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Main Discussion Area => Stream of Consciousness => Topic started by: RGMike on April 07, 2005, 09:13:22 AM
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Well, I think it's pretty big...
My fave local station, Oldies 1510, which I've been singing the praises of here since November, is about to be history. Which is very sad, they were playing a fine mix of stuff (they're a simulcast of their sister station in LA which I'm hoping will stream one of these days). The station was sold the other day for a cool 5 mil -- a nice chunk o'change for a low-power AM with a crappy signal.
BUT -- and here's the good part -- the new owners are apparently planning to use 1510 to simulcast KPIG, the GREAT South Bay progressive/alt/freeform station that you can't hear north of San Jose and that charges a yearly subscription for their web stream. Woo Hoo! Set a button on your car radio NOW!
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Well, I think it's pretty big...
My fave local station, Oldies 1510, which I've been singing the praises of here since November, is about to be history. Which is very sad, they were playing a fine mix of stuff (they're a simulcast of their sister station in LA which I'm hoping will stream one of these days). The station was sold the other day for a cool 5 mil -- a nice chunk o'change for a low-power AM with a crappy signal.
BUT -- and here's the good part -- the new owners are apparently planning to use 1510 to simulcast KPIG, the GREAT South Bay progressive/alt/freeform station that you can't hear north of San Jose and that charges a yearly subscription for their web stream. Woo Hoo! Set a button on your car radio NOW!
never heard of KPIG, but I should be able to get them in my office, what's their frequency Kenneth?
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Well, I think it's pretty big...
My fave local station, Oldies 1510, which I've been singing the praises of here since November, is about to be history. Which is very sad, they were playing a fine mix of stuff (they're a simulcast of their sister station in LA which I'm hoping will stream one of these days). The station was sold the other day for a cool 5 mil -- a nice chunk o'change for a low-power AM with a crappy signal.
BUT -- and here's the good part -- the new owners are apparently planning to use 1510 to simulcast KPIG, the GREAT South Bay progressive/alt/freeform station that you can't hear north of San Jose and that charges a yearly subscription for their web stream. Woo Hoo! Set a button on your car radio NOW!
never heard of KPIG, but I should be able to get them in my office, what's their frequency Kenneth?
They're at 107.5; the Bone may drown them out where you are. I think their signal is directional for that reason. But they're pretty terrific.
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BUT -- and here's the good part -- the new owners are apparently planning to use 1510 to simulcast KPIG, the GREAT South Bay progressive/alt/freeform station that you can't hear north of San Jose and that charges a yearly subscription for their web stream. Woo Hoo! Set a button on your car radio NOW!
never heard of KPIG, but I should be able to get them in my office, what's their frequency Kenneth?
Their standard frequency is 107<oink>5 on your FM dial, but you may only be able to get their signal sporadically if at all. They're based in Freedom, CA, down between Santa Cruz and Monterey, and have a teeny tiny transmitter that's held together with scotch tape and old rolling papers. I've never been able to get their signal anywhere outside of the Monterey bay area (and not that well there), unless the wind was right and it was the third Tuesday after a full moon.
However I am PSYCHED that they may be accessible in this part of the world, even via AM. I've got a KPIG sticker proudly displayed by my desk.
Btw, I believe KPIG was the first commercial station ever to stream on the web.
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BUT -- and here's the good part -- the new owners are apparently planning to use 1510 to simulcast KPIG, the GREAT South Bay progressive/alt/freeform station that you can't hear north of San Jose and that charges a yearly subscription for their web stream. Woo Hoo! Set a button on your car radio NOW!
never heard of KPIG, but I should be able to get them in my office, what's their frequency Kenneth?
Their standard frequency is 107<oink>5 on your FM dial, but you may only be able to get their signal sporadically if at all. They're based in Freedom, CA, down between Santa Cruz and Monterey, and have a teeny tiny transmitter that's held together with scotch tape and old rolling papers. I've never been able to get their signal anywhere outside of the Monterey bay area (and not that well there), unless the wind was right and it was the third Tuesday after a full moon.
However I am PSYCHED that they may be accessible in this part of the world, even via AM. I've got a KPIG sticker proudly displayed by my desk.
Btw, I believe KPIG was the first commercial station ever to stream on the web.
Great news. Whenever we travel to Monterey/Santa Cruz, we tune in 107.5 and stay there until we drive out of the area. They are so eclectic, it's unreal. Example: On the way north, I heard a song by 3 Twins (related to the Subdudes somehow) play this song called "Look at this day the Lord has made" (or something like that) This song had the coolest rhythm, but I can't find a copy anywhere! Too cruel to play cool musice you can't get!
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The story about this was by Brad Kava in yesterday's Merc (on their wesite if you're registered). He says the simulcast will start in July. Can't Hardly Wait!
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Keep us posted. I've heard KPIG before too but will surely forget come July.
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saw no reason to start a new thread for this tidbit, but: last nite The Bone flipped Little Steven and Joel Selvin; LS started at 9 and JS at 11. Not sure if this was a computer glitch or a permanent switch (and I'm starting to itch!) but FYI.
I'd certainly prefer to hear all of Steven before drifting off to sleep, but I caught a few minutes of Selvin and he did another "B-sides" show and those are always enlightening.
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SF is getting the first podcast radio format, on 1550 (currently KYCY, a talk station):
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,67344,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5
and in related news, Happy 73rd birthday to Casey Kasem!
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More on the 1550 AM podcast format:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/04/28/BUGETCGGLH1.DTL
and here's the station's website:
http://www.kyouradio.com/
Gaz, I'm especially interested to hear your thoughts on this.
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KFRC's AM version at 610 is no more. Infinity sold it recently, in a kinda swap deal, getting 106.9 from the religious outfit that owns it. Last nite at midnite, KFRC-AM started simulcasting 106.9. (I assume they'll still broacast the A's games.)
No word on when 106.9 will flip to a new format or what it will be.
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If anyone cares, "The Bear" is no more -- they flipped yesterday to 95.7 MAX, making them SF's first full-time "Jack" clone ("we play whatever we want"). A couple of other stations (like Star 101.3) have been doing "Whatever Weekends".
MAX apparently sounds a lot like the old SF version of The Drive, only without jocks. A dumb move, IMHO.
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I just started listening to 95.7 MAX-FM on their stream
http://957max.com/?CFID=6224522&CFTOKEN=52264642
and the first song I'm hearing is Dan Hartman, "I Can Dream About You", so I'm instantly hooked, at least for a while.
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It's been all downhill since Dan Hartman... MAX-FM is like KOIT, The Bone and KFOG thrown into a blender together --- with all the Katrinas rising to the surface. Men at Work, "Down Under" -- yikes, I think I'M gonna "chunder"...
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interesting post on the Radio-Info SF board, re: Family Radio, the new owners of KFRC-AM:
http://www.radio-info.com/mods/board?Post=435321&Board=sanfrancisco
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Yikes! So, I'm assuming KFRC-FM is still safe for heathens like me to listen to?
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Yikes! So, I'm assuming KFRC-FM is still safe for heathens like me to listen to?
LOL! yeah, they took over the AM only, and in exchange Infinity got Family Radio's 106.9 FM, which will eventually have a new format.
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LOL! yeah, they took over the AM only, and in exchange Infinity got Family Radio's 106.9 FM, which will eventually have a new format.
Well, maybe they should make it an "All Satan, All the Time" format to balance out the new KFRC-AM.
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LOL! yeah, they took over the AM only, and in exchange Infinity got Family Radio's 106.9 FM, which will eventually have a new format.
Well, maybe they should make it an "All Satan, All the Time" format to balance out the new KFRC-AM.
About 15 years ago I was in New Orleans and a station played all Zep, all the time. I had a rented car and it was so cool knowing I could hear all Zep. Guess it gets old after some period of time.
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the new station in town, MAX 95.7 (aka the SF version of "Jack") is looking for announcers:
http://957maxfm.com/new/jobs.cfm
the SF version of Jack -- that'd be Sourdough Jack, wouldn't it?
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So I decided to give 95.7 MAX another shot this afternoon and --- wow.
in the last 20-min sweep, they played
Sweet, "Fox on the Run"
Rupert Holmes, "Escape"
the Go-Go's "Head Over Heels"
Not bad -- and I don't think I've heard any of those on over-the-air radio (outside of 10@10) in ages.
OMG! They're playing the only Steve Perry song I've ever loved -- "Foolish Heart".
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I've been checking it out for the last few minutes and I gotta say I'm liking it. Thanks for the tip!
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CNN is finally on board in noticing the "Jack" and "Bob" formats:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/25/radio.shuffle.ap/index.html
I want to believe that there's room for a new crop of tastemaking DJs to guide people through such eclecticism, but the evidence points to people wanting just the music without the talk. *sigh*
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CNN is finally on board in noticing the "Jack" and "Bob" formats:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/25/radio.shuffle.ap/index.html
I want to believe that there's room for a new crop of tastemaking DJs to guide people through such eclecticism, but the evidence points to people wanting just the music without the talk. *sigh*
Listened to the Austin version of Bob when I was in Texas 2 weeks ago, and the mixes were okay, but the self-promotion was a wee bit over the top ("Even we don't know what Bob 's gonna play next").
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CNN is finally on board in noticing the "Jack" and "Bob" formats:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/05/25/radio.shuffle.ap/index.html
I want to believe that there's room for a new crop of tastemaking DJs to guide people through such eclecticism, but the evidence points to people wanting just the music without the talk. *sigh*
Listened to the Austin version of Bob when I was in Texas 2 weeks ago, and the mixes were okay, but the self-promotion was a wee bit over the top ("Even we don't know what Bob 's gonna play next").
there's also a country version of Jack & Bob called (of course) Hank.
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Most incongruous segue yet on 95.7 MAX:
from MTB "Heard it in a Love Song" to A-Ha, "Take on Me".
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Most incongruous segue yet on 95.7 MAX:
from MTB "Heard it in a Love Song" to A-Ha, "Take on Me".
and now Aerosmith into Carly Simon -- Steven & Carly comparing lips!
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I was in the car last nite and MAX played Rocky Burnette, "Tired of Toein' the Line". I actually stayed in the car in the Cala parking lot until it was over. My head was bobbing up and down and people were giving me funny looks. What a great f***in' single.
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I was in the car last nite and MAX played Rocky Burnette, "Tired of Toein' the Line". I actually stayed in the car in the Cala parking lot until it was over. My head was bobbing up and down and people were giving me funny looks. What a great f***in' single.
I totally agree. I may even have the 45, not sure.
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MAX-ing on Wed 6/1/05 -- it's Frampton doing the horny sheep-herder's song, "I'm in Ewe".
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MAX-ing on Wed 6/1/05 -- it's Frampton doing the horny sheep-herder's song, "I'm in Ewe".
Ick.
Not the image, the song. Okay, both.
I wonder if I can get reception here....
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MAX-ing on Wed 6/1/05 -- it's Frampton doing the horny sheep-herder's song, "I'm in Ewe".
Ick.
Not the image, the song. Okay, both.
I wonder if I can get reception here....
95.7 if yer interested. And they're not bad, especially when they come up with the occasional little-heard zinger.
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MAX-ing on Wed 6/1/05 -- it's Frampton doing the horny sheep-herder's song, "I'm in Ewe".
Ick.
Not the image, the song. Okay, both.
I wonder if I can get reception here....
95.7 if yer interested. And they're not bad, especially when they come up with the occasional little-heard zinger.
It's just static in downtown SF. I do have it set on my truck stereo -- they played "The Boys are Back In Town" as I drove to the ferry this morning...
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Nice piece in the East Bay Express about the impending SF debut of KPIG:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-06-01/news/cityofwarts.html
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nicest MAX surprise of the day (and there have been damn few): Londonbeat, "I've Been Thinkin' About You".
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nicest MAX surprise of the day (and there have been damn few): Londonbeat, "I've Been Thinkin' About You".
This morning I flipped over just in time for Head East "Never Been Any Reason", which I am pretty sure I have never heard on the radio outside the Midwest.
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nicest MAX surprise of the day (and there have been damn few): Londonbeat, "I've Been Thinkin' About You".
This morning I flipped over just in time for Head East "Never Been Any Reason", which I am pretty sure I have never heard on the radio outside the Midwest.
I beg to differ. It got a fair amount of airplay in Sacramento in the late 70s & early 80s and can probably still be heard up there on the Eagle, the local classic rock outlet, which I am guessing has not changed its playlist significantly in ten to fifteen years.
ETA: I should add that Sacramento has been often compared to several midwestern cities in attitude and geography, most significantly Kansas City. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
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Yesterday I listened to Denver's version of "Jack":
http://www.1055jackfm.com/
which is a bit more pop-heavy than MAX and a bit more '80s-centric. A better-sounding station, too, imaging-wise. MAX has that actor (the guy who played J Peterman on Seinfeld) doing a lot of sounders and his voice is quite annoying.
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nicest MAX surprise of the day (and there have been damn few): Londonbeat, "I've Been Thinkin' About You".
This morning I flipped over just in time for Head East "Never Been Any Reason", which I am pretty sure I have never heard on the radio outside the Midwest.
I beg to differ. It got a fair amount of airplay in Sacramento in the late 70s & early 80s and can probably still be heard up there on the Eagle, the local classic rock outlet, which I am guessing has not changed its playlist significantly in ten to fifteen years.
ETA: I should add that Sacramento has been often compared to several midwestern cities in attitude and geography, most significantly Kansas City. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
Well I didn't mean that it never got played west of the Rockies, just that since I moved out West in '80 I never heard it again (in Seattle, San Diego, Santa Barbara or here, and that includes a fair amount of hours I've spent listening to the Eagle).
Given that it charted at #68, one spot lower than Pickettywitch, I think this really should qualify as a healthily obscure cut for the Max.
Regarding KC, my mom's family moved there in time for her to go to high school and my grandparents stayed there until the last couple years of their lives. In the meantime my younger brother went to UMKC for college & med school & has lived there ever since. So I know KC quite well & it really is one of the nicest cities in the US. If it had any significant geological attractions (ocean, mountains) it would be even cooler, but I'd say being compared ot KC is a pretty good thing. Better than being compared to Oklahoma City or Des Moines or Omaha.
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the "Jack"-ification of America continues:
This will be most of interest to Gaz, but WCBS-FM, NYC's longtime oldies station (33 years!) is switching to "Jack" as I write this. End of an era and all that -- and goodbye Micky Dolenz too, I suppose.
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I finally changed my car radio preset from now spanish 92.3 KSJO to MAXX. I'm 95% disappointed. Everytime I tune in it's a commercial or two or three and then 80's music or sappy tacky tunes.
Local radio stuff must be heating up. I had a message today from a research company to try and qualify me for a radio focus group later this month. two nights, four hours total, $150 cash.
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I finally changed my car radio preset from now spanish 92.3 KSJO to MAXX. I'm 95% disappointed. Everytime I tune in it's a commercial or two or three and then 80's music or sappy tacky tunes.
Local radio stuff must be heating up. I had a message today from a research company to try and qualify me for a radio focus group later this month. two nights, four hours total, $150 cash.
indeed, their commercial blocks are horrendously long. But we may be able to thank them for the fact that KFRC is still Oldies -- KFRC's owners flipped 2 of the biggest oldies stations in the country (in NY and Chicago) to "Jack" yesterday; I suspect that if MAX hadn't beaten them to the punch, KFRC would've been flipped too.
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You can just listen on iTunes by using the "Advanced > Open Stream" command, and just enter http://209.237.251.148:80 as the URL
I guess sometime I'll try to get the WM stream link if you like. I just prefer iTunes as a media player.
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the "Jack"-ification of America continues:
This will be most of interest to Gaz, but WCBS-FM, NYC's longtime oldies station (33 years!) is switching to "Jack" as I write this. End of an era and all that -- and goodbye Micky Dolenz too, I suppose.
I'm still telling myself this is a belated April Fool's Joke.
Goodbye to yer Cousin Brucie as well?
Will report on this when I get back to NYC tomorrow.
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the "Jack"-ification of America continues:
This will be most of interest to Gaz, but WCBS-FM, NYC's longtime oldies station (33 years!) is switching to "Jack" as I write this. End of an era and all that -- and goodbye Micky Dolenz too, I suppose.
I'm still telling myself this is a belated April Fool's Joke.
Goodbye to yer Cousin Brucie as well?
Will report on this when I get back to NYC tomorrow.
Goodbye to everyone who worked there -- "Jack" is, mostly, a jockless format (and therefore a cheap one to operate). It's been quite the topic on the NY Radio Board. Anxious to hear your comments.
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Got selected for focus group. Listening to KFOG qualified me, along with my age. I have a feeling it could be Bonneville (MAXX) checking out the competition. KPIG?
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Got selected for focus group. Listening to KFOG qualified me, along with my age. I have a feeling it could be Bonneville (MAXX) checking out the competition. KPIG?
either one is a good guess. (KFOG does their focus groups via the Registered Fogheads list.) Or it could be Infinity, trying to decide what to do with 106.whatever (the religious station) when they take it over later this year.
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WCBS's new Jack format is noxious. I hear FYC's "Suspicious Minds" for the first time since the late '80s, but the transitions are often painful ("U Can't Touch This" into "Photograph"?!) and the absence of a DJ to break things up is annoying to me. The current crop of music listeners apparently just wants the tunes without the interruptions, but I'm old-school enough to desire a certain feeling of relationship with the DJ.
Is it safe to assume Infinity has one PD doing the programming for every Jack station they own across the nation? Or are they still programming regionally to allow for regional flavors and local-artists-made-good?
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WCBS's new Jack format is noxious. I hear FYC's "Suspicious Minds" for the first time since the late '80s, but the transitions are often painful ("U Can't Touch This" into "Photograph"?!) and the absence of a DJ to break things up is annoying to me. The current crop of music listeners apparently just wants the tunes without the interruptions, but I'm old-school enough to desire a certain feeling of relationship with the DJ.
Is it safe to assume Infinity has one PD doing the programming for every Jack station they own across the nation? Or are they still programming regionally to allow for regional flavors and local-artists-made-good?
Infinity has indeed just promoted someone to "VP of Jack" (yes that's his title!). But the stations are supposedly being programmed to cater to the area. By all accounts NYC's Jack is harder-edged and more rock-leaning, if the posts on MYRMB are to be believed (although one guy, a former ABC colleague of mine who's apx my age, said he'd "never heard of" Foreigner's "Dirty White Boy" before this week).
The flip made no sense, especially since, as a hard-edged Jack, the station is directly competing with Infinity's own K-Rock. But the sales guys (who are all, like, 30) insisted 'CBS-FM's demos were a tough sell. Apparently it happened really quickly because they were caught with their pants down in several other markets -- the rumor is SF's KFRC was set to go Jack the day after MAX debuted (and so the flip was put on ice) and they didn't want someone else to beat them in NY & Chi-Town. WPLJ had been making Jack-like noises for the past month with its "Flush the Format Weekends".
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Infinity has indeed just promoted someone to "VP of Jack" (yes that's his title!).
I wonder how many "You Don't Know Jack" jokes he hears on a daily basis.
or maybe "I knew Jack, Jack was a friend of mine. You are no Jack."
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Gaz! there will be an oldies concert and meet-n-greet with Cousin Brucie Fri nite at the Hammerstein ballroom:
http://www.bigfishconcerts.com/meetgreet.htm
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an analysis of the Jack switch from the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/feder/cst-fin-feder07.html
and in related news, Dave Morey has signed a new contract, per Billboard:
KFOG Vet Dave Morey Re-Ups Through 2008
Prominent triple-A KFOG San Francisco re-signs morning host Dave Morey, extending his contract through 2008. He has been a fixture at the station since 1982. "It's hard to imagine KFOG without him," said KFOG PD Dave Benson. "We all look forward to the pleasure of his company and contributions in the coming years."
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an analysis of the Jack switch from the Chicago Sun-Times:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/feder/cst-fin-feder07.html
and in related news, Dave Morey has signed a new contract, per Billboard:
KFOG Vet Dave Morey Re-Ups Through 2008
Prominent triple-A KFOG San Francisco re-signs morning host Dave Morey, extending his contract through 2008. He has been a fixture at the station since 1982. "It's hard to imagine KFOG without him," said KFOG PD Dave Benson. "We all look forward to the pleasure of his company and contributions in the coming years."
That's good news... Yay for Dave.
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Gaz! there will be an oldies concert and meet-n-greet with Cousin Brucie Fri nite at the Hammerstein ballroom:
http://www.bigfishconcerts.com/meetgreet.htm
Ooh! Wish I could go, but I can't justify the $25-90 tickets, having spent a lot of money over the past week-plus. Unless I could make a story of it, which I don't imagine right now I can.
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So I've been listening to the Denver version of "Jack" and it's been pretty dull, until now:
OMG! Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, "Lost in Emotion"! que sera que sera!
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2nd nice "Jack" surprise: MJ, "Human Nature". Nice to know US radio hasn't completely abandoned his stuff.
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OMG!2: Rick Springfield, "Love Somebody". I probably haven't heard this since 1984.
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Now Max 95.7 is playing "Thunder Island". The song DOES exist outside of 10at10! :D
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A more formal, and very insightful, analysis of the JACK format's intents and success in several markets:
http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Arbitron061405.pdf
(41-page long .pdf, but it's a quick read -- large text + graphics)
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A more formal, and very insightful, analysis of the JACK format's intents and success in several markets:
http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/Arbitron061405.pdf
(41-page long .pdf, but it's a quick read -- large text + graphics)
I just posted on the NYRMB regarding the endless posts there saying NYC Jack is playing "songs nobody's ever heard of". Allan Sniffen (who runs the NYRMB) had just posted yet again that the format contains too many "esoteric rock songs". Well, (a) a survey of NYC Jack shows that virtually every song played is/was a chart or airplay hit. I recognized every title, and I'm 50 (and presumably outside the target demo); and anyway, (b) playing songs that folks outside the demo might not know is sorta the point, no?
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Truckee's KTKE-FM is totally cool, in an eclectic way that would never work in a big town. I have heard all kinds of strange segues, from U2 to Country Joe to Count 5, and very raw and seat of the pants.
In Reno, there's a BOB FM, which sounds cool too, playing the Clash, UB40, and lots of other stuff I don't remember. They make a point of saying they're not owned by Clear Channel, or any other large corp.
"We're not slick, we're not always even functional!"
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Now Max 95.7 is playing "Thunder Island". The song DOES exist outside of 10at10! :D
This morning, flipping channels while KFOG went to commercial, I heard Max doing their self-promo of people calling in saying how great they are, but the last caller (female) said, "Bring back 95.7 The Bear! I can't stand all this crap!" Then the Max voice guy said, "I feel your pain." Then the caller continued, "I couldn't believe it when I turned on the radio in my truck and heard all this crap!"
Then the Max voice guy said, "I smell your pain."
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the Max voice guy
aka "J. Peterman" from Seinfeld. I find him way annoying, but that was a good line.
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aka "J. Peterman" from Seinfeld. I find him way annoying, but that was a good line.
And he played Loni Anderson's new husband and step-dad to... wait for it... The Mullets!
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0367371/
His character was a gameshow host. Heh.
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FYI, AOL Radio is now free and avialable to everyone:
http://music.channel.aol.com/radioguide/bb.adp
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I had the MAX on the other day in the car. They've been playing a bunch of promos featuring callers telling us how much they like the new station. One was particularly telling:
It blows KFOG out of the water. It's like 10 @ 10 all day long!
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I had the MAX on the other day in the car. They've been playing a bunch of promos featuring callers telling us how much they like the new station. One was particularly telling:
It blows KFOG out of the water. It's like 10 @ 10 all day long!
I would beg to (vigorously) differ with that person. I hope KFOG doesn't let the tail wag the dog.
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So, MAX 95.7 has DJs now.
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So, MAX 95.7 has DJs now.
Are they all named Max? That'd be cute, like all the Donnas being named Donna.
Or maybe not.
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Are they all named Max? That'd be cute, like all the Donnas being named Donna.
LOL! I don't remember this gal's name whose DJing now. But, it ain't Max.
They still have the goofy John O'Hurley spots, though.
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BTW, for those who are on pins & needles about this: Monday July 25th is the target date for 1510 AM to start simulcasting KPIG.
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BTW, for those who are on pins & needles about this: Monday July 25th is the target date for 1510 AM to start simulcasting KPIG.
I wish they would stream again (for free)
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So, MAX 95.7 has DJs now.
I kind of feel guilty knowing that too. Means I've been listening. I also noticed tonight the KUFX (98.5 KFOX) has a new promo saying we play what you want (vs the we play anything we want). It was preceded by a recorded caller mentioning Zepplin and other classic rockers. The radio wars heat up.
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Just checking my email and I'm on the MAX mail list. Must be leftover from the Drive, the Bear, now MAX.
Hello Ali:
(the following are checkboxes)
Name the radio station after myself.
Shop for obscure albums on eBay.
Pad expense report.
. . . must I do everything around here?
Finally, a little help:
Max FM welcomes Teri King, now on the air weekdays from 10-2. You'll like her. Great voice, knows the Bay Area, knows the music. And smart as a whip — in our interview, the usual game of Chutes and Ladders, she kicked my butt.
I'm exhausted. Can I go back to Belize now?
Love, Max
The Head Honcho
95.7 Max FM
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5) Tom Cruise, heavily sedated
4) Steve Miller Band at Konocti. Awesome show.
3) J.T. Snow. 40+ losses and hasn't lost a thing.
2) "The Piña Colada Song." Lyrics stuck in head since Tuesday.
1) Huey Lewis & The News at the Marin County Fair. He's still got it.
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I prefer the quality of iTunes streaming, and it's real easy. If you have iTunes (free!) just go to the Advanced menu, and select "Open Stream..."
Then just paste http://209.237.251.148:80 into the box, and go! You shouldn't need to 'join' their club or anything. Here is the current stat on how many people are listening:
Current Stream Information
Server Status: Server is currently up and public.
Stream Status: Stream is up at 48 kbps with 4 of 600 listeners (4 unique)
Listener Peak: 152
Average Listen Time: 2h 10m 02s
Stream Title: 95.7 Max, San Francisco
Content Type: audio/mpeg
Stream Genre: Various
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I DON'T want to stream MAX. I don't think I want them to succeed in current we play 80's retreads format.
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I DON'T want to stream MAX. I don't think I want them to succeed in current we play 80's retreads format.
just trying to help. It's not my cup of soup either.
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BTW, for those who are on pins & needles about this: Monday July 25th is the target date for 1510 AM to start simulcasting KPIG.
Update: now they're saying Friday July 22nd.
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spending the afternoon with classic country:
http://www.legends1430.com/
Tanya Tucker, "The Man that Turned My Mama On" -- wow, it's been years!
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spending the afternoon with classic country:
http://www.legends1430.com/
Tanya Tucker, "The Man that Turned My Mama On" -- wow, it's been years!
fave country lyric o' the day:
"I'd make love to you in a New York minute
And take my Texas time doin' it..."
Don't know who it was, but it was followed by Charlie Rich, "Behind Closed Doors". Now THAT'S country!
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Trying a new stream: www.powerhouseradio.com -- classic soul. Tuned in for JB, "There was a Time", followed by... The Time. cute seg, wonder if it was intentional.
They also have a channel called "FabFourSoul" which is all R&B Beatle covers, all the time.
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I've switched to wlng.com, where they're playing "Polk Salad Annie" for the 2nd time in less than 90 mins.
Lawd ha'mercy -- pick me a mess of it!
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I've switched to wlng.com, where they're playing "Polk Salad Annie" for the 2nd time in less than 90 mins.
Lawd ha'mercy -- pick me a mess of it!
The whole style is old, not just the music! They just played some song called something like "I am the morning DJ on WOLD!" into "Fool on the Hill"
great local ads too!
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I've switched to wlng.com, where they're playing "Polk Salad Annie" for the 2nd time in less than 90 mins.
Lawd ha'mercy -- pick me a mess of it!
some song called something like "I am the morning DJ on WOLD!"
er, that's "W-O-L-D" by Harry Chapin -- you'd never heard that before? A classic (and a VERY bad 45-version edit, it's a 6-1/2 minute song).
But yes, it's amazing station, a total throwback (and proud of it!)
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I've switched to wlng.com, where they're playing "Polk Salad Annie" for the 2nd time in less than 90 mins.
Lawd ha'mercy -- pick me a mess of it!
The whole style is old, not just the music! They just played some song called something like "I am the morning DJ on WOLD!" into "Fool on the Hill"
great local ads too!
That would be Harry Chapin, W*O*L*D, a minor hit that I only semi-enjoy.
But I enjoy it a whole lot more than "Fool on the Hill," which I actively dislike.
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I've switched to wlng.com, where they're playing "Polk Salad Annie" for the 2nd time in less than 90 mins.
Lawd ha'mercy -- pick me a mess of it!
The whole style is old, not just the music! They just played some song called something like "I am the morning DJ on WOLD!" into "Fool on the Hill"
great local ads too!
That would be Harry Chapin, W*O*L*D, a minor hit that I only semi-enjoy.
But I enjoy it a whole lot more than "Fool on the Hill," which I actively dislike.
And now, right on cue, the Walker Bros song mentioned earlier, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More"
sweet!
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I'm doing Classic Country today
http://www.legends1430.com/player/player.php
-- they're playing "Amos Moses" which I've been jonesing to hear ever since Dick Bartley played "When You're Hot You're Hot" Sat nite.
"left arm gone clean up to the elbow..."
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today's wlng.com gem: Sandy Posey's "Born A Woman". I don't think I've heard that in 30 years at least.
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For those who listen to MAX: They've hired former Live 105 guy Web Fingers to be their morning man. Duuude!
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For those who listen to MAX: They've hired former Live 105 guy Web Fingers to be their morning man. Duuude!
I admit it. I have MAX in my car button pushing queue. When nothing is on I want to hear, I try MAX and stay if it's OK and flip some more if not. Female DJ in the afternoon. Didn't hear who she was.
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For those who listen to MAX: They've hired former Live 105 guy Web Fingers to be their morning man. Duuude!
I admit it. I have MAX in my car button pushing queue. When nothing is on I want to hear, I try MAX and stay if it's OK and flip some more if not. Female DJ in the afternoon. Didn't hear who she was.
I have a MAX button now too (sorry BONE!).
The other day they went from Smashing Pumpkins into Boston, which made me wonder if they have a really savvy programmer or they just got lucky. But over a decade ago, when Smashing Pumpkins first appeared on the cover of the Rolling Stone, the interviewer led off the article by making quite a big deal out of the fact that Billy Corgan listed Boston as a primary influence.
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Back in the early 90s I was doing shows at Morty's Nightclub in North Beach. We'd do comedy and have a musical guest. Sometimes, we'd write a sketch with the musical guest in it.
We worked with a band Web Fingers was in. I can't remember the name of the band, though. He was a nice guy. I hope he still is.
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The Good News: The KPIG simulcast on 1510 AM is supposed to start tomorrow.
The Bad News: the standards format they've been running for the past month is going away and I've become rather attached to it. As poc will attest (I subjected her to the station the other night), it's a rather groovy mix of classic old stuff (Frank, Ella, Nat "King" Cole) with a healthy dose of hits by Barry Manilow, Englebert Humperdinck (!) and the Carpenters, some of which I haven't heard on the radio in decades:
"Weekend in New England", "Tryin' to Get the Feeling" (Barry)
"Solitaire", "I Won't last a Day Without You" (Carpenters)
"Am I That Easy to Forget" (Englebert)
And speaking of standards, KABL also bites the dust on Tuesday. But unlike the hi-JACK-ing of Oldies in NY & Chicago, the KABL jocks will at least get to say goodbye.
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Hey y'all, if you've ever listened to Live 105, you have to listen today. They're doing a "No Boundaries" weekend, which essentially consists of one R'n'R classic & one 80's flashback or deep cut plus a couple of contemporary Live 105 tracks per set. When I turned on the radio this morning I heard The Cult "Love Removal Machine" into The Youngbloods "Get Together" and have since heard such segues as Re-Re's "Respect" into Social Distortion's cover of "Ring Of Fire" and the Stones "19th Nervous Breakdown" into Becks' "Black Tambourine".
Just now the last 5 songs have been The Doors "Light My Fire" into The Clash "Guns Of Brixton" (worth the whole day just to hear that on the radio again), into the latest from the White Stripes, "My Doorbell", into Sly ATFS "Dance To The Music" into The Cure "Fascination Street".
Hoo Hah.
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Damn, now they just played Green Day "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Johnny Cash "I Walk The Line", L7 "Pretend We're Dead" & CCR "Fortunate Son".
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special to Gaz:
the last 5 songs were
Caesars - "Jerk It Out" (aka 'the iPod song')
Jefferson Airplane - "Somebody To Love"
Cracker - "What The World Needs Now"
Hot Hot Heat - "Good Night"
Beatles - "Tomorrow Never Knows"
of course now we got 5 minutes of comercials...
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OK, piqued my interest. I'm tuned in.
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Damn! just saw this. But I'm listening now.
