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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10
« on: May 25, 2012, 08:55:20 AM »
sundaygal and I invaded the KFOG studio yesterday (actually we were invited... well, actually one was invited and one tagged along, heheh).  It was pretty nice being there. My first time in a real big radio station!  (thanks SG!)   

AL was pretty accommodating, showing us all sorts of high-tech things, like the touch screen that brings up the sound FX for 10at10's the BeeepBoopBoop time machine sound, the choral "Ten At Ten!" inserts, the list of news and TV clips she has (I was *this close* to looking for the Bosom Buddies "Sunny Sunny Sunny" clip and erasing that bastard!). Super cool.  The KFOG playlist is all digitized.  The A-Z comes from a disc drive mostly.  If they needed to, they could pop in a CD, but a station like KFOG w a defined (?) format has all that stuff digitized for easy access.  Their CD library in the studio takes up one wall, full of Mark Knopfler, Steely Dan, Stones, etc.  You know the drill.  I espied the Kinks "Muswell Hillbillies" CD and thought of Urth, a true Twentieth/Twenty First Century Man.  (I also saw their Train CD collection and naturally thought of all the deep sadness in the world. :(  ) 

Renee was there, too.  DC was around, heard his voice I think, but no face time w him. 

We also got to meet the new morning show jock, Tony! Not surprisingly, he was pretty nice as SG as I chatted with him, I mean grilled him, about things, like what kind of music he liked. 

SG: Ok, quick: Your top five bands.
Tony (without pause): Billy Joel.


Mike prob has a crush on him already!  HAHAH  :)     He didn't name any other bands though.. damn.   I hate not being to judge people on their taste in music!

Me: The last concert you attended as a FAN...?
T:  Green Day. I drove three hours to see them.
  (He used to live in Kentucky, and he was used to, he said, "people putting their firearms on the table.")

I asked him how man different fart SFX the morning show would have.  He answered "probably a dozen."   (kidding!  he said "only two or three...")  ok, seriously, no fart SFX will be heard.  I asked him about "Twitch" and (I think, anyway) he was pretty careful to imply that was his OLD self. 

He's not too keen on certain popular "gimmicky" (I think he used that word, didn't he?) 80s music, and he cited one of the XM Satellite 80s stations --  the one that plays the pop hits, -- as something he didn't really like.  (Frankly I would probably agree with him on some of that. That particular station isn't that earth-shattering and they play the obvious.)

 I get the feeling he's pretty liberal.  He seems to be in his mid 30s, married w a brand new baby.  Thinks Florida is full of weirdos.   Could be worse!
Allrighty. Good investigative work. Way to take one for the team. Thanks.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG A-to-Z 2012
« on: May 23, 2012, 09:20:38 AM »
Stay up Late, Talking Heads. This is a cassette I played the hell out of. Like.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG A-to-Z 2012
« on: May 17, 2012, 09:12:05 AM »
Seems more Dead being played than in years past.  Like.

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In Memoriam, Happy Birthday / Re: RIP Donna Summer 63
« on: May 17, 2012, 09:11:06 AM »
First news I got at work this morning :-(
Who's next?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10
« on: May 16, 2012, 12:02:51 AM »
From Dave Morey himself (or someone pretending to be):

ForTheRecord-

KFOG was ALWAYS consulted...

Wow.  Excellent.

and in case ypu missed it someone replied to his post and he in turn replied with this URL:

http://www.879harrisville.com/

which is the home of his "WTF" radio -- will investigate more tomorrow when i have time to listen.

