I sometimes ride to work along the Embarcadero, and today I stopped by the Live and Local remote at the Epic Roasthouse. It's a nice looking restaurant, and they were geared up with free excellent coffee and morning hors d'ouvres (crab cakes with a quail egg, hot beignets, corn waffle w bacon butter and whipped cream, pizza, corn soup, virgin bloody mary shots, little steak empanadas). Score. I missed the band, whoever they were.
Webster, Renée and Peter were there, Irish Greg was back at the studio. (There was one guy from the KFOG promotions department who looks a lot like IG... I kept doing a double take. I think I weirded him out, but then again, they probably get weirded out by most of the fans they meet
) I got there right about 9 when they did the Nine O'Clock Pop Quiz, four guys answering trivia questions for Outside Lands tickets. Man, those guys didn't know anything, but one aging hippie came away with the sweet tix after getting one-and-a-half questions correct. Maybe it was the heat of the spotlight.
I spoke to a couple ladies from the Sales Dept. When I dropped the term "Triple A" on them, they were impressed. One, the Sales Mgr or something, said there are only about six AAA station in the country, and we chatted about how hard it was to define that genre, and I told her it seemed like a smart business move, despite the grumbling from the aging hippie demo (hee hee).
I told her how awful The Bone morning jocks were (ETA: Cumulus owns KFOG, The Bone and KNBR), they seemed to agree (silently), but said people love them... Sully, their wacky "Super Producer," was a mere listener years ago, and they used to chat with him on the phone, b/c they loved his laugh. Now he's working with them. Only in America, I tellya.
I asked them about 10@10 marathon and whether it would come back and about the defunct HD 10@10 station. No one bought the HD units, so they dumped it. Sales Mgr Lady told me they have some ideas about the marathon, but wouldn't go into details.
I then said "I can read your mind: you're thinking of a 10@10 internet stream, aren't you?"
She smiled, and I *thought* I was onto something, but of course she could not -- and would not -- tell me either way. But I wonder.... She did say that "listener ideas are often very good.." I told her she could have my online 10@10 stream idea ... for free.
I'm glad there was food and coffee, otherwise WGAF?
ETA: oh, I forgot: they also served something called "Chicken salad," which was a piece of tender chicken breast meat, fried up good and juicy, then served cradled in an endive leaf with a dollop of aioli or something. Delish. The staff there did a great job showing off their menu. Also, frozen cappuccinos!