So this is their answer to Jack/MAX and the Star 101 "Whatever Weekends", I presume. Better than all of those put together, and it'll be interesting what the reaction is from their core audience.
Stereo MCs "Connected" into... Wha? "I'm Sorry Miss Jackson"? Outkast?
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So this is their answer to Jack/MAX and the Star 101 "Whatever Weekends", I presume. Better than all of those put together, and it'll be interesting what the reaction is from their core audience.
Well, they played a lot of phone call clips from people sayng they love it, and one from a guy who hated it. Interesting explanation from the PD: apparently they did a survey recently where they went to listeners homes to rummage thru their record collections. The LPs that showed up most frequently were the basis for this weekend. I tuned out around 7 to watch Punk: Attitude a new docu on IFC about the history of punk that was excellent. (Gaz: Henry Rollins had some hilarious comments about homoeroticism in rock.)
Meanwhile The Bone started Little Steven's show TWENTY MINUTES EARLY (!?!) and luckily I only missed one song. Steven played the Beatles' "Run For Your Life" (Mr. Lennon as the original gangsta) and followed up by saying "A year from now I'll be the ONLY one playing the Beatles on the radio." As Homer would say, It's funny because it's true.
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"A year from now I'll be the ONLY one playing the Beatles on the radio." As Homer would say, It's funny because it's true.
I don't mean to sound dense or like I don't belive you- but, like, why?
Not that I would mind all that much- Beatles is like air at this point (although I am sorry I missed hearing "Run For Your Life". I got into the Beatles when I was in junior high and even then that song told me there was more to John Lennon than giving peace a chance & stuff.
(Sunday is my TV night- so I often miss then beginnings of Little Steven's shows since they moved to an earlier time. At least I got to hear the Kaiser Chiefs last night.
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"A year from now I'll be the ONLY one playing the Beatles on the radio." As Homer would say, It's funny because it's true.
I don't mean to sound dense or like I don't belive you- but, like, why?
Not that I would mind all that much- Beatles is like air at this point (although I am sorry I missed hearing "Run For Your Life". I got into the Beatles when I was in junior high and even then that song told me there was more to John Lennon than giving peace a chance & stuff.
(Sunday is my TV night- so I often miss then beginnings of Little Steven's shows since they moved to an earlier time. At least I got to hear the Kaiser Chiefs last night.
I think that was Steven's little dig at the fact that Oldies stations are biting the dust left and right (and he's in NY where the whole Oldies-replaced-by-JACK thing was a big deal). Classic Rock stations play less & less Beatles and add Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers.
But that Kaiser Chiefs song RULES! It's interesting how few of Steven's "Coolest song" picks cross over to KFOG -- Jet managed it, and KFOG's playing that Oasis song (which I also love). But where are the Raveonettes? We do get every Cold Patrol/Snowplay clone in creation(or "coldplay and all the nonsense" as Steven referred to them recently).
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I have an mp3 of "I Predict a Riot" (& 2 more Kaiser Chief's tunes) as well as 3 Raveonette mp3s if you want me to zap them to you later, RGMike.
And thanks for the explanation! I wonder how KFRC will hold up...
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I have an mp3 of "I Predict a Riot" (& 2 more Kaiser Chief's tunes) as well as 3 Raveonette mp3s if you want me to zap them to you later, RGMike.
And thanks for the explanation! I wonder how KFRC will hold up...
I actually bought the new Raveonettes and scored a used copy of their previous one at Wherehouse last week and haven't had a chance to listen to either yet.
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I actually bought the new Raveonettes and scored a used copy of their previous one at Wherehouse last week and haven't had a chance to listen to either yet.
eeexcellent....
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"A year from now I'll be the ONLY one playing the Beatles on the radio." As Homer would say, It's funny because it's true.
I don't mean to sound dense or like I don't belive you- but, like, why?
For the same reason you never hear Elvis's '50s output on American radio anymore. The '60s are the new '50s, thank you JACK.
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the Pig has squealed!
The KPIG simulcast on 1510 AM has begun -- started sometime yesterday. Woo Hoo!
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the Pig has squealed!
The KPIG simulcast on 1510 AM has begun -- started sometime yesterday. Woo Hoo!
I heard it around 7PM last night. Sounds good, but AM signal is not that great out my way.
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the Pig has squealed!
The KPIG simulcast on 1510 AM has begun -- started sometime yesterday. Woo Hoo!
I heard it around 7PM last night. Sounds good, but AM signal is not that great out my way.
it's a crappy signal, and it gets even crappier when they switch to lower power after sundown! Sounds decent enough in the car, tho. worth the effort to hear their way cool mix of stuff.
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the Pig has squealed!
The KPIG simulcast on 1510 AM has begun -- started sometime yesterday. Woo Hoo!
I heard it around 7PM last night. Sounds good, but AM signal is not that great out my way.
it's a crappy signal, and it gets even crappier when they switch to lower power after sundown! Sounds decent enough in the car, tho. worth the effort to hear their way cool mix of stuff.
on my way to work I heard this:
11:02am Eric Clapton Willie And The Hand Jive
10:56am Hellecasters Peter Gunn
There was a Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks song not listed they played before this. A great example of the diversity I miss.
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nice piece in yestrday's Chron (special interest for Gaz) on Energy 92.7, the dance station, and how gay-friendly it is:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/24/PKGD9DNMJN1.DTL&hw=&sn=001&sc=1000
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nice piece in yestrday's Chron (special interest for Gaz) on Energy 92.7, the dance station, and how gay-friendly it is:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/24/PKGD9DNMJN1.DTL&hw=&sn=001&sc=1000
Glad it's a welcoming atmosphere, but ... "Greg the Gay Sportscaster"? Does anyone really want to go through life being known that way? I guess being a market segment is better than being a pariah ...
Also, this should be interesting:
Looking to replace its "Dog House" morning show, which was dropped over some offensive remarks allegedly made by its hosts, KYLD (Wild 94. 9) has promoted from within, naming evening DJ and South Bay native Strawberry to take over, along with Fay Carmona, in from Miami. Although the station expects the new crew to be more listener- and community-friendly than the one before, owner Clear Channel has hired producer Rick Delgado, fired earlier this year from a station in New York after writing a song mocking victims of the Indo-Asian tsunami and using racist epithets to describe Asians. He should be a perfect fit here in the Bay Area ...
I remember the tsunami song; it was horrendous. Nice to know folks like Delgado are rewarded for their work. :x
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nice piece in yestrday's Chron (special interest for Gaz) on Energy 92.7, the dance station, and how gay-friendly it is:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/24/PKGD9DNMJN1.DTL&hw=&sn=001&sc=1000
Glad it's a welcoming atmosphere, but ... "Greg the Gay Sportscaster"? Does anyone really want to go through life being known that way? I guess being a market segment is better than being a pariah ...
I haven't heard the guy, so I don't know if he's doing schtick (e.g. Sports a la Carson Kressley, which would totally suck IMHO) or if he's a standard-issue sports guy who happens to be gay, which would be far more revolutionary.
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Tonite, courtesy of Dick Bartley, I finally got to hear ? & the Mysterians original version of "I Can't Get Enough of You Baby", later covered by Colourfield and (most recently) Smash Mouth. It was one of the Mysterians' follow-ups to "96 Tears" and sure enough that "Tears" Farfisa organ riff makes an appearance.
Now playing: Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson, "Lovers Holiday". God Bless Mr Bartley, long may he wave.
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Tonite, courtesy of Dick Bartley, I finally got to hear ? & the Mysterians original version of "I Can't Get Enough of You Baby", later covered by Colourfield and (most recently) Smash Mouth. It was one of the Mysterians' follow-ups to "96 Tears" and sure enough that "Tears" Farfisa organ riff makes an appearance.
Now playing: Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson, "Lovers Holiday". God Bless Mr Bartley, long may he wave.
Thanks for reminding me how embittered I am that his show isn't syndicated in the NYC market. Used to be, but no more. :x
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Tonite, courtesy of Dick Bartley, I finally got to hear ? & the Mysterians original version of "I Can't Get Enough of You Baby", later covered by Colourfield and (most recently) Smash Mouth. It was one of the Mysterians' follow-ups to "96 Tears" and sure enough that "Tears" Farfisa organ riff makes an appearance.
Now playing: Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson, "Lovers Holiday". God Bless Mr Bartley, long may he wave.
Thanks for reminding me how embittered I am that his show isn't syndicated in the NYC market. Used to be, but no more. :x
There is a station in CT that runs him -- Kool ninetysomething-point-something. If you can get a friend with a car to take a drive on a Sat nite (offer to buy dinner) out to mid-north shore LI, where the station comes in loud and clear, you can get yer Bartley fix. Sounds like a hot date to me!
On the other hand, you do get to hear Felix Hernandez and Vin Scelsa.
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Don't bogart that PIG!
Listening to KPIG this afternoon, everything from "Don't Bogart That Joint" (!) to Randy Newman's "Last Nite I had a Dream". Amazing stuff.
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Don't bogart that PIG!
Listening to KPIG this afternoon, everything from "Don't Bogart That Joint" (!) to Randy Newman's "Last Nite I had a Dream". Amazing stuff.
listened on the way home from camping; primo!
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Hey Geoff, I know you listen to Air America alot... I didn't know Steve Earle has a weekly show on AA (apparently The Quake runs it on Sun nite). Have you heard it? I was wondering if the topic of his selling "Revolution Starts Now" to Chevy came up on the show.
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Hey Geoff, I know you listen to Air America alot... I didn't know Steve Earle has a weekly show on AA (apparently The Quake runs it on Sun nite). Have you heard it? I was wondering if the topic of his selling "Revolution Starts Now" to Chevy came up on the show.
I hadn't heard it much. I mainly listen to Al Franken and Randi Rhodes (the goddess of radio), but I was very aware of his show, so it seemed especially odd to me hearing the music on the Chevy ad.
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Today on the Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue (hey, it's "local radio" to me) I heard, for the first time, Stevie Wonder's original version of "Until You Come Back to Me," as well as the original recording of "Worst That Could Happen." Done by ... wait for it ... THE FIFTH DIMENSION! I had no idea. Sounds VERY similar to the Brooklyn Bridge hit version, only not so legato.
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Today on the Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue (hey, it's "local radio" to me) I heard, for the first time, Stevie Wonder's original version of "Until You Come Back to Me," as well as the original recording of "Worst That Could Happen." Done by ... wait for it ... THE FIFTH DIMENSION! I had no idea. Sounds VERY similar to the Brooklyn Bridge hit version, only not so legato.
Tell me you liked the Stevie -- Oakland's KDIA used to play it regularly (first place I heard it). I guess it was orig a B-side (?) and ended up on an LP later.
as to the 5-D it certainly makes sense (Jimmy Webb connection). 2nd big hit they missed out on -- "Love Hangover" being the other.
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Today on the Felix Hernandez Rhythm Revue (hey, it's "local radio" to me) I heard, for the first time, Stevie Wonder's original version of "Until You Come Back to Me," as well as the original recording of "Worst That Could Happen." Done by ... wait for it ... THE FIFTH DIMENSION! I had no idea. Sounds VERY similar to the Brooklyn Bridge hit version, only not so legato.
Tell me you liked the Stevie -- Oakland's KDIA used to play it regularly (first place I heard it). I guess it was orig a B-side (?) and ended up on an LP later.
as to the 5-D it certainly makes sense (Jimmy Webb connection). 2nd big hit they missed out on -- "Love Hangover" being the other.
TANC: Jimmy Webb's birthday is this week, and Little Steven actually did a salute to him Sun nite -- a very out-of-character set that included the 5D's "Carpet Man", "Highwayman" by Cash/Nelson/Jennings/Kristofferson (I never knew that was Webb composition) and "MacArthur Park"!
LS's show was followed by Joel Selvin's, in which Mr Selvin hung out with Booker T for an hour. Very cool, even tho' I was nodding out about halfway thru.
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since it is Mr Webb's B-Day, I went looking for the lyrics to "MacArthur Park"... note the editorial comments by the person who transcribed them for the Top40 db:
MacArthur Park
Artist: Richard Harris (peak Billboard position # 2 in 1968)
Words and Music by Jimmy Webb
Disco version by Donna Summer charted at # 1 in 1978
MacArthur Park is located on the west side of Wilshire Boulevard between
downtown LA and Santa Monica.
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
CHORUS
[relatively brief instrumental interlude]
There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.
I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.
[extended (1:24) up-tempo instrumental interlude that rivals anything done by Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams]
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]
Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz@worldnet.att.net with help from his buddy, Paulo
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[extended (1:24) up-tempo instrumental interlude that rivals anything done by Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams]
Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]
Transcribed by Ronald E. Hontz
ronhontz@worldnet.att.net with help from his buddy, Paulo
nice work, ron and paolo! :)
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Oh NO!! [upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change]
As opposed to a reversible gender change ... ?
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Meant to post this earlier. A friend of mine has what's becoming a regular podcast on KYOU (1550 AM) that some of us might dig. He's a big record collector and calls his segment "Crate-digger's Holiday"--a reference to his many hours spent digging thru crates of vinyl at various record stores, garage sales, etc. It's very eclectic, and features tracks from all over the place, usually somewhat to very rare or obscure.
He had a segment that ran yesterday, and amazingly, they're re-running another one today, at 12:29 (guess it's in progress as I type this) and 8:29 tonight. Here's his blurb about it:
The show airing today is episode 9, and features the following tracks:
Ray Charles / I Don't Need No Doctor
Led Zepplin / Hots On For Nowhere
The Time / Grace
Supercat / My Girl Josephine
Christopher Guest & National Lampoon / Mother Goose's Wine
Dixie Chicks / Stand By Your Man
The Robins / White Cliffs Of Dover
The start time on the website says 12:29pm and 8:29pm...but these are approximate. The show on before me is called The Nashville Nobody Knows, and spotlights a number of singer/songwriters from the Nashville circuit.
So if you find yourself by a radio around these times, I hope you can tune in.
Thanks,
Tim
The one that ran yesterday included The Jam, Jan & Dean, Traffic, George Torrence and the Naturals, the Pixies, Bic Runga, and Allen Toussaint.
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Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio. And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition". Just amazing.
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Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio. And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition". Just amazing.
On my way to O'Connell High this noon, I had KPIG on, and was inspired, and touched by "The Revolution Starts Now" segueing into the Airplane's "Wooden Ships." It was a good way to start the day.
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Woke up to KPIG this morning; they never fail to surprise with the stuff they pull out: first it was a live cover version of the Allmans' "Jessica" by the Dixie Dregs; then later they played the Austin Lounge Lizards wondrous bluegrass version of Pink Floyd's "The Lunatic" (which predates that bluegrass PF tribute album by a number of years) and Run-C&W's bluegrass "I Second That Emotion" -- first time I've EVER heard anything from either of their 2 delightful LPs on the radio. And as I write, here's a band called Old School Freight Train (?) doing "Superstition". Just amazing.
On my way to O'Connell High this noon, I had KPIG on, and was inspired, and touched by "The Revolution Starts Now" segueing into the Airplane's "Wooden Ships." It was a good way to start the day.
Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
* B E S T L I N E O F M O N T H *
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
* B E S T L I N E O F M O N T H *
Aw shucks, I'm blushing. (A bright shade of... purple, of course.)
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Indeed, I heard that too and it was the first time I'd heard the JA version of WS in ages. Grace likes purple berries even better than crispy lettuce.
* B E S T L I N E O F M O N T H *
Aw shucks, I'm blushing. (A bright shade of... purple, of course.)
When I saw the Starship do this at the Shrine in '74, before Marty rejoined, David Frieberg sang the line "You must try some of these puple tablets..." I probably told this story before here, but since we're talking about purple berries, I thought it was worth repeating.
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Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it. This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.
>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS
>>MEDIA SUMMIT
>>Date: Thursday, July 23, 2005
>>Place: Renaissance Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio
>>Audience: 250 Program Directors
>>
>>Fred Jacobs introduces 4-minute video bio.
>>At its conclusion the Dovells' "You Can't Sit Down" explodes from the
>>speakers as 5 Go-Go girls come out of the wings surrounding Fred, much to
>>his discomfort.
>>Little Steven enters to thunderous applause.
>>He cuts off the music with a wave of his hand, leans into the microphone
>>and says "Ladies and Gentlemen, Fred Jacobs."
>>The music returns as the girls exit. A stunned audience applauds wildly as
>>Fred, very uncharacteristically, dances off with them.
>>
>>Little Steven: Well that was worth the price of admission alone.
>>
>>(more applause and laughter)
>>
>>(paces with the hand held mic for a minute, and then . . . )
>>
>>I Love Radio!
>>
>>(applause once again erupts)
>>
>>And I feel nothing but love in this room because as I look around, I see
>>only two kinds of people.
>>
>>Our beloved affiliates . . . and future affiliates.
>>
>>(laughter)
>>
>>So now matter what happens in this next half hour, remember what I just
>>said. It's just family talking.
>>
>>And without any further disclaimers let me ask the only important question
>>that is on my mind, and I'm sure you've been thinking about it also,
>>especially lately.
>>
>>(pause)
>>
>>WHEN DID THE FUCKING PUSSIES TAKE OVER?
>>
>>(applause and laughter)
>>
>>When?
>>
>>Don't you look forward to the day when your grandson is on your knee and
>>he looks up and says,
>>
>>"Grampa weren't you in radio once?"
>>
>>"Yes, Grandson," you'll reply.
>>
>>"Could I ask you something," he'll say.
>>
>>"Of course, my love, anything," you'll say.
>>
>>"Grampa where were you WHEN THE FUCKING PUSSIES TOOK OVER?"
>>
>>(more laughter)
>>
>>Where were we?
>>
>>What happened?
>>
>>Things are out of line and we're not leaving here today until we
>>straighten it out.
>>
>>(applause and laughter)
>>
>>Now I was going to wait for this but we might as well get right to it
>>since it is all everybody's talking about.
>>
>>I have come to praise JACK not to bury him.
>>
>>(laughter - uncertain applause)
>>
>>The guys at Infinity are friends of ours, as is everybody else, we got
>>nothing but friends you all know that.
>>
>>And I've gotta say I'm proud of these guys for having the balls to shake
>>things up. Things needed shaking up. And history will remember them in a
>>very positive way when looking back at this world changing moment.
>>
>>Having said that . . .
>>
>>Replacing 33 year old New York oldies institution CBS-FM with JACK is like
>>replacing the Statue of Liberty with a blow-up doll.
>>
>>(eruptions of laughter and applause)
>>
>>But again, change is good. And necessary.
>>
>>With a little bit of luck JACK will last 10 or 12 months because it is
>>obvious people want something different, they are hungry for something,
>>anything.
>>
>>So it could be 6 months before anybody actually listens to JACK.
>>
>>Once they do it is doomed for 3 obvious reasons.
>>
>>At the moment it is replacing oldies formats but it is not an oldies
>>format in the true sense of the word.
>>
>>It's mostly 80's, some 70's, some 90's.
>>
>>Now it must be said that the oldies format is vulnerable because over the
>>last 5-10 years it has, in a word, sucked.
>>
>>It has sucked for a very simple reason, somebody had the brilliant idea to
>>eliminate the 50's and replace it with the 70's.
>>
>>This was done by somebody uniquely stupid and deaf and ignorant and a bad
>>businessman on top of it all.
>>
>>So naturally, everybody copied it and the 50's disappeared virtually
>>overnight.
>>
>>Now let's digress and examine this oldies thing for a minute.
>>
>>Assuming you accept the fact that those overseeing the oldies format these
>>last 5 years - 10 years - are, in fact, stupid, deaf, ignorant, and bad
>>businessmen, let's deal with it.
>>
>>As far as stupid, deaf, and ignorant, when it comes to decades that
>>matter, that matter historically, in terms of influence, importance, and
>>never-to-be-heard-again-quality - that is the 50's and 60's.
>>
>>Everything we do, everything we are comes from those two decades.
>>
>>You're gonna throw one away?
>>
>>You're gonna replace Elvis, Little Richard, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran,
>>Johnny Burnette, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, Lloyd Price, and
>>Fats Domino with, all due respect, Donna Summer and the Bee Gees?
>>
>>You're gonna replace primal, vital, timeless, forever cool rock and roll
>>pioneers with disco?
>>
>>Disco?
>>
>>You wanna know what disco is good for?
>>
>>Disco is for when you're drunk at a wedding with your old lady and you
>>want to act like an idiot and be John Travolta for an hour or two.
>>
>>That's where it belongs.
>>
>>Not on radio.
>>
>>And to the issue of oldies being bad business - all you hear - I'm
>>assuming from sales people - is we must lower our demo's.
>>
>>The oldies demographic are getting too old - that's the rationale for
>>replacing the 50's with the 70's.
>>
>>Now if all there was to sell in the world were Fruit Loops, Play Stations,
>>and sneakers - they might have a point.
>>
>>But I got a little secret to share.
>>
>>You know that age group - 35 to 65 - that nobody in sales seems to care
>>about?
>>
>>THAT'S WHERE ALL THE FUCKING MONEY IS!
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>I mean ALL the fucking money.
>>
>>35 to 65.
>>
>>Memo to sales team - SELL THEM SOMETHING!
>>
>>And, by the way, if you want younger people listening, you can get that
>>done. And I mean kids, if you want them.
>>
>>Who is cooler?
>>
>>Early Elvis or Elton John?
>>
>>What appeals more to kids, Gene Vincent's black leather attitude, Eddie
>>Cochran's teenage frustration, Little Richard's cry of liberation, and
>>Dion's total Soprano's coolness - or the Eagles?
>>
>>You want wild? Put together the Sex Pistols, Audioslave, and the Wu-Tang
>>Clan - they aren't as wild as Jerry Lee Lewis in his prime.
>>
>>But you have to explain that.
>>
>>Show it, illustrate, educate, sell it.
>>
>>Alright - digression over - so JACK isn't oldies so it must be some kind
>>of classic rock/pop hybrid.
>>
>>But JACK doesn't address the two biggest problems of classic rock.
>>
>>15 years ago I said we're chasing all the personality out of rock radio
>>and into talk and sports.
>>
>>And the ratings went with it.
>>
>>We need more personality, not less, and JACK has none. No DJ's means no
>>personal relationship with the audience. Eventual apathy is inevitable.
>>
>>The other big issue classic rock must consider is it must start playing
>>new music again.
>>
>>I've suggested it to my own affiliates and I'll keep saying it every
>>change I get.
>>
>>We've got a big problem.
>>
>>Look around.
>>
>>Pearl Jam does some business.
>>
>>Dave Mathews - if he's rock at all - does well.
>>
>>Maybe Oasis breaks this year in the U.S.
>>
>>Maybe Coldplay - if they're considered rock.
>>
>>But in a real sense, the last big band through the door was U2.
>>
>>That's 25 years ago.
>>
>>Has anybody stopped to consider that.
>>
>>Basically when our generation stops touring, it's over.
>>
>>That's one reason why we started the Underground Garage format.
>>
>>New Hard Rock, Hip Hop, and Pop can be heard in various places, new Rock
>>and Roll had nowhere to go.
>>
>>We have played more new bands in 3 years than anybody since the 60's.
>>
>>We average 30 new bands a year.
>>
>>That's how many are out there.
>>
>>And we are very picky out of respect to our classic rock affiliates, we
>>know we need to keep the quality level high and we do.
>>
>>But we can't sell records with 2 hours a week.
>>
>>Someday somebody will have the balls to put the Underground Garage format
>>on 24-7 on broadcast radio but until then, we only have 2 hours a week.
>>
>>We need your help.
>>
>>Rock and Roll is not just that museum down the street.
>>
>>It's a living, breathing animal that needs to be fed.
>>
>>With new blood.
>>
>>And I'm not saying you need to do as much as we do, we're about 40% new
>>and the rest from the entire 50 years of history.
>>
>>And by the way everybody told us you can't combine old with new but of
>>course you can.
>>
>>As long as you're making your decisions based on musical experience, good
>>taste, and an effective, coherent emotional communication.
>>
>>As opposed to your Ipod on shuffle.
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>When you properly combine old and new the old records give the new ones a
>>sense of depth, of belonging to an eternal continuum, carrying the flag
>>forward.
>>
>>The new records give the old ones relevance, keeps them vital, connected
>>to the next generation.
>>
>>And all testing and computer analysis and surveys don't tell you that.
>>It's all bullshit. When are we going to learn that?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>All that shit tells you is what people think they want right now.
>>
>>Well that's not the way great radio happens, or great anything.
>>
>>You don't do a survey before you write a song, or make a record.
>>
>>We are drowning in an ocean of mediocrity because sometimes you gotta have
>>enough historical perspective, and vision, and balls to say we have to
>>combine short term want with long term need.
>>
>>And yeah you gotta sell it.
>>
>>If you're playing cool stuff make sure the audience hears it right - in
>>the right context. That is everything.
>>
>>If to a punky consciousness the Ramones are sugar and the Ronettes are
>>broccoli you play the Ramones into the Ronettes and, because Joey learned
>>to sing from Ronnie and you can hear it, the Ramones become hollandaise
>>and it works.
>>
>>(laughter, applause)
>>
>>There is an art to this shit.
>>
>>You know that.
>>
>>It's the corporate bosses that forget that fact.
>>
>>But it's not just music - we have this problem plaguing every aspect of
>>our culture.
>>
>>Yes content needs work, yes marketing needs work, but it is the sales
>>teams that need to be re-educated and motivated and inspired and creative.
>>And it's not happening because they are being led by business oversight
>>guys.
>>
>>Content guys should be running companies, marketing guys should be running
>>companies, who put business oversight guys in charge?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>Wall Street that's who.
>>
>>Wall Street continues to love and reward and worship short term success
>>for some reason. As the culture and the economy and all our fathers' and
>>grandfathers' and hundreds of years of hard work get trashed in a
>>generation or two.
>>
>>The tail is wagging the dog.
>>
>>Wall Street should not be calling the shots.
>>
>>When did Wall Street ever write a song? Paint a picture? Make a movie?
>>Play a song on the radio that changed somebody's life?
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>Where are the music people?
>>
>>I see lawyers, accountants, test marketers running the world.
>>
>>Where is the emotional connection?
>>
>>Where is the passion?
>>
>>This ain't about JACK or BOB or Moe or Larry or Curly.
>>
>>It's about you.
>>
>>Everybody in this room.
>>
>>You are here because you are connected emotionally.
>>
>>This ain't Harvard Business School.
>>
>>It's fucking Rock and Roll!
>>
>>(applause)
>>
>>These Wall Street cats couldn't have gotten us here. They react - they
>>don't create.
>>
>>They didn't build this industry.
>>
>>We did it.
>>
>>And you're not here because it was a smart business decision.
>>
>>I know what you make.
>>
>>(laughter)
>>
>>(pauses - slows down)
>>
>>You're here because you loved it once.
>>
>>And we've got to find a way to love it again.
>>
>>And communicate that love to our audience.
>>
>>I am determined - together we will find a way.
>>
>>The Revolution is on.
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>(standing ovation - thunderous applause)
>
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Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it. This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.
>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS
great stuff, his disco-bashing notwithstanding.
I was just discussing with Gaz this weekend that the hot rumor in town is that KFRC is switching formats -- possibly very soon. Meanwhile MAX is dying with their version of JACK. -- they're down to a 1.0 in the latest ratings book.
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Got this from the NRBQ listserv & immediately thought you guys should read it. This isn't exactly local radio, but it may end up affecting us.
>>LITTLE STEVEN'S KEYNOTE ADDRESS RADIO & RECORDS CONVENTION 2005 - JACOBS
great stuff, his disco-bashing notwithstanding.
I was just discussing with Gaz this weekend that the hot rumor in town is that KFRC is switching formats -- possibly very soon. Meanwhile MAX is dying with their version of JACK. -- they're down to a 1.0 in the latest ratings book.
Yep I meant to add that I'm not in total agreement with every word of it--specifically the BeeGees and Donna Summer refs. What is this, 1979 all over again? (Although if you went by the Drive and KFOG 10@10s today, it indeed was. Briefly.)
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Thanks to Little Steven, I now know who The Charms, the Kaiser Chiefs, The Mummies and The Jessica Fletchers are.
Thank you, Little Steven, for giving me something new to listen to.
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The "new" KFRC is here...
http://www.bayarearadio.org/blog/2005/09/kfrc-getting-younger-on-friday.html
Sadly, I'm assuming this means no more Dick Bartley.
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The Chron's article today about the KFRC switch:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/05/DDGFNEHK1N1.DTL
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The Chron's article today about the KFRC switch:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/05/DDGFNEHK1N1.DTL
I think the problem is an assumption that people have very narrow tastes, which might be partly correct, but I think a lot of people would appreciate a sprinkling of 50's and 60's along with these other newer songs. I think the old KFRC was too stuck in the past, but I don't think we need to dump it either.
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The Chron's article today about the KFRC switch:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/05/DDGFNEHK1N1.DTL
I think the problem is an assumption that people have very narrow tastes, which might be partly correct, but I think a lot of people would appreciate a sprinkling of 50's and 60's along with these other newer songs. I think the old KFRC was too stuck in the past, but I don't think we need to dump it either.
Listening to the callers who made requests on KFRC and especially on Dick Bartley's show which supposedly skewed even older, demographically, it's clear not all "oldies" listeners are over 50. The "new" KFRC is actually playing more than a sprinkling of '60s -- the highest-scoring Beatles, Motown and other songs are still in rotation. "Brown-Eyed Girl", for example, despite peaking at #10 back in the day, is one of THE most popular oldies on American radio.
OOO -- I've tuned in to Beatles A-Z just in time for "You Know My Name..."! Good Evening and welcome to Slaggers...
Proxy WOBATZ for Gaz!
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The Chron's article today about the KFRC switch:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/05/DDGFNEHK1N1.DTL
I think the problem is an assumption that people have very narrow tastes, which might be partly correct, but I think a lot of people would appreciate a sprinkling of 50's and 60's along with these other newer songs. I think the old KFRC was too stuck in the past, but I don't think we need to dump it either.
Listening to the callers who made requests on KFRC and especially on Dick Bartley's show which supposedly skewed even older, demographically, it's clear not all "oldies" listeners are over 50. The "new" KFRC is actually playing more than a sprinkling of '60s -- the highest-scoring Beatles, Motown and other songs are still in rotation. "Brown-Eyed Girl", for example, despite peaking at #10 back in the day, is one of THE most popular oldies on American radio.
OOO -- I've tuned in to Beatles A-Z just in time for "You Know My Name..."! Good Evening and welcome to Slaggers...
Proxy WOBATZ for Gaz!
At least you stuck around long enough (I assume) for "Your Mother Should Know," which is easily in my Beatles Top Five. (I wish that comfort food would've been more satisfiying, though.)
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I had the pleasure of hearing perhaps the Best. Little. Steven. Show. EVER. last nite. It was a love letter to New York and it was spectacular, featuring the likes of "Wild on the Streets" by Garland Jeffries, which I hadn't heard on the radio since leaving NYC, and much much more. I urge you all -- especially Gaz, since you're actually there -- to check it out on the net
http://www.littlestevensundergroundgarage.com/play/archive.html
You'll be glad you did.
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From the Bay Area Radio website:
"The San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club, the local alliance of public relations professionals, will announce the winners of the 9th Annual Pubby Awards at an awards ceremony luncheon Wednesday. The Pubbies, which honor excellence in media, will be held at the Argent Hotel in downtown San Francisco.
Among the Pubby nominees for Best Bay Area On-Air Radio Personality are Pete Wilson (KGO/810), Michael Krasny (KQED/88.5), Don Bleu (Star 101.3), Sarah & No Name (Alice@97.3) and Annalisa (KFOG/104.5)."
Sadly, Annalisa lost to Sarah & No Brain. But Kruk & Kuip won Best Sportscaters.
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Thanks to Little Steven, I now know who The Charms, the Kaiser Chiefs, The Mummies and The Jessica Fletchers are.
Thank you, Little Steven, for giving me something new to listen to.
there's a band called the jessica fletchers?? i'm creaming....
i also think i like zachary ross...
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there's a band called the jessica fletchers?? i'm creaming....
Yep. They're from Norway. They have awesome keyboards. I'll burn ya a copy of their CD.
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there's a band called the jessica fletchers?? i'm creaming....
they look NOTHING like Angela Lansbury...
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there's a band called the jessica fletchers?? i'm creaming....
they look NOTHING like Angela Lansbury...
aw, damn - nevermind.:)
thanks, beej - i'd love a cd!
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cool
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more cool internet listening:
http://bobshannon.com/
Mr Shannon was a DJ at the late lamented "oldies" WCBS-FM; he's married to Connie T Empress of the Empire State Soul Club. Interesting shows avail on their site, I'm listening to a "salute to CBGBs right now (scroll down the home page to find it).
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more cool internet listening:
http://bobshannon.com/
Mr Shannon was a DJ at the late lamented "oldies" WCBS-FM; he's married to Connie T Empress of the Empire State Soul Club. Interesting shows avail on their site, I'm listening to a "salute to CBGBs right now (scroll down the home page to find it).
