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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 01, 2016, 07:55:07 PM »

Annalisa, Rosalie, Renee, Webster, Dred...all gone.  :’( Irish Greg is apparently staying. Not sure in what capacity.

Any word on No Name? I know he went off the air last week and it looks like his FB and Twitter haven’t been updated in about a week either. Not completely sure if he went too or if they took him out of the picture for now in order to bring him back later.

Instagram would seem to indicate that he's been on vacation for the past couple of days.
https://www.instagram.com/noname_138/?hl=en

Man, what a crappy thing to come back to, unless upper management gave him a heads-up and told him to keep it to himself. That would *also suck highly*. (This has happened to me in tech.)

Oh, and over on FB, Dean K (engineer, sometimes filled in late nights) posted this in response to Rosalie/Dennis Constantine's post below:

I truly enjoyed working at kfog with Dennis and the whole crew there. There was a time where there was genuine enthusiasm for the station and being part of a team that wanted to make creative and fun radio to share with the Bay Area. Producing the PlaySpace was simply a joy. But I made a decision to leave because I wanted to take no part in the direction that the station was headed as explained to me in detail by my supervisor. Who knows how the station will end up but this is an extremely heavy handed way to treat the staff who were just trying to do the best that they could under the direction of their program director. And a shock to the listeners who are being shown the door. Most of the complaints on social media are coming from listeners at the higher side of the age demo and I would think that if there was an outcry from a significant base of 20 to 30 year-olds the management would take notice, otherwise it just confirms the decision. Modern radio...its not for the meek. I wish the best for all my kfog and kgo friends.

Ah, but I do recall looking at his LinkedIn before, and yeap, he quit back in March 2015. So looks like changes were afoot even then.

(Useless trivia -- it was Dean who recorded those often played spots with me talking about being a Snowboarding Foghead and my wife being a Hula Dancing Foghead. That was at the 2014 Concert for Kids down in San Jo -- in exchange for our spots he very generously gave us his two extra tickets so my wife and other son could get into the show!)

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 01, 2016, 03:05:13 AM »

Whoa. Looking for KFOG's anniversary, found Dung! http://idiotshow.podbean.com/e/kfog-30th-anniversary-show/

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: April 01, 2016, 01:19:27 AM »

I thought it was pretty crummy that they shit-canned the Boob Project blog, so I mirrored it here:

http://www.darryl.com/boobproject/

Images are still pulled from KFOG's website, so those may eventually break. I have copies of the images too though, so it'll just take a (hopefully) small amount of hackery to make it fully independent of the KFOG site. I may try to enlist my wife's help to strip off all the KFOG branding. :-P

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:56:42 PM »

Steve Rockwell

The first song he played on the radio was U2’s “I Will Follow”, on St. Patrick’s Day, 1984, on Penn State’s WDFM. But the Northeast was too cold; South Florida too hot; the Bay Area proved just right, in oh so many ways – home for the last 18 years has been a small flat by the beach. Other than the radio thing, Steve “studies” and makes wine, scours the city for ingredients he’s not yet cooked with, tries to like his non-film camera, binge-watches documentaries (unless there’s a Giants game on) and hangs with his wife and the two shelter cats that adopted them.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:44:14 PM »

Webster

A welcoming radio voice in the Bay Area for almost 20 years, Webster was raised on Detroit rock; he’s sold, spun and talked about music since high school. Your host for KFOG Private Concerts, he also gets you home every evening – anchoring your afternoon commute with the music and traffic info you need, along with the Three Things you’ll want to know every Monday-Friday at 3pm.

Webster and his wife live in The City, where a live show, a nice IPA, or a run along the Embarcadero are always part of the plan.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:43:08 PM »

Dred Scott

Born in Mendocino, Dred has spent half his life in Northern California and half in Southern… moving back and forth without a passport. His radio career includes stops at stations in Marin, Sonoma and San Francisco (including an early 90s stint at KFOG), plus San Diego and Los Angeles. He lives in Pacifica with Endo the wonder cat, owns a collection of ukuleles and an ever-ready yoga mat. He has never been in jail.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:29:16 PM »

KFOG In The Morning

#BoobProject: Boob Spelled Backwards Is Boob

Renee         
No Name         
Irish Greg

(Still looking for their individual pages.)

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:23:31 PM »

Acoustic Sunrise & Sunset with Rosalie

Rosalie Howarth got into underground free-form FM radio at KLRB in Carmel in the 60’s, then landed a gig in 1983 at a new adult rock station in San Francisco called KFOG. She’s been here ever since, occupying a variety of roles, including, host of the station’s Sunday specialty shows Acoustic Sunrise and Acoustic Sunset.

She and her husband raised two daughters (both CalPoly grads) in Walnut Creek, where she enjoys bird-watching and nursing her drought garden with buckets of shower warm-up water.

For Comments, Questions and Requests, email Rosalie.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:22:26 PM »

Annalisa

Annalisa hosts middays and the long-running retro radio show known as 10@10, hand-picking and mixing songs (and sounds) from a different year every Monday through Friday. She started her music obsession early, hitting her first mic in college radio, then headed West to KFOG from Boston in 1996.

