KJXK 102.7 - "102.7 Jack FM" - Aircheck - End of Jack FM and Start of Stunting, 12/31/2025

JOIN BROADCAST PLAZA TODAY, DISCORD'S MEDIA DISCUSSION COMMUNITY — http://bit.ly/S31MA Unscoped aircheck from Adult Hits-formatted KJXK in San Antonio, Texas. Recorded over the air beginning around 11:37pm December 31, 2025 and going in to the first few minutes on January 1, 2026. About four months ago, KJXK's parent company of a decade, Alpha Media, was acquired by a much smaller broadcast group, Connoisseur Media, which previously owned stations only in the Connecticut and Long Island areas. They are now beginning to make their presence known after leaving the stations alone their first three months of ownership. Their first move was to resurrect the "103.3 The App" alternative programming after about eight years of being gone. Their next move is about to be their highest-profile one, and the one that is the subject of today's video. Over the summer, the station teased us by rebranding all their social media accounts as "San Antonio's 102.7" along with a new logo (seen here). However the branding was never used on-air, and the station did revert to the Jack brand a few days later. A couple of weeks ago, the station once again returned all of their digital assets back to San Antonio's 102.7. The URL also changed from hellojack.com (a relic of the CBS Radio-era when all of their Jack stations had quirky URLs) to sanantonio1027.com. Two days ago, the RDS also changed from "Jack-FM, Playing What We Want!" to just "KJXK-FM", signifying that a change was coming. Keep in mind, despite all this going on online, the "San Antonio's 102.7" moniker has never been used on the air at all through all this. Connoisseur has to pay a fee to the owners of the Jack FM format, SparkNet, to use the branding. CBS originally signed a group deal with the company in the 2000s and it had been kept through subsequent owners. KJXK's heritage in the market is as KTFM. It was originally a rock station, before shifting to Rhythmic CHR in the 1980s. It was at that point the station found success and stayed that way until the 2000 sign-on of 98.5 The Beat. After tweaking with the format a few times, they flipped to rock in 2003 as K-Rock. Finally, on January 1, 2006, KJXK was born as the station became the 12th CBS flipped to Jack. Not long after that, CBS left the San Antonio market. Locally-programmed for the first ten years, since about 2017, the station had run the national Jack FM feed that SparkNet programs themselves. This meant San Antonio was now getting the same Jack programming as smaller markets. Connoisseur has been making clear they wanted to move away from syndicated formats that Alpha had embraced, already dumping the syndicated Jack format in Dayton, Ohio a couple months ago. That brings us to today. It's been highly rumored that the most likely outcome is that KJXK is retaining its format, just dropping the Jack brand and resuming local programming of the music. iHeart and other apps already have the station under the new "San Antonio's 102.7" brand and "We Play Anything" slogan. I also have a hunch that maybe Connoisseur is playing us and they have different plans. Radio is known to throw people for loops when making a format change. The "San Antonio's 102.7" brand sounds pretty generic and doesn't necessarily lend itself to a final brand. But it very well might be. We'll just have to wait a few days. Included here is the last song the station played under the national Jack playlist (which ironically alludes well to what was about to happen, but is also coincidental since other Jacks using this playlist also aired it). Then the final commercial break. Coming back from commercial, the station locally programmed the last three songs under the Jack format, all hinting at the "End", "turning the page", and saying "bye". Then, the station begins stunting with a bizarre clipping of songs from wildly different genres while the legal ID is given in Spanish. Jack FM officially comes to an end in San Antonio after exactly 20 years. The station then entered stunting mode, which is a play on being on hold. It's a 6-minute loop of the famous Cisco hold music while a voice says "please hold, a new radio station will be with you shortly. Estimated hold time, 5 days." Five days from now is Tuesday, so that's likely when the new format, or rebranded station, will launch. I will definitely be keeping my eye on this. At least Connoisseur is stunting, since many of the big format changes in recent San Antonio history have all been abrupt. 0:00 - Start 0:10 - "NPR affiliate" sweeper 0:14 - Last song under Jack national feed 4:09 - Last commercial break as Jack FM 11:43 - "Bunch of songs in a row" sweeper 11:48 - Third-to-last song as Jack 15:17 - Second-to-last song as Jack 20:09 - "Hit the road Jack" sweeper 20:16 - Last song as Jack FM 23:07 - Legal ID/stunting begins ©2026 Connoisseur Media and KJXK-FM, no copyright infringement intended. For educational and historical purposes only. We do not profit off of this video.