I'm into hour 2 of the "CBGBs Salute" -- everything from the Jaynetts to Mink DeVille, including a Richie Valens/Los Lobos "La Bamba Megamix" and (currently) Wreckless Eric's "Whole Wide World". Wow.
ETA: Plastic Bertrand too! I am the King of the Divan!
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new recommendation from poc:
http://www.kpoo.com
local SF listener-supported radio station, they do a soul show (like Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue) on Tue & Thur mornings. On right now and sounding fab.
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new recommendation from poc:
http://www.kpoo.com
local SF listener-supported radio station, they do a soul show (like Felix Hernandez's Rhythm Revue) on Tue & Thur mornings. On right now and sounding fab.
OH. MY. GAWD!
This station is amazing. Their soul shows are scattered around the schedule (see their website for listings) and what I've heard so far has been astounding.
"JJ on D Radio" is the guy's name and he was on Sat nite from 10p-2a. 2 hours of '70s followed by 2 hours of '60s (guaranteed to be off vinyl 45s, or so he sez). And the nuggets he dredged up -- Curtis Mayfield, "If there's Hell Below we're All Gonna Go". Detroit Emeralds, "You Want It You Got It". The Impressions' very Marvin Gaye-ish "Finally Got Myself Together". And much much more. I had to force myself to turn the radio off at 1:00 and go to sleep. But he's back on Monday afternoon from Noon to 4 and it WILL be fonky.
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Last week I took part in a radio music opinion survey, much like the one Alicat did a few months back. I seem to recall hers was in a large room with a bunch of other people, but mine was an individual test--they gave me a cassette walkman, a tape with bits of about 500 songs (each time), several questionnaires and one of those lovely computer-read test forms (and a #2 pencil). They stuck me in a room by myself and left me to guide the course of SF rock radio. :wink:
One thing that differed about this test from others I've take is that, besides rating a song from 1 (hate it a lot) to 5 (one of my faves), there was a separate bubble to mark if you were tired of hearing that song on the radio. I marked that one a LOT. There was also one to mark if you weren't familiar with the song at all. There were maybe 10 that fell into that category for me.
It was given in two parts on two separate days. And I figure either KFOG was running it to try and tweak their playlist, or someone else is trying to figure out what Fogheads are burnt out on and offer an alternative, because nearly all the songs were ones I've heard on KFOG over the last few years, or in the case of some older tunes, 10@10 staples. And there was a healthy sprinkling of Bob Marley tunes too, several of which got the "tired of" rating from me. Also a lot of Clapton, Police, Counting Crows, Doors, CCR, Bonnie Raitt, Beatles, etc. I also noticed several instances where someone's cover of a classic tune would be played (like Counting Crows Big Yellow Taxi) and then a hundred or so songs later, I'd hear Joni's version. I tried to pretty much consistently downgrade the cover and pump the original.
When I was done with the second part, I asked if they could tell me who was sponsoring the survey. But the guy at the desk was just an office worker and he said he didn't know. Not sure if I buy that, but in any case, they weren't talking.
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They stuck me in a room by myself and left me to guide the course of SF rock radio. :wink:
Way cool dude. How does one go about getting chosen for such a thing? I'd do it in a flash. From what you described I have to think it was KFOG, the Counting Crows version of "Big Yellow Taxi" is an absolute clincher.
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They stuck me in a room by myself and left me to guide the course of SF rock radio. :wink:
Way cool dude. How does one go about getting chosen for such a thing? I'd do it in a flash. From what you described I have to think it was KFOG, the Counting Crows version of "Big Yellow Taxi" is an absolute clincher.
I'm registered with a couple of marketing research companies that do focus groups, and get screening calls about 3-4 times a year, but usually only get chosen to participate maybe once. Usually get paid between $70 and $100 bucks for a couple of hours. This one was $100, but I had to go in twice.
This one was Fleischman Field Research--they're on Sutter here in SF. Go to this page & fill out their form to get in their database & maybe they'll call you too:
http://www.ffrsf.com/resps/index.htm
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right now on KFOG -- that "sick of your lies, tired of my tears" song I was trying to identify recently. Hope Dave back-announces it. Damn it's good.
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right now on KFOG -- that "sick of your lies, tired of my tears" song I was trying to identify recently. Hope Dave back-announces it. Damn it's good.
OMG! it was Susan Tedeschi -- I shoulda known.
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Last week I took part in a radio music opinion survey, much like the one Alicat did a few months back.
I asked if they could tell me who was sponsoring the survey. But the guy at the desk was just an office worker and he said he didn't know. Not sure if I buy that, but in any case, they weren't talking.
Sounds a lot like mine. See my previous summary in the SF Music Survey thread in Stream of Consciousness. Instead of a walkman, we had a tape play over loud speakers for the whole room and it was just women. I'm POSITIVE mine was paid for by Bonneville/MAX FM. It was esay money listening to music.
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Live 105 brings back Goth (from a press release):
"Black Planet, LIVE 105's after-hours goth show, returns at the witching hour on the first day of October for two hours of classic goth rock and new cuts from the dark underground. Your host Dulce, plus his sidekicks Lucifer and the Devil's Advocate, are black and up to their old evil tricks and gothic advice in between the spells of Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, The Damned, The Cult, The Mission UK, Christian Death, Fields of the Nephilim, Daniel Ash, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Love & Rockets, The Cure (old!), VNV Nation, Sex Gang Children, Tones On Tail, Apoptygma Berzerk, Peter Murphy, Clan of Xymox, Covenant, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Virgin Prunes, Skinny Puppy and one Depeche Mode song...plus many morbid more including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach! Black Planet 2005 debuts Friday night at 12midnight after LIVE 105's Nine Inch Nails after-show party.You have been warned..."
All I can think of is the little Goth kids on South Park...
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Live 105 brings back Goth (from a press release):
"Black Planet, LIVE 105's after-hours goth show, returns at the witching hour on the first day of October for two hours of classic goth rock and new cuts from the dark underground. Your host Dulce, plus his sidekicks Lucifer and the Devil's Advocate, are black and up to their old evil tricks and gothic advice in between the spells of Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy, The Damned, The Cult, The Mission UK, Christian Death, Fields of the Nephilim, Daniel Ash, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Love & Rockets, The Cure (old!), VNV Nation, Sex Gang Children, Tones On Tail, Apoptygma Berzerk, Peter Murphy, Clan of Xymox, Covenant, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Virgin Prunes, Skinny Puppy and one Depeche Mode song...plus many morbid more including Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by J.S. Bach! Black Planet 2005 debuts Friday night at 12midnight after LIVE 105's Nine Inch Nails after-show party.You have been warned..."
All I can think of is the little Goth kids on South Park...
Tones on Tail were goth?
From the fear of being real, to the fear of being really you ... Livin' it up is a big kick, it's good for you.
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Tones on Tail were goth?
From the fear of being real, to the fear of being really you ... Livin' it up is a big kick, it's good for you.
Well everyone knows Bauhaus was Goth, so if Love & Rockets were Goth, how could their intermediate incarnation not be?
That being said I don't think L&R were Goth either.
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Tones on Tail were goth?
From the fear of being real, to the fear of being really you ... Livin' it up is a big kick, it's good for you.
Well everyone knows Bauhaus was Goth, so if Love & Rockets were Goth, how could their intermediate incarnation not be?
That being said I don't think L&R were Goth either.
I never know that ToT was a waystation between the two! Something new every day ...
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Live 105 is having a "All Things Rock" weekend featuring the "past, present & future of Rock".
So far the nuggets, like "Free Bird", "Whole Lotta Love" & "Light My Fire" have been mixed in with some pretty good new stuff that I haven't heard before.
And anyway the Yankess/Angels game got rained out.
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Live 105 is having a "All Things Rock" weekend featuring the "past, present & future of Rock".
So far the nuggets, like "Free Bird", "Whole Lotta Love" & "Light My Fire" have been mixed in with some pretty good new stuff that I haven't heard before.
And anyway the Yankess/Angels game got rained out.
F*ck, I take it all back.
Now they're playing "Eye of the Tiger".
oy vey.
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For aficionados of format-switches, 106.9 (the former KEAR, the religious station) is currently "stunting" on its way to a rumored FM Talk format.
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Larry Krueger et al are suing KNBR over their firings...
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/24/BAGA0FCQQB1.DTL
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#1 - the new Talk format has started on 106.9... The Doghouse has returned (in mornings on a "trial basis", to be replaced by Adam Carolla in Jan.), along with Darian O'Toole and John London.
#2 - from Brad Kava's blog, K-Fox (98.5) is playing an hour of "sheep music" in honor of the time change this weekend -- an "extra hour of sheep", get it?
So what is "sheep music"? well... Pink Floyd ("Sheep")... Genesis ("Lamb Lies Down on Broadway")... Stevie Ray Vaughn ("Mary had a Little Lamb)...
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KFOG has been sold. Along with all of Susquehanna's other radio stations:
http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=mergersNews&storyID=2005-10-31T153706Z_01_N31644016_RTRIDST_0_MEDIA-CUMULUS-SUSQUEHANNA-UPDATE-2.XML
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Wow. I wonder if there will be impact on the KFOG programming. Dave's new 8-year contract? Less local flexibility?
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Wow. I wonder if there will be impact on the KFOG programming. Dave's new 8-year contract? Less local flexibility?
I think it was a 3-year contract, and it probably doesn't hold in the event of a station sale. But for the time being, I don't expect changes.
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Wow. I wonder if there will be impact on the KFOG programming. Dave's new 8-year contract? Less local flexibility?
I think it was a 3-year contract, and it probably doesn't hold in the event of a station sale. But for the time being, I don't expect changes.
The only way there'll be fast and noticeable changes is if (a) the SF market is doubled up as a result (which I don't believe it is, and even if it were, KFOG and its staff would be the preferred brand) and (b) if a union entity has been acquired by a nonunion entity (and I have no idea where Susquehanna or Cumulus Media fall on that top).
Any similarities between this acquisition and that of the Voice by New Times are purely coincidental.
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Just saw this in SFGate:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/01/BUG38FH0O81.DTL
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interesting item from 960 The Quake: they've picked up the syndicated show "Broadway's Biggest Hits" (formerly heard on KABL) and will run it Sunday nites at 7. It replaces a show about motor sports. So somebody at the Quake decided (tongue-in-cheek, perhaps?) that show tunes were a better lead-in to their weekly gay show ("Queer Channel") than NASCAR had been.
I can't decide if that's absolutely brilliant or incredibly lame.
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interesting item from 960 The Quake: they've picked up the syndicated show "Broadway's Biggest Hits" (formerly heard on KABL) and will run it Sunday nites at 7. It replaces a show about motor sports. So somebody at the Quake decided (tongue-in-cheek, perhaps?) that show tunes were a better lead-in to their weekly gay show ("Queer Channel") than NASCAR had been.
I can't decide if that's absolutely brilliant or incredibly lame.
Sometimes the truth is lame.
And sometimes stereotypes become stereotypes because there's a sliver of truth to them.
And I know a whole lot more Broadway queens than NASCAR queens. Especially on radio, where one can't ogle Gordon & Earnhardt (sp?).
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OK, so I knew it was Guy Fawkes Day, but I didn't realize it was the 400th Anniversary (1605). KPIG celebrated by playing John Lennon's "Remember" (remember... the 5th of November), and I can't, er, recall the last time I heard that song on the radio.
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I can't remember which of y'all have satellite radio (or have experienced it regularly), but I got an email from my friend at XM with an offer that gets me their Audiovox XCS2 reciever (for home or car) for FREE. So I figure why not? Any thoughts? (their other, more high-end receivers are also avail to me at a discount; obviously the subscription is extra.)
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I know one couple who subscribes to XM and have it in car and home. They speak well of it.
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Before shuffling off to bed, I have to mention that Little Steven opened his show with "Shake Some Action" -- I'd forgotten it was produced by Dave Edmunds.
His opening set also included The Turtles' "Outside Chance", one of their rarely-heard tracks, which was an early Warren Zevon composition.
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For those of you jonesin' to hear a dozen different versions of "White Christmas", KOIT switched to their annual all-Xmas-all-the-time format over the weekend.
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So I popped into the convenience store in my building just now. They've switched from KOIT to Star 101 (presumably to avoid the nonstop Xmas music) and Sylvia Chacon (formerly of KFRC) is now on Star. She was reading a blurb about the American Music Awards and she called the Eurythmics "the Arrhythmics". Maybe Annie & Dave should do a cover of "Heartbeat" :wink:
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So I popped into the convenience store in my building just now. They've switched from KOIT to Star 101 (presumably to avoid the nonstop Xmas music) and Sylvia Chacon (formerly of KFRC) is now on Star. She was reading a blurb about the American Music Awards and she called the Eurythmics "the Arrhythmics". Maybe Annie & Dave should do a cover of "Heartbeat" :wink:
I'd rather have Dave Stewart write a simple synth riff and have Sylvia just say "Sylllvia Cha-KONE" over and over again to the beat. Annie can do her ersoultz obligato thing over the top if she wants.
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All "Alice's Restaurant", all the time: Yes, KFOG will be playing Arlo's classic at Noon & 6, but KPIG just played it at 9 -- and will play it at Noon, 3, and 7 (!).
Oddly, 97.3 Alice won't play "Alice" at all...
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All "Alice's Restaurant", all the time: Yes, KFOG will be playing Arlo's classic at Noon & 6, but KPIG just played it at 9 -- and will play it at Noon, 3, and 7 (!).
Oddly, 97.3 Alice won't play "Alice" at all...
I also heard it on KUSF at about 11:30am yesterday, and supposedly the jock had played it earlier in his shift as well. You know what they say...all the jocks love Alice. (Because they can go grab a bite, hit the loo, smoke a joint, or whatever during its 18+ minute duration.)
Yesterday's Rhymes With Orange comic strip had to do with Alice as well, but I can't find it on the web right now.
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All "Alice's Restaurant", all the time: Yes, KFOG will be playing Arlo's classic at Noon & 6, but KPIG just played it at 9 -- and will play it at Noon, 3, and 7 (!).
Oddly, 97.3 Alice won't play "Alice" at all...
I also heard it on KUSF at about 11:30am yesterday, and supposedly the jock had played it earlier in his shift as well. You know what they say...all the jocks love Alice. (Because they can go grab a bite, hit the loo, smoke a joint, or whatever during its 18+ minute duration.)
Yesterday's Rhymes With Orange comic strip had to do with Alice as well, but I can't find it on the web right now.
It's a little late, but since we were out of town yesterday for T-day, I was jonesin' for an MP3 of the song. At anyone's leisure (I got a whole year) if you got it...
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All "Alice's Restaurant", all the time: Yes, KFOG will be playing Arlo's classic at Noon & 6, but KPIG just played it at 9 -- and will play it at Noon, 3, and 7 (!).
Oddly, 97.3 Alice won't play "Alice" at all...
I also heard it on KUSF at about 11:30am yesterday, and supposedly the jock had played it earlier in his shift as well. You know what they say...all the jocks love Alice. (Because they can go grab a bite, hit the loo, smoke a joint, or whatever during its 18+ minute duration.)
One of KPIG's plays was of a studio version -- essentially the script of the original, word-for-word and inflection-for-inflection, only done in a studio with musicians and no audience . It was weird -- dunno the source (Maybe the sndtk album of the movie?). Arlo cut a single version with a rock band and called it "Alice's Rock'n'Roll Restaurant" and it actually charted in 1969 (maybe that was from the movie sndtk too), but this was something else I'd never heard before.
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Internet listening tip: Little Steven's show this week was stellar; the first hour was a salute to the Big TNT Show (the "sequel" to the T.A.M.I. Show), featuring a lot of the artists who performed. Hour two featured salutes to Donovan (his box set AND autobio are out this week) and Mario Savio. Well worth checking out on the 'net if you missed it last nite.
Best segue: he played Donovan's version of "Fat Angel" (aka "fly Trans-Love Airways") and followed it with one of my fave JA tracks, "Lather".
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BIG news: per Brad Kava in the Merc, KQKE, aka the Air America station, is debuting a new local morning show on Jan 2nd -- to be hosted by Will Durst and former mayor Willie Brown. "Keepin' it Real with Will & Willie" is the working title.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2005/12/new_air_america.html
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Saw this via Sean Ross's "Ross on Radio" newsletter, a must-read for anyone interested in radio's inner workings (that means you, Mike).
http://www.edisonresearch.com/home/archives/2005/12/songs_that_made_2.html
Excerpt:
But it's 2005 and the spread of Jack- and Bob-FM and their 1,000 song playlists has sent AC and Classic Rock programmers scrambling to protect their variety images, even those stations that never really cultivated them in the first place. Now, "Smoke From A Distant Fire" is more available on the radio this year than at any time since 1977. In fact, there are a lot of titles that were easier to hear this year than in any since they were released-"I Was Made For Loving You" and "Lick It Up" by Kiss, "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet, "Waterloo" by Abba, "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" by Loverboy, and "I Can't Dance" by Genesis among them. But only "Kung-Fu Fighting" rivals "Smoke" for sudden rehabilitation from the type of song that shouldn't be on the radio to one that must be.
We have a good idea how this will play out. There was a time in the early days of Classic Rock radio where you could go from market to market and hear "Jump Into The Fire" by Nilsson. When the all-'80s stations came along, "Missionary Man" by the Eurythmics was suddenly as available as it was in 1986. So whatever the durability of Bob- and Jack-FM, "Smoke From A Distant Fire" is likely to dissipate eventually. But, for now, it typifies a radio dial where programmers' creativity is going in to bringing back lost 45s, not finding new music.
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Thanks for that, Gaz -- most interesting. See my comment in the KFOG/Not 10@10 thread about their sudden overplaying of "Burnin' for You" and "I'm No Angel".
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The ever-wonderful KPIG, not surprisingly, has been playing some very cool Xmas stuff this month. Last nite they did the genius segue of playing Tom Waits' non-seasonal "Step Right Up" into Allan Sherman's "12 Gifts of Xmas".
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Say hallelujah! It's Little Steven's Xmas Show -- on-air right now. The Wailers (and not the Marley kind) doing "Xmas Spirit". And Manic Hispanic doing their Latino parody, "Santa Got Run Over by my Chevy". Great stuff!
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I always forget to listen to KPFA's Thurday nite music shows (Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson). But tonite I was in the car, and just as I pulled into the driveway, Bonnie played Al Green's "Love & Happiness" and I just sat there, surrounded by Al, transfixed. And THEN -- she followed that with Patti Smith's "Redondo Beach", which I hadn't heard in decades.
As I write, Derk is playing Joni's recent remake of "The Last Time I Saw Richard."
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Bad news for my radio presets. Channel 104.9 follows KSJO & KOME into oblivion.
(from the Merc's Brad Kava:)
Without much warning, even to its own staff, San Antonio's Clear Channel radio dropped its second rock format in a year, replacing it with romantic music in Spanish.
Channnel 104.9,which played alternative music and had been a good community citizen, promoting great concerts and events around San Jose, went Spanish New Year's Day.
The company, apparently buoyed by the fact that it quadrupled ratings when it switched rocker KSJO, from rock to traditional Mexican music, apparently hopes to do the same, although the alternative station was doing quite well, 11th among San Jose listeners over 12 with a respectable 3.0 share, about half as many listeners as the top station in the market, KGO, which has a 7 share.
As much as radio stations claim they like to serve listeners, it's always been just as much, if not more, about business.
The same night that KCNL switched, so did Entravision's KBRG-FM (100.3), which dropped its romantic Spanish format for a traditional one that had it competing with Clear Channel's KSJO, the market's third place station with a 4.4 share.
This was a way to buttress its hold on Spanish listeners, who now have two classic Mexican stations in San Jose and one Romantic station.
Who loses? Kids who were supported by Channel 104.9. The station had a strong identity with them, and it brought some big name local shows to the area, in clubs and in its Fourth of July weekend blowout, which brought names such as Bowling for Soup and Maroon 5.
The station had a big promotion scheduled later this month with the San Jose Stealth team, offereing 5,000 hats to fans at the home opener. Those will end up collector's items, along with KOME and KSJO paraphernalia.
But at least most kids can turn to San Francisco's KITS-FM (105.3), which has always been the area's flagship of alternative, but unfortunately doesn't always get the greatest reception in all parts of San Jose.
And it doesn't do the great local promotions that made Channel strong here.
The change had to be a Christmas present for LIVE 105, which had been cut badly by competition from Channel and started its year without Howard Stern. It's now the only alternative station and one of the few places you can hear rock music.
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Thanks, Mark, I meant to post about that format change earlier today. It is indeed good news for Live 105. Has anyone heard either their new morning show, or Will Durst & Willie Brown on The Quake?
David Lee Roth made his radio debut today in NYC (taking over Stern's slot), and by all accounts it was not very good.
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Thanks, Mark, I meant to post about that format change earlier today. It is indeed good news for Live 105. Has anyone heard either their new morning show, or Will Durst & Willie Brown on The Quake?
David Lee Roth made his radio debut today in NYC (taking over Stern's slot), and by all accounts it was not very good.
I forgot all about that, to be quite honest. But spurred by your post, I checked out the NY Radio Message Board, and was intrigued by one person's suggestion that Gene Simmons should have taken over for Howard. They're probably just force-feed DLR cocaine until he either gives the audience what they want or dies. (Shudder to think "both" might be the answer.)
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This was a way to buttress its hold on Spanish listeners, who now have two classic Mexican stations in San Jose and one Romantic station.
I'm not sure if I read it here at the club, but this seems to resonate with another article I'd read about how the increase in traditional Mexican music has impacted Tejano music in Texas, pushing Tejano out.
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Thanks, Mark, I meant to post ...
I rely on you for this. I tuned into 104.9 on New Years day and was stunned by the absence of recognizable music. Like Mark, I now have a preset I don't know what to do with. 104.9 was right before my 105.3.
Max replaced the KSJO preset.
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Thanks, Mark, I meant to post ...
I rely on you for this. I tuned into 104.9 on New Years day and was stunned by the absence of recognizable music. Like Mark, I now have a preset I don't know what to do with. 104.9 was right before my 105.3.
Max replaced the KSJO preset.
How about checking out some college radio? That's my usual fall-back when I can't find anything on the commercial end of the dial. You're probably too far south to get KALX (90.7) and KUSF may be spotty (90.3) but you could try KFJC (89.7) from Foothill College or KZSU (90.1) which is Stanford's station. You may not hear much you recognize, but you might run across something you'd like. (And if you hear something you don't dig, try back at different hours and different days--each DJ usually programs their own show, so types of music can vary widely--rock, hip hop, indie, reggae, jazz, who knows? KFJC even has a show on Saturday mornings that's nothing but movie, tv, and broadway soundtracks--the Norman Bates Memorial Soundtrack show.
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Little Steven's show this week is his annual salute to the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (2/9/64). His fab opening set included "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", Graham Parker's "Fool's Gold", Badfinger's "Baby Blue", that Strokes song that cops a melodic line from "Mandy" (!) and the Downbeat 5 covering an obscure girl-group tune called "Dum Dum Diddy" (not to be confused with "Doo Wah Diddy"). Check it out on the internet if you missed it Sun nite.
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Interesting Ben Fong-Torres column in Sunday's Chron, about local radio ratings. Seems public and listener-supported stations like KQED and KPFA do surprisisngly well (they don't subscribe to Arbitron, so their ratings don't get reported). I never knew this.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/12/PKGU9GINB71.DTL
If KQED is getting between 4 and 5 % of the audience, that could explain why Air America's ratings are rather aneimic, even in a lefty bastion like SF.
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Interesting Ben Fong-Torres column in Sunday's Chron, about local radio ratings. Seems public and listener-supported stations like KQED and KPFA do surprisisngly well (they don't subscribe to Arbitron, so their ratings don't get reported). I never knew this.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/12/PKGU9GINB71.DTL
If KQED is getting between 4 and 5 % of the audience, that could explain why Air America's ratings are rather aneimic, even in a lefty bastion like SF.
i don't subscribe to arbitron, either. ;) thanks for the link to the facts!
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Theme set of the Week:
last nite Little Steven played the Arctic Monkeys as his "Coolest Song in the World", and followed that with...
"Monkey Time", Major Lance
"A Little Bit Me...", Monkees
"Planet of the Apes", the Mummies
"One Monkey (Don't Stop No Show)", Honey Cone
Genius.
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After hearing Ginger play Joni's "Carey" the other day... what should pop up on KPIG this morning but "A Case of You". And thus, my new avatar.
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After hearing Ginger play Joni's "Carey" the other day... what should pop up on KPIG this morning but "A Case of You". And thus, my new avatar.
always room for Joni!
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Per Ben Fong-Torres' column in today's Chron, Harry O, who has been doing "The Green Hour" Sun mornings on Live 105 for nearly 20 years, did his last show this morning.
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Meant to mention this the other day: Sun nite's Joel Selvin show on The Bone was a tribute to Nicky Hopkins, "the best unknown piano player in rock", sez Selvin. And he played quite a range of stuff, including the great JA live version of "Volunteers" from Woodstock.
"All right kids, you have seen the heavy groups... now you will hear Morning Maniac Music! Believe me... it's a new dawn!"
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Meant to mention this the other day: Sun nite's Joel Selvin show on The Bone was a tribute to Nicky Hopkins, "the best unknown piano player in rock", sez Selvin. And he played quite a range of stuff, including the great JA live version of "Volunteers" from Woodstock.
"All right kids, you have seen the heavy groups... now you will hear Morning Maniac Music! Believe me... it's a new dawn!"
Did he play "Edward the Mad Shirt Grinder," his magnum opus?
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I think today was the day Cumulus (sp?) formally took over Susquehana.
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More fallout from the takeover of the former Susquehanna properties:
KNBR's Bruce Macgowan (the guy who is always on after the Giants' postgame) gets the ax.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/05/05/SPGQNIL8T81.DTL
Wonder if any KFOG personalities will be going bye-bye. (If anyone does, let it be Renee.)
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I think today was the day Cumulus (sp?) formally took over Susquehana.
just switched over to the Bone (for Little Steven) and heard their new top o' the hour ID: "KSAN, San Mateo -- a Cumulus station".
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The San Mateo part is interesting. Dave's email is now probably dmorey@cumulus.com. Irish Greg sent out an email announcing his email addy change.
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I think today was the day Cumulus (sp?) formally took over Susquehana.
just switched over to the Bone (for Little Steven) and heard their new top o' the hour ID: "KSAN, San Mateo -- a Cumulus station".
I got an email from Greg, saying he had a new email address; cumulus, changed from kfog.com
also had hundreds of visible emails in message; tsk tsk, poor netiquette!
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I think today was the day Cumulus (sp?) formally took over Susquehana.
just switched over to the Bone (for Little Steven) and heard their new top o' the hour ID: "KSAN, San Mateo -- a Cumulus station".
I got an email from Greg, saying he had a new email address; cumulus, changed from kfog.com
also had hundreds of visible emails in message; tsk tsk, poor netiquette!
Their webmaster still has some work to do--the mailto link on Dave's "airstaff" page still has the KFOG domain name.
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I think today was the day Cumulus (sp?) formally took over Susquehana.
just switched over to the Bone (for Little Steven) and heard their new top o' the hour ID: "KSAN, San Mateo -- a Cumulus station".
I got an email from Greg, saying he had a new email address; cumulus, changed from kfog.com. also had hundreds of visible emails in message; tsk tsk, poor netiquette!
Their webmaster still has some work to do--the mailto link on Dave's "airstaff" page still has the KFOG domain name.
Not quite sure why they would change the email addresses. It sounds either egotistical on cumulus' part, or they're going to change the call letters.
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The San Mateo part is interesting. Dave's email is now probably dmorey@cumulus.com. Irish Greg sent out an email announcing his email addy change.
I got that email too. Dave's could also be dave.morey@...
But The Bone's "legal ID" has always said "KSAN San Mateo", it's their city of license.
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per Ben Fong-Torres in Sunday's Chron:
Whatever happened to John Grappone: The DJ, who was a steady voice on KFOG, "the Bone," "The Drive" and others, moved to Portland, Ore., and is doing weekends on KINK-FM, a KFOG-like station that streams at www.kink.fm. Grappone hosts a free-form show, "Underground Link," Friday nights, and "Acoustic Sunrise" Sunday mornings
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per Ben Fong-Torres in Sunday's Chron:
Whatever happened to John Grappone: The DJ, who was a steady voice on KFOG, "the Bone," "The Drive" and others, moved to Portland, Ore., and is doing weekends on KINK-FM, a KFOG-like station that streams at www.kink.fm. Grappone hosts a free-form show, "Underground Link," Friday nights, and "Acoustic Sunrise" Sunday mornings
I was just reminiscing about Grappone a couple of days ago. Portland is a nice place to live. I've got a very good buddy up there.
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Mostly of interest to Mike, perhaps to others:
http://www.wabcradio.com/Article.asp?id=122822&spid=
WABC Rewound....only one station can pull this off - Memorial Day, May 29th -12 Hours of Radio History!
For most radio stations, replaying something they did 30 years ago or more would simply be boring. For WABC it is a major annual event. WABC's Rewound returns for the 8th straight year on Memorial Day. From 6am to 6pm WABC will air the old aircheck of the Musicradio77 hey day that rocked the New York area for two decades. Once we were rockin' but now we're talkin'. WABC was the most listened to radio station in the world in those years, and became a part of our childhood. On Memorial day, you get a chance to relive it one more time. In a bit of radio magic, WABC will bring back the voices of the greats like Dan Ingraham, Cousin Brucie, Harry Harrison, and Bob Lewis!
WABC production director Johnny Donovan produces this annual walk through the memories, assisted by WABC engineer Frank D'Elia. Both Johnny and Frank worked for WABC on those golden years. Johnny was a disc jockey while Frank worked the control board. Today, both still work side by side at WABC with Johnny becoming the legendary voice of NewsTalk Radio WABC. Johnny works with radio historians like Peter Kanze and Rob Frankel to dust off the old tapes and airchecks that people have saved from the 60's and 70's. Johnny "re-masters" the tapes, and listeners get to hear them almost exactly as they did back in those days.
As we have done from the beginning, WABC works with Allan Sniffen's message board and website: www.musicradio77.com. In fact, it was the popularity of this site that gave current WABC Program Director, Phil Boyce, and ABC Radio President, Mitch Dolan, the idea to try this seven years ago. Once again, WABC will work with Sniffen on the message board, so listeners all over the world can share their memories of the radio station they grew up with.
As an added bonus this year, WABC's Mark Simone will host a post-rewound special from 6-8pm. Mark now hosts the popular Saturday Night Oldies show on WABC on Saturdays from 6-10pm. He will bring back some of his interviews on that show over the last few months. Take a look at the chart below for the hourly breakdown of this year's WABC Rewound. Memorial day is a time to remember. Join us for this special blast from the past, right here on the same radio station you grew up with, 77 WABC!
6AM - Dan/Bruce 7/6/73
7AM - Bob Lewis 12/30/62
8AM - Harry 12/31/75
9AM - Dan 7/3/74 Pt 1
10AM - Ron 7/29/70
11AM - Chuck for Greer 12/27/68
12 Noon - Dan 7/3/74 PT 2
1PM - Bruce 1968 9-10P (Election Night 1968)
2PM - Greer Top 100 67
3PM - Ron 6/23/81
4PM - Bruce 1965
5PM - Dan 3/22/66
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pretty interesting piece on old KSAN folk, and where are they now?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/05/21/PKGNSGU76Q1.DTL&type=printable
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"Hippie Radio"? But I thought KPIG was hippie radio...
http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadlines.asp?phid=367725&PT=Today%27s+Top+Stories
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"Hippie Radio"? But I thought KPIG was hippie radio...
http://www.insideradio.com/pdheadlines.asp?phid=367725&PT=Today%27s+Top+Stories
Yeah, check out this beautiful KPIG segue:
Thu 1:08pm Neil Young Flags Of Freedom
Thu 1:13pm Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son
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latest KNBR casualty: John Shrader, reporter and fill-in host was let go. Guess that means the KFOG morning show will need a new "Lord of the Pigskin" this fall...
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Re: a lawsuit filed by a contestant on Who Wants To Marry a Multi-Millionaire against former Sarah & Vinnie producer Uzette:
http://www.casp.net/seelig.html
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Now, granted, a New Times newspaper berating a media conglomerate for firing people is the ultimate Pot-Calling-The-Kettle, but this is still a interesting article in SF Weekly about KNBR:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-06-14/news/news.html
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Now, granted, a New Times newspaper berating a media conglomerate for firing people is the ultimate Pot-Calling-The-Kettle, but this is still a interesting article in SF Weekly about KNBR:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-06-14/news/news.html
Wow. This is so similar to what's happened with the Village Voice this year, it's almost scary. I wonder if that irony is lost on them.
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Now, granted, a New Times newspaper berating a media conglomerate for firing people is the ultimate Pot-Calling-The-Kettle, but this is still a interesting article in SF Weekly about KNBR:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-06-14/news/news.html
Wow. This is so similar to what's happened with the Village Voice this year, it's almost scary. I wonder if that irony is lost on them.