She calls Pacifica home, but loves to travel and dig through vinyl bins in every town she can to keep her record cellar well stocked for you.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 08:14:20 PM »

The management has done a pretty efficient job of scrubbing any evidence of the released staff members from the website. I got a couple of hits on Annalisa, but only found blank pages with her name, no pictures save a partial thumbnail. And 10@10 is pretty much all but gone too. Only the programming schedule page remains, but it's only reachable via search. No links to it on the door.

Bastages.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The Print Media Thread (Books, Magazines, Newspapers, etc.)

« on: March 31, 2016, 04:44:33 PM »

Oof, audio in that is pretty bad.

Soundtrack version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQGQ5qBQTA
Lyrics: http://genius.com/Avenue-q-schadenfreude-lyrics

Nicky:
Oh. Schadenfreude, huh? What's that? Some kind of Nazi word?

Gary:
Yup. It's German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'

Nicky:
'Happiness at the misfortune of others'
That is German!
Watching a vegetarian
Being told she just ate chicken

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: The Print Media Thread (Books, Magazines, Newspapers, etc.)

« on: March 31, 2016, 04:42:03 PM »

This should help you remember:

Avenue Q - Schadenfreude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XmZIcmRKkc

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 04:02:50 PM »

Welp, they are all-in now, changing their FB Cover Photo to this:


And unsurprisingly, the comments are rolling in:
https://www.facebook.com/kfogradio/photos/a.403472576347650.107794.107995802561997/1243084919053074/?type=3&theater

Alas, if only angry Facebook comments translated into ratings (or whatever bullshit measurement they're basing this decision on), amirite? :-/

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 03:55:45 PM »

Confirmed Webster's out. He gives shout-outs to the rest of the on-air crew, but maybe that's not indicative that they've *all* been cut? God.

Time for a change on the marquee.
You may have heard the news, but if not: most of my radio brothers and sisters at KFOG Radio have left the building. They wanted to re-boot the station, and we were the wrong show size.
Much love and appreciation to Irish Greg SF, Renadiosf, Mike "No Name" Nelson, @Annalisa Pop, Dred Scott and Rosalie!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=791088424360202&id=144262405709477

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10

« on: March 31, 2016, 03:15:01 PM »

Unconfirmed report in visitor comments on KFOG Radio's FB page that Renee was also possibly fired:

I've heard at least 2 ads this morning featuring 2 of your laid off DJs: Annalisa Pop and Renee. Didn't have time to "evolve" those ads before the big purging, I guess.

Also, the All Access story reports:

The station playing quite a bit of ‘90s Alternative hits at the moment and is running sweepers on the air saying The Evolution Is Coming April 20th.”

Psh, I'm looking at my playlog, and no, the playlist has not significantly changed:
http://www.rudebadmood.com/foglist/

Last 10 spins:

2016-03-31 15:03:01   Of Monsters and Men   Mountain Sound              
2016-03-31 15:00:02   Sinead O'Connor   Nothing Compares 2 U              
2016-03-31 14:57:01   Cold War Kids   First              
2016-03-31 14:51:01   Queen & David Bowie   Under Pressure              
2016-03-31 14:48:02   Elle King   Ex's & Oh's              
2016-03-31 14:42:01   Collective Soul   Shine              
2016-03-31 14:33:01   Ray LaMontagne   Part One - Hey, No Pressure              
2016-03-31 14:27:01   INXS   What You Need              
2016-03-31 14:24:02   Ed Sheeran   The a Team              
2016-03-31 14:12:02   Depeche Mode   Personal Jesus

I like all of those songs and artists are fine. I hate that if you look at playlist history, those are almost the *ONLY* songs they play by those artists. I'm fine with their catalog being wide (as in type of artists). I hate that it's not deep.

I know that this is because of People Meters. I know that's it's because of computers. It's people who do analysis and research, that fear the tune-out above all else. That it's a numbers game to them.

But it sucks the soul out of a station. Ed Sheeran is actually quite great. More so even when you dig deeper into his catalog. Ray LaMontagne, yes, obviously, amazing. But c'mon, he wrote a ridiculous tribute to Meg White called "Meg White". Does that ever get airplay? Hells no. Yes, INXS. But c'mon, "What You Need?" Didn't we hear enough of that track in 1986? The last (and possibly only?) time you played "This Time" was 2012-05-23?

Yeah, iPods, iPhones, Spotify, Podcasts, Satellite... i KNOW already. But you buy or rent the cheapest car in the lot, what does it have w/o a doubt? An AM/FM radio. The ears are out there. They deserve better. Fuck.

See also: KGSR of Austin, Seattle's KEXP. Are those towns really better than the SF Bay Area? Are they more deserving of not stupid overly programmed calculated goddamn vanilla safe stations? I mean hell, even KCRW manages to stay afloat (yeah, they're public radio, it's a different story).

Sorry. [/rant]