Anyone had occasion to check out WTF yet? I hit the play button last night, but they weren't on the air and don't have any automated content to fill in the off hours, so all I got was static. Looks like some of the jocks have posted audio files of their shows though.
Where was the "dave" post?  Static in the air now. From the DJ/Shows link, which might Dave's be?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: Local (and other) radio news
« on: May 15, 2012, 01:48:14 PM »
April radio ratings: KFOG down slightly; KITS up slightly (!). Oldies 103.7 is suddenly in the Top 10 -- WTF? Do people really like hearing "American Pie" 27 times a week?
Rarely I stray now from XM radio in the car but recently FM surfed and 103.7 was enjoyable enough. 98.1 is still at the top of my FM list.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG A-to-Z 2012
« on: May 15, 2012, 01:46:37 PM »
So busy, forgot to tune in. Candy-O on now. Always good for me.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG A-to-Z 2012
« on: May 14, 2012, 07:57:27 PM »
on the way home, a perfect illustration of the revisionist history of this regime's A-Z: Baker St followed by Social Distortion.  SD was never played on KFOG, and for good reason.  But now, it's part of the darling playlist.  I know some really like them, but the plodding chainsaw guitars and whiny vocals just give me a headache.  But then again, I'm the demographic that's being encouraged to leave.
I don't think I'm their demo.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 14 May thru 25 May 2012: it's... A-to-Z
« on: May 14, 2012, 10:30:18 AM »
10@10 "on hiatus" until after A-to-Z. First time that's ever happened.  ::)

I have a bad feeling about this...
Likewise. Caught a minute of the Fog-cast this morning. Traffic and weather before the ALL songs. Was it Greg G.? Good voice. Tedious sounding reporting. Renee got her ass into a safe slot in time before the morning show got the axe. She still there in the afternoon?

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: KFOG, But Not 10@10
« on: May 13, 2012, 06:36:25 PM »
So, what can we expect Monday morning at 6 when A-to-Z begins?

Will Greg Gory be flying solo?  Will the Mornings be jockless/voice-tracked for the next 2 weeks, with Gory there to do traffic only? And lots of promos for The Morning After, "coming soon"?  If *I* were DC, I'd have everybody there live tomorrow -- himself, Renee, AL, Dred -- to make the kickoff of A-to-Z an "event" rather than a placeholder (even if it IS a placeholder). But he's never taken my advice before.  ;)

A couple of predictions: if KFOG really does flip to full-blown alt, then obviously 10@10 would be toast. (And maybe the Bone would start doing a heavily playlisted, Drive/Sound-style version of their own?) But even if they don't, I suspect that '60s and '70s sets may disappear very soon. It's clear that the demos have not gotten as young as Cumulus would like; too many of us old farts still listening (and bitching about the changes to boot). DC has been in charge for a year now so they're forcing his hand. Somethin's gotta give.
So stressful.

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Stream of Consciousness / Re: A blast from the past
« on: May 10, 2012, 07:30:42 PM »
I just typed "KFOG" into my browser to go to the station's page, and this link was one of the ones suggested:
http://www.kfog.com/PROGRAMMING/AirstaffBlogs/DaveMorey/tabid/124/Default.aspx

I figured what the hell, and clicked it, and I'll be damned if it's not still up on their site. Probably not getting many hits, as I doubt there are any links to it anywhere else on the site, but still there nevertheless.
aaaawwwwwww. You know I just read his blog. Selling the house he and Mike bought, telling the neighbors....... Geez. Hope he's living a great life.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 9 May 2012: it's... 1976
« on: May 09, 2012, 10:11:24 PM »
So, my guess is they never played Jackson Browne on Live 105, right?
When I think of Live 105 back in the day, I think of Detachable Penis.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 9 May 2012: it's... 1976
« on: May 09, 2012, 10:41:57 AM »
BOS BeeGees. Just because. YSBD, yeahhhhhh.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 9 May 2012: it's... 1976
« on: May 09, 2012, 10:36:30 AM »
This is going badly -- a Peter Frampton appearance would actually improve it. 

Oh, no. We're going to need something a helluva lot groovier than that.
Groovy-ness. That's what we need.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 9 May 2012: it's... 1976
« on: May 09, 2012, 10:35:10 AM »
Yikes.  AL, you don't need to play "Fooled Around..." in EVERY '76 set.  Do ya?
She might.

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