Or a case of the left coast not knowing what the right coast is doing.
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Now, granted, a New Times newspaper berating a media conglomerate for firing people is the ultimate Pot-Calling-The-Kettle, but this is still a interesting article in SF Weekly about KNBR:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-06-14/news/news.html
Wow. This is so similar to what's happened with the Village Voice this year, it's almost scary. I wonder if that irony is lost on them.
It is either lost on the writer (in which case, how fucking sad), or it's lost on the editors/publisher but not the writer (in which case, kudos for being subversive).
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Now, granted, a New Times newspaper berating a media conglomerate for firing people is the ultimate Pot-Calling-The-Kettle, but this is still a interesting article in SF Weekly about KNBR:
http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-06-14/news/news.html
Wow. This is so similar to what's happened with the Village Voice this year, it's almost scary. I wonder if that irony is lost on them.
Or a case of the left coast not knowing what the right coast is doing.
New Times hasn't just done it at the Voice, though... they're doing it in every city where they've bought a paper (especially where the merger involves more than one alt-weekly). It'd be hard to imagine a NT employee who isn't familiar with what's going on.
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Listening to Live 105's "K-GAY" thang, and they're broadcasting live from the Pilsner (!) interviewing the ladies of Lez Zeppelin, the all-female Zep cover band, and playing real LZ between segments. Not what I was expecting, but I'm totally diggin' it.
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Listening to Live 105's "K-GAY" thang, and they're broadcasting live from the Pilsner (!) interviewing the ladies of Lez Zeppelin, the all-female Zep cover band, and playing real LZ between segments. Not what I was expecting, but I'm totally diggin' it.
Just heard Take your Momma Out for the second time. First time was when interviewing Peaches Christ, http://www.peacheschrist.com/ which went on a bit too long.
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Listening to Live 105's "K-GAY" thang, and they're broadcasting live from the Pilsner (!) interviewing the ladies of Lez Zeppelin, the all-female Zep cover band, and playing real LZ between segments. Not what I was expecting, but I'm totally diggin' it.
Just heard Take your Momma Out for the second time. First time was when interviewing Peaches Christ, http://www.peacheschrist.com/ which went on a bit too long.
LOL! Drag Queens always go on too long.
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Shock shock horror horror shock shock horror!
"K-GAY" just played "Female of the Species". What a fab-yoo-luss record.
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Shock shock horror horror shock shock horror!
"K-GAY" just played "Female of the Species". What a fab-yoo-luss record.
Ditto, shouting myself hoarse for her supernatural force
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nice piece from Slate about the "Jack" format, and why it's a lot like Dubya:
http://www.slate.com/id/2144538
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per Ben Fong-Torres' radio column in Sunday's Chron:
"Santa Rosa's KRSH ("The Krush," at 95.5 FM), one of the last bastions of free-form radio (with a country/rootsy bent, like KPIG), is streaming on the Internet now, at www.krsh.com. "
Worth checking out? Anyone heard this station?
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per Ben Fong-Torres' radio column in Sunday's Chron:
"Santa Rosa's KRSH ("The Krush," at 95.5 FM), one of the last bastions of free-form radio (with a country/rootsy bent, like KPIG), is streaming on the Internet now, at www.krsh.com. "
Worth checking out? Anyone heard this station?
I added a direct link in the internet topic. It works fine, but sometimes doth protest too much and says it doesn't work, while it's working!
http://eastweb.streamguys.com/krsh.asx
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interesting piece by Brad Kava on K-Fox's nightly freeform show:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/07/kfoxs_greg_ston.html#more
Sounds like what KFOG was doing in that timeslot 15 years ago with "The Adventure Hour", only apparently the guy on K-Fox also plays new stuff.
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Last week, KPIG became one of the last radio staions in the country to automate its overnight; 2 DJs laid off and another demoted from full- to part-time. Predictably, listeners are upset:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2006/July/08/local/stories/01local.htm
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I just read Ben Fong-Torres' column from June 18 yesterday and found the interview with Alice's new PD Chris Mays (formerly of the highly rated Seattle station "The Mountain") interesting in where she feels Alice fits in relation to KFOG, Live 105, and Star 101:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/18/PKGDOILS7O1.DTL&type=tvradio
Still, I was interested in meeting Mays, a highly respected programmer of AAA ("Triple A") formatted stations. The A's stand for adult alternative album, roughly in that order. These are stations like KFOG, which mix classic rock with an eclectic array of newer music. Mays was coming into town from KMTT ("The Mountain") in Seattle, and her hiring triggered rumors that Alice would be deserting its format and going after KFOG.
My sense was not to go head to head with KFOG. First, it's an excellent triple-A station, and second, Alice is targeted toward women, and KFOG leans male, and it leans classic rock. Some women like that; women like all kinds of music. But my sense was it would be inappropriate to get into the classic rock game. Alice needs to remain a contemporary station. I refer to it as the Bermuda Triangle. The space in between KFOG, Live 105 and Star. I'm creating a format that's at the center of the three. If you shaved off the classic rock from KFOG, the Tool and the more aggressive side of alternative music from Live 105, and the Keith Urban and Mariah Carey from Star 101, in between there is a body of music for women who've grown up on rock 'n' roll, that's based on Dave Matthews, U2, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and Jack Johnson, but that also includes more new music than what's found on a typical AAA station, and a little bit of the funky side that crosses over between Star and Live 105, like the Gorillaz and Outkast, which Triple A wouldn't touch, but still works for a female-based radio station. An example for this summer would be Gnarls Barkley and "Crazy."
I find this interesting since KFOG (well, Dave Benson) has shoved "Crazy" down our throats, er, into our ears since April of this year. They also "broke" Corinne Bailey Rae around the same time.
Meanwhile, www.radioalice.com is featuring Corinne Bailey Rae on their front page, so I assume she'a fairly recent addition to their playlist. Ah yes, right there under "New & Hot" with "Crazy" and Jack Johnson's duet with Black Eye Peas of "Gone Going" (huh, that last one is new to me).
So what does it all mean? I dunno, but it is heartening to me that KFOG does sometimes break new artists well before other Bay Area stations get around to discovering them. I just wish they would have a little more confidence in their picks and play them *outside* of the New Music Thursday ghetto. I mean, look at the great response KT Tunstall has gotten. And they were playing her well before her album was available in the US.
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I just read Ben Fong-Torres' column from June 18 yesterday and found the interview with Alice's new PD Chris Mays (formerly of the highly rated Seattle station "The Mountain") interesting in where she feels Alice fits in relation to KFOG, Live 105, and Star 101:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/18/PKGDOILS7O1.DTL&type=tvradio
Still, I was interested in meeting Mays, a highly respected programmer of AAA ("Triple A") formatted stations. The A's stand for adult alternative album, roughly in that order. These are stations like KFOG, which mix classic rock with an eclectic array of newer music. Mays was coming into town from KMTT ("The Mountain") in Seattle, and her hiring triggered rumors that Alice would be deserting its format and going after KFOG.
My sense was not to go head to head with KFOG. First, it's an excellent triple-A station, and second, Alice is targeted toward women, and KFOG leans male, and it leans classic rock. Some women like that; women like all kinds of music. But my sense was it would be inappropriate to get into the classic rock game. Alice needs to remain a contemporary station. I refer to it as the Bermuda Triangle. The space in between KFOG, Live 105 and Star. I'm creating a format that's at the center of the three. If you shaved off the classic rock from KFOG, the Tool and the more aggressive side of alternative music from Live 105, and the Keith Urban and Mariah Carey from Star 101, in between there is a body of music for women who've grown up on rock 'n' roll, that's based on Dave Matthews, U2, Coldplay, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer and Jack Johnson, but that also includes more new music than what's found on a typical AAA station, and a little bit of the funky side that crosses over between Star and Live 105, like the Gorillaz and Outkast, which Triple A wouldn't touch, but still works for a female-based radio station. An example for this summer would be Gnarls Barkley and "Crazy."
I find this interesting since KFOG (well, Dave Benson) has shoved "Crazy" down our throats, er, into our ears since April of this year. They also "broke" Corinne Bailey Rae around the same time.
Meanwhile, www.radioalice.com is featuring Corinne Bailey Rae on their front page, so I assume she'a fairly recent addition to their playlist. Ah yes, right there under "New & Hot" with "Crazy" and Jack Johnson's duet with Black Eye Peas of "Gone Going" (huh, that last one is new to me).
So what does it all mean? I dunno, but it is heartening to me that KFOG does sometimes break new artists well before other Bay Area stations get around to discovering them. I just wish they would have a little more confidence in their picks and play them *outside* of the New Music Thursday ghetto. I mean, look at the great response KT Tunstall has gotten. And they were playing her well before her album was available in the US.
I agree, and I made comments in another thread about the number of great new songs that Little Steven features on his weekly show that never seem to end up in rotation on either KFOG the Bone or Live 105 -- KFOG would do well to pick up on the new Cheap Trick (instead of Chris Isaak's lameass cover of "I Want You To Want Me") or Joan Jett or Willie Nile or that wonderful Stones-sounding Primal Scream song. I used to laugh at the Fogheads who called the morning show to complain that Norah Jones and Madeleine Peyroux "aren't rock" but it would be nice to have a bit more balance.
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I think the Gnarls Barkley is kind of anomalous. (The song's now up to #2 on the national pop charts, btw, to my utter shock.)
And YES about the KT Tunstall. Because of my hearing it a couple times on KFOG, I had "Black Horse" in my Top 10 singles of last year, and here we are in July and she's just completing her Top 40 run with it. Hard to blame the programmers for cowardice -- if I were in such a shrinking market, I'd be afraid of losing my job by taking a chance -- but it does suck for us all.
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I think the Gnarls Barkley is kind of anomalous. (The song's now up to #2 on the national pop charts, btw, to my utter shock.)
And YES about the KT Tunstall. Because of my hearing it a couple times on KFOG, I had "Black Horse" in my Top 10 singles of last year, and here we are in July and she's just completing her Top 40 run with it. Hard to blame the programmers for cowardice -- if I were in such a shrinking market, I'd be afraid of losing my job by taking a chance -- but it does suck for us all.
I'm the first to complain about cowardly programmers, but the issue with Tunstall was no US record deal, and you do not want to piss off every label in America by taking away one of their slots and inserting a song that folks can't buy at Wal-Mart. (Never mind that it would serve them right for cramming crap like Hoobastank down America's collective throat.)
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Playlists for Alice (KLLC) and Krush (KRSH) are available on Yes.com. KRSH links to them directly.
They go back 24 hours, and the data seems pretty "clean" (unlike KFOG's, which can be inconsistent and thereby hard to analyze.)
I rolled some scripts to save them for longer than that. :-}
Unfortunately, they appear to not be able to get data from the stations between 9PM-12AM. Odd.
At any rate, I've got a couple days' worth of data. More to come. Let me know if you have any questions about KLLC or KRSH playlists.
Yes.com offers top 10 and top 100 songs played. I don't know over what period of time they make this determination, but it's interesting to look at.
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Last nite as I was tuning back over to KPIG after listening to JJ's '70s Soul Jamz, I stumbled across a station at the top of the AM dial -- 1600 KUBA, they're up in Yuba/Sutter and they're an oldies station. They were playing ONJ's "Please Mister Please", which I hadn't heard in ages and which I didn't think any oldies stations dared to play any more. Impressive, and a total flashback, even as the signal faded in & out.
Sadly, they don't stream.
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Last nite as I was tuning back over to KPIG after listening to JJ's '70s Soul Jamz, I stumbled across a station at the top of the AM dial -- 1600 KUBA, they're up in Yuba/Sutter and they're an oldies station. They were playing ONJ's "Please Mister Please", which I hadn't heard in ages and which I didn't think any oldies stations dared to play any more. Impressive, and a total flashback, even as the signal faded in & out.
Sadly, they don't stream.
AM radio on warm summer evenings--it's amazing what you can pull in sometimes. I've occasionally gotten stations from the midwest, and a few years back when driving up the valley on an August night we listened to most of an single-A game between Salem-Keizer (the Giants A-ball affiliate) and a club from Everett WA--on the Everett team's station. Wish I could remember the names of some of the players--some of 'em are probably on the Giants by now.
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well, not local, but a popular New Jersey rock station, WDHA (an old college radio chum of mine works there) had to do an on-air apology to the Who after airing this promo:
Roger: (banging on door) Peter...what are you doing in there? We've got to go, man.
Pete: One minute, Roger. I'm just lookin' up some things on the computer.
Roger: (banging and yelling) What are you looking up in there, Peter?
We've got to go on tour, man.
Pete: I'm just doing some research. Oh...that picture's reaaal nice...
Roger: (more banging on door) Stop messin' around in there, Peter. I'm
comin' in now...
Pete: (frantic) No! No! No! No! (sound of belt buckle in background)
Just...Just give me one second.
Roger: (sound of door opening and Roger says in shocked/disgusted voice)
Oh, bloody hell, Peter. Put your pants on. We're going to Jersey.
WDHA announcer: That's right. The Who are coming to Jersey. "DHA"
welcomes the Who to the PNC Bank Arts Center Thursday, September 21st and we've got your tickets all weekend long. ("Bargain" is played ..."I call that a Bargain...the best I ever had..") Tickets go on sale Monday at noon but you can win 'em before you can buy 'em all this weekend right here at the rock of New Jersey 105.5 WDHA.
(End of commercial)
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KNBR dumps Rick Barry:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/08/14/sports/s194107D04.DTL
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well, not so local, but if you have XM, their "decades" channels are playing (in chron order) EVERY CHARTED SINGLE from the decade. Here's a list of the '70s selections:
http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/IT70s.pdf
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well, not so local, but if you have XM, their "decades" channels are playing (in chron order) EVERY CHARTED SINGLE from the decade. Here's a list of the '70s selections:
http://www.xmradio.com/pdf/IT70s.pdf
Damn. That does the "World Class Rock A to Z" schtick one better, dunnit?
How many songs you suppose are on that list? The PDF is something like 46 pages long. At roughly 50 or so songs per page, we're talking probably 2,300, minimum.
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Not-so-local radio news. Internet-only station WOXY out of Cincinnati is throwing in the towel, they just can't make it on subscriptions and ad revenue. Last day is 9/15. But it kind of sounds like they're going out with a bang rather than a whimper.
http://www.woxy.com/
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RIP KFRC (again):
SAN FRANCISCO IS ‘MOVIN’ TO A NEW RADIO STATION
KFRC 99.7FM FLIPS TO “MOViN99.7” BEGINNING TODAY, SEPT. 22
San Francisco, September 22, 2006 – CBS RADIO station KFRC, 99.7FM flipped its format today at 10:00AM, PT introducing The New MOViN 99.7. The format, which targets women 25-44, is a new version of rhythmic AC focusing on a blend of adult hits from the 80s, 90s and today. Core artists of the station include familiar names like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Prince, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce.
Doug Harvill, Senior Vice President and Market Manager for CBS RADIO’s San Francisco stations remarks, "The MOViN format has exploded in popularity in markets such as Los Angeles and St. Louis, and has become an instant favorite in Seattle achieving top-rated status among women 18-44 in only six weeks on the air. There is great demand among the Bay Area's diverse population for the MOViN blend of music and we look forward to making the most of this rare opportunity to launch an entirely new and different musical presentation."
Mike Preston, Vice President of Programming for KCBS and KFRC in San Francisco, will serve as Program Director of The New MOViN99.7 overseeing the launch and development of the station. He brings more than 20 years of radio programming experience and has been acknowledged as a leader in creating new radio formats and managing established radio station brands.
Custom television spots are set to help launch the station highlighting the MOViN99.7 “Makes you Feel Good” branding.
MOViN 99.7 (KFRC) is owned and operated by CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 179 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation’s top 50 markets. CBS RADIO also owns and operates FREE-FM 106.9 (KIFR), KCBS-AM, ALICE @ 97.3 (kllc), KITS (Live 105), and KYCY-AM (KYOURADIO) in San Francisco.
http://www.kfrc.com
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RIP KFRC (again):
SAN FRANCISCO IS ‘MOVIN’ TO A NEW RADIO STATION
KFRC 99.7FM FLIPS TO “MOViN99.7” BEGINNING TODAY, SEPT. 22
San Francisco, September 22, 2006 – CBS RADIO station KFRC, 99.7FM flipped its format today at 10:00AM, PT introducing The New MOViN 99.7. The format, which targets women 25-44, is a new version of rhythmic AC focusing on a blend of adult hits from the 80s, 90s and today. Core artists of the station include familiar names like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Prince, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce.
Doug Harvill, Senior Vice President and Market Manager for CBS RADIO’s San Francisco stations remarks, "The MOViN format has exploded in popularity in markets such as Los Angeles and St. Louis, and has become an instant favorite in Seattle achieving top-rated status among women 18-44 in only six weeks on the air. There is great demand among the Bay Area's diverse population for the MOViN blend of music and we look forward to making the most of this rare opportunity to launch an entirely new and different musical presentation."
Mike Preston, Vice President of Programming for KCBS and KFRC in San Francisco, will serve as Program Director of The New MOViN99.7 overseeing the launch and development of the station. He brings more than 20 years of radio programming experience and has been acknowledged as a leader in creating new radio formats and managing established radio station brands.
Custom television spots are set to help launch the station highlighting the MOViN99.7 “Makes you Feel Good” branding.
MOViN 99.7 (KFRC) is owned and operated by CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 179 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation’s top 50 markets. CBS RADIO also owns and operates FREE-FM 106.9 (KIFR), KCBS-AM, ALICE @ 97.3 (kllc), KITS (Live 105), and KYCY-AM (KYOURADIO) in San Francisco.
http://www.kfrc.com
targets women 25-44, is a new version of rhythmic AC focusing on a blend of adult hits from the 80s, 90s and today. Core artists of the station include familiar names like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Prince, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce.
MOViN99.7 “Makes you Feel Good” branding.
I don't think that is in the feel good range for me. I am not a rhythmic contemporary adult! I refuse.
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I am not a rhythmic contemporary adult! I refuse.
BTW the last song played on KFRC before the format change was "American Pie". The day the music died, indeed.
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I am not a rhythmic contemporary adult! I refuse.
BTW the last song played on KFRC before the format change was "American Pie". The day the music died, indeed.
So long as it wasn't Madonna's version.
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I am not a rhythmic contemporary adult! I refuse.
BTW the last song played on KFRC before the format change was "American Pie". The day the music died, indeed.
Today a girlfriend (47) was commenting about the format switch and saying how horrible the new stuff was and found MAX FM which seems to work for her. She said Cami and Dean have a myspace page and apparently reported not getting pink slips till after their show on Friday. They didn't know what was happening.
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LIVE 105's 20th Anniversary:
This Sunday, Live 105 will celebrate its 20th birthday. Starting at noon they will be doing countdowns of the top 10 songs from each individual year since 1986. Talk about a vertical tasting! Could be fun!
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LIVE 105's 20th Anniversary:
This Sunday, Live 105 will celebrate its 20th birthday. Starting at noon they will be doing countdowns of the top 10 songs from each individual year since 1986. Talk about a vertical tasting! Could be fun!
damn, i'll be missing that! I hope they post the lists. I doubt I'll actually be worried about this while I'm in Chicago, but that would be a perfect afternoon of music for me.
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RIP KFRC (again):
SAN FRANCISCO IS ‘MOVIN’ TO A NEW RADIO STATION
KFRC 99.7FM FLIPS TO “MOViN99.7” BEGINNING TODAY, SEPT. 22
San Francisco, September 22, 2006 – CBS RADIO station KFRC, 99.7FM flipped its format today at 10:00AM, PT introducing The New MOViN 99.7. The format, which targets women 25-44, is a new version of rhythmic AC focusing on a blend of adult hits from the 80s, 90s and today. Core artists of the station include familiar names like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Prince, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce.
Doug Harvill, Senior Vice President and Market Manager for CBS RADIO’s San Francisco stations remarks, "The MOViN format has exploded in popularity in markets such as Los Angeles and St. Louis, and has become an instant favorite in Seattle achieving top-rated status among women 18-44 in only six weeks on the air. There is great demand among the Bay Area's diverse population for the MOViN blend of music and we look forward to making the most of this rare opportunity to launch an entirely new and different musical presentation."
Mike Preston, Vice President of Programming for KCBS and KFRC in San Francisco, will serve as Program Director of The New MOViN99.7 overseeing the launch and development of the station. He brings more than 20 years of radio programming experience and has been acknowledged as a leader in creating new radio formats and managing established radio station brands.
Custom television spots are set to help launch the station highlighting the MOViN99.7 “Makes you Feel Good” branding.
MOViN 99.7 (KFRC) is owned and operated by CBS RADIO, one of the largest major-market radio operators in the United States. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 179 radio stations, the majority of which are in the nation’s top 50 markets. CBS RADIO also owns and operates FREE-FM 106.9 (KIFR), KCBS-AM, ALICE @ 97.3 (kllc), KITS (Live 105), and KYCY-AM (KYOURADIO) in San Francisco.
http://www.kfrc.com
targets women 25-44, is a new version of rhythmic AC focusing on a blend of adult hits from the 80s, 90s and today. Core artists of the station include familiar names like Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Prince, Outkast, Black-Eyed Peas and Beyonce.
MOViN99.7 “Makes you Feel Good” branding.
I don't think that is in the feel good range for me. I am not a rhythmic contemporary adult! I refuse.
From the creators of Movin:
http://www.burnsradio.com/movin/
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It's "Resurrection Sunday" on Live 105: all '80s & '90s Alternative "classics" all day long.
Midnight Oil, Blur, Smiths, Pixies, Elvis C. and Devo all in the last half-hour. Great stuff.
Live 105 is also sponsoring a "Halloween Freakout" concert featuring Devo, Bow Wow Wow, and Animotion next Saturday.
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very interesting:
KMBY in Monterey has switched to a format it calls "The Revolution" -- a 50/50 mix of hip-hop and rock. From Green Day to Tupac to Rage Against the Machine. Never been done before, at least commercially
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2006/10/hiprockhop_howa.html#more
They'll be streaming soon.
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For those of you who can't get enuf of that holiday stuff, KOIT has flipped to their annual All-Xmas-All-The-Time thang.
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98.5 K-FOX is doing "Beatles Family Album A to Z", meaning Beatles plus selected solo Beatle songs mixed in. (But not that many, from what I heard).
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Somebody call Beej!!
"Movin'", the station formerly known as KFRC, is running TV spots for the new format -- one of the songs they feature is Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back".
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Pretty big news: two big companies are trading stations...
Bonneville gets stations in Seattle and Cincinnati. While Entercom gets the Bonneville station group in San Francisco - KOIT, KDFC and KMAX.
That's pretty amazing, as KOIT is one of the most successful stations in the country -- for years it's been nicknamed "The Mormon Money Machine" (Bonneville is owned by the Church of LDS).
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This could be fun to listen to, while it lasts: SF's newest radio station, KTRB, signs on at midnite tonite and at 6am begins stunting with "The San Francisco Sound". From a press release...
Something old is new again, as one of Northern California’s pioneer radio stations, KTRB-AM 860, makes its historic Bay Area debut by bringing “The San Francisco Sound” back to the nation’s fourth-largest radio market beginning this Thursday, February 1, 2007.
KTRB-AM 860 will sign-on at midnight on February 1, and beginning at 6:00 a.m. that day, the station will play continuous music reprising the late 60s and early 70s heyday of “The San Francisco Sound.”
“The San Francisco Sound” refers to rock music performed live and recorded by San Francisco-based artists and groups from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. KTRB-AM 860 will showcase seminal Bay Area bands such as The Beau Brummels, The Syndicate of Sound, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Big Brother & The Holding Company, as well as Santana, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and Journey.
KTRB-AM 860 Vice President & General Manager Jim P. Pappas said, “Our sign-on in the Bay Area is the culmination of three decades of dreaming, planning, and hard work by the best and brightest from inside and outside our company. KTRB-AM 860 represents the genesis of our company’s more than 50-year California-based broadcast tradition. It was KTRB that inspired the three Pappas Brothers to become broadcasters. We are thrilled to own and operate a 50,000 Watt blowtorch that will serve the millions of residents in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and the entire Bay Area, just as KTRB-AM 860 has served generations of Californians since its founding in 1933.”
KTRB-AM 860’s permanent format will commence March 1, 2007. While plans have not been disclosed, Pappas said, “KTRB will bring a fresh sound to the Bay Area to add diversity to the choices available to the public. KTRB will entertain and inform with fresh, lively content, the likes of which the public does not now have available.”
No word on what that "permanent" format will be; speculation (based on what the owners have done elsewhere) is that it'll be conservative talk, but we've got 2 of those already.
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No word on what that "permanent" format will be; speculation (based on what the owners have done elsewhere) is that it'll be conservative talk, but we've got 2 of those already.
my guess is it will be ksol, the revival.
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No word on what that "permanent" format will be; speculation (based on what the owners have done elsewhere) is that it'll be conservative talk, but we've got 2 of those already.
my guess is it will be ksol, the revival.
Their intro format sounds like KFRC for hippies.
What station are they taking over? I don't recall if there was someone at 860 on the AM side before, since most of my AM listening consists of KCBS in the car and KNBR during baseball season, with bits of KPIG thrown in here and there.
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No word on what that "permanent" format will be; speculation (based on what the owners have done elsewhere) is that it'll be conservative talk, but we've got 2 of those already.
my guess is it will be ksol, the revival.
Their intro format sounds like KFRC for hippies.
What station are they taking over? I don't recall if there was someone at 860 on the AM side before, since most of my AM listening consists of KCBS in the car and KNBR during baseball season, with bits of KPIG thrown in here and there.
Actually, they're not taking over anything -- KTRB 860 was in Modesto, they've moved their transmitter in order to blanket SF with whatever format they come up with.
"ksol the revival" is called 98.1 Kiss, isn't it? :wink:
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No word on what that "permanent" format will be; speculation (based on what the owners have done elsewhere) is that it'll be conservative talk, but we've got 2 of those already.
my guess is it will be ksol, the revival.
Their intro format sounds like KFRC for hippies.
What station are they taking over? I don't recall if there was someone at 860 on the AM side before, since most of my AM listening consists of KCBS in the car and KNBR during baseball season, with bits of KPIG thrown in here and there.
FYI, KTRB 860 is officially on the air as "The Heavy 860" playing SF artists. No website, I'll have to wait until I get home tonite.
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listened in the car for a while today. While it's extremely narrow, it's also extremely rare. I heard several Country Joe, and Janis tunes, and an Airplane segue My Best Friend/Watch Her Ride that floored me. Where else am I going to hear these tracks? Heard some Sly, some TOP. In my car, they seem to be missing one channel of the music at times, like KPIG.
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from house to school this AM:
Sly's "Stand"
Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me" (particularly poignant driving through Golden Gate Park. Took me back to high school)
Dead's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" segued into "Morning Dew," both from first album.
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from house to school this AM:
Sly's "Stand"
Airplane's "Comin' Back to Me" (particularly poignant driving through Golden Gate Park. Took me back to high school)
Dead's "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" segued into "Morning Dew," both from first album.
I caught a little bit of it last nite, but I'll be listening a lot this weekend.
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I tuned in last night and this morning. Stuff I don't remember a lot of. I miss the FM sound.
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I tuned in last night and this morning. Stuff I don't remember a lot of. I miss the FM sound.
yeah, AM is for niche stuff I guess.
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In the course of about 20 minutes at noontime it was a GD fest. the music never stops, 1 more Sat nite, hell in a bucket, ripple. Probably more but I was in and out of car a few times.
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"go to her
she lays
waiting for you"
Obscure JA on KRTB, and they played "Ride the Tiger" earlier. Amazing stuff, enjoy it while it lasts.
But they are definitely missing a channel oln some of the stereo-separation. Very noticeable on the Sly songs I've heard.
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they are definitely missing a channel on some of the stereo-separation. Very noticeable on the Sly songs I've heard.
And very noticeable again, as not-so-sweet Martha Lorraine passes out a whole new basket of rings -- the organ part is completely missing!
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Jeez, ya step away from the internet for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose: XM and Sirius announce a merger!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f145018S09.DTL
Of course, the FCC has to approve, and apparently they're not exactly predisposed to do so. But still, this is pretty big news. Glad I cancelled my XM sub!
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Jeez, ya step away from the internet for a couple of hours and all hell breaks loose: XM and Sirius announce a merger!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/19/financial/f145018S09.DTL
Of course, the FCC has to approve, and apparently they're not exactly predisposed to do so. But still, this is pretty big news. Glad I cancelled my XM sub!
Yeah, I was afraid this was going to happen. Perhaps it was short-term necessary for financial survival, but for the future of radio alternatives, it's a long-term step back. Worth noting that once this goes through, *all of satellite radio* pays Howard Stern's $200+ million contract, and that's worrisome to me (and I have much respect for Howard's intellect). I'm hoping that we're in the rapidly fading years of media consolidation and that peer-to-peer networking tools will produce a decentralization of same. Until then, people just do what they gotta. "We tryin to stay alive" -- Wyclef Jean
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''
Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''
Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.
LOL!
and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today. They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''
Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.
LOL!
and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today. They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...
Glad to hear about Channel 104.9, not so much about Max. But Max played "Ballroom Blitz" around 8:00 when I was dropping off the kids at school, so it didn't happen yet.
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For those of you who've missed Channel 104.9 since they switched to Spanish sometime back, well... the Merc sez they're back as of 5pm today:
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/16789858.htm
``For a year we've been hearing that listeners want their station back,'' said program director Justin Wittmayer. ``We just had to look at it. When something is slapping you in the face, you have to address it.''
Translation: There's too damn many Spanish language stations in this market, and we weren't making our numbers.
LOL!
and to prove once again that when it rains it pours: 95.7 "Max" (the "whatever we feel like" station) is rumored to be flipping to... country as soon as today. They tried that once before and ditched it, but new owners took over, so...
Glad to hear about Channel 104.9, not so much about Max. But Max played "Ballroom Blitz" around 8:00 when I was dropping off the kids at school, so it didn't happen yet.
And lo, at apx 12:27, it happened:
Following Bananarama's "Venus", a promo and a commercial, they just switched to a computer-voiced "countdown" -- "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes and counting..." MAX-FM is dead.
Looks like their "last hour of music" really *was* their last:
BANANARAMA - "VENUS"
WAR - "THE CISCO KID"
ZZ TOP - "GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN'"
EAGLES - "THE LONG RUN"
ASIA - "HEAT OF THE MOMENT"
ROLLING STONES - "IT'S ONLY ROCK AND ROLL"
SUPERTRAMP - "GOODBYE STRANGER"
THE OUTFIELD - "YOUR LOVE"
REO SPEEDWAGON - "RIDIN' THE STORM OUT"
BERLIN - "THE METRO"
wouldn't "Goodbye Stranger" have been a better last song than "Venus"?
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The "new" 95.7 signed on at 7:50am: "The Wolf", a country station.
First song: "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy"
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The "new" 95.7 signed on at 7:50am: "The Wolf", a country station.
First song: "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy"
Max was a pretty short run eh?
I heard the new format this morning. Took me by surprise. Guess I should have read my email from Max yesterday saying bye and hinting at the new format.
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And lo, at apx 12:27, it happened:
Following Bananarama's "Venus", a promo and a commercial, they just switched to a computer-voiced "countdown" -- "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes and counting..." MAX-FM is dead.
I heard that countdown thing, after about three or four of those "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes, 43 seconds and counting..." bits the same computer modulated voice would say something patently silly, such as "Does the water ripple when a frog farts?".
Sorry to see Max go, but I'll trade it for getting Channel 104.9 back. They are playing a much more interesting mix of music than Live 105 right now, and since they are still so new, not many comercials. Good stuff.
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And lo, at apx 12:27, it happened:
Following Bananarama's "Venus", a promo and a commercial, they just switched to a computer-voiced "countdown" -- "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes and counting..." MAX-FM is dead.
I heard that countdown thing, after about three or four of those "T-minus 19 hours, 23 minutes, 43 seconds and counting..." bits the same computer modulated voice would say something patently silly, such as "Does the water ripple when a frog farts?".
Sorry to see Max go, but I'll trade it for getting Channel 104.9 back. They are playing a much more interesting mix of music than Live 105 right now, and since they are still so new, not many comercials. Good stuff.
More switches to come: Entercom, the folks who now own MAX, er, "The Wolf", also own KDFC and rumors are rampant that its classical format is doomed. And Bonneville, having also given KOIT-FM to Entercom, is selling KOIT-AM which would obviously get a new format.
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More switches to come: Entercom, the folks who now own MAX, er, "The Wolf", also own KDFC and rumors are rampant that its classical format is doomed. And Bonneville, having also given KOIT-FM to Entercom, is selling KOIT-AM which would obviously get a new format.
that would suck. how could a metro area as sophisticated as ours not support a classical station better than whatever else they could think of in a market as crowded as this in every other format?
