Local (and other) radio news

[Here'sToYa!]

Looks like this hasn't been mentioned here, but Big Rick has been cashiered from his afternoon drive shift and is only doing weekends and fill-in at KFOX as of a week or two ago. No idea who's taken his slot, but a drag for him. Regarding the KFOG playlist, I still fondly recall him once saying "I don't write the menu, I just serve the food."

Tim Jeffries and Rick effectively swapped gigs -- Tim's doing the Weekdays and Rick is weekends. He said on FB that this was his choice, so that he can do more "community work" or something.

Tim had a short retirement. "I am afraid my days of working in corporate radio are over" will go down as this century's "Read my lips: no new taxes!"

http://m.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/KSAN-s-Jeffreys-From-radio-DJ-to-real-estate-6641664.php

[Lightnin' Rod]

Saturday was "Metallica AFD" on the Bone.  I went to the grocery store and home, and am good on Metallica for the rest of the year.

[RGMike]

Saturday was "Metallica AFD" on the Bone.  I went to the grocery store and home, and am good on Metallica for the rest of the year.

LOL. I assume they played "Enter Sandman" roughly every 90 minutes?

[radical347]

103.7 is now “Big 103.7: The Biggest Hits of the 80s and More”.

http://big1037.iheart.com

[RGMike]

103.7 is now “Big 103.7: The Biggest Hits of the 80s and More”.

http://big1037.iheart.com

Yeah. They seem to tweak themselves every 6 weeks. They've inherited all the '80s stuff that Kiss-FM got rid of.

[urth]

Cumulus drops its option to buy KSJO, pulls the plug on NASH in the south bay.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/151049/nash-fm-no-longer-on-ksjo-san-francisco

Have to wonder if the "international format" that's currently occupying that frequency will continue, or if it's just a placeholder til they come up with a better option.

[RGMike]

Holee crap: 98.1 Kiss-FM just became "The Breeze" -- the Bay Area's new station for relaxing music at work. WTFF??

There are a number of "Lighter than 'Lite'" formats around the country -- mostly in areas with lots of retirees, like Florida.  Doing it in SF seems pretty nutty to me.

[RGMike]

Holee crap: 98.1 Kiss-FM just became "The Breeze" -- the Bay Area's new station for relaxing music at work. WTFF??

There are a number of "Lighter than 'Lite'" formats around the country -- mostly in areas with lots of retirees, like Florida.  Doing it in SF seems pretty nutty to me.

"10,000 relaxing favorites in a row, commercial-free!" Listened a bit in the car -- gotta hand it to 'em, they're playing songs no one else in the market is playing. It's basically all the songs KOIT stopped playing years ago when they started chasing a younger demo.

[CapnJack]

Holee crap: 98.1 Kiss-FM just became "The Breeze" -- the Bay Area's new station for relaxing music at work. WTFF??

There are a number of "Lighter than 'Lite'" formats around the country -- mostly in areas with lots of retirees, like Florida.  Doing it in SF seems pretty nutty to me.

"10,000 relaxing favorites in a row, commercial-free!" Listened a bit in the car -- gotta hand it to 'em, they're playing songs no one else in the market is playing. It's basically all the songs KOIT stopped playing years ago when they started chasing a younger demo.

Oddly enough, I found myself listening to this station the past couple of days.  You're right, Mike -- no one is playing many of these songs ever since KOIT changed their format.  Songs I heard the past few days (off the top of my head):

Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love
Quincy Jones/James Ingram - Just Once
Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be You're Everything
Chicago - You're The Inspiration
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
Commodores - Easy
plus some numbers by Shania Twain, Michael Bolton, and Adele (Someone Like You)...

And the bumpers between songs have the old KOIT-type feel to them...

[CapnJack]

Holee crap: 98.1 Kiss-FM just became "The Breeze" -- the Bay Area's new station for relaxing music at work. WTFF??

There are a number of "Lighter than 'Lite'" formats around the country -- mostly in areas with lots of retirees, like Florida.  Doing it in SF seems pretty nutty to me.

"10,000 relaxing favorites in a row, commercial-free!" Listened a bit in the car -- gotta hand it to 'em, they're playing songs no one else in the market is playing. It's basically all the songs KOIT stopped playing years ago when they started chasing a younger demo.

