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| Date | Page | What changed |
|---|---|---|
| 5 October 2026 | Ten Facts · Front page · The data · Yosemite | The Catalina JazzTrax column of the ten-event count had covered 2006–2026 only, while Berks was counted across its full history. It now counts Catalina’s full history, 1987–2026, from the recovered Catalina lineups, so it matches the Catalina volume. Peter White 16 corrected to 23 (and “16 straight at JazzTrax”, which was wrong — the sixteen were not consecutive — replaced); Mindi Abair 16 to 19. Ten-event totals: Rick Braun 100 to 103, Peter White 93 to 100, top ten 772 to 811, Braun, White and Elliot 281 to 295. The order of the top ten is unchanged. Gerald Veasley’s two Catalina appearances added (30 to 32). |
| 22 September 2026 | Radio (new) | New page: every U.S. terrestrial smooth jazz station found (commercial, non-commercial, low-power, HD), the digital outlets that report airplay, and the five airplay charts with published panels and spin thresholds. |
| 22 September 2026 | Ten Facts | Fact VIII: “seven full-time commercial radio stations … down from 64 in 1989 — an 89% collapse. Country radio has 2,159” replaced by seven named commercial operations (September 2026), the M Street Journal counts for 1989 and 1994, and country’s 2,134 (February 2026). Fact IX: “A Billboard number one requires 221 spins a week across a fifteen-station panel. Thirty spins will place a record on the chart … roughly four people … can deliver those adds” replaced by the Mediabase published chart for the week ending 5 September 2026 (No. 1: 225 spins on 13 stations; No. 30: 93). Fact II: Gerald Veasley 30 of 35 corrected to 29 of 35 in the recovered lineups (2010 not found). Removed the unsourced Nielsen audience-age sentence. “Ten largest” changed to “ten major events selected for this study”. |
| 22 September 2026 | Berks | Braun 27 corrected to 28 of 35 (22 straight, 2004–2026); Veasley 26 corrected to 29 of 35, matching the raw lineup files. Gerald Veasley is Philadelphia-born, not a Reading native. The Berks Arts Council ran the festival 1991–2026 (35 years); it announced on 27 July 2026 that it would cease operations. |
| 22 September 2026 | Rehoboth, San Diego, Newport Beach | Agency and roster attributions corrected against published sources (Reliant 2021 announcement, Mighty Music roster). Newport first-listed acts and first-chart years corrected from the festival’s Previous Performers archive. Characterising language removed. |
| 22 September 2026 | Gatekeepers, Catalina, Gulf Coast | Paul Brown (WBA Entertainment) and Gregg Karukas (Al Evers) now shown with their published booking contacts. Islands..Oceans..Lakes, Inc. corporate record added (California no. 2038811). WCLK distance corrected to about 300 miles. Unsourced characterisations of named people removed. |
| 22 September 2026 | Yosemite, Daytona, Oxford, BMG, Carousel | BMG: Roland Guilarte co-created the Florida Smooth Jazz Weekend with the Florida Smooth Jazz Foundation. A Form 990 is described as an information return, not an audit. Oxford: Ron Steen Band added to the 2010–11 season (115 slots, 90 artists). Carousel: Dave Koz is one of several artists who run or host an event. |
| 22 September 2026 | Common Myths | Source check. Corrected: “Coachella has sold three-day passes only since 2012” (now 2010); “Fillmore Jazz Festival postponed to 2026 for lack of funding” (the 2025 festival went ahead on 5–6 July 2025); UK cancellations “204 or more … since 2019” (now 78 in 2024, 43 in 2025, at least 253 since 2020, per AIF). Reworded to match sources: Bonnaroo ticketing; Glastonbury 2024 (the “2.5 million” figure removed); Woodstock 50 (“~$49.1m contracted” is a financing commitment); Splendour 2024; Blue Ridge Rock 2023 (“sold out” removed); We Out Here capacity figures removed; Big Ears figures removed as untraced; Glasper residency (“house record” and “56 sold-out shows” removed); Berks Jazz Fest’s new management; NEA age table marked as the uncorrected series; the 2002–2012 age-band sentence; Seabreeze “largest-drawing” removed; the Krueger quotation attributed as a summary of Krueger (2005). Sources added to the page’s source list. |
| 22 September 2026 | Front page · The data | “The ten biggest events in America” replaced with “ten events selected for this study”, as no ranking source supports the superlative. “The nonprofit that ran it for fifty-five years wound up in July 2026” replaced with the announcement date. BMG season count clarified as 33 seasons across 34 calendar years. |
| 20 August 2026 | Site-wide | Pre-publication legal and accuracy review. Every claim flagged in the working files as “unverified” or “probable” has been removed from the published pages rather than published with a caveat, on the principle that a study should not print what it has told itself it cannot stand behind. Affected: an agency attribution for Rick Braun and for JJ Sansaverino at Rehoboth, now recorded as not established; a biographical note on Bud Harner; one 2017 Catalina name, now dropped from every count on that page; and two speculative sentences at Gulf Coast. |
| 20 August 2026 | Rehoboth · Exhibit D | The passage on Mighty Music’s production credit and award previously stated that no record supported either claim. That overstated what a search can establish. It now records which sources were searched and states plainly that an absence in those sources is not evidence the claims are untrue. Mighty Music was invited to identify supporting documentation before republication. |
| 20 August 2026 | Rehoboth · Exhibit F and Berks · Exhibit G | Two sections that restated the findings in ten sarcastic variations have been removed and replaced with a single sober statement of what the numbers do and do not support. The arithmetic is unchanged; no figure moved. |
| 20 August 2026 | Catalina · The corporate record | Previously reported that the producing entity appeared in no IRS exempt-organization record and was not registered in California, and characterised it as “incorporated somewhere not established”. The IRS point was a non-sequitur — a for-profit company is not expected to appear in exempt-organization records — and the registration point stated the limits of a search as though it were a finding. Rewritten to say only what the search shows, and to note the several lawful explanations that would produce the same result. |
| 20 August 2026 | Gatekeepers · Exhibit D | The entry on SmoothJazz.com described a chain of five roles on the strength of a single quoted source. The unsupported clauses have been removed; what remains is the one quoted fact and the one inference it carries. A note has been added recording that the sponsorship-identification rules at 47 U.S.C. §317 apply to broadcast licensees and not to internet stations, so that no reader mistakes the passage for an allegation of a legal violation. None was intended and none is made. |
| 20 August 2026 | Gulf Coast · Exhibit D | The residential street named in the promoter’s public corporate filing has been removed. It served no analytical purpose that “a residential address” does not serve. A sentence implying a nonprofit had not met a filing obligation has been corrected: small exempt organisations file the 990-N e-Postcard, which does not appear in the databases used here, so nothing about its compliance was or is known. |
| 20 August 2026 | Daytona · Exhibit G | Added that related-party boards and program-revenue funding are both lawful and common among founder-led charities, and removed a characterisation that could be read as questioning the foundation’s exempt status. No such question is raised by anything in the filings, and none is intended. |
| 20 August 2026 | Berks · Exhibit E | Removed a characterisation of the festival’s general manager and a reference to his contact arrangements. The structural observation about institutional versus personal continuity is retained; the personal framing is not. |
| 20 August 2026 | Jazz at the Oxford | Every comparative and superlative measuring this series against named competitors has been removed, including the headline, two summary statistics and four passages of commentary. The figures are unchanged and still printed in full. The volume is now presented as one series among eighteen rather than as a control case. |