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More switches to come: Entercom, the folks who now own MAX, er, "The Wolf", also own KDFC and rumors are rampant that its classical format is doomed. And Bonneville, having also given KOIT-FM to Entercom, is selling KOIT-AM which would obviously get a new format.
that would suck. how could a metro area as sophisticated as ours not support a classical station better than whatever else they could think of in a market as crowded as this in every other format?
I agree. Sadly, Entercom doesn't own any classical stations, and new owners tend to go with what they know. KDFC does very well, however, and I can't imagine any other format that would make money in the crowded, fragmented SF market.
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Mike, help me out, I'm sure you can tell me where to look, maybe before I find. I need to know what stations Asian professionals, age 25-44 are listening to in the San Jose, Silicon Valley, even SF market. I haven't found the info online yet. Can you guide me?
I found http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/United_States_of_America/California/radio.asp?m=sfr
but think I need to know who owns what so I can go to the source to ask about their demographic data.
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Mike, help me out, I'm sure you can tell me where to look, maybe before I find. I need to know what stations Asian professionals, age 25-44 are listening to in the San Jose, Silicon Valley, even SF market. I haven't found the info online yet. Can you guide me?
Seriously... I have no clue. Are you talking about "assimilated", 2nd & 3rd generation Asians? They probably listen to the same stations as white professionals. If you mean Asians for whom their primary languages are Chinese, Japanese etc... well, I dunno. There is an AM station, KVTO 1400 AM that airs various Asian programming. But "Asian" is a way-too-broad rubric, we're talking about a lot of different conflicting cultures there.
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Mike, help me out, I'm sure you can tell me where to look, maybe before I find. I need to know what stations Asian professionals, age 25-44 are listening to in the San Jose, Silicon Valley, even SF market. I haven't found the info online yet. Can you guide me?
I found http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/United_States_of_America/California/radio.asp?m=sfr
but think I need to know who owns what so I can go to the source to ask about their demographic data.
"The Malaysian Station for the Asian Persuasion!"
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Mike, help me out, I'm sure you can tell me where to look, maybe before I find. I need to know what stations Asian professionals, age 25-44 are listening to in the San Jose, Silicon Valley, even SF market. I haven't found the info online yet. Can you guide me?
I found http://radiostationworld.com/Locations/United_States_of_America/California/radio.asp?m=sfr
but think I need to know who owns what so I can go to the source to ask about their demographic data.
"The Malaysian Station for the Asian Persuasion!"
Thanks. I found that one today. Actually found two to go with that will hopefully payoff.
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Not local, but kind of interesting: "Lone Star 92.5" in Dallas/Ft Worth is trying its hand at a country/rock hybrid format, something that's been tried many times in many cities, usually to not-much-success. But here's a sample hour:
ZZ Top, "La Grange"
Allman Brothers, "Melissa"
Whiskeytown, "Bar Lights"
George Thorogood, "If You Don't Start Drinking (I'm Gonna Leave)"
CCR, "Bad Moon Rising"
Pat Green, "Dixie Lullaby"
Black Crowes, "Remedy"
Blackfoot, "Highway Song"
David Allan Coe, "You Never Even Called Me By My Name"
Outlaws, "There Goes Another Love Song"
Bruce Springsteen, "Badlands"
Drive By Truckers, "Let There Be Rock"
Sounds sorta like KPIG without the hippie politics. They're streaming their audio, or so I'm told.
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Sounds very interesting! I'd listen for a while, if only to expand my horizons (I remained biased against southern-fried rock, probably because I'm biased against southern-fried politics and I have trouble separating the two). What's the format called?
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Sounds very interesting! I'd listen for a while, if only to expand my horizons (I remained biased against southern-fried rock, probably because I'm biased against southern-fried politics and I have trouble separating the two). What's the format called?
It's been called many things over the years; in the early '90s it was called "Thunder Country" (which was more of a male-leaning country format with Southern Rock thrown in) and more recently someone called it "Mother Trucker" (!). I'll find their stream and check 'em out after 10@10.
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Sounds very interesting! I'd listen for a while, if only to expand my horizons (I remained biased against southern-fried rock, probably because I'm biased against southern-fried politics and I have trouble separating the two). What's the format called?
It's been called many things over the years; in the early '90s it was called "Thunder Country" (which was more of a male-leaning country format with Southern Rock thrown in) and more recently someone called it "Mother Trucker" (!). I'll find their stream and check 'em out after 10@10.
Clear Channel Launches Commercial-Free "Lone Star 92.5"
April 23, 2007
Clear Channel unveiled a new format today in Dallas, as Classic Rock KZPS flipped to "Lone Star 92.5." After being tried out as an HD-2 side channel, the new format mixes "outlaw" Country with Southern Rock and Alt-Country music. The Lone Star format was created by programmer Duane Doherty, who says, "All we had on the HD-2 channel was the music and the response was incredible. In a sense, we’re recapturing the early days of FM – when your jock was a trusted guide through what was new and important. Lone Star is the music we love in Dallas without the hype.”
Also, Lone Star 92.5 will not air traditional spots. Instead, the station will have "sponsors" whose content will be integrated in throughout the hour. “There’s a credibility and an authenticity of partnering with sponsors who share our passion for this music,” said Kelly Kibler, director of sales for CC Radio/Dallas. “We’ll only have one airline, one cellular carrier, one beer. This is about sharing an experience and a commitment to the incredible creativity of these artists. To do that honestly and well, you have to step up. Traditional commercials are fine for many radio formats, they just didn’t work here.”
Lone Star 92.5 will feature such artists as ZZ Top, The Old 97's, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and of course, Willie Nelson. In fact, the Red Headed Stranger will also serve as the voice of the station.
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"Free-FM" is DEAD!!! Long live... KFRC???
Yes, KFRC is back only now they're at 106.9, replacing the dreaful, ill-fated "Free FM" talk format that never took off. Oldies are back in SF as of 4pm today, or so I'm told.
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"Free-FM" is DEAD!!! Long live... KFRC???
Yes, KFRC is back only now they're at 106.9, replacing the dreaful, ill-fated "Free FM" talk format that never took off. Oldies are back in SF as of 4pm today, or so I'm told.
Oldsters from Rossmoor to Daly City are rejoicing as we speak.
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"Free-FM" is DEAD!!! Long live... KFRC???
Yes, KFRC is back only now they're at 106.9, replacing the dreaful, ill-fated "Free FM" talk format that never took off. Oldies are back in SF as of 4pm today, or so I'm told.
Oldsters from Rossmoor to Daly City are rejoicing as we speak.
Well... sorta.
I've been listening for a while this evening. They're jockless at the moment, and it's more like the late semi-lamented MAX than the legendary KFRC. "The Magical Mystery Tour thru the KFRC Vault of Classic Hits" is what they're calling it -- they're going thru the alphabet, they're playing songs that begin with C as I write, not in strict alphabetical order, but bouncing around within the letter.
The Chain
Crazy on You
Carry on my Wayward Son
Couldn't Get it Right
Crocodile Rock
Cisco Kid
Can't Get Enuf of Your Love (Barry White, not BadCo)
etc... Everything's been from the '70s so far -- but wait, the letter "D" leads off with Huey, "Do You Believe in Love?". So there's '80s too.
ETA: and Huey was followed by the Beatles "Day in the Life", so there's at least lip service being paid to '60s.
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CBS Radio's "Free-FM" experiment is truly dead -- in addition to our local affiliate's switch to the "new KFRC" last week, the NYC flagship of Free FM is reverting to its former incarnation as WXRK, "K-Rock" today. The next time somebody says they think young-male-oriented talk can succeed on FM ... slap them.
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Gaz will be interested to know that NYC's CBS-FM is rumored to be switching back to Oldies, perhaps as soon as this weekend.
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Gaz will be interested to know that NYC's CBS-FM is rumored to be switching back to Oldies, perhaps as soon as this weekend.
Would they bring Micky Dolenz back for the morning shift?
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Gaz will be interested to know that NYC's CBS-FM is rumored to be switching back to Oldies, perhaps as soon as this weekend.
Would they bring Micky Dolenz back for the morning shift?
I seriously doubt it -- it will undoubtedly be closer to "Classic Hits" than pure Oldies, I'd be surprised if any of the old jocks came back, except maybe for weekend specialty shows.
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I presume this has been mentioned here, but can't find the thread. I imagine Urth would have some comments, knowing KZAP like he did.
Short story for those who don't know: KPIG is now also broadcasting on KZAP/Chico. It makes for pretty funny weather news, like this AM, when I heard something like "51 in SLO, 52 in Santa Cruz, 53 in San Francisco, and 80 in Chico!"
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I presume this has been mentioned here, but can't find the thread. I imagine Urth would have some comments, knowing KZAP like he did.
Short story for those who don't know: KPIG is now also broadcasting on KZAP/Chico. It makes for pretty funny weather news, like this AM, when I heard something like "51 in SLO, 52 in Santa Cruz, 53 in San Francisco, and 80 in Chico!"
Apparently the KZAP call letters migrated to Chico and most recently belonged to a Top 40/Dance station.
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Seems like only yesterday that we discovered the KINK version of 10@10 and noted that John Grappone was working there. Now someone has posted on the radio-info.com SF message board and asked if anybody knows where Grappone is because he's no longer at KINK (and a check of KINK's website confirms this).
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The fact that Clear Channel is "going private" as a company has gotten a lot of coverage recently, but now Cumulus (owners of KFOG, KNBR & The Bone, locally) is doing the same. Hrm.
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2007/07/23/cumulus0724.html
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This is kind of amazing -- someone has compiled a list of all the different songs CBS-FM has played in the 2 weeks since they switched back to "classic hits" (dare not call 'em oldies).
http://www.freewebs.com/cbsplaylist/
Over 800 songs, which is unheard-of for a station of this type. We can only hope the revived KFRC is half as interesting, playlist-wise.
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I just found this out, dunno when it happened, but KKSF dropped Whoopi Goldberg's struggling syndicated morning show in favor of jazz legend Ramsey Lewis.
http://www.kksf.com/pages/dj_ramseylewis.html
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960 KQKE "The Quake" is going "Green"...
Progressive talk radio station, KQKE-AM, will evolve into “Green 960” (KKGN-AM) starting August 27th. Program Director, Bob Agnew, says, “This is a natural evolution for the station. We are in the most environmentally-conscientious market in the country, and our listeners have let us know the depth of their concern and their desire to be part of the solution. 'Green 960' will entertain, educate, and motivate people on the need to recycle, sustain, preserve, and protect this place we call Mother Earth.”
In support of its new focus, Green 960 will debut “Green Seed Radio”, the first daily prime time radio program dedicated to environmental news and issues. Produced in conjunction with the Green Building Exchange, the show will feature news and information focused on green technology, green business, environmental tips and education, interview segments and listener interaction. The program will be featured daily on Green 960 from 3-4pm.
reen 960 will also expand the Progressive News Hour to two hours (4p-6p) and replace some commercial breaks with a daily series of three-minute “green vignettes”, which will profile leaders and businesses at the forefront of the green movement.
Here's the New Line-Up
3a - 6a; Bill Press
6a - 9a; Stephanie Miller
9a - 12n; Thom Hartmann*
12n - 3p; Ed Schultz
3p - 4p; Green Seed Radio*
4p - 6p; Progressive News with John Scott*
6p - 9p; Randi Rhodes*
9p - 11p; Rachel Maddow*
11p - 2a; Mike Malloy
2a - 3a; Jon Elliot
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6p - 9p; Randi Rhodes
well, I'm glad to see Randi in a more listenable time slot. They had shifted her all the way to 9PM lately!
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6p - 9p; Randi Rhodes
well, I'm glad to see Randi in a more listenable time slot. They had shifted her all the way to 9PM lately!
Rachel Maddow is really good in her frequent appearances on Keith Olbermann's show.
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I'm way late on this... I actually meant to ask about it, since I was in NY for Pride Weekend... but according to a post today on radio-info.com's SF board, Live 105 didn't do their annual K-GAY thing this year. If that's true, it's kinda sad.
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Not exactly local, but this seemed the best place for this.
I'm sure most of you recall my waxing poetic about KZAP, a one-time freeform FM station in Sacramento that provided the soundtrack for my teen years.
Well, the other day during a rare slow time at work I happened across a rather lengthy chronicle of KZAP's entire lifespan, from 1968 to 1992, written by a guy who I remember as a DJ on Sacramento's alternative station in the mid-90s. A lot of this probably won't mean as much if you weren't there, but I thought I'd post the link anyway in case anyone had a few spare hours (as I said, it's long).
http://www.playlistresearch.com/kzap.htm
I started listening around '72, so I don't recall much of the early stuff, but the descriptions of station activities from then on brought back memories I hadn't visited in YEARS. Wish I could have attended the reunion they had in '98--I did go to a KZAP farewell party in '92 after the station had folded up. Wonder if they'll have another one next year?
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Not exactly local, but this seemed the best place for this.
I'm sure most of you recall my waxing poetic about KZAP, a one-time freeform FM station in Sacramento that provided the soundtrack for my teen years.
Well, the other day during a rare slow time at work I happened across a rather lengthy chronicle of KZAP's entire lifespan, from 1968 to 1992, written by a guy who I remember as a DJ on Sacramento's alternative station in the mid-90s. A lot of this probably won't mean as much if you weren't there, but I thought I'd post the link anyway in case anyone had a few spare hours (as I said, it's long).
http://www.playlistresearch.com/kzap.htm
I started listening around '72, so I don't recall much of the early stuff, but the descriptions of station activities from then on brought back memories I hadn't visited in YEARS. Wish I could have attended the reunion they had in '98--I did go to a KZAP farewell party in '92 after the station had folded up. Wonder if they'll have another one next year?
wow. that's a really cool website. Just browsed the St. Louis & Seattle essays. Mike, I predict you're going to waste some hours here for sure.
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Not exactly local, but this seemed the best place for this.
I'm sure most of you recall my waxing poetic about KZAP, a one-time freeform FM station in Sacramento that provided the soundtrack for my teen years.
Well, the other day during a rare slow time at work I happened across a rather lengthy chronicle of KZAP's entire lifespan, from 1968 to 1992, written by a guy who I remember as a DJ on Sacramento's alternative station in the mid-90s. A lot of this probably won't mean as much if you weren't there, but I thought I'd post the link anyway in case anyone had a few spare hours (as I said, it's long).
http://www.playlistresearch.com/kzap.htm
I started listening around '72, so I don't recall much of the early stuff, but the descriptions of station activities from then on brought back memories I hadn't visited in YEARS. Wish I could have attended the reunion they had in '98--I did go to a KZAP farewell party in '92 after the station had folded up. Wonder if they'll have another one next year?
wow. that's a really cool website. Just browsed the St. Louis & Seattle essays. Mike, I predict you're going to waste some hours here for sure.
Yeah, I haven't really looked beyond the Sacramento related pieces, but there's a ton of stuff there.
Also, if you want to find out what happened to some of the DJs of your youth, check this site out:
http://www.440.com/440sat.html
No guarantees, but they have listings on TONS of DJs, and nearly every station you can name.
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email just received, I thought KFRC was back already.
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Dear KFRC listener:
I'm writing to you because you were among the thousands who were
disappointed last September when KFRC went away. Well, I've got
exciting news for you!
KFRC is back! That's right; the Bay Area's Classic Hits are on KFRC
once again, this time at a new dial position, 106.9FM. The great music
is already on the air ready for you to enjoy 24/7, along with some great
Bay Area radio personalities who bring it all to life, including:
Original KFRC jock and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee "Your Duke",
Dave Sholin & Celeste Perry play your "wake up" classic hits, mornings
from 5:30 to 10am.
KFRC's own Sue Hall, back where she belongs, playing classic hits from
10am to 3pm
Bay Area native and classic hits expert Jay Coffee driving you home from
3pm-7pm.
And Bay Area radio veteran Steve Moore playing classic hits into the
night from 7p-12mid.
Plus KFRC legend John Mack Flanagan hosting two weekly Beatles music
feature hours: "The Magical Mystery Tour", Saturday morning at 9am and
"Brunch with The Beatles", Sunday morning at 9am. And Bay Area rock
music journalist Ben Fong-Torres brings his musical expertise and
historical perspective to life with "Classic Hits Backstage", Sunday
morning from 7am-9am and Sunday night from 7pm-9pm. And if that's not
enough, Casey Kasem's original "American Top 40" shows from the 70's air
on Saturday mornings at 6am with a "Best of American Top 40" repeat at
10pm Saturday night.
I hope you'll take a moment to check out a station that we think does
the original "Big 610" proud: Classic Hits 106.9, KFRC!
PS-Find out everything going on with the station and listen online at
our great new website: KFRC.com
Mike Preston
VP/Programming
CBS Radio San Francisco
KCBS 740^KMVQ 99.7^KFRC 106.9
865 Battery Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
ph: 415-951-2348
Tim Jordan
Program Director
Classic Hits
106.9 KFRC FM
415-951-2374
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Y'know what caught my eye most in that whole thing? The reruns of old Casey Kasem ATFs from the 70s. Too bad they are on at hours at which I would be highly unlikely to tune in, but if I'm ever up at 6am on a Saturday, or doing not much on at 10pm on a Saturday night, there ya go.
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Y'know what caught my eye most in that whole thing? The reruns of old Casey Kasem ATFs from the 70s. Too bad they are on at hours at which I would be highly unlikely to tune in, but if I'm ever up at 6am on a Saturday, or doing not much on at 10pm on a Saturday night, there ya go.
That IS news -- I'll have to check one out on Sat nite, given the pleasure I'm getting from CG's retro countdown shows (I'm listening to one today from Aug '75 that is mind-blowing.) I didn't realize they were syndicating Casey's old shows.
Actually, it's a 3-or-4-hour show (depending on the year), so If you're willing to forgo Dave's marathon, you can catch the last 2 hours on Sat morning and not lose too much sleep.
AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
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AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
I'm going to guess the Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
And that is the first time I've ever typed out the subtitle for that, I think.
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Jay Coffee
My two favorite ways to start off the morning!
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AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
I'm going to guess the Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
And that is the first time I've ever typed out the subtitle for that, I think.
Nope -- and that's ironic, since the answer is a fave artist of yours.
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AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
I'm going to guess the Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
And that is the first time I've ever typed out the subtitle for that, I think.
Nope -- and that's ironic, since the answer is a fave artist of yours.
Given that added hint, I'll say Three Dog Night, Mama Told Me Not To Come.
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AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
I'm going to guess the Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
And that is the first time I've ever typed out the subtitle for that, I think.
Nope -- and that's ironic, since the answer is a fave artist of yours.
Given that added hint, I'll say Three Dog Night, Mama Told Me Not To Come.
Ding Ding Ding!
I'm wondering how far back these "Classic Caseys" go. On the 5th anniv of the show, July 4th 1975, they rebroadcast the very first show in its entirety -- Kasem sounded VERY different, very gruff and he spoke much faster. His "warm" "cozy" syrupy-long-distance-dedication voice had evolved over time. And in the beginning the show was only 3 hours; they were afraid affiliates wouldn't take a longer show. So they edited a lot of the songs (and sometimes deleted songs that were on the way down) to make it all fit into 3 hours. By the late '70s, singles were longer and the show was a proven hit, so they expanded to 4 hours.
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AT40 Trivia: Casey's show premiered 4th of July 1970 -- without looking it up, what was the #1 song that week?
I'm going to guess the Carpenters, "(They Long to Be) Close to You."
And that is the first time I've ever typed out the subtitle for that, I think.
Nope -- and that's ironic, since the answer is a fave artist of yours.
Given that added hint, I'll say Three Dog Night, Mama Told Me Not To Come.
Ding Ding Ding!
I'm wondering how far back these "Classic Caseys" go. On the 5th anniv of the show, July 4th 1975, they rebroadcast the very first show in its entirety -- Kasem sounded VERY different, very gruff and he spoke much faster. His "warm" "cozy" syrupy-long-distance-dedication voice had evolved over time. And in the beginning the show was only 3 hours; they were afraid affiliates wouldn't take a longer show. So they edited a lot of the songs (and sometimes deleted songs that were on the way down) to make it all fit into 3 hours. By the late '70s, singles were longer and the show was a proven hit, so they expanded to 4 hours.
Fascinating, and I hope I can fit some of these into my listening diet.
PS: I wasn't far off: "Close to You" succeeded "Mama Told Me" in the throne.
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Y'know what caught my eye most in that whole thing? The reruns of old Casey Kasem ATFs from the 70s. Too bad they are on at hours at which I would be highly unlikely to tune in, but if I'm ever up at 6am on a Saturday, or doing not much on at 10pm on a Saturday night, there ya go.
I'm listening this morning: Al Green shoots from 31 to 21 with "You Oughta Be With Me." Always loved Casey's voice.
ETA: This is, I suppose, a 1972 set; the songs that followed were "Starting All Over Again," "If You Don't Know Me By Now," and "Thunder and Lightning." What a set!
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Y'know what caught my eye most in that whole thing? The reruns of old Casey Kasem ATFs from the 70s. Too bad they are on at hours at which I would be highly unlikely to tune in, but if I'm ever up at 6am on a Saturday, or doing not much on at 10pm on a Saturday night, there ya go.
I'm listening this morning: Al Green shoots from 31 to 21 with "You Oughta Be With Me." Always loved Casey's voice.
ETA: This is, I suppose, a 1972 set; the songs that followed were "Starting All Over Again," "If You Don't Know Me By Now," and "Thunder and Lightning." What a set!
I woke up as the last hour was beginning: just in time for the 5th Dimension's fabulous forgotten "If I Could Reach You". Amazing stuff, and note that this is date-specific (Nov 11th 1972); I assume that's always the case, which is just an awesome concept. Can't wait to catch the replay tonite (serious competition for JJ on KPOO). Thanks to Ali for alerting us to this!
Great trivia I had long forgotten: Lobo wrote the "today is the first day of the rest of your life" jingle for Total cereal, but they didn't like his voice -- so they hired Cashman & West (who were also in the Top 40 that week) to sing it.
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Great trivia I had long forgotten: Lobo wrote the "today is the first day of the rest of your life" jingle for Total cereal, but they didn't like his voice -- so they hired Cashman & West (who were also in the Top 40 that week) to sing it.
I was intrigued to learn that too. Stretching the TANC meme a bit too far, I just bought a Cashman & West single off iTunes yesterday ("California on My Mind," sometimes credited under the alternate nom de disque Morning Mist).
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I just bought a Cashman & West single off iTunes yesterday ("California on My Mind," sometimes credited under the alternate nom de disque Morning Mist).
a great little tune! I think it became a jingle for hair coloring or something a few years later. C&W never really got their due; "American City Suite" (hope you get to hear the loooooong version someday) is just superb. They started their own label, Lifesong (which gave us Henry Gross's "Shannon"). And of course they produced all of Jim Croce's stuff. (and according to C&W, Croce's widow was the Bitch Queen of the Universe!)
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they had some interesting "Sty in the City" program on today, apparently only on 1510AM. It was an artist interview with Warren Haynes, where he talked, and spun some of his favorite tunes. No biggie for most of you, but a nice little local touch.
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Y'know what caught my eye most in that whole thing? The reruns of old Casey Kasem ATFs from the 70s. Too bad they are on at hours at which I would be highly unlikely to tune in, but if I'm ever up at 6am on a Saturday, or doing not much on at 10pm on a Saturday night, there ya go.
I'm listening this morning: Al Green shoots from 31 to 21 with "You Oughta Be With Me." Always loved Casey's voice.
ETA: This is, I suppose, a 1972 set; the songs that followed were "Starting All Over Again," "If You Don't Know Me By Now," and "Thunder and Lightning." What a set!
Well, I tuned in tonite at 10 and the idiots at KFRC began with hour #2, so I guess I've missed out on "American City Suite", Sam Neely (!) and Donny Osmond (both solo and with his brothers). But what a gas to hear Nilsson's "Space Man", Gallery doing "I Believe in Music" (a Mac Davis tune featuring some hilariously cheezy synths) and -- OMFG! -- Danny O'Keefe's "Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues".
I dunno if they're rotating the years in order or skipping around, but if '73 is up next week, we'll hear such gems as Millie Jackson's "Hurts So Good", 3DN's little-played "Let Me Serenade You", Garfunkel's criminally forgotten "All I Know" and Marie Osmond's "Paper Roses"!
Billboard trivia: I just noticed that "Your Mama Don't Dance" is credited to 'Ken Loggins with Jim Messina' (!).
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I wish I'd've caught "American City Suite" as well; I've been curious about that one.
Loving the new avatar, by the way. Clearly there's no room for wife Jean in that little box.
So today's set was about 4 weeks before my birth. I'd like to think I was absorbing a little bit of what was in the air. (And hey, Helen Reddy gives me a word for the next scavenger hunt!)
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Per Ben Fong-Torres in today's Chron:
On "Selvin On the City" tonight, Joel Selvin spins one-hit wonders, like "Black Betty" by Ram Jam, "Tired of Toeing the Line" by Rocky Burnette, and "Hocus Pocus" by Focus. The magic begins at 11 p.m. on "The Bone."
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KGO's Bernie Ward indicted for kiddie porn; he's using the Pete Townsend "it was research" defense. I didn't know he is a former Catholic priest.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/06/BAFHTPMQD.DTL&tsp=1
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KGO's Bernie Ward indicted for kiddie porn; he's using the Pete Townsend "it was research" defense. I didn't know he is a former Catholic priest.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/06/BAFHTPMQD.DTL&tsp=1
I have a hard time believing the charges, unless it's some kind of technicality. Bernie has railed against the practice of how the Catholic church has transferred priests into unsuspecting parishes, after they've been removed for pedophilia. He's been one of the few liberal voices on the air (before the recent AAR etc) so maybe someone has it in for him. Perhaps he was just stupid, and didn't get the permission he needed for research.
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KGO's Bernie Ward indicted for kiddie porn; he's using the Pete Townsend "it was research" defense. I didn't know he is a former Catholic priest.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/12/06/BAFHTPMQD.DTL&tsp=1
I have a hard time believing the charges, unless it's some kind of technicality. Bernie has railed against the practice of how the Catholic church has transferred priests into unsuspecting parishes, after they've been removed for pedophilia. He's been one of the few liberal voices on the air (before the recent AAR etc) so maybe someone has it in for him. Perhaps he was just stupid, and didn't get the permission he needed for research.
I hope you're right, but I am unclear on what kind of research needs to be done on the topic, particularly by laymen.
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KPIG goes global (from Radio & Records)::
It is well known that the Americana-triple A hybrid programming that originates out of Mapleton Communications' KPIG/Monterey's main studios is also used by other sister stations in San Luis Obispo, San Francisco and Chico, Calif.But as the station prepares to celebrate its 20-year anniversary in 2008, its unique programming will become available to stations across the country thanks to a new syndication deal Mapleton Communications has recently inked with Dial Global Digital 24/7 Formats.
"We are thrilled at the opportunity to partner with Dial Global to expand the terrestrial reach of KPIG radio across the U.S. so listeners will be able to Tune In, Turn On, and Pig Out,” commented Mapleton Communications president and CEO Adam Nathanson to R&R.
"Here’s a format that radio listeners really get passionate about, done by some of its pioneers,” adds Dial Global Programming president Kirk Stirland. “KPIG has terrific awareness in the trade, and now, we’ll provide a way to take the KPIG experience to listeners everywhere."
The service will be a 24/7 feed that includes network time and room for local avails and becomes available on Dec. 31, 2007
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Bernie Ward now gone from KGO.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/22/BA43UK479.DTL
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Not A-Z but KFOX is doing a vinyl timeline. in the 70's now. It's been a Dead-fest, Ripple, Box of Rain.... so much more. Streaming at kufx.com.
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Not A-Z but KFOX is doing a vinyl timeline. in the 70's now. It's been a Dead-fest, Ripple, Box of Rain.... so much more. Streaming at kufx.com.
I heard a promo for this last week: they asked listeners (Fox-heads?) to vote for their fave LPs and they're playing the vinyl versions of the top vote-getters, I think.
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Vinyl timeline is kicking ass in 1976. Great albums that year. Lots of Seger.
Fox-heads, no no no. First time I've ever seen or thought of that monniker.
Joe Walsh just entered Hotel California.
This was a huge album for me in 76.
Frampton too.
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Vinyl timeline is kicking ass in 1976. Great albums that year. Lots of Seger.
Fox-heads, no no no. First time I've ever seen or thought of that monniker.
Joe Walsh just entered Hotel California.
This was a huge album for me in 76.
Frampton too.
Maybe K-FOX listeners could call themselves Next of Kihn. ;)
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Well, local for Gaz, anyway: NYC's WQCD has dropped Smooth Jazz (after 20 years) and switched to "The NY Rock Experience", a triple-A type format, so NY finally has a KFOG-ish station. (tho' The Peak is already doing that on the outskirts of the city).
http://www.cd1019.com/site_20/home.aspx
http://www.1019rxp.com/
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Well, local for Gaz, anyway: NYC's WQCD has dropped Smooth Jazz (after 20 years) and switched to "The NY Rock Experience", a triple-A type format, so NY finally has a KFOG-ish station. (tho' The Peak is already doing that on the outskirts of the city).
http://www.cd1019.com/site_20/home.aspx
http://www.1019rxp.com/
This is great news! I'll give them a listen as soon as I get some free time. (I used to be able to listen to music while I work, but the present duties require too much attention and tuneage distracts me.)
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Well, local for Gaz, anyway: NYC's WQCD has dropped Smooth Jazz (after 20 years) and switched to "The NY Rock Experience", a triple-A type format, so NY finally has a KFOG-ish station. (tho' The Peak is already doing that on the outskirts of the city).
http://www.cd1019.com/site_20/home.aspx
http://www.1019rxp.com/
This is great news! I'll give them a listen as soon as I get some free time. (I used to be able to listen to music while I work, but the present duties require too much attention and tuneage distracts me.)
FYI, they don't seem to be streaming... yet. It looks like standard Triple-A fare, tho' they *are* playing that godawful Nickleback hit, "Rockstar", which most older-skewing Triple-A's tend to ignore.
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For those who care, KFRC is running the old Drake/Chenault "History of Rock'n'Roll" all weekend. Always a delight. Not sure if it affects the Klassic Kasem Kountdown tomorrow.
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For those who care, KFRC is running the old Drake/Chenault "History of Rock'n'Roll" all weekend. Always a delight. Not sure if it affects the Klassic Kasem Kountdown tomorrow.
Thanks for the warning. BTW, what on earth inspired your "Half-Breed" phase?
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For those who care, KFRC is running the old Drake/Chenault "History of Rock'n'Roll" all weekend. Always a delight. Not sure if it affects the Klassic Kasem Kountdown tomorrow.
Thanks for the warning. BTW, what on earth inspired your "Half-Breed" phase?
give me a feath-uh, ah'm a Chair-o-kee! Came across the pic and had to have it.
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http://www.timewarner.com/corp/newsroom/pr/0,20812,1720371,00.html
CBS Radio Signs Exclusive Agreement to Power AOL Radio, One of the Nation's Most Listened to Online Radio Networks
March 07, 2008
New York, NY – CBS RADIO and AOL today announced a ground breaking partnership whereby CBS RADIO will power AOL Radio (http://radio.aol.com), combining two of the largest online radio networks and giving millions of listeners unlimited and free access to the most diverse lineup of programming available. Additionally, the two companies will work together to create a number of product enhancements including a new player, as well as complete support for the Mac.
Once the AOL Radio's stations are integrated into its operations, CBS RADIO will drive advertising sales for AOL's more than 200 award winning stations in addition to its own online streams of more than 150 radio stations and custom channels.
A brand new state of the art player developed by CBS RADIO and incorporating all the favorite features AOL listeners are accustomed to, and more, will be launched this spring. The completely updated interface will include all of the stations currently programmed by AOL and a wide range of top-rated local sports, talk, news and music stations, including CBS RADIO's WFAN-AM and 1010 WINS in New York, KLSX and KROQ in Los Angeles, WXRT in Chicago, WVEE in Atlanta, as well as a litany of customized stations created exclusively by CBS RADIO for the Internet. Additional stations programmed by CBS RADIO and AOL will be launched throughout the partnership.
The new player will allow audiences to toggle between stations; view song titles, album information and link to websites featuring the current artist being streamed; access favorite stations via presets, rate and share songs with family, friends, and coworkers; purchase individual songs, albums and concert tickets; and link to a host of additional web content, including photos, videos, promotions, contests, news headlines, sports scores, trivia, and concert information, among other topics.
"CBS RADIO continues to invest in high-growth areas including internet streaming," said Dan Mason, President and CEO, CBS RADIO. "We have been very clear about our goals in this area and teaming with AOL is a tremendous step forward in that regard. Couple that with years of progress building out our own streaming operations, and CBS RADIO is instantly positioned as the leader in the online radio space. A combined CBS RADIO/AOL Radio affords us vastly greater scale, as well as massive distribution for our brands. We look forward to all that we will now be able to offer our audiences and advertisers alike."
"This partnership with CBS RADIO reconfirms our commitment to the expanding online radio audience and provides significantly more programming choices for our listeners," said Kevin Conroy, executive vice president of AOL.
