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

« on: August 17, 2018, 02:50:34 PM »

With KFOG's current brand of overplayed golds/recurrents (along with the Woody Show, Noname, Danica, etc), they pretty much ARE Live 105 now...at least what Live was the few years before it rebranded to Alt 105. The station now known as Alt 105 is still not that different, but did shift a bit more contemporary.

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

« on: August 17, 2018, 01:22:25 PM »

It appears the Mediabase playlist pages for KFOG and other stations ( http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/7/stationplaylistrequest.asp?c_let=KFOG-FM ) now show up blank. Not sure if they've been moved behind a paywall or what.

It is, however, still visible on AllAccess (with free login) and appears to have been moved to the Alternative panel: https://www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/playlist/station/KFOG-FM

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

« on: July 11, 2018, 03:29:53 PM »

Judging by the playlist (along with everything else), it's pretty much an alternative station now: https://www.allaccess.com/mediabase/q/report/playlist/station/KFOG-FM

In my honest opinion, the station is as bad as it's ever been. For the most part it's a more boring version of what Live 105 used to be. There appear to be some more unique songs near the bottom of the playlist, but if you click on them and notice the daypart...100% of the spins of those songs are entirely during the overnight.

People such as Dred Scott have been saying the new former Live-105 PD Jackson is a good guy. While that's probably true, I didn't think he was a very good PD at Live 105. He may not even have much control over the music, but he thought it was a good idea to introduce a "21 song music block contest" where you were supposed to keep track of the # of songs they play in a row, and if they play less than 21 then call in for the chance to win a prize if you're the ___# caller that tells them how many songs they played.  (It was painful listening to the DJs keep on trying to explain that.)

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

« on: May 27, 2018, 01:27:32 PM »

Alt 105 is skewing a lot more contemporary these days (it apparently needed a moniker change to stop being stuck in 1991  ) so it looks like KFOG is trying to become the Live 105 circa ~2007-2017. Not exactly setting a high bar for themselves, but if they do it better than Live did during that period then it could work.(it wouldn’t be hard; Channel 92.3 did when that was still a thing.)

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

« on: May 27, 2018, 09:41:04 AM »

A program called “Alt Backspace” (classic alternative from the 80s-90s) is playing. Looks like Sunday from 8-10 am.

This looks like its home station:
http://www.101wkqx.com/alt-backspace/

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

« on: May 26, 2018, 11:01:58 AM »

Heard Live from the Archives this morning from 9-10. It could have been on longer but I tuned out.
In the newsletter Mat Bates said LFTA is returning this year thanks to the sponsorship of Peet’s. I had assumed he meant the CD (or vinyl.) Maybe he still does.

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

« on: May 22, 2018, 01:47:25 PM »

KFOG's playing Childish Gambino? Is that considered "alternative"? Is Live -- er, I mean "Alt 105.3" playing him too?

FWIW, I think it Childish Gambino does sound good on Alternative and AAA (and yes, Alt is playing him too.)

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

« on: May 18, 2018, 12:40:36 PM »

Acoustic Sunrise is ending.  This time presumably for good. From their newsletter:

Interesting that it's signed "KFOG" rather than "Mat Bates" -- has he been shown the door too?

There have been rumors (since he seemed to be steering it back towards the 'old KFOG' for awhile) but I haven't found anything to corroborate them. The writing style does match that of Mat Bates though.

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

« on: May 18, 2018, 12:16:36 PM »

Acoustic Sunrise is ending.  This time presumably for good. From their newsletter:

Hi friends-

I’m going to keep this week’s dispatch from KFOG HQ succinct.

If there were ever a time to listen to KFOG, it would be this Sunday morning, starting at 6a.

Rosalie’s Acoustic Sunrise program is a Bay Area institution. The care, planning, and instinct that she puts into curating this show every week will never be duplicated. Her musical acumen has provided the soundtrack to not only our Sunday mornings, but to countless milestones- whether it was on in the background when you proposed to your partner, or if it got you through a particularly difficult labor- Acoustic Sunrise is more than a radio show- it’s part of our routine.

