863:Martin, Roy (14 February 2005).
2844:from the original on 24 May 2024
2787:. Media Week. 27 February 2001.
2452:Benett, Neil (19 January 2002).
2402:"JazzFM swings to a better beat"
1862:from the original on 24 May 2024
1594:(2). Cambridge University Press.
1454:Plunkett, John (23 April 2008).
317:, the former editor-in-chief of
37:
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3678:"Welcome to JAZZFM connections"
3598:. 30 April 2002. Archived from
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1425:"Jazz FM swings into the black"
1254:The Late Lounge Presents Angels
919:Drivetime with Russell Pockett:
816:
744:Jack Massarik, Evening Standard
4126:1990 establishments in England
3730:"Wheatley to relaunch Jazz FM"
3510:. Brand Republic. 3 April 2003
3367:Dancer, Helene (3 June 2003).
3133:. Music Week. 16 November 2004
2927:Burrell, Ian (28 March 2005).
2660:Day, Julia (2 December 2002).
2137:Newman, Cathy (26 June 1997).
2115:Poole, Denis (February 2000).
1668:Donovan, Paul (1 April 2007).
1557:
1510:"Jazz FM relaunches 6 October"
1330:
1257:The Perrier Jazz Award Winners
983:Smooth Jazz Through the Night:
958:Peter Young's The Soul Cellar:
939:Mainstem with Campbell Burnap:
890:Andy Peebles' Soul and Soccer:
804:Jingles, slogans, and branding
679:, happened on 6 October 2008.
1:
4080:List of Global Group stations
3413:Owen, John (9 January 1997).
3348:. Brand Republic. 5 June 2003
3202:Davis, Clive (5 March 2004).
3156:. Aircheck UK. Archived from
3019:"GMG jazzes up digital radio"
2734:. Brand Republic. 29 May 2003
2693:. 8 June 2003. Archived from
2608:Wray, Richard (6 June 2002).
2556:White, Dominic (7 May 2002).
1323:
1175:Dinner Jazz American Classics
1090:(former programme controller)
975:transferred to a slot within
945:Mike Chadwick's Cutting Edge:
780:Radio Authority Investigation
574:
2708:Wilkes, Neil (29 May 2003).
2634:Cassy, John (19 June 2002).
2370:Bowsher, Ed (6 March 2002).
1883:"AM/FM #15 – September 1993"
1545:. BBC News. 14 February 2005
1480:West, Dave (23 April 2008).
1266:The Very Best of Smooth Jazz
881:Former specialist programmes
733:
721:Ofcom licensing requirements
552:. The bid was backed by the
435:(licensed as Jazz FM 100.4,
7:
3654:. GMG Radio. Archived from
3576:. The Bespoke Music Company
3574:"The Bespoke Music Company"
3437:"Listen in Colour, Jazz FM"
3403:. Retrieved 17 August 2006.
3371:. Mad.co.uk. Archived from
3108:Poole, Denis (March 2000).
2785:"Jazz FM moves into profit"
2687:"Sky Digital news in brief"
2531:"Guardian bids for Jazz FM"
1897:"Business and City Summary"
1620:"DJ Profiles – Steve Hobbs"
1567:. Radio Today. 4 March 2015
1301:
1199:Jazz of the Beat Generation
1154:
1151:Jazz FM Records discography
682:
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4147:
3830:"Malcolm Laycock obituary"
2889:Perry, Ian (20 May 2003).
2404:. CityWire. Archived from
2374:. CityWire. Archived from
2205:"AM/FM No. 12 – June 1993"
952:Paul Gambaccini's Jazz 20:
644:
633:last track it played was "
309:for one of the Londonwide
288:
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1016:Notable former presenters
858:Bring a Pound to Work Day
635:Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
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4075:Wrexham and Chester Gold
4070:Smooth presenter history
4010:Simon Bates at Breakfast
4004:Timeline of Smooth Radio
3210:. London. Archived from
2994:. London. Archived from
2610:"GMG raises Jazz FM bid"
2321:. Ofcom. 22 October 2003
2295:. Ofcom. 6 February 2001
1988:"This Rose smells sweet"
1937:. London. Archived from
1676:. London. Archived from
1272:The Very Best of Jazz FM
583:Making way for Smooth FM
3329:Watchdog probes Jazz FM
3051:. AM/FM. Archived from
2961:"Goodbye 102.2 JAZZ FM"
2251:. Ofcom. 11 March 1998.
1986:INM (2 November 1997).
1856:"AM/FM #13 – July 1993"
1290:Velvet – Smooth Moods 2
1260:The Soul of Smooth Jazz
1230:Paul Hardcastle – Three
677:The Local Radio Company
437:launched as JFM 100.4)
222:Independent Local Radio
3622:"Freeview launch date"
3596:"Jazz FM added to EPG"
1187:Guitar, Saxes and More
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663:at a higher bit rate.
656:
641:Return to the airwaves
637:" by Ella Fitzgerald.
592:
305:With competition from
3761:23 March 2006 at the
2891:"Aircheck UK – Essex"
2207:. TQM Communications.
1400:www.marketingweek.com
1287:Velvet – Smooth Moods
1217:Pacific Coast Highway
1163:A Cellar Full of Soul
737:
661:West Central Scotland
654:
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428:1993 (launched 1994)
417:Successful Applicant
402:Jazz FM Regional and
331:Count Basie Orchestra
3399:13 July 2006 at the
3394:Kay Garner Biography
2967:on 29 September 2007
554:Guardian Media Group
258:Guardian Media Group
95:, Central Scotland (
4065:Smooth Radio (2010)
3856:"Gilles' Biography"
3834:The Daily Telegraph
3804:The Daily Telegraph
3375:on 24 February 2012
3047:Hebditch, Stephen.
2895:www.webcitation.org
1766:www.webcitation.org
1742:on 25 February 2012
1649:. Jazzwise Magazine
1626:on 13 November 2006
1516:on 13 February 2012
1435:on 19 December 2007
1196:Jazz FM – The Album
846:Jazz FM connections
459:North East England
327:Royal Festival Hall
33:
3836:. 15 November 2009
3710:. 30 November 2004
3684:on 7 February 2006
3658:on 5 February 2005
3160:on 22 October 2009
2901:on 22 October 2009
2814:. Brand Republic.
2697:on 12 August 2003.
2511:. 25 November 2002
1967:. Management Today
811:advertising agency
761:middle of the road
657:
599:. Chief Executive
593:
266:adult contemporary
224:for London run by
93:North East England
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3946:Regional stations
3924:National stations
3736:on 5 January 2011
3708:www.musicweek.com
3346:"Jazz FM cleared"
2691:What Satellite TV
2485:. 21 January 2002
2351:on 19 August 2014
1670:"Rebirth of cool"
1299:
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1251:The Late Lounge 2
1043:Digby Fairweather
874:Ministry of Sound
852:People2People.com
773:Digby Fairweather
550:London News Radio
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466:Galaxy North East
444:Central Scotland
379:Thomas Cook Group
343:management buy-in
311:incremental radio
214:London Jazz Radio
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