In addition to CBS RADIO's extensive sales force, advertisers will also be able to utilize TargetSpot to facilitate their online advertising transactions. TargetSpot is the first end to end advertising marketplace specifically designed for streaming audio. The online platform allows clients to easily create, buy and place their advertising messages on streaming stations targeting listeners by station, location, listening preferences and demographics. In addition, Ronning Lipset Radio, the leading national online radio representation firm which has handled AOL Radio's streaming ad inventory for more than four years, is broadening its responsibilities to include CBS RADIO's online radio properties as well.
"As a result of having one of the most powerful Internet radio platforms in the world we've created even greater opportunities for advertisers to be integrated into one of the fastest growing areas on the web," said David Goodman, President of Digital Media and Integrated Marketing.
About CBS RADIO
CBS RADIO is one of the largest major-market operators in the United States with stations covering news, alternative rock, oldies, country, talk, classic rock, JACK and urban formats, among others. A division of CBS Corporation, CBS RADIO operates 140 radio stations, all but one of which are in the nation's top 50 markets. The Company continues to make aggressive moves to converge new and traditional media through creative programming and advanced delivery methods, including online streaming, HD Radio, mobile messaging and podcasting. Audio streams of more than 150 CBS RADIO stations and custom channels are currently available online, and two thirds of the Company's stations are broadcasting in HD digital radio. Additionally, CBS RADIO is home to 27 of the country's leading sports franchises amongst MLB, the NFL, the NBA, the WNBA and the NHL, including the New York Yankees, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Chicago Bears and the Detroit Red Wings.
About AOL
AOL is a global Web services company that operates some of the most popular Web destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs one of the largest Internet access businesses in the U.S., and provides a full set of advertising solutions. A majority-owned subsidiary of Time Warner Inc., AOL LLC and its subsidiaries have operations in the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. Learn more at AOL.com.
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I've mentioned Lisa Carr here several times, she used to do traffic at Live 105 back in the Alex Bennett days and later was a jock at the Bone for a while. I'd wondered what happened to her, and lo -- Ben Fong-Torres' "Radio Waves" column in today's Chron is all about KOIT's morning show, where Ms Carr is now known as Lisa Daley:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/PKGUV90EV.DTL
The article also mentions KOIT's Marketing Director: Jude Heller, who worked at KFOG for years. I recall Dave Morey saying farewell to Jude the day she left. He didn't say where she was going -- now we know.
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I've mentioned Lisa Carr here several times, she used to do traffic at Live 105 back in the Alex Bennett days and later was a jock at the Bone for a while. I'd wondered what happened to her, and lo -- Ben Fong-Torres' "Radio Waves" column in today's Chron is all about KOIT's morning show, where Ms Carr is now known as Lisa Daley:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/09/PKGUV90EV.DTL
The article also mentions KOIT's Marketing Director: Jude Heller, who worked at KFOG for years. I recall Dave Morey saying farewell to Jude the day she left. He didn't say where she was going -- now we know.
Jude made an interim stop before KOIT. One of the new format country stations I think. Maybe Moovin. Guess that flopped.
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hot rumors from the Radio-Info SF message board:
1) The Raiders are looking for a new radio home (no more KSFO)
2) KFRC and Mooooovin' are going to switch frequencies next month.
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2) KFRC and Mooooovin' are going to switch frequencies next month.
Which will put KFRC back where they were before Mooovin' bumped them from the dial, yes?
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2) KFRC and Mooooovin' are going to switch frequencies next month.
Which will put KFRC back where they were before Mooovin' bumped them from the dial, yes?
yup -- I suspect that's the idea. Despite a gazillion billboards, the average dunderhead still doesn't know that KFRC is "back", apparently.
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2) KFRC and Mooooovin' are going to switch frequencies next month.
Which will put KFRC back where they were before Mooovin' bumped them from the dial, yes?
yup -- I suspect that's the idea. Despite a gazillion billboards, the average dunderhead still doesn't know that KFRC is "back", apparently.
Well, as we now know, KFRC and "Movin'" have *not* switched frequencies.
But I was listening to KFRC in the car this afternoon, and in the midst of their usual, fairly predictable mix of "Classic Hits" (EJ, BJ, Queen, Beatles), what pops up but ... "We Were Always Sweethearts" by Boz! I was floored. Never a Top 40 hit, but one of my all-time faves of his -- I wonder how many of KFRC's core oldies-heads (the ones who can't get enuf of "Brown-Eyed Girl") had even *heard* of the song.
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2) KFRC and Mooooovin' are going to switch frequencies next month.
Which will put KFRC back where they were before Mooovin' bumped them from the dial, yes?
yup -- I suspect that's the idea. Despite a gazillion billboards, the average dunderhead still doesn't know that KFRC is "back", apparently.
Well, as we now know, KFRC and "Movin'" have *not* switched frequencies.
But I was listening to KFRC in the car this afternoon, and in the midst of their usual, fairly predictable mix of "Classic Hits" (EJ, BJ, Queen, Beatles), what pops up but ... "We Were Always Sweethearts" by Boz! I was floored. Never a Top 40 hit, but one of my all-time faves of his -- I wonder how many of KFRC's core oldies-heads (the ones who can't get enuf of "Brown-Eyed Girl") had even *heard* of the song.
That song was the first thing I ever heard by Boz. The Top 40 stations in Sacto when I was in 6th grade or so were all OVER that song, so I assume KFRC may well have been too, as a regional hit. Great great tune--and one DM should add to the next 1971 set.
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As my four days of being a commuter-by-car come to an end, I must say I truly feel for those of you who do it every day. No just because of the traffic, but because of what's available on the radio. I usually hear KFOG during the 6:00 hour each day; hearing an extra hour+ drove me up the wall. Renee is quite annoying and even Dave was pissing me off with his I-(heart)-Hillary/"oooh, her refusing to withdraw is so fabulously dramatic" shtick. So I flipped to Energy 92.7 and their 3 gay guys -- first time I'd heard them for extended periods -- and OMFG they're awful, especially Greg the Gay Sportscaster, who's a white trash Southern queen who sounds like he's on some low-watt station in Mississippi (if gay people were allowed on the radio there).
Coming home today I listened to KNBR for the first time in a while; Tom Tolbert is as idiotically frat-boy-ish as ever, and didya know KFOG's Mike Powers does sports updates there?
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The WashPost's LAST radio column:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903285.html
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The WashPost's LAST radio column:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/29/AR2008052903285.html
Sorry to see that era end, but it's fitting with radio as we know it dying as well. We're rapidly losing our notions of monoculture, which is both a good and bad thing.
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well, local if you have Sirius: Lou Reed gets pissed at a journalist. No, really?
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/lou_reed_talks_his_new_radio_s.html
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well, local if you have Sirius: Lou Reed gets pissed at a journalist. No, really?
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/06/lou_reed_talks_his_new_radio_s.html
What a fucking asshole.
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For those of you who've been in the area long enuf to remember M. Dung and his "Idiot Show" on KFOG (or his days as the morning guy, pre-Morey)... he has a website and does a monthly podcast:
http://www.idiotshow.net
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Something for Mike especially:
Interval Signals Online (http://www.intervalsignals.net/), home to airchecks, identification announcements, jingles and signature tunes from radio stations around the world.
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2008 class of inductees.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/PKPB12IKUR.DTL&hw=Radio+Waves&sn=003&sc=819
Just out of curiousity, anyone else think there's someone on this list who's getting the honor just a l-e-e-e-e-tle bit prematurely in their career, compared with some of the other names on the roster?
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2008 class of inductees.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/PKPB12IKUR.DTL&hw=Radio+Waves&sn=003&sc=819
Just out of curiousity, anyone else think there's someone on this list who's getting the honor just a l-e-e-e-e-tle bit prematurely in their career, compared with some of the other names on the roster?
Ha. I assume you're referring to Renel -- I guess she gets points for working two jobs and never sleeping?
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2008 class of inductees.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/PKPB12IKUR.DTL&hw=Radio+Waves&sn=003&sc=819
Just out of curiousity, anyone else think there's someone on this list who's getting the honor just a l-e-e-e-e-tle bit prematurely in their career, compared with some of the other names on the roster?
Ha. I assume you're referring to Renel -- I guess she gets points for working two jobs and never sleeping?
Ding-ding-ding!!! Yep, that's who I was thinking of. And I think her exposure in so many venues is why she must have rated nomination. She's definitely talented, and I would have no trouble with her making the hall in, say, 10 years or so. But right now she's still got some dues to pay (besides sleep deprivation that is).
And an aside on that last point I honestly don't see how she can be at the ballpark til after 10 at night, and be up and talking lucidly on the radio at 6am the next day. She must be a serious afternoon napper. Long home stands must be just HELL.
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame announces its 2008 class of inductees.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/07/PKPB12IKUR.DTL&hw=Radio+Waves&sn=003&sc=819
Just out of curiousity, anyone else think there's someone on this list who's getting the honor just a l-e-e-e-e-tle bit prematurely in their career, compared with some of the other names on the roster?
Ha. I assume you're referring to Renel -- I guess she gets points for working two jobs and never sleeping?
Ding-ding-ding!!! Yep, that's who I was thinking of. And I think her exposure in so many venues is why she must have rated nomination. She's definitely talented, and I would have no trouble with her making the hall in, say, 10 years or so. But right now she's still got some dues to pay (besides sleep deprivation that is).
And an aside on that last point I honestly don't see how she can be at the ballpark til after 10 at night, and be up and talking lucidly on the radio at 6am the next day. She must be a serious afternoon napper. Long home stands must be just HELL.
First of all, she and Peter are on air at 5am...but the key word in your sentence is 'lucidly'. Not sure about your definintion of 'lucid' but she certainly stretches mine from time to time. ;) ;) ;)
That said she's by far the nicest one of them all in public, and I do like her a lot.
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First of all, she and Peter are on air at 5am...but the key word in your sentence is 'lucidly'. Not sure about your definintion of 'lucid' but she certainly stretches mine from time to time. ;) ;) ;)
That said she's by far the nicest one of them all in public, and I do like her a lot.
er, Mark... we're talking about Renel, not Renee...
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First of all, she and Peter are on air at 5am...but the key word in your sentence is 'lucidly'. Not sure about your definintion of 'lucid' but she certainly stretches mine from time to time. ;) ;) ;)
That said she's by far the nicest one of them all in public, and I do like her a lot.
er, Mark... we're talking about Renel, not Renee...
I guess I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue! D'Oh!!!
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First of all, she and Peter are on air at 5am...but the key word in your sentence is 'lucidly'. Not sure about your definintion of 'lucid' but she certainly stretches mine from time to time. ;) ;) ;)
That said she's by far the nicest one of them all in public, and I do like her a lot.
er, Mark... we're talking about Renel, not Renee...
I guess I picked the wrong day to give up sniffing glue! D'Oh!!!
If Renee gets into the HOF before Dave... I'll START sniffing glue! ;)
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Starting 7:40AM Monday, Oct 27, KCBS will be simulcast on 106.9FM. KFRC programming can be heard online at kfrc.com or on HD radios at KFRC-HD2. Story: KFRC-FM drops rock for all-news format
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/08
Don't expect to hear classic rock when you turn on KFRC (106.9 FM) Monday morning. The station's owner, CBS, will replace the format with a simulcast of KCBS (740 AM)...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000)
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Starting 7:40AM Monday, Oct 27, KCBS will be simulcast on 106.9FM. KFRC programming can be heard online at kfrc.com or on HD radios at KFRC-HD2. Story: KFRC-FM drops rock for all-news format
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/08
Don't expect to hear classic rock when you turn on KFRC (106.9 FM) Monday morning. The station's owner, CBS, will replace the format with a simulcast of KCBS (740 AM)...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000)
Wow. I mean, KFRC was doing *nothing* ratings-wise, but still. Goodbye Csaey Kasem (locally).
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Starting 7:40AM Monday, Oct 27, KCBS will be simulcast on 106.9FM. KFRC programming can be heard online at kfrc.com or on HD radios at KFRC-HD2. Story: KFRC-FM drops rock for all-news format
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/08
Don't expect to hear classic rock when you turn on KFRC (106.9 FM) Monday morning. The station's owner, CBS, will replace the format with a simulcast of KCBS (740 AM)...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000)
Wow. I mean, KFRC was doing *nothing* ratings-wise, but still. Goodbye Csaey Kasem (locally).
Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer, as I did occasionally turn to KFRC at home and in the car for my fix of classic hits and of course to hear Casey. At least he'll still be on KFRC thru their website and HD radio (and other webstreaming stations). Guess I'll consider getting an HD radio for Casey, 10at10 and other programs (will KFOG-HD still do 24-hr 10at10's?). I've been taping Casey off KFRC each Sat since March, so I'll miss that. Hey, do they make HD radios with a cassette recorder? No?! Oh well. But wait, there is another option!... move to Modesto to tape Casey Sundays 10am-1pm as it airs over Oldies 97.5 Modesto-Merced-Fresno! ;)
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Starting 7:40AM Monday, Oct 27, KCBS will be simulcast on 106.9FM. KFRC programming can be heard online at kfrc.com or on HD radios at KFRC-HD2. Story: KFRC-FM drops rock for all-news format
San Francisco Chronicle, 10/21/08
Don't expect to hear classic rock when you turn on KFRC (106.9 FM) Monday morning. The station's owner, CBS, will replace the format with a simulcast of KCBS (740 AM)...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000 (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/21/DDLB13L3PG.DTL&hw=kcbs&sn=001&sc=1000)
Wow. I mean, KFRC was doing *nothing* ratings-wise, but still. Goodbye Csaey Kasem (locally).
Yeah, it's a bit of a bummer, as I did occasionally turn to KFRC at home and in the car for my fix of classic hits and of course to hear Casey. At least he'll still be on KFRC thru their website and HD radio (and other webstreaming stations). Guess I'll consider getting an HD radio for Casey, 10at10 and other programs (will KFOG-HD still do 24-hr 10at10's?). I've been taping Casey off KFRC each Sat since March, so I'll miss that. Hey, do they make HD radios with a cassette recorder? No?! Oh well. But wait, there is another option!... move to Modesto to tape Casey Sundays 10am-1pm as it airs over Oldies 97.5 Modesto-Merced-Fresno! ;)
Losing AT40 over local airwaves completely sucks. I hope someone else picks up that show. I was getting really addicted to it. I know other stns stream it, but not always at a decent bitrate or time slot.
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Losing AT40 over local airwaves completely sucks. I hope someone else picks up that show. I was getting really addicted to it. I know other stns stream it, but not always at a decent bitrate or time slot.
sadly, i can't imagine anyone else in this market who would want it; in any case, if KFRC.com is continuing with music, they'll probably continue with Casey, so no one else could get it even if they *did* want it.
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For those who remember M. Dung from KFOG, his "Idiot Show" is making a comeback on KYCY, 1550 AM, Sun nites from 6 to 8.
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For those who remember M. Dung from KFOG, his "Idiot Show" is making a comeback on KYCY, 1550 AM, Sun nites from 6 to 8.
the website says Saturday:
http://www.kyouradio.com/index.php?display=pgrid
Is this a real station? Streaming?
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For those who remember M. Dung from KFOG, his "Idiot Show" is making a comeback on KYCY, 1550 AM, Sun nites from 6 to 8.
the website says Saturday:
http://www.kyouradio.com/index.php?display=pgrid
Is this a real station? Streaming?
well, that's weird -- I got my info from an item on radio-info.com that was posted by Mr Dung himself! "Sunday Nov 16th" is when he says the premiere is. Anyway, yes it's a "real" station.
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For those who remember M. Dung from KFOG, his "Idiot Show" is making a comeback on KYCY, 1550 AM, Sun nites from 6 to 8.
Fond memory.
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For those who remember M. Dung from KFOG, his "Idiot Show" is making a comeback on KYCY, 1550 AM, Sun nites from 6 to 8.
the website says Saturday:
http://www.kyouradio.com/index.php?display=pgrid
Is this a real station? Streaming?
Yep, they're real. A friend of mine used to submit a podcast to them periodically, called "Crate-picker's Holiday." Mostly focused on rare tracks and B-sides. I don't see that listed on their schedule, but it looks like they're programming a much more regular schedule now. When Tim was doing it, his show could appear at 5 in the afternoon, or 2am, or 8 am or pm. Hard to cultivate a regular audience that way.
And yes, they do stream. Sounds decent--from their site it appears to be a CBS station.
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Someone I work with told me that the Sharks just severed their cozy promotional relationship with Live 105 (They'd been giving the station tons of tickets etc) because one of the jocks made an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players -- within minutes someone from the Sharks was on the phone to the station saying "you guys are toast".
Perhaps we should email KFOG and tell them the Sharks are "available"?
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Someone I work with told me that the Sharks just severed their cozy promotional relationship with Live 105 (They'd been giving the station tons of tickets etc) because one of the jocks made an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players -- within minutes someone from the Sharks was on the phone to the station saying "you guys are toast".
Perhaps we should email KFOG and tell them the Sharks are "available"?
"one of the jocks"...that would pretty much have to be Woody, n'c'est pas? I think he's a real tool. On the other hand I actually like Madden a lot.
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Someone I work with told me that the Sharks just severed their cozy promotional relationship with Live 105 (They'd been giving the station tons of tickets etc) because one of the jocks made an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players -- within minutes someone from the Sharks was on the phone to the station saying "you guys are toast".
Perhaps we should email KFOG and tell them the Sharks are "available"?
"one of the jocks"...that would pretty much have to be Woody, n'c'est pas? I think he's a real tool. On the other hand I actually like Madden a lot.
I rarely listen to Live 105 -- Woody's the morning guy, yes? Lots' of "wake up with wood" references, no doubt.
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Someone I work with told me that the Sharks just severed their cozy promotional relationship with Live 105 (They'd been giving the station tons of tickets etc) because one of the jocks made an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players -- within minutes someone from the Sharks was on the phone to the station saying "you guys are toast".
Perhaps we should email KFOG and tell them the Sharks are "available"?
"one of the jocks"...that would pretty much have to be Woody, n'c'est pas? I think he's a real tool. On the other hand I actually like Madden a lot.
I rarely listen to Live 105 -- Woody's the morning guy, yes? Lots' of "wake up with wood" references, no doubt.
Yeah, it used to just be the Morning Show or some such, but they now call it "The Woody Show" & he has been getting more and more annoying - think it's gone to his head.
Like many stations, if you call in someone screens your call & asks where you're calling from. So Woody always ends each call by appending "Number one in Corte Madera!" Which gets old real fast.
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Someone I work with told me that the Sharks just severed their cozy promotional relationship with Live 105 (They'd been giving the station tons of tickets etc) because one of the jocks made an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players -- within minutes someone from the Sharks was on the phone to the station saying "you guys are toast".
Perhaps we should email KFOG and tell them the Sharks are "available"?
"one of the jocks"...that would pretty much have to be Woody, n'c'est pas? I think he's a real tool. On the other hand I actually like Madden a lot.
I rarely listen to Live 105 -- Woody's the morning guy, yes? Lots' of "wake up with wood" references, no doubt.
Yeah, it used to just be the Morning Show or some such, but they now call it "The Woody Show" & he has been getting more and more annoying - think it's gone to his head.
Like many stations, if you call in someone screens your call & asks where you're calling from. So Woody always ends each call by appending "Number one in Corte Madera!" Which gets old real fast.
Number one in the 415! I listen to 105 but not the morning show. As ridiculous as the Bone. I have been listening quite a bit to KISS and Renel's show. I like the old school stuff. I like Dave's morning show but the KFOG music is not always what I want to hear. 104.9 alternative is pretty good.
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an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players
Of whom can the appropriate gay references be made?
Just curious.
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an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players
Of whom can the appropriate gay references be made?
Just curious.
Elton John
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an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players
Of whom can the appropriate gay references be made?
Just curious.
Elton John
bwhahaha! TANC: Comcast has given me Logo (it was not available to me for quite a while) and I saw part of an EJ docu the other day. And to the list I would add Carson Kressley and the rest of the Queer Eye queens, Rosie O'Donnell and Bruce Vilanch.
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an "inappropriate" gay reference regarding one of the players
Of whom can the appropriate gay references be made?
Just curious.
Elton John
bwhahaha! TANC: Comcast has given me Logo (it was not available to me for quite a while) and I saw part of an EJ docu the other day. And to the list I would add Carson Kressley and the rest of the Queer Eye queens, Rosie O'Donnell and Bruce Vilanch.
Since you mentioned Queer Eye, have any of the other principals from that show other than Ted Allen gone on to do anything notable? Carson's done a couple of things, but they seem pretty trashy/low-budget so far as I can see. And the other three have just faded back into obscurity, unless I'm not looking in the right places.
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...unless I'm not looking in the right places.
That's a pretty inviting straight-line from a straight guy...but unfortunately I'm not coming up with a pithy rejoinder.
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...unless I'm not looking in the right places.
That's a pretty inviting straight-line from a straight guy...but unfortunately I'm not coming up with a pithy rejoinder.
just ask Larry Craig!
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have any of the other principals from that show other than Ted Allen gone on to do anything notable?
I saw Jai Rodriguez perform Journey's "Open Arms" at the Duplex once. That's notable, in a different way.
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have any of the other principals from that show other than Ted Allen gone on to do anything notable?
I saw Jai Rodriguez perform Journey's "Open Arms" at the Duplex once. That's notable, in a different way.
TANC (in more ways than one): Barry Manilow does that on his new '80s covers CD.
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Fresh Air ("I'm Terri Gross, and this is .. FRESH AIR") has a good one today:
eta: btw, on right now on KALW
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97506729
Gamble And Huff, Riding Philly's 'Love Train'
Fresh Air from WHYY, November 26, 2008 - Producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff helped pioneer the sound of Philadelphia soul. Their renowned record label, Philadelphia International, produced the hits "Love Train," "Backstabbers" and "The Love I Lost."
Together, Gamble and Huff were responsible for 15 gold singles and 22 gold albums, eight of which went platinum; they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
"We wanted to take social themes and translate them to commercial recordings," Kenny Gamble said in 1988. "Philadelphia International was about spreading love."
Gamble and Huff have a new box set called Love Train.
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For those who care: "Alice's Restaurant" will be on KFOG at Noon and 6, and on KPIG at noon, 4, and 8 (they've already played it at 9am -- once a day is enuf for me).
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From our "Well, I guess it's better than nothing" file...
CBS is finally pulling the plug on the podcast format at KYCY 1550 AM, and on Jan 1st it will become... KFRC-AM with an oldies/classic hits format. From radio-info.com:
January 1 brings an oldies format to CBS Radio's 1550 in San Francisco - programmed by Scott Shannon. The current podcast and variety-music-based format will last only until December 31, after which CBS “will ring in the new year with oldies on 1550 AM and KFRC.com.” It appears they'll be using the market’s heritage KFRC call letters on the current “KYouRadio” KYCY/1550. The most recent Bay Area station to carry the KFRC calls was the 106.9 that had been classic hits. As of late October, that frequency is now simulcasting all-news KCBS at 740. While CBS is keeping a classic hits stream alive at KFRC.com and an HD-2 channel. CBS isn’t calling the new 1550 “True Oldies”, which is the ABC Radio Networks service that was created by Scott Shannon. CBS does say that Shannon “will program and host the syndicated format featuring oldies – hits from the 50s through the 80s.”
The above tells me it will be voice-tracked and therefore pretty cheap to run. Dunno if they'll continue airing AT40, but it would certainly make sense to.
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well, he used to be heard locally: Dick Bartley becomes another victim of the bad economy:
Tuesday morning’s Taylor on Radio-Info broke the news that the 18-year association between the producer/host and his syndicator is ending in three months. ABC is now notifying affiliates of “American Gold” and “Rock & Roll’s Greatest Hits” about the change – and Bartley’s looking for his next syndicator
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From our "Well, I guess it's better than nothing" file...
CBS is finally pulling the plug on the podcast format at KYCY 1550 AM, and on Jan 1st it will become... KFRC-AM with an oldies/classic hits format. From radio-info.com:
January 1 brings an oldies format to CBS Radio's 1550 in San Francisco - programmed by Scott Shannon. The current podcast and variety-music-based format will last only until December 31, after which CBS “will ring in the new year with oldies on 1550 AM and KFRC.com.” It appears they'll be using the market’s heritage KFRC call letters on the current “KYouRadio” KYCY/1550. The most recent Bay Area station to carry the KFRC calls was the 106.9 that had been classic hits. As of late October, that frequency is now simulcasting all-news KCBS at 740. While CBS is keeping a classic hits stream alive at KFRC.com and an HD-2 channel. CBS isn’t calling the new 1550 “True Oldies”, which is the ABC Radio Networks service that was created by Scott Shannon. CBS does say that Shannon “will program and host the syndicated format featuring oldies – hits from the 50s through the 80s.”
The above tells me it will be voice-tracked and therefore pretty cheap to run. Dunno if they'll continue airing AT40, but it would certainly make sense to.
Well, I tuned in briefly on Wed nite (they started the new format early) and within five minutes they played "Brown Eyed Girl". This struck me as... not a good omen. Listened a bit more Thurs morning; heard some pretty decent stuff. It's Scott Shannon's syndicated "True Oldies Channel" service, it's '60s-and-early '70s-based (in a hour I heard only one post-1975 song). I was impressed to hear the Monkees' "Stepping Stone".
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End of an era for Niners radio fans
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ninerinsider/index? (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ninerinsider/index?).
I have never really been a 49'er fan since living here, but I was a Joe Starkey fan.
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In today's Radio Waves column in the Chron, Ben F-T hearkens back to Herb Caen's annual holiday poem (as well as those of Roger Angell in the New Yorker, which he makes reference to) with shout-outs to nearly every current bay area radio personality you can name--literally, including the airstaffs of KGO, KCBS, and most of the folks at KFOG (but not Dave Benson).
Also, he mentions that Webster is still officially just a fill-in for Dave, not the permanent replacement. And that Casey Kasem's reruns will resume on KFRC at its new home at 1550 AM.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
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In today's Radio Waves column in the Chron, Ben F-T... mentions that Casey Kasem's reruns will resume on KFRC at its new home at 1550 AM.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
Glad to hear it, tho' I still haven't figured out when they're on -- no clue on their websire.
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Also, he mentions that Webster is still officially just a fill-in for Dave, not the permanent replacement.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
Glad to hear THAT!
Although intially he seemed to curtail that syncopated delivery style of his & Renee seemed to be bonding, listening this morning it made me feel that the former was back full strength & the latter was over.
FYI, the only other white guy in my company, a sales colleague on the east coast & generally good guy, talks like that or even worse. Like I said, good guy, but hard to deal with on a conf call because you can never be sure when he is pausing or when he is done speaking. Makes for lots of unnecessary interruptions & repetitions.
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Hey did anyone pay any attention to those Lennar Homes 55th anniversary adds that ran last week? If you did (I heard them on KFOG, KFOX & KKSF) the festivities were at my development (called Sonata) on Saturday. Went out to walk the dog & saw that in fact KFOX had a tent set up by the sales office & model homes. Couple of interns gave me bumper stickers, admired the dog, had my fill out a form for a drawing. Then an older guy walks over and asks me if I've seen the models yet, and what kind of house I'm in the market for. Tell him I actually already bought one & rather like it. He asks me which model & suddenly I recognize his voice & realize I'm not talking to some Lennar guy - it's Tim Jeffreys!
Turns out he lives in Pleasanton, only about 2 miles away (probably even closer to Wayback, come to think of it). He asks how the neighborhood is shaping up, what the new school (visible from where we were chatting) is like, how my commute is, etc. Says it only takes him half an hour or so, but then he never has to go during rush hour. Asks me if I know all the different back roads to take to avoid trouble on the Sunol grade (which I do) & we compared notes on worst traffic jams we've experienced there. I recollected that a year or so ago I won tix from him to see the revamped Earthquakes in their season/franchise opener & took my son. He remembers giving those tix away (not specifically to me, but the promo that week), so we talk soccer for a few more minutes. Nice guy.
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Also, he mentions that Webster is still officially just a fill-in for Dave, not the permanent replacement.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
Glad to hear THAT!
Although intially he seemed to curtail that syncopated delivery style of his & Renee seemed to be bonding, listening this morning it made me feel that the former was back full strength & the latter was over.
FYI, the only other white guy in my company, a sales colleague on the east coast & generally good guy, talks like that or even worse. Like I said, good guy, but hard to deal with on a conf call because you can never be sure when he is pausing or when he is done speaking. Makes for lots of unnecessary interruptions & repetitions.
I've noticed he's gotten smoother, too, so I'm deducing that the choppiness and pauses come more from nerves than from his intended style. He doesn't want to say the wrong thing, so he is holding back until the words in his mind are vetted sufficiently before his mouth takes over.
I haven't noticed him saying "um" or "ah" a lot - which is good and proper for jocks on an established station like KFOG. Perhaps the pauses are where his ums and ahs used to live?
Shray, next time you are on a conf call w that other white guy, check his ums and ahs: does he have a lot? If not, I bet he once did and he's since learned not to say them and instead live with silent pauses. Some people feel ... ah ... uncomfortable w silence when they have the floor, so they fill the void with some ... uumm ... sound.
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Brad Kava is reporting that K-FOX was affected by the big nationwide layoffs by Clear Channel: Laurie Roberts, thier longtime program director, was laid off, as was deejay Greg Stone.
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Brad Kava is reporting that K-FOX was affected by the big nationwide layoffs by Clear Channel: Laurie Roberts, thier longtime program director, was laid off, as was deejay Greg Stone.
Dang me, I liked Roberts (she was also on-air mid-days opposite Annalisa). She had a historical anecdote or piece of trivia for just about every song she ever played. Didn't care much for Stone, but hardly ever listened to him. I just checked their website & they are indeed not there anymore.
Laurie Roberts is the one who once played Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?" and commented that when Bob Mann passes away, his headstone will read:
Bob Mann
On the Keyboards
Bob Mann
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Brad Kava is reporting that K-FOX was affected by the big nationwide layoffs by Clear Channel: Laurie Roberts, thier longtime program director, was laid off, as was deejay Greg Stone.
Dang me, I liked Roberts (she was also on-air mid-days opposite Annalisa). She had a historical anecdote or piece of trivia for just about every song she ever played. Didn't care much for Stone, but hardly ever listened to him. I just checked their website & they are indeed not there anymore.
Laurie Roberts is the one who once played Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?" and commented that when Bob Mann passes away, his headstone will read:
Bob Mann
On the Keyboards
Bob Mann
And won't Bob Mayo be relieved that he's not the one who's dead.
ETA: Except I just discovered that Bob Mayo (who's the keyboardist you meant to refer to above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mayo)) is already dead. Died on a train in Europe in 2004, while touring with Frampton.
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And won't Bob Mayo be relieved that he's not the one who's dead.
ETA: Except I just discovered that Bob Mayo (who's the keyboardist you meant to refer to above (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mayo)) is already dead. Died on a train in Europe in 2004, while touring with Frampton.
That's my error, not Laurie Roberts'. But it is interesting to note that he's already dead.
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Brad Kava is reporting that K-FOX was affected by the big nationwide layoffs by Clear Channel: Laurie Roberts, thier longtime program director, was laid off, as was deejay Greg Stone.
Dang me, I liked Roberts (she was also on-air mid-days opposite Annalisa). She had a historical anecdote or piece of trivia for just about every song she ever played. Didn't care much for Stone, but hardly ever listened to him. I just checked their website & they are indeed not there anymore.
Laurie Roberts is the one who once played Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do?" and commented that when Bob Mann passes away, his headstone will read:
Bob Mann
On the Keyboards
Bob Mann
I always wait for that part of the song. I thought his name was Buck Mayall for the longest time.
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Brad Kava is reporting that K-FOX was affected by the big nationwide layoffs by Clear Channel: Laurie Roberts, thier longtime program director, was laid off, as was deejay Greg Stone.
Dang me, I liked Roberts (she was also on-air mid-days opposite Annalisa). She had a historical anecdote or piece of trivia for just about every song she ever played. Didn't care much for Stone, but hardly ever listened to him. I just checked their website & they are indeed not there anymore.
Apparently K-Fox has promoted Tim Jeffreys to replace Roberts in the PD chair:
http://www.radioink.com/Article.asp?id=1148309&spid=24698
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True Oldies Channel (KFRC-AM 1550) is doing a "Dynamic Duos Weekend", spotlighting pairs like S&G, H&O, The Carpenters, Sonny & Cher, as well as lesser lights and OHWs like Friend & Lover, Mel & Tim, and even Travolta/ONJ.
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True Oldies Channel (KFRC-AM 1550) is doing a "Dynamic Duos Weekend", spotlighting pairs like S&G, H&O, The Carpenters, Sonny & Cher, as well as lesser lights and OHWs like Friend & Lover, Mel & Tim, and even Travolta/ONJ.
BTW, I just wanted to say I listened to this quite a bit this weekend and I didn't hear the Carpenters, not even once, even tho' their frequent promos mentioned them. Lots of Righteous Bros tho',including (god help us) "Rock'n'Roll Heaven".