Oddly enough, I found myself listening to this station the past couple of days.  You're right, Mike -- no one is playing many of these songs ever since KOIT changed their format.  Songs I heard the past few days (off the top of my head):

Bobby Caldwell - What You Won't Do For Love
Quincy Jones/James Ingram - Just Once
Andy Gibb - I Just Want To Be You're Everything
Chicago - You're The Inspiration
Simply Red - If You Don't Know Me By Now
Commodores - Easy
plus some numbers by Shania Twain, Michael Bolton, and Adele (Someone Like You)...

And the bumpers between songs have the old KOIT-type feel to them...

Huey Lewis & The News - If This Is It
Patti Austin & James Ingram - Baby, Come To Me
Madonna - Crazy For You
Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Can't Stay Away From You
plus songs from Air Supply, Kelly Clarkson and Huey Lewis/Gwenyth Paltrow...

I'm starting to here some songs repeat.  And I'm finally hearing actual DJs speak between songs -- initially I only heard the musical bumpers.

[RGMike]

I'm starting to here some songs repeat.  And I'm finally hearing actual DJs speak between songs -- initially I only heard the musical bumpers.

Yeah there's a lot of repetition -- And I don't listen much, only when I'm in the car. I think I've heard Michael McDonald "I Keep Forgettin" 3 times since Wednesday.

If I punch them up and they're playing some '70s nugget I haven't heard in a while, I stick with them; but as soon as Celine or Mariah show up, I'm outta there   BTW, per a post on FB, longtime market DJ Lisa St Regis will be doing mid-morings on "The Breeze" starting this week; apparently they'll be adding jocks sooner than later.

[CapnJack]

Benny Mardones - Into The Night
Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You
Elton John - Nikita
Dido - Thank You
plus "I Keep Forgettin'", "After The Love Is Gone", and "Your The Inspiration".

Lisa St. Regis was one of the DJs I heard (and it was mid-morning).

Haven't heard mid-70s Chicago, James Taylor, or Gino Vannelli's "I Just Wanna Stop" yet...

[RGMike]

Lisa St. Regis was one of the DJs I heard (and it was mid-morning).

They kept Tony Sandoval too.  Tho' I suspect he won't be doing his Sunday Nite Oldies.

[darryl]

Man, even though it skewed a little pop, 98.1 was a R&B standby in my presets when KFOG got old, KQED was too cerebral, and KSCU gets too weird.

So, out of protest, I've flipped KFOG 97.7 to Alice 97.3 (but I almost never listen to it, just hit it and bump up two times to see what crap KFOG is playing now).

98.1 has been replaced by KBLX 102.7, which isn't quite a replacement for Kiss FM but it'll have to do. Man, I've got two more presets I seldom hit at all. I think I switched the last one to The Bone, but I can almost never hang with that. Made my 12-yo son and our neighbor friend (12-yo girl) listen to a little Led on the way home from Taiko class a few weeks ago. So there's that.

Man... do I have an open slot? Suggestions? I'm in South Bay, so reception may vary.

[RGMike]

Man, even though it skewed a little pop, 98.1 was a R&B standby in my presets when KFOG got old, KQED was too cerebral, and KSCU gets too weird.

So, out of protest, I've flipped KFOG 97.7 to Alice 97.3 (but I almost never listen to it, just hit it and bump up two times to see what crap KFOG is playing now).

98.1 has been replaced by KBLX 102.7, which isn't quite a replacement for Kiss FM but it'll have to do. Man, I've got two more presets I seldom hit at all. I think I switched the last one to The Bone, but I can almost never hang with that. Made my 12-yo son and our neighbor friend (12-yo girl) listen to a little Led on the way home from Taiko class a few weeks ago. So there's that.

Man... do I have an open slot? Suggestions? I'm in South Bay, so reception may vary.

I always preferred K-FOX to The Bone, tho' they've been thru several "tweaks" since they revamped back when they hired Annalisa. Not sure how different/similar they are to The Bone these days. If you're jonesing for '80s, 103.7 is mostly that decade now, with a sprinkling of '70s. I'm guessing they're going to be more upbeat now to contrast with sister station "The Breeze".

I listen to KCSM more than ever these days, but you may not have my tolerance for jazz.