With that said, this Sunday morning will be the final episode of Acoustic Sunrise on KFOG. I would never presume to speak for Rosalie, so I encourage you to tune in to hear her say goodbye (for now) in her own words. She will be playing all of her favorite Acoustic Sunrise tracks from across eras, and weaving them into a narrative in the way that only Rosalie can.

We love and respect Rosalie. She’s been an indelible part of art and culture in the Bay Area for decades, and we are incredibly lucky that KFOG was the platform from which she chose to communicate and entertain.

While I doubt that she’s very concerned with it, her legacy as a broadcaster and leader in this community is secure forever. I hope you’ll join us this weekend in honoring that, and letting Rosalie do what she does best- entertain and enlighten you with world class music.

We appreciate you, Rosalie. We love you.

KFOG

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

« on: May 14, 2018, 06:32:06 PM »

The Woody Show has been added to three more Cumulus stations: https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/176673/cumulus-adding-the-woody-show-to-3-new-markets

Despite Mat Bates' emails pumping up the Woody Show, even saying some things that are obviously untrue (i.e. saying that one of his top 3 questions he gets asked at KFOG is "What happened to/When is/why don’t you bring The Woody Show back to the Bay???"), I doubt he's calling the shots on this. But when he started, he insisted that the days where Cumulus upper management was in charge of everything were over--I guess he's finding out that that's not the case.

Also, new VP of Cumulus SF (Doug Harvill, evidently replacing Justin Wittmayer): https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/176676/cumulus-media-san-francisco-names-doug-harvill-vp-

Renee and Dred seem to semi-publicly not miss Wittmayer at all. Gee, I wonder why.

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

« on: May 01, 2018, 04:51:25 PM »

I don't doubt that they're trying to go head on with Live/Alt 105. They've also tweaked the music mix to make it sound more alternative/rock -- we're hearing far more Green Day, Foster the People, Kings of Leon, Sublime, Third Eye Blind etc (KFOG has always played these but are playing more now) whereas AAA-only artists like Lissie, Mt. Joy, Anderson East, David Byrne, The War on Drugs have all but disappeared.

It's disappointing because I actually liked the playlist we were getting a few months ago...but somehow never expected it to last. I'm not so bent out of shape about the Woody show itself, since most of the morning shows for the past 8 or so years were also horrid esp. this last one. I'm just more sad that they got rid of Rockwell but kept Alicia on in his old timeslot...although, it's not like they haven't kept members of a previous horrid morning show while letting the other good DJs go before... 

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

« on: April 20, 2018, 06:54:37 PM »

The Woody show is coming to KFOG on April 30. :O AFAIK it's still based in LA and syndicated.

Also, the advertised 10@10 with Rockwell is no longer listed. Rockwell is no longer listed either for that matter.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Jan 2018: Interesting news...

« on: January 08, 2018, 12:32:30 PM »

Yeah, that's true. Although the circumstances of Dave leaving and Annalisa leaving (the last time) were vastly different, AL has moved on and seems to be doing much better at The River anyway...so I guess there's no point in being offended that it's coming back without her.

This seems to be the pattern...make changes, backtrack, make changes, backtrack...except this time it's harder to backtrack.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Jan 2018: Interesting news...

« on: January 05, 2018, 02:32:37 PM »

Fair enough.

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KFOG's 10@10 / Re: 5 Jan 2018: Interesting news...

« on: January 05, 2018, 11:33:51 AM »

I'll probably listen to this, but I can't say I'm too excited. They burned 10@10 (and the rest of everything good about the old KFOG, except for Acoustic Sunrise/Rosalie) to the ground...bring it back just seems so...I dunno, watery. And signing on Rockwell as the host (although I don't mind him at all), seeing as he's the only remaining DJ (other than Rosalie...I don't count No Name) that resembles a link to pre-massacre KFOG, just seems like a desperate move to try to salvage former listeners.