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For those who are radio-geeky like me... NYC's WXRK (K-Rock) is flipping formats to Top 40 ("92.3 Now") tomorrow at 5pm Eastern/2pm pacific. Their soon-to-be defunct website (where they stream)
is here:
http://www.923krock.com/
and the soon-to-be-active new site is
http://www.923now.com/
ah lurves me a good flip!
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For those who are radio-geeky like me... NYC's WXRK (K-Rock) is flipping formats to Top 40 ("92.3 Now") tomorrow at 5pm Eastern/2pm pacific. Their soon-to-be defunct website (where they stream)
is here:
http://www.923krock.com/
and the soon-to-be-active new site is
http://www.923now.com/
ah lurves me a good flip!
Just listened to the switch -- clever montage of "old" NYC Top 40 stations, including their main competition, Z-100, which they are not-so-subtly pointing out is 25 years old. The first song is "Boom Boom Pow" by Black-Eyed Peas. And so begins "92.3 NOW" (and cleverly, the last song on K-Rock was VH, "Right Now")
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For those who are radio-geeky like me... NYC's WXRK (K-Rock) is flipping formats to Top 40 ("92.3 Now") tomorrow at 5pm Eastern/2pm pacific. Their soon-to-be defunct website (where they stream)
is here:
http://www.923krock.com/
and the soon-to-be-active new site is
http://www.923now.com/
ah lurves me a good flip!
Just listened to the switch -- clever montage of "old" NYC Top 40 stations, including their main competition, Z-100, which they are not-so-subtly pointing out is 25 years old. The first song is "Boom Boom Pow" by Black-Eyed Peas.
k-rock is where I started listening to Howard Stern. I think Jay Thomas was in the morning slot before Stern took over.
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FYI, "True Oldies Channel" (1550 AM) is having an "Instrumentals Weekend", quite an array from '60s thru '70s, tho' it only seems to be once or twice an hour. Just heard Duane Eddy's "Because They're Young" (1960), the opening strains of which are identical to the "Final Jeopardy" jingle!
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For those who are radio-geeky like me... NYC's WXRK (K-Rock) is flipping formats to Top 40 ("92.3 Now") tomorrow at 5pm Eastern/2pm pacific. Their soon-to-be defunct website (where they stream)
is here:
http://www.923krock.com/
and the soon-to-be-active new site is
http://www.923now.com/
ah lurves me a good flip!
K-Rock is still doing alt-rock online; I've been listening this afternoon. Finally caught up with MGMT's glorious "Kids" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEOZCcaXzE) earlier this week and was delighted to hear it today; and was mightily impressed with Feist & Ben Gibbard's "Train Song." Gibbard appeared on two other triff ones today: Postal Service's "Such Great Heights" and Death Cab's "I Will Possess Your Heart," both of which I like more as time goes on.
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I've been digging "Kids" too, and on hearing it in the car this morning was wondering what you thought of it.
If you like "Such Great Heights" have you heard their song "We Will Become Silhouettes"?
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I've been digging "Kids" too, and on hearing it in the car this morning was wondering what you thought of it.
If you like "Such Great Heights" have you heard their song "We Will Become Silhouettes"?
"Kids" might be my song of the year for '09, though I can't decouple it from its video.
I've never heard WWBS; checking it out on YouTube right now.
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One of the odder theme weekends I've encountered: True Oldies is doing a "What About Bob?" weekend, featuring songs by artists named Bob, Bobby and Robert. I've heard Bobby Vee and Bobby Darin so far. Wonder if Bobbie Gentry is included?
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame is taking votes for this year's class here:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/index.shtml
Nominees include Dave Morey. He's been nomm'ed before but I bet this year he gets in on a slam dunk.
Also, noticed in last weekend's Radio Waves column that KCBS has unseated KGO as the number 1 station in this market for the first time since July of 1978. They're also tops in the all-important 25-54 demographic. KFOG tied for 9th with Wild 94.9.
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame is taking votes for this year's class here:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/index.shtml
Nominees include Dave Morey. He's been nomm'ed before but I bet this year he gets in on a slam dunk.
I bet Joe Starkey gets in too. Looks like you can vote multiple times You can only vote once per category.
I'll be interested to see if KFOG promotes this in any way, they ought to give it a mention or two on the air, don'cha think? It'd be swell if he returned to 10@10 as "Hall of Fame Broadcaster Dave Morey"
I was amused to see Lori Thompson listed in the news category. She was a great foil/sidekick for Alex Bennett for many years, but I never thought of her as a great newsperson (she also did news for Don Bleu on K-101 after she left Live 105). Kinda like nominating Renee in the Traffic category.
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The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame is taking votes for this year's class here:
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/index.shtml
Nominees include Dave Morey. He's been nomm'ed before but I bet this year he gets in on a slam dunk.
I bet Joe Starkey gets in too. Looks like you can vote multiple times You can only vote once per category.
I'll be interested to see if KFOG promotes this in any way, they ought to give it a mention or two on the air, don'cha think? It'd be swell if he returned to 10@10 as "Hall of Fame Broadcaster Dave Morey"
UPDATE: I have not heard this mentioned on KFOG in the last 2 weeks.
Meanwhile, automation is everywhere -- this KPIG story is a couple weeks old:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/ci_11998928?IADID=Search-www.santacruzsentinel.com-www.santacruzsentinel.com
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Ian McLagan, keyboardist for The (Small) FAces, will be on Fresh Air (91.7 KALW FM) in the 9 AM hour.
(He was once asked to join the Grateful Dead, but declined b/c he found the music too tedious. oh... snap, dude!)
ETA: Correx: he wasn't asked by the band to join outright, he was asked to submit a tape of his playing along with the GD music. He bought one of their records, sat down to listen, and decided "it sucked".
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Ian McLagan, keyboardist for The (Small) FAces, will be on Fresh Air (91.7 KALW FM) in the 9 AM hour.
(He was once asked to join the Grateful Dead, but declined b/c he found the music too tedious. oh... snap, dude!)
He should've said that he declined b/c he liked his life. (Except Bruce Hornsby appears to have broken that curse.)
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Ian McLagan, keyboardist for The (Small) FAces, will be on Fresh Air (91.7 KALW FM) in the 9 AM hour.
(He was once asked to join the Grateful Dead, but declined b/c he found the music too tedious. oh... snap, dude!)
He should've said that he declined b/c he liked his life. (Except Bruce Hornsby appears to have broken that curse.)
of course in Hornsby's case, hooking up with the Dead was a step up from tedious to slightly-less-tedious. ;)
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Ian McLagan, keyboardist for The (Small) FAces, will be on Fresh Air (91.7 KALW FM) in the 9 AM hour.
(He was once asked to join the Grateful Dead, but declined b/c he found the music too tedious. oh... snap, dude!)
He should've said that he declined b/c he liked his life. (Except Bruce Hornsby appears to have broken that curse.)
Hornsby wasn't a full official member, just an occasional pinch hitter. Vince Welnick however was inducted into the band, and has since crossed over. So the curse lives on.
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The Star 101.3 van was in the Mission today. Across the back it says: "Wake up with Don Bleu! Go home with Ryan Seacrest!" Gawd I can't imagine two less appetizing options. Bleu is pushing 70 and Ryan Seacrest is, er, Ryan Seacrest.
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Peter Hartlaub writes a blog post bemoaning the loss of Live 105's morning show, "The Woody Show", and the comments almost to a man say "good riddance."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=38351&tsp=1
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Peter Hartlaub writes a blog post bemoaning the loss of Live 105's morning show, "The Woody Show", and the comments almost to a man say "good riddance."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=38351&tsp=1
Remember last year, when Hartlaub wrote a piece on local morning shows and called Dave "something of a crank" (this was before his retirement announcement)? But he liked Woody? Wha?
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Peter Hartlaub writes a blog post bemoaning the loss of Live 105's morning show, "The Woody Show", and the comments almost to a man say "good riddance."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=38351&tsp=1
Remember last year, when Hartlaub wrote a piece on local morning shows and called Dave "something of a crank" (this was before his retirement announcement)? But he liked Woody? Wha?
I bet calling Dave a crank was a little playful dig at Tim Goodman
b/c of his connection to The Morning Show. :)
Those two sit right next to each other at work (and get along very well, btw).
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not local, but a sad radio story from Northeast Pennsylvania: WARM goes cold.
http://www.timesleader.com/news/WARM__once-hot_station__goes_cold_04-16-2009.html
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The Star 101.3 van was in the Mission today. Across the back it says: "Wake up with Don Bleu! Go home with Ryan Seacrest!" Gawd I can't imagine two less appetizing options. Bleu is pushing 70 and Ryan Seacrest is, er, Ryan Seacrest.
Worse or weirder would be to go home with Ryan and wake up to the Woody show with Don.
eeewwwwwwww.
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True Oldies Channel is doing another "Rock'n'Roll Remake" weekend, and they played of bit of Arthur Alexander's orig of "Burning Love" -- damn, I had no idea!
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Peter Hartlaub writes a blog post bemoaning the loss of Live 105's morning show, "The Woody Show", and the comments almost to a man say "good riddance."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/parenting/detail?entry_id=38351&tsp=1
Flipping channels today to learn that Live105 has poached No-Name from KLLC for their new morning show. Today was his first day. He apparently got ditched last summer by KLLC & no one really cared.
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This is pretty funny stuff: A fake website used by stations in the process of switching formats -- yes, they actually play Chinese music on the air while they redirect their station website here:
http://www.kungpao1005.com/
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ironically, she's been picked up by the same group (subset of Clear Channel) that handles Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, and the rest of the miscreants!
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
well, now she can get some sleep! How you can do a morning show and then be a PA announcer at nite games is beyond me.
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
well, now she can get some sleep! How you can do a morning show and then be a PA announcer at nite games is beyond me.
After reading thru her journal, I get the impression that she announced she was leaving last Friday, and that was essentially her last day, save for a two-hour farewell appearance this coming Friday. None of this "I'm retiring in two months" stuff--"Today is it, I'm outta here." But I guess doing a morning show has gotta take its toll on anyone.
Wonder how long it took Dave to start sleeping normal hours again?
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
well, now she can get some sleep! How you can do a morning show and then be a PA announcer at nite games is beyond me.
After reading thru her journal, I get the impression that she announced she was leaving last Friday, and that was essentially her last day, save for a two-hour farewell appearance this coming Friday. None of this "I'm retiring in two months" stuff--"Today is it, I'm outta here." But I guess doing a morning show has gotta take its toll on anyone.
Wonder how long it took Dave to start sleeping normal hours again?
I listen to KISS for the old school stuff. Like Renels 9am show and the lunch time and drive time play lists. I met Renel last monthg at the Giants lunch I go to every year. She was soooooo nice. Pic to FB momentarily.
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
well, now she can get some sleep! How you can do a morning show and then be a PA announcer at nite games is beyond me.
After reading thru her journal, I get the impression that she announced she was leaving last Friday, and that was essentially her last day, save for a two-hour farewell appearance this coming Friday. None of this "I'm retiring in two months" stuff--"Today is it, I'm outta here." But I guess doing a morning show has gotta take its toll on anyone.
Wonder how long it took Dave to start sleeping normal hours again?
I listen to KISS for the old school stuff. Like Renels 9am show and the lunch time and drive time play lists. I met Renel last monthg at the Giants lunch I go to every year. She was soooooo nice. Pic to FB momentarily.
yes, they do throw some good old school stuff in there. very nice. Some of the newer stuff is good, too. I'm not necessarily a fan of the Maria Carey/Christina Aguilera school of Diva gesticulations and "let's see how many notes I can hit" phrasing, but I heard what I think is a Beyonce tune that I liked. Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
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I heard this morning that Renel Moon is leaving KISS 98.1 FM (A clear channel station). She does the morning slot on the R&B Station. Prob not a lot of KISS 98.1 fans here, but of course you know she's also the PA announcer at Giants games, too.
her blog page says it's her decision
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/dj_renel.html
well, now she can get some sleep! How you can do a morning show and then be a PA announcer at nite games is beyond me.
After reading thru her journal, I get the impression that she announced she was leaving last Friday, and that was essentially her last day, save for a two-hour farewell appearance this coming Friday. None of this "I'm retiring in two months" stuff--"Today is it, I'm outta here." But I guess doing a morning show has gotta take its toll on anyone.
Wonder how long it took Dave to start sleeping normal hours again?
I listen to KISS for the old school stuff. Like Renels 9am show and the lunch time and drive time play lists. I met Renel last monthg at the Giants lunch I go to every year. She was soooooo nice. Pic to FB momentarily.
yes, they do throw some good old school stuff in there. very nice. Some of the newer stuff is good, too. I'm not necessarily a fan of the Maria Carey/Christina Aguilera school of Diva gesticulations and "let's see how many notes I can hit" phrasing, but I heard what I think is a Beyonce tune that I liked. Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
I used to be a fan of their Sunday afternoon oldies show -- they really went far back and played some obscurities and sometimes did a Theme Hour at 5:00. But the station generally plays the same focus-group-approved songs over and over ("Respect" and "Think" and "Natural Woman" repeatedly but jeezus Ree-Ree had dozens of other hits), and of course they've played less and less '60s and more '80s in recent years.
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
"unwritten" is it, thanks! and will chk out your Beyonce suggestions -- I've prob heard them already since she's so poular -- I need to hear more of that new music the kids are listening to. :D
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
"unwritten" is it, thanks! and will chk out your Beyonce suggestions -- I've prob heard them already since she's so poular -- I need to hear more of that new music the kids are listening to. :D
I always shop at her store, Bed Bath & Beyonce.
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
"unwritten" is it, thanks! and will chk out your Beyonce suggestions -- I've prob heard them already since she's so poular -- I need to hear more of that new music the kids are listening to. :D
I always shop at her store, Bed Bath & Beyonce.
oh yeah, and then you go next door to Trader Ho's?? <rimshot>
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
"unwritten" is it, thanks! and will chk out your Beyonce suggestions -- I've prob heard them already since she's so poular -- I need to hear more of that new music the kids are listening to. :D
I always shop at her store, Bed Bath & Beyonce.
oh yeah, and then you go next door to Trader Ho's?? <rimshot>
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Something about "your book is being written" (i.e. you life is taking shape) or something schmaltzy like that.
That wouldn't be Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwritten," would it?
(For the record, I like quite a few Beyonce songs, especially "Irreplaceable," which might be in my Top 10 singles of the 2000s; her new hit, "Halo," is also good.)
"unwritten" is it, thanks! and will chk out your Beyonce suggestions -- I've prob heard them already since she's so poular -- I need to hear more of that new music the kids are listening to. :D
I always shop at her store, Bed Bath & Beyonce.
Thanks to a past Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror ep from several years ago, Sarah and I now always refer to that chain as Blood Bath and Beyond. :D
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FYI and (sorta) TANC, Ben Fong-Torres is doing two hours every weeknight (7 to 9) on that KYA-re-creation webstream.
http://www.kyaradio.com/
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
A message on their site's front door says:
May 18, 2009
Today marks the end of an era. KKSF-FM is no longer the Bay Area's home for Smooth Jazz.
Everyone at KKSF would like to thank all the loyal fans of our station and the years of support you've given us. Over our 20 year history, you have always been there for us, and we truly appreciate it. You've traveled to our hundreds of KKSF listener parties and concerts, celebrated at our Sunday Brunches, helped raise over 4 million dollars for Bay Area AIDS organizations by purchasing Samplers for AIDS Relief, and you've listened to countless hours of Smooth Jazz music and artists. That unwavering support is reflected in a rich and successful track record at 103.7 KKSF.
The spirit of KKSF isn't going away, however. KKSF.com will continue to thrive as your source for Smooth Jazz including a digital audio stream of the Smooth Jazz Network as well as videos on demand, concert listings and other features. We hope you'll choose to continue to support the artists and the music online.
While this decision was extremely difficult, KKSF is taking a different path and becoming a new radio station today -- 103.7 The Band. It was made only after exhaustive market research, and extensive economic considerations (yes this is a business). We hope you'll listen and let us know what you think.
Please take a moment and share your thoughts and questions here on the site. We will be updating information regularly and encourage your feedback.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
A message on their site's front door says:
May 18, 2009
Today marks the end of an era. KKSF-FM is no longer the Bay Area's home for Smooth Jazz.
Everyone at KKSF would like to thank all the loyal fans of our station and the years of support you've given us. Over our 20 year history, you have always been there for us, and we truly appreciate it. You've traveled to our hundreds of KKSF listener parties and concerts, celebrated at our Sunday Brunches, helped raise over 4 million dollars for Bay Area AIDS organizations by purchasing Samplers for AIDS Relief, and you've listened to countless hours of Smooth Jazz music and artists. That unwavering support is reflected in a rich and successful track record at 103.7 KKSF.
The spirit of KKSF isn't going away, however. KKSF.com will continue to thrive as your source for Smooth Jazz including a digital audio stream of the Smooth Jazz Network as well as videos on demand, concert listings and other features. We hope you'll choose to continue to support the artists and the music online.
While this decision was extremely difficult, KKSF is taking a different path and becoming a new radio station today -- 103.7 The Band. It was made only after exhaustive market research, and extensive economic considerations (yes this is a business). We hope you'll listen and let us know what you think.
Please take a moment and share your thoughts and questions here on the site. We will be updating information regularly and encourage your feedback.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
yes, classic rock it is. I wonder if they couldn't share the smooth market with KBLX.
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
yes, classic rock it is. I wonder if they couldn't share the smooth market with KBLX.
this was rumored a few days ago on the radio-info.com SF thread. Why on earth do these smooth jazz stations switch to rock formats in markets where rock struggles to do well? In NYC they lost smooth jazz to what is now WRXP, which is a bizarre hybrid of Triple-A, hard rock and alternative that is getting NO ratings traction at all after more than a year on the air. And now KKSF gives the Bay Area its FOURTH rock station? The Bone is already doing Classic Rock (as noted recently they seem to have tweaked themselves, adding things like the loooooooooong versions of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" and -- gawd help us -- "Freebird"); KFOG is an older-skewing Triple-A, and Live 105 has the alt tip covered. I'll have to check out the "new" KKSF after 10@10, but I'll be stunned if it's even remotely interesting
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
yes, classic rock it is. I wonder if they couldn't share the smooth market with KBLX.
this was rumored a few days ago on the radio-info.com SF thread. Why on earth do these smooth jazz stations switch to rock formats in markets where rock struggles to do well? In NYC they lost smooth jazz to what is now WRXP, which is a bizarre hybrid of Triple-A, hard rock and alternative that is getting NO ratings traction at all after more than a year on the air. And now KKSF gives the Bay Area its FOURTH rock station? The Bone is already doing Classic Rock (as noted recently they seem to have tweaked themselves, adding things like the loooooooooong versions of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" and -- gawd help us -- "Freebird"); KFOG is an older-skewing Triple-A, and Live 105 has the alt tip covered. I'll have to check out the "new" KKSF after 10@10, but I'll be stunned if it's even remotely interesting
I accidentally landed on the new Band yesterday while flipping through the Comcast channels (the tv still said KKSF, Smooth Jazz). Came in in the middle of Boston "More Than a Feeling", followed by the FM, "Gold Dust Woman" or "Landslide" (I can't remember), then another mid to late 70's whitebread with the crust cut off classic rock track. Then I switched to Antiques Roadshow.
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
yes, classic rock it is. I wonder if they couldn't share the smooth market with KBLX.
this was rumored a few days ago on the radio-info.com SF thread. Why on earth do these smooth jazz stations switch to rock formats in markets where rock struggles to do well? In NYC they lost smooth jazz to what is now WRXP, which is a bizarre hybrid of Triple-A, hard rock and alternative that is getting NO ratings traction at all after more than a year on the air. And now KKSF gives the Bay Area its FOURTH rock station? The Bone is already doing Classic Rock (as noted recently they seem to have tweaked themselves, adding things like the loooooooooong versions of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" and -- gawd help us -- "Freebird"); KFOG is an older-skewing Triple-A, and Live 105 has the alt tip covered. I'll have to check out the "new" KKSF after 10@10, but I'll be stunned if it's even remotely interesting
I accidentally landed on the new Band yesterday while flipping through the Comcast channels (the tv still said KKSF, Smooth Jazz). Came in in the middle of Boston "More Than a Feeling", followed by the FM, "Gold Dust Woman" or "Landslide" (I can't remember), then another mid to late 70's whitebread with the crust cut off classic rock track. Then I switched to Antiques Roadshow.
LOL! I just tuned in and got "Night Moves" followed by "Long Cool Creedence in a T-Rex". The website calls it "Classic Hits" which means they're gonna be like The Drive, I guess, but so far there aren't any "deep tracks" to speak of...
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
No idea what The Band is. But it sounds classic-rock-ish.
yes, classic rock it is. I wonder if they couldn't share the smooth market with KBLX.
this was rumored a few days ago on the radio-info.com SF thread. Why on earth do these smooth jazz stations switch to rock formats in markets where rock struggles to do well? In NYC they lost smooth jazz to what is now WRXP, which is a bizarre hybrid of Triple-A, hard rock and alternative that is getting NO ratings traction at all after more than a year on the air. And now KKSF gives the Bay Area its FOURTH rock station? The Bone is already doing Classic Rock (as noted recently they seem to have tweaked themselves, adding things like the loooooooooong versions of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" and -- gawd help us -- "Freebird"); KFOG is an older-skewing Triple-A, and Live 105 has the alt tip covered. I'll have to check out the "new" KKSF after 10@10, but I'll be stunned if it's even remotely interesting
I accidentally landed on the new Band yesterday while flipping through the Comcast channels (the tv still said KKSF, Smooth Jazz). Came in in the middle of Boston "More Than a Feeling", followed by the FM, "Gold Dust Woman" or "Landslide" (I can't remember), then another mid to late 70's whitebread with the crust cut off classic rock track. Then I switched to Antiques Roadshow.
LOL! I just tuned in and got "Night Moves" followed by "Long Cool Creedence in a T-Rex". The website calls it "Classic Hits" which means they're gonna be like The Drive, I guess, but so far there aren't any "deep tracks" to speak of...
they keep announcing they're doing "10,000 songs in row" with NO commercials. That should take at least a week or so. A stalling tactic until they can assemble an on-air staff? or possibly traffic some ads?
this AM I heard
BILLY JOEL Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
JOHN LENNON Imagine
playlist -- I notice some gaps: http://www.mediabase.com/whatsong/whatsong.asp?var_s=075075083070045070077
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so, what are we gonna be hearing in Dentists' offices now that KKSF is toast? Classical?
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LOL! I just tuned in and got "Night Moves" followed by "Long Cool Creedence in a T-Rex". The website calls it "Classic Hits" which means they're gonna be like The Drive, I guess, but so far there aren't any "deep tracks" to speak of...
they keep announcing they're doing "10,000 songs in row" with NO commercials. That should take at least a week or so. A stalling tactic until they can assemble an on-air staff? or possibly traffic some ads?
this AM I heard
BILLY JOEL Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)
JOHN LENNON Imagine
playlist -- I notice some gaps: http://www.mediabase.com/whatsong/whatsong.asp?var_s=075075083070045070077
I think I commented on this in another thread, but it wasn't this one and I can't find it via search. But about a week and a half back, one of the local oldies stations (there were at least two in Portland) flipped to a late 70s & 80s-classic-rock format, and like The Band, their sign-on gimmick was to play 10K songs in a row. (I think they're another CC station--big surprise). I have no idea how long they're planning to take to get thru that many songs, as I couldn't listen to them more than once or twice for about 20 minutes each, but I'd have to guess they're still at it. Figure if they play an average of 15 songs an hour, that's 360 songs per day, so it's going to be a good 27 days and change of non-stop classic rock before they can start generating revenue playing paying ads.
They're heavy on AC/DC and Scorpions and Def Leppard and the like, which I've never had a taste for. But like SF, Portland is not lacking for rock stations (by my count we already have two classic rock outlets, a AAA, a couple of oldies stations, and an alternative station that plays far more music from the 80s and 90s than currents, which almost makes them an oldies station too) , so it's curious why they chose that format. I listened to the station in its former incarnation on occasion--its oldies weren't particularly out of the norm, but they were the only station I could stand to listen to that has drive time traffic reports more often than every 30 minutes. (There's no equivalent of KCBS here. There's a couple of talk stations, but the one that does regular traffic, KEX, is conservative talk, and I can barely stand to listen to them AT ALL, even long enough to find out if there's traffic on I-5 or not.
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so, what are we gonna be hearing in Dentists' offices now that KKSF is toast? Classical?
My dentist plays show tunes.
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so, what are we gonna be hearing in Dentists' offices now that KKSF is toast? Classical?
KDFC 102.1 plays single movements excepted from larger works, and they don't venture too far from the "lite" florid non-challenging stuff, so yes, we could conceivably be hearing them at the dentist. KDFC is considered a joke among classical music purists.
So your dentist plays smooth jazz?
Also, when was the last time you got into an elevator and actually heard piped-in music? Did that really happen? Or is it such part of the collective mythology now that we're convinced it once existed?
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so, what are we gonna be hearing in Dentists' offices now that KKSF is toast? Classical?
KDFC 102.1 plays single movements excepted from larger works, and they don't venture too far from the "lite" florid non-challenging stuff, so yes, we could conceivably be hearing them at the dentist. KDFC is considered a joke among classical music purists.
So your dentist plays smooth jazz?
Also, when was the last time you got into an elevator and actually heard piped-in music? Did that really happen? Or is it such part of the collective mythology now that we're convinced it once existed?
I heard KKSF during my last root canal. Seriously. And yeah, "elevator music" went out-of-fashion decades ago, but it really did exist once (I remember it as a child). Ah, but Wiki knows all:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_music
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I accidentally landed on the new Band yesterday while flipping through the Comcast channels (the tv still said KKSF, Smooth Jazz). Came in in the middle of Boston "More Than a Feeling", followed by the FM, "Gold Dust Woman" or "Landslide" (I can't remember), then another mid to late 70's whitebread with the crust cut off classic rock track. Then I switched to Antiques Roadshow.
instead of TNG reruns?
;) ;) ;)
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I accidentally landed on the new Band yesterday while flipping through the Comcast channels (the tv still said KKSF, Smooth Jazz). Came in in the middle of Boston "More Than a Feeling", followed by the FM, "Gold Dust Woman" or "Landslide" (I can't remember), then another mid to late 70's whitebread with the crust cut off classic rock track. Then I switched to Antiques Roadshow.
instead of TNG reruns?
;) ;) ;)
LOL. I actually did watch the last 10 minutes of the one just before "The Hunted". And the opening to "The Hunted", but switched to my novel at that point. ("Matter", by Iain M. Banks - very nice)
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Found this on Dave's FB page: K-FOX is going away as soon as their sale is OK'd. No clue what format they're going to, but it won't be classic rock anymore. And the Sharks will be in need of a new flagship, too.
http://sfppc.blogspot.com/2009/05/k-fox-sale-near-goodbye-greg-kihn.html
Also, check out the list of fired or bought-out Chronicle staff on the left. Quite a few names there that are old timers, and will be missed: Edward Guthmann, Jesse Hamlin, Steve Winn, Ruthe Stein, Sylvia Rubin, Joel Selvin--all longtime Datebook writers, Nancy Gay and Gwen Knapp from the sports desk, Steve Rubinstein, a ton of photographers, a ton of copy editors, and more I'm not even mentioning. Christ, it's going to be very quiet at Myth and Fission from here on.
Oh, and back to radio news for a sec: Sacramento's longtime (18 years) alternative station, KWOD, is also flipping at 9am tomorrow.
http://www.kwod.net
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Found this on Dave's FB page: K-FOX is going away as soon as their sale is OK'd. No clue what format they're going to, but it won't be classic rock anymore. And the Sharks will be in need of a new flagship, too.
Well, I'm betting 103.7 "The Band" will hire Greg Kihn.
Did KWOD call itsel K-Wod? Sounds like a slur: "Dude, you are such a total K-wod!"
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Per Big Rick on FB, as of 3pm today KKSF is no more. Not sure if it was a format switch or what.
TANC: Chicago's WNUA, one of the last major-market "smooth jazz" stations, also owned by Cheap Channel, also flipped formats today. (they went Spanish)
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Found this on Dave's FB page: K-FOX is going away as soon as their sale is OK'd. No clue what format they're going to, but it won't be classic rock anymore. And the Sharks will be in need of a new flagship, too.
Well, I'm betting 103.7 "The Band" will hire Greg Kihn.
and it occurs to me (duh!) that since Cheap Channel is divesting itself of K-FOX and also owns "The Band", the format-switch makes sense. Of *course* they'll move Kihn to 103.7 -- genius, actually, since he has a rep of being a right-winger; all those conservative Fogheads who complain about the station being too lefty will have somewhere else to go in the morning. Maybe they can run Ted Nugent's talk show on the overnites. ;)
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Did KWOD call itsel K-Wod? Sounds like a slur: "Dude, you are such a total K-wod!"
Nah, but that's what us wiseasses called it. KWOD was its original call sign from when they first went on the air (sometime in the 70s I think) broadcasting in quadrophonic (hence the name was pronounced "quad.") I don't think that lasted too long, as quadrophonic anything caught on at about the same rate as HD radio, but the call letters stuck through several formats (they were even smooth jazz for awhile in the 80s), even when they went alternative in '91.
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Did KWOD call itsel K-Wod? Sounds like a slur: "Dude, you are such a total K-wod!"
Nah, but that's what us wiseasses called it. KWOD was its original call sign from when they first went on the air (sometime in the 70s I think) broadcasting in quadrophonic (hence the name was pronounced "quad.") I don't think that lasted too long, as quadrophonic anything caught on at about the same rate as HD radio...
Ha! we had the same thing in NY -- in '74 a classical station, WNCN, was flipped to rock with the call letters WQIV (Quad-4, get it?) and they broadcast in quadrophonic. They didn't last long either; the former classical station's "Listener League" filed suit against the owners and it was quite a big deal. They were back to classical again within a year. Power to the (rich old white) people!
Meanwhile, local news: I saw a play at Berkeley Rep tonite (Lieutenant of Inishmore, which was great) and got home a little after 10. Figured I missed the first hour of Little Steven, but I turn on the radio and it's clear he's just finishing up his first set -- WTF? Have they moved Joel Selvin's show up to 9, or back to Midnite, or canned him entirely? Jeez, first the poor guy gets laid off at the Chron, and now this!
Guess I'll be catching up with Steven on Mondays via that UK station in the future if the Bone has indeed permanently moved him to 10pm.
ETA: they played a "Listen to 'Selvin on the City' tonite at 11" promo around 10:40, but it's clear Steven's show won't be over until around 12. Again: WTF?
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In the car earlier, I came across Bob Costas' syndicated radio show on KNBR; he was replaying an interview with George Carlin including excerpts from Carlin's classic "Football vs. Baseball" bit.
Turns out it was Costa's final radio show -- he's giving it up to concentrate on his TV stuff. So it's a big weekend for weak ends, so to speak.
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In the car earlier, I came across Bob Costas' syndicated radio show on KNBR; he was replaying an interview with George Carlin including excerpts from Carlin's classic "Football vs. Baseball" bit.
Turns out it was Costa's final radio show -- he's giving it up to concentrate on his TV stuff. So it's a big weekend for weak ends, so to speak.
Another sign that radio is in decline--lots of mainstays bailing out before the last boat leaves. :(
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Anybody wanna be Program Director of 103.7 "The Band" (c'mon, who wouldn't want to work for Cheap Channel?)
http://clearcareers.clearchannel.com/Jobs/JobDetail.aspx?JobPostingId=14604
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Anybody wanna be Program Director of 103.7 "The Band" (c'mon, who wouldn't want to work for Cheap Channel?)
http://clearcareers.clearchannel.com/Jobs/JobDetail.aspx?JobPostingId=14604
Wonder if they talked to Dave Benson when he got let go?
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Anybody wanna be Program Director of 103.7 "The Band" (c'mon, who wouldn't want to work for Cheap Channel?)
http://clearcareers.clearchannel.com/Jobs/JobDetail.aspx?JobPostingId=14604
Wonder if they talked to Dave Benson when he got let go?
I'm sure he's MUCH happier in Seattle than he'd ever be working for CC.
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I don't have XM/Sirius, but this is interesting (it started Monday): The History of Gay Music.
http://www.examiner.com/x-448-SF-Radio-Examiner~y2009m6d19-The-history-of-gay-music-to-air-on-XMSirius
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
they also had a morning deejay -- heard a minute or 2 of him signing off Monday morning, since I had a radio with me. It wasn't Greg Kihn.
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
they also had a morning deejay -- heard a minute or 2 of him signing off Monday morning, since I had a radio with me. It wasn't Greg Kihn.
not a real adventurous setlist (you want adventure, you go to the left of the dial -- or online), but right in my classic rocky wheelhouse whenever I tune in. It's like a bowl of not too hot, not too cold soup that could use some salt, but meh, why bother? It's too far to reach.
