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Well, Mary Elizabeth, I'm afraid our little secret is out. JACK is all about random sex; the iPod thing was just a cover so that the government wouldn't listen in.
The only correction I might ask for is the part about "His "variety hits" format took its name from a Vancouver DJ's on-air persona and migrated to the States in 2004. Why give a radio station a guy's name? Because you can't get the hots for something called Smooooth or Lite. But Jack? That's someone you banged, or wish you had."
Can't argue the last part, but JACK got his start below the 49th parallel - in New York. It was named after my on-air persona "Cadillac" Jack Garrett, a radio cowboy who after working at a lot of "big sticks", finally gets a radio station of his own (in 2000) and declares that they will be "playing what we want" from now on.
The first broadcast station was in Vancouver and I licensed it in Canada for a small number of stations. The US stations started popping up early in 2004 starting in Denver and it hasn't stopped.
Obsession? You bet.