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listening to KUSC online just now (Classical music from LA). In the middle of a pre-recorded feature piece about how Lorin Maazel is leaving the NY Philharmonic, the studio deejay's mic was hot, so I heard something like:
Lorin Maazel is concluding his seven-year tenure at the New York Philharmonic this week (*GOD DAMMIT!*) with performances of Mahler's 8th, the "Symphony of a Thousand," ...
tee hee!
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
they also had a morning deejay -- heard a minute or 2 of him signing off Monday morning, since I had a radio with me. It wasn't Greg Kihn.
not a real adventurous setlist (you want adventure, you go to the left of the dial -- or online), but right in my classic rocky wheelhouse whenever I tune in. It's like a bowl of not too hot, not too cold soup that could use some salt, but meh, why bother? It's too far to reach.
That about sums it up for me. Without commercials to worry about I often listened for a half hour or so, or as long as it took for Billie Joel to rear up (except "Piano Man", I listened to that straight through twice in the past month).
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
they also had a morning deejay -- heard a minute or 2 of him signing off Monday morning, since I had a radio with me. It wasn't Greg Kihn.
I still listen to KUFX bot NOT to Greg Kihn. Asswipe. Next season it is inevitable that he'll perform the Nat. Anthem at the Tank and I'm not sure I'll be able to restrain a vigorous Booooooooo sent his way.
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fwiw, 103.7 The Band was not yet playing commercials on Sunday afternoon, but by Monday morning they were.
they also had a morning deejay -- heard a minute or 2 of him signing off Monday morning, since I had a radio with me. It wasn't Greg Kihn.
I still listen to KUFX bot NOT to Greg Kihn. Asswipe. Next season it is inevitable that he'll perform the Nat. Anthem at the Tank and I'm not sure I'll be able to restrain a vigorous Booooooooo sent his way.
LOL! actually, if Cheap Channel doesn't move him up to "103.7 The Band" when K-Fox disappears, he may end up out of the market entirely, singing at some other hockey team's games.
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Impending doom for KUFX? Have I missed something? Having Kihn "retire" would be a blessing. He's just obnoxious noise to me now.
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Impending doom for KUFX? Have I missed something? Having Kihn "retire" would be a blessing. He's just obnoxious noise to me now.
Cheap Channel has to sell KUFX, they're over the limit for ownership in this market. By all accounts it will switch formats when sold (possibly to Spanish or Asian). It would make sense for CC to just migrate Kihn and the other jocks to "the Band" in SF, since it's also Classic Rock, but it's not clear what they're gonna do. I don't like Kihn either, but from a business standpoint, he has a following and given how many Fogheads complain about KFOG's "left-wing bias" it would be smart to bring him up here (and controversy always sells, like it or not).
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interesting piece from SFGate on how local radio stations choose the music that getson the air:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/30/DDUB18C0AK.DTL&type=music
I'm astounded that Live 105 still plays Coldplay -- I'd've thought their audience would consider them old hat.
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interesting piece from SFGate on how local radio stations choose the music that getson the air:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/30/DDUB18C0AK.DTL&type=music
I'm astounded that Live 105 still plays Coldplay -- I'd've thought their audience would consider them old hat.
Yeah, I'd guess Coldplay would appeal to an older demographic than some of those bands, but most of the bands on that list that released their first records in the late 80s or early 90s--earlier in the cases of Depeche Mode, Chili Peppers and the Cure, and long before Coldplay came along in what, 2001? Maybe the median Live105 listener is a little older than they'd have us believe?
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They still play the occasional Marley & Jack Johnson, too. Part of their demo is the local surf scene.
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They still play the occasional Marley & Jack Johnson, too. Part of their demo is the local surf scene.
That makes sense, I guess. But what I meant about Coldplay was not that they appeal to an older demo, but that the Live 105 "cutting edge" crowd would consider them too big, commercial and ponderous to be a Live 105 band anymore. I never listen to the station -- do they play Snow Patrol, the Fray, and all those other wannabes that KFOG spins incessantly?
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They still play the occasional Marley & Jack Johnson, too. Part of their demo is the local surf scene.
That makes sense, I guess. But what I meant about Coldplay was not that they appeal to an older demo, but that the Live 105 "cutting edge" crowd would consider them too big, commercial and ponderous to be a Live 105 band anymore. I never listen to the station -- do they play Snow Patrol, the Fray, and all those other wannabes that KFOG spins incessantly?
I don't listen that much either (No-Name is no less revolting to me than Woody was in the mornings) but I think they play Snow Patrol & The Fray less than before. Still heavy on The Killers, Kings of Leon & Franz Ferdinand though, which KFOG plays only rarely.
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Joel Selvin's show last nite was a surprisingly thorough career-retrospective on 10cc, from the early songwriting days of Graham Gouldman all the way thru. I didn't realize they'd written songs for Kaznetz & Katz's bubblegum empire (including "Sausalito", another for the songs-about-California-written-by-Brits-who've-never-been-there list) and that Eric Stewart was a Mindbender -- he sang lead on their "Groovy Kind of Love".
But here's the thing: Selvin spent the entire show mispronouncing the band's name as "ten see sees", as if it were plural. WTF?
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Joel Selvin's show last nite was a surprisingly thorough career-retrospective on 10cc, from the early songwriting days of Graham Gouldman all the way thru. I didn't realize they'd written songs for Kaznetz & Katz's bubblegum empire (including "Sausalito", another for the songs-about-California-written-by-Brits-who've-never-been-there list) and that Eric Stewart was a Mindbender -- he sang lead on their "Groovy Kind of Love".
But here's the thing: Selvin spent the entire show mispronouncing the band's name as "ten see sees", as if it were plural. WTF?
If I saw "10cc" it would certainly seem proper to say "ten see sees" If the question was what is the volume of a certain fluid, and the written answer is 10cc, I would say "I have ten cc's of this liquid." But, if the band has decreed exactly how to pronounce the name, then I understand.
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Joel Selvin's show last nite was a surprisingly thorough career-retrospective on 10cc, from the early songwriting days of Graham Gouldman all the way thru. I didn't realize they'd written songs for Kaznetz & Katz's bubblegum empire (including "Sausalito", another for the songs-about-California-written-by-Brits-who've-never-been-there list) and that Eric Stewart was a Mindbender -- he sang lead on their "Groovy Kind of Love".
But here's the thing: Selvin spent the entire show mispronouncing the band's name as "ten see sees", as if it were plural. WTF?
If I saw "10cc" it would certainly seem proper to say "ten see sees" If the question was what is the volume of a certain fluid, and the written answer is 10cc, I would say "I have ten cc's of this liquid." But, if the band has decreed exactly how to pronounce the name, then I understand.
well yeah if you're a doctor (or have never heard of the band). But if you're a rock critic/deejay doing an hourlong special about them, you oughta know it's "see see" and not "see sees". I mean, the setup made it sound like he was a big fan, but he doesn't know their name? I've never heard anyone pronounce the band name "see sees" in 36 years.
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Joel Selvin's show last nite was a surprisingly thorough career-retrospective on 10cc, from the early songwriting days of Graham Gouldman all the way thru. I didn't realize they'd written songs for Kaznetz & Katz's bubblegum empire (including "Sausalito", another for the songs-about-California-written-by-Brits-who've-never-been-there list) and that Eric Stewart was a Mindbender -- he sang lead on their "Groovy Kind of Love".
But here's the thing: Selvin spent the entire show mispronouncing the band's name as "ten see sees", as if it were plural. WTF?
If I saw "10cc" it would certainly seem proper to say "ten see sees" If the question was what is the volume of a certain fluid, and the written answer is 10cc, I would say "I have ten cc's of this liquid." But, if the band has decreed exactly how to pronounce the name, then I understand.
well yeah if you're a doctor (or have never heard of the band). But if you're a rock critic/deejay doing an hourlong special about them, you oughta know it's "see see" and not "see sees". I mean, the setup made it sound like he was a big fan, but he doesn't know their name? I've never heard anyone pronounce the band name "see sees" in 36 years.
I started to listen to his show last night on the ole' bedside clock radio, but my SO demanded I turn it off. Not b/c she wanted to get some shut-eye, but b/c she's not a fan (to say the least).
They used to work together, and his continued mis-pronunciation of the band's name falls right in line w what she thinks of him.
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Boston's rock legend WBCN finally fades away:
http://thephoenix.com/BLOGS/dontquoteme/archive/2009/07/14/adios-wbcn.aspx
http://www.newspostonline.com/entertainment/wbcn-1041-fm-to-give-way-to-mix-985-2009071463520
http://www.tmrzoo.com/?p=3040
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The NY Times sells classical WQXR -- it will move up the dial but remain a classical station.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/music/15radio.html?_r=1&hp
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The Bone royally screwed up Little Steven's show last nite. They started it at 8:40, and they played the first segment, then the 3rd segment, then a segment from last week's show, then segs 4 and 5. Never did hear segment 2.
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So I'm driving around this afternoon, from my house up to El Cerrito to meet my in-laws for lunch then out to Antioch and back to Dublin. Almost 90 miles of flipping channels, and spent a fair amount of time on 103.7 The Band. Their deejays don't do all that much talking but they are there if you listen long enough. Until now I'd only heard male deejays, but this afternoon there was a female voice and it sounded very familiar. She mentioned something like "Did you see this in the Chronicle..." to do with foods, and I didn't catch all of it, but she listed several 'interesting' flavor combinations including balsamic caramel, to which she said,"I don't know about that one..." and suddenly it hit me.
It was Ginger!
The next time around she in fact ID'd herself as Ginger & so now I'm wondering if she's moved to SF, or what. And I know that the old KKSF 103.7 mostly had programming including voice talent from Chicago, so I kinda doubted that she necessarily had to be here now. And checking the KBCO website she's still there (although TANC, she blogs about having been to Napa & Sonoma ealrier this month on vacation).
So I'm real curious how this works, but it sure was cool hearing her on the radio all afternoon.
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So I'm driving around this afternoon, from my house up to El Cerrito to meet my in-laws for lunch then out to Antioch and back to Dublin. Almost 90 miles of flipping channels, and spent a fair amount of time on 103.7 The Band. Their deejays don't do all that much talking but they are there if you listen long enough. Until now I'd only heard male deejays, but this afternoon there was a female voice and it sounded very familiar. She mentioned something like "Did you see this in the Chronicle..." to do with foods, and I didn't catch all of it, but she listed several 'interesting' flavor combinations including balsamic caramel, to which she said,"I don't know about that one..." and suddenly it hit me.
It was Ginger!
The next time around she in fact ID'd herself as Ginger & so now I'm wondering if she's moved to SF, or what. And I know that the old KKSF 103.7 mostly had programming including voice talent from Chicago, so I kinda doubted that she necessarily had to be here now. And checking the KBCO website she's still there (although TANC, she blogs about having been to Napa & Sonoma ealrier this month on vacation).
So I'm real curious how this works, but it sure was cool hearing her on the radio all afternoon.
Whoa! I believe KBCO was a Bonneville station--do they own the Band as well? The miracle of voice-tracking...
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Ben F-T talks about Casey Kasem's retirement and his bay area connection.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/26/PK5018OLBS.DTL
And if you scroll down, in the graf on Tony Salvadore's dismissal from KNBR/KFOG, mention is made of Dave's retirement and the bungled effort to having him continue on 10@10 that fell apart due to cash considerations.
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So I'm driving around this afternoon, from my house up to El Cerrito to meet my in-laws for lunch then out to Antioch and back to Dublin. Almost 90 miles of flipping channels, and spent a fair amount of time on 103.7 The Band. Their deejays don't do all that much talking but they are there if you listen long enough. Until now I'd only heard male deejays, but this afternoon there was a female voice and it sounded very familiar. She mentioned something like "Did you see this in the Chronicle..." to do with foods, and I didn't catch all of it, but she listed several 'interesting' flavor combinations including balsamic caramel, to which she said,"I don't know about that one..." and suddenly it hit me.
It was Ginger!
The next time around she in fact ID'd herself as Ginger & so now I'm wondering if she's moved to SF, or what. And I know that the old KKSF 103.7 mostly had programming including voice talent from Chicago, so I kinda doubted that she necessarily had to be here now. And checking the KBCO website she's still there (although TANC, she blogs about having been to Napa & Sonoma ealrier this month on vacation).
So I'm real curious how this works, but it sure was cool hearing her on the radio all afternoon.
Whoa! I believe KBCO was a Bonneville station--do they own the Band as well? The miracle of voice-tracking...
Yes! I happened to tune past there a week or 2 ago in the evening and heard a female voice that was familiar but that I could not place. But damn, it was her!
And both stations are Cheap Channel, so it makes sense.
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Ben F-T talks about Casey Kasem's retirement and his bay area connection.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/26/PK5018OLBS.DTL
And if you scroll down, in the graf on Tony Salvadore's dismissal from KNBR/KFOG, mention is made of Dave's retirement and the bungled effort to having him continue on 10@10 that fell apart due to cash considerations.
This note in the comments made me smile:
Casey Kasem lived on my street in the '60s in Los Angeles when he was with KRLA. For Halloween, he handed out 45rpm records to trick-or-treaters.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article/comments/view?f=/c/a/2009/07/24/PK5018OLBS.DTL#ixzz0MTLd6AHB
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Just read Ginger's blog post about her visit to wine country; I noticed that her bio on the 'BCO website still mentions 10@10!
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103.7 The Band hires a PD -- Dave Logan, who programmed KFOG back in the day.
http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n19530
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103.7 The Band hires a PD -- Dave Logan, who programmed KFOG back in the day.
http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n19530
I think he was the one who hired Dave Morey when KFOG was getting ready to do the flip from beautiful music to rock, no?
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I heard Ginger too but didn't imagine it was our Colorado Ginger.
I work with a girl named Ginger and every time I say "Ginger" I can't help but think Wasabi.
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I heard Ginger too but didn't imagine it was our Colorado Ginger.
I work with a girl named Ginger and every time I say "Ginger" I can't help but think Wasabi.
Every time I hear "Ginger" I think of Terry Gilliam at the 2:27 mark of my favorite Monty Python sketch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdCQwigh6H8).
Sorry.
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The Band's afternoon voice is Bryan Schock, who quit NY's WRXP last year for "personal reasons" and then turned up earlier this year on San Diego's KGB.
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So I'm driving around this afternoon, from my house up to El Cerrito to meet my in-laws for lunch then out to Antioch and back to Dublin. Almost 90 miles of flipping channels, and spent a fair amount of time on 103.7 The Band. Their deejays don't do all that much talking but they are there if you listen long enough. Until now I'd only heard male deejays, but this afternoon there was a female voice and it sounded very familiar. She mentioned something like "Did you see this in the Chronicle..." to do with foods, and I didn't catch all of it, but she listed several 'interesting' flavor combinations including balsamic caramel, to which she said,"I don't know about that one..." and suddenly it hit me.
It was Ginger!
Whoa! I believe KBCO was a Bonneville station--do they own the Band as well? The miracle of voice-tracking...
Yes! I happened to tune past there a week or 2 ago in the evening and heard a female voice that was familiar but that I could not place. But damn, it was her!
And both stations are Cheap Channel, so it makes sense.
per some radio websites I was browsing... it takes a jock roughly 45 minutes to record the voicetracks for a 6-hour "air shift" on another station. For which the going rate is $6,000 a year above what they're already making at their home station. Compared to the $40G (and up) that Cheap Channel would pay a live-and-in-person deejay, that's a big savings for a company, multiplied by hundreds of air shifts around the country. More power to Ginger, who deserves all the $$$ she can get, but it totally sucks, quality-radio-wise. And as has been pointed out elsewhere, when EVERY station in Iowa is airing voice-tracked shows, what happens during a flood or a tornado warning? Who's there to do the bulletin?
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So I'm driving around this afternoon, from my house up to El Cerrito to meet my in-laws for lunch then out to Antioch and back to Dublin. Almost 90 miles of flipping channels, and spent a fair amount of time on 103.7 The Band. Their deejays don't do all that much talking but they are there if you listen long enough. Until now I'd only heard male deejays, but this afternoon there was a female voice and it sounded very familiar. She mentioned something like "Did you see this in the Chronicle..." to do with foods, and I didn't catch all of it, but she listed several 'interesting' flavor combinations including balsamic caramel, to which she said,"I don't know about that one..." and suddenly it hit me.
It was Ginger!
Whoa! I believe KBCO was a Bonneville station--do they own the Band as well? The miracle of voice-tracking...
Yes! I happened to tune past there a week or 2 ago in the evening and heard a female voice that was familiar but that I could not place. But damn, it was her!
And both stations are Cheap Channel, so it makes sense.
per some radio websites I was browsing... it takes a jock roughly 45 minutes to record the voicetracks for a 6-hour "air shift" on another station. For which the going rate is $6,000 a year above what they're already making at their home station. Compared to the $40G (and up) that Cheap Channel would pay a live-and-in-person deejay, that's a big savings for a company, multiplied by hundreds of air shifts around the country. More power to Ginger, who deserves all the $$$ she can get, but it totally sucks, quality-radio-wise. And as has been pointed out elsewhere, when EVERY station in Iowa is airing voice-tracked shows, what happens during a flood or a tornado warning? Who's there to do the bulletin?
I suspect that some of the stations here in the Portland area are using voice-tracked jocks, or at least are broadcasting from a remote studio during drive time and other times when the situation requires a real-time commentary.
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Great quote from Rich Appel's "Hz so Good" newsletter, part of a list of things jocks do wrong that warmed this chart geek's heart:
"A lot of jocks still can’t read Whitburn. To summarize: 1) The date listed is when a song entered the chart, NOT when it peaked, so it’s not “from June 1969”; 2) The “peak” is what chart position the song reached during its run, NOT what number it was for the year; and 3) “wks” refers to how many weeks the song spent on the chart, NOT how many weeks it spent at the peak shown. I still hear these mistakes made when listening to oldies stations"
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Ginger for sure, her pic is on the Band site
(http://www.1037theband.com/pages/rotator_images/onair_ginger_03.jpg)
Def. not live and local. Is she still in Boulder doing live shows?
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103.7 the Band with our Ginger is playing a most pleasing set list right now.
Rolling Stones - Angie
Men At Work - Down Under
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Mainstreet
Genesis - No Reply At All
Doobie Brothers - Jesus Is Just Alright
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Fleetwood Mac - Gold Dust Woman
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
Sir Paul/Wings - Maybe I'm Amazed
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
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Ginger for sure, her pic is on the Band site
Def. not live and local. Is she still in Boulder doing live shows?
Yup. And the Band's afternoon guy is in San Diego. Cheap Channel strikes again.
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It had to happen: Hip-Hop Oldies. "your favorite back-in-the-day hits!"
http://www.radio-info.com/sections/2-breaking-news/news_items/6615-kday-los-angeles-drops-the-beat-and-goes-back-in-the-day
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For you young'uns: GenX Radio!
http://www.genxlouisville.com/iplaylist/playlist.html?last10=1
it's another player that I can't listen to due to Flash issues, but this is a station in Louisville, and it's a "Jack"-like format concentrating on top 40 hits of the late '80s and '90s.
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Ginger for sure, her pic is on the Band site
(http://www.1037theband.com/pages/rotator_images/onair_ginger_03.jpg)
Somebody at the radio-info.com SF message board was complaining that Ginger mispronounced "Marin" as "MARE-in". Ooops.
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Ginger for sure, her pic is on the Band site
(http://www.1037theband.com/pages/rotator_images/onair_ginger_03.jpg)
Somebody at the radio-info.com SF message board was complaining that Ginger mispronounced "Marin" as "MARE-in". Ooops.
As in Cheech? Understandable, but still wrong.
We should offer her classes in Northern CA nomenclature. Like the town in the E. Bay is pronounced "conquered," not Con-chord. Also places like Guerneville, Sebastopol, Milpitas, and so forth. Also Gough St. The list could go on...
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It's official: Energy 92.7 will be blown up in one hour and 15 minutes. :'( :'( :'(
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It's official: Energy 92.7 will be blown up in one hour and 15 minutes. :'( :'( :'(
sad -- if ya can't make money doing a dance format in SF...
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For you young'uns: GenX Radio!
http://www.genxlouisville.com/iplaylist/playlist.html?last10=1
it's another player that I can't listen to due to Flash issues, but this is a station in Louisville, and it's a "Jack"-like format concentrating on top 40 hits of the late '80s and '90s.
Ooh... I'm looking through their playlist at yes.com & mostly typical Hot AC fodder but LOL at some of these songs. Corona "Rhythm of the Night," Marky Mark "Good Vibrations," Snoop Dogg "Gin & Juice." Haha, I'd totally listen to that. You can't hear some of these anywhere these days.
It looks like mostly 90s with the occasional 80s thrown in. 80s formats seem to have died years back but I was wondering how long it would take before 90s formats started popping up.
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and in other local radio news, KNEW dropped The Savage Weiner's show today. He'll no doubt end up back at KSFO shortly.
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For you young'uns: GenX Radio!
http://www.genxlouisville.com/iplaylist/playlist.html?last10=1
it's another player that I can't listen to due to Flash issues, but this is a station in Louisville, and it's a "Jack"-like format concentrating on top 40 hits of the late '80s and '90s.
Ooh... I'm looking through their playlist at yes.com & mostly typical Hot AC fodder but LOL at some of these songs. Corona "Rhythm of the Night," Marky Mark "Good Vibrations," Snoop Dogg "Gin & Juice." Haha, I'd totally listen to that. You can't hear some of these anywhere these days.
It looks like mostly 90s with the occasional 80s thrown in. 80s formats seem to have died years back but I was wondering how long it would take before 90s formats started popping up.
I'd listen to a '90s alt-rock / modern rock station. Not sure about '90s dance, though - my interest there is limited to New Jack Swing and Deee-Lite.
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quite a week for local radio action: now KSJO and KCNL are switching frequencies...
http://www.examiner.com/x-448-SF-Radio-Examiner~y2009m9d10-San-Joses-KSJO-923-and-KCNL-1049-to-switch-formats
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Got home around 9:30 from American Idiot and turned on Little Steven; show was in progress, but it was over by 10:30 -- either the Bone omitted one of his segments or else they started the show at 8:30. Either way, a screw-up.
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The radio request line is about to be brought into the 21st century:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/jelli-crowdsources-radio-programming-on-stations-across-the-us/
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Monday afternoon, apx 5:35 -- I'm in the car, I flip over to "Rev 92.7", the Top-40-ish station that replaced "Energy". They play Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" followed by the current Lady Gaga.
Tuesday afternoon, apx 5:35 -- I'm at the gym and they're playing "Rev 92.7" over the sound system. And they play... Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" followed by the current Lady Gaga.
*sigh*
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Monday afternoon, apx 5:35 -- I'm in the car, I flip over to "Rev 92.7", the Top-40-ish station that replaced "Energy". They play Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" followed by the current Lady Gaga.
Tuesday afternoon, apx 5:35 -- I'm at the gym and they're playing "Rev 92.7" over the sound system. And they play... Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" followed by the current Lady Gaga.
*sigh*
This was the year I officially gave up on Top 40.
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Moooovin' 99.7 has hired Fernando & Greg (recently fired when "Energy" died), starting next Thursday. I'm not a fan, but I'm glad they're working.
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KOIT has officially done their annual switch to All-Xmas-All-The-Time.
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KOIT has officially done their annual switch to All-Xmas-All-The-Time.
YEAH! I noticed a couple days ago. I put it on one morning, and I heard a "No!" from the other room.. I personally love Christmas music, the pop stuff the standards, and the classical works.
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Moooovin' 99.7 has hired Fernando & Greg (recently fired when "Energy" died), starting next Thursday. I'm not a fan, but I'm glad they're working.
Me too...they annoyed the crap out of me on Energy 92.7, but I've been listening to them the past few mornings and I will say I'm actually digging their new morning show.
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Moooovin' 99.7 has hired Fernando & Greg (recently fired when "Energy" died), starting next Thursday. I'm not a fan, but I'm glad they're working.
Me too...they annoyed the crap out of me on Energy 92.7, but I've been listening to them the past few mornings and I will say I'm actually digging their new morning show.
I saw you make a similar comment on radio-info (where I post as simply "Mike") -- what's been the difference? Are they being "less gay", less over-the-top?
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Moooovin' 99.7 has hired Fernando & Greg (recently fired when "Energy" died), starting next Thursday. I'm not a fan, but I'm glad they're working.
Me too...they annoyed the crap out of me on Energy 92.7, but I've been listening to them the past few mornings and I will say I'm actually digging their new morning show.
yeah, they can be funny. I don't dig Movin's music, though. When I wake up, I turn the dial frequently and might stop on their show to hear them riff on something for a bit, then I'm gone. They were talking about the new Twilight movie this AM, and it was amusing, saying how silly -- and hot -- it was that all these guys are walking around in the movie w/o shirts, as if that were normal. They were mocking the girly audience reaction by shrieking and acting out in that way they do. It was silly fun. Btw, I saw a much of teens and tweens lined up last night at 6PM to see the midnight showing off this movie. I better study up on it before I visit my nieces and nephew at xmas.
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Moooovin' 99.7 has hired Fernando & Greg (recently fired when "Energy" died), starting next Thursday. I'm not a fan, but I'm glad they're working.
Me too...they annoyed the crap out of me on Energy 92.7, but I've been listening to them the past few mornings and I will say I'm actually digging their new morning show.
I saw you make a similar comment on radio-info (where I post as simply "Mike") -- what's been the difference? Are they being "less gay", less over-the-top?
I think a little of both. On energy, my impression was that they were two gay guys, who are already pretty gay, trying to be even more gay. And it just went beyond the point of being "silly" & into the "stupid" zone IMO. (I know they had -- and still have -- quite the following, though.) They just seem like they're not trying overly hard on Movin' & as a result sound more in their element as DJs.
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NYC's WCBS-FM is doing another A-to-Z, this time by artist -- one song per artist. It's not clear from this list what the criteria is for how they choose the songs for artists with many, but I'm guessing it's their biggest hit. It reportedly took 3 hours to get thru the A's. A sample:
Abba - Dancing Queen 9:01am
Gregory Abbott - Shake You Down 9:05am
ABC - When Smokey Sings 9:09am
Paula Abdul - Straight Up 9:14am
Ace - How Long 9:18am
Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 9:30am
The Ad Libs - The Boy From New York City 9:34am
Aerosmith - Dream On 9:37am
A-Ha - Take On Me 9:42am
Air Supply - Lost In Love 9:45am
Jewel Akens - The Birds And The Bees 9:57am
Morris Albert - Feelings 10:02am
Alive & Kicking - Tighter, Tighter 10:05am
The Allman Brothers Band - Ramblin' Man 10:08am
Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You 10:13am
The Amazing Rhythm Aces - Third Rate Romance 10:17am
Ambrosia - How Much I Feel 10:29am
America - A Horse With No Name
The American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me
... etc ...
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Citadel Broadcasting, 3rd largest radio owner in the country, filed Chapter 11 today in an effort to restructure a sizable debt.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/20/financial/f101911S72.DTL&tsp=1
Wonder if this will put another glut of stations on the block?
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Nice piece on Berkeley author Michael Chabon and his love of oldies radio in Ben Fong Torres' column today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/22/PKTR1BIAR6.DTL
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Nice piece on Berkeley author Michael Chabon and his love of oldies radio in Ben Fong Torres' column today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/22/PKTR1BIAR6.DTL
that was terrific. In related news, Mr Fong-Torres did his last show on that KYA Tribute Website this weekend.
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Nice piece on Berkeley author Michael Chabon and his love of oldies radio in Ben Fong Torres' column today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/22/PKTR1BIAR6.DTL
that was terrific. In related news, Mr Fong-Torres did his last show on that KYA Tribute Website this weekend.
i like what Greil Marcus says, too. A song over the air sounds different than when you play it yourself, it comes to you like an unexpected gift.
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Nice piece on Berkeley author Michael Chabon and his love of oldies radio in Ben Fong Torres' column today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/22/PKTR1BIAR6.DTL
that was terrific. In related news, Mr Fong-Torres did his last show on that KYA Tribute Website this weekend.
i like what Greil Marcus says, too. A song over the air sounds different than when you play it yourself, it comes to you like an unexpected gift.
is there an archive of the BFT show? I found this pic on the KYA FB page:
(http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs197.snc3/20434_1239012467541_1596156303_613979_1179509_n.jpg)
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Anyone know what was said on Alice's Sarah & Vinnie show that led to a suspension? It came up as a "hot Google topic" here but I can't find any deets.
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Anyone know what was said on Alice's Sarah & Vinnie show that led to a suspension? It came up as a "hot Google topic" here but I can't find any deets.
wow, are they still on? and have a big enuf audience that something they said was deemed offensive? ;)
I could find nothing about it anywhere.
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One more nail in the coffin of Sirius/XM: Clear Channel is bidding to get Howard Stern back to terrestrial radio.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2010/tc20100122_601882.htm
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Anyone know what was said on Alice's Sarah & Vinnie show that led to a suspension? It came up as a "hot Google topic" here but I can't find any deets.
wow, are they still on? and have a big enuf audience that something they said was deemed offensive? ;)
I could find nothing about it anywhere.
UPDATE (sorta): They supposedly said... something offensive last week. Management apologized this morning without alluding in any way to what it was or who was offended.
http://sfist.com/2010/01/25/ask_sfist_alice_radios_sarah_vinnie.php
Speculation that either (a) it was something homophobic or (b) that it didn't happen and that it's a hoax for publicity purposes.
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Anyone know what was said on Alice's Sarah & Vinnie show that led to a suspension? It came up as a "hot Google topic" here but I can't find any deets.
wow, are they still on? and have a big enuf audience that something they said was deemed offensive? ;)
I could find nothing about it anywhere.
UPDATE (sorta): They supposedly said... something offensive last week. Management apologized this morning without alluding in any way to what it was or who was offended.
http://sfist.com/2010/01/25/ask_sfist_alice_radios_sarah_vinnie.php
Speculation that either (a) it was something homophobic or (b) that it didn't happen and that it's a hoax for publicity purposes.
Sounds like it could be the latter. Following the chain of links, I found this update on the KPIX website:
http://cbslocalblogs.prospero.com/kpix_eyeonblogs?entry=7838
UPDATE, 3:02 P.M.: Our fine staff on the assignment desk has been in touch with not one, but two, sources close to the story from within the Alice FM offices who say that the entire "suspension" announcement was a big joke. It's all a hoax. No one was suspended, and no gay slurs were uttered.
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For those who listen to A's games on the radio and are familiar with Marty Lurie's long-running pre-game show "Right off the Bat" -- he's moving it to KNBR this year and will now be part of the Giants radio team. Seems now that KTRB are running the Savage Weiner in the afternoons from 3-to-6, they wanted to cut the A's pre-game hoopla to a bare minimum so as not to pre-empt Savage.
http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100204&content_id=8024690&vkey=news_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak
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I was looking at The Sound's website and saw that they carry Little Steven's show, and clicked the link -- they run him Sat nite/Sun morning at midnite. Poor Steven -- I immediately flashed on that Casey Kasem tape where he's reading promos for affiliates and discovers some station in Bumfuck, Iowa is running him at 2am.
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Local conservative talk host Lee Rodgers got the boot right after his show last Thursday:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=57679
Surprised Garofoli is the one covering this, and not Ben Fong-Torres.
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Local conservative talk host Lee Rodgers got the boot right after his show last Thursday:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/nov05election/detail?entry_id=57679
Surprised Garofoli is the one covering this, and not Ben Fong-Torres.
Check the comments section -- great stuff in re: uber-rightie Rodgers turning to his union for help, not to mention him bashing big evil corporation Citadel. It's bizarro world, I tells ya!
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Article in today's Chron Datebook on David Gans and his Grateful Dead career
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/DDMA1C9P40.DTL
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Article in today's Chron Datebook on David Gans and his Grateful Dead career
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/DDMA1C9P40.DTL
I remember when he took over for M. Dung. Dave, Steve Silberman, and I shared a cabin at one of the early Gathering of the Vibes festivals in '97
(http://www.gdforum.com/vibes/images/jerryatric.jpg)
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Article in today's Chron Datebook on David Gans and his Grateful Dead career
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/DDMA1C9P40.DTL
I remember when he took over for M. Dung. Dave, Steve Silberman, and I shared a cabin at one of the early Gathering of the Vibes festivals in '97
(http://www.gdforum.com/vibes/images/jerryatric.jpg)
Which one is Gans? I don't think I've ever seen a pic of him.
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Article in today's Chron Datebook on David Gans and his Grateful Dead career
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/05/DDMA1C9P40.DTL
I remember when he took over for M. Dung. Dave, Steve Silberman, and I shared a cabin at one of the early Gathering of the Vibes festivals in '97
(http://www.gdforum.com/vibes/images/jerryatric.jpg)
Which one is Gans? I don't think I've ever seen a pic of him.
L to R: Steve, David, me.
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Was listening to KPIG in the car earlier, and they ran a promo saying that they are offering a commercial-free version of their web stream for $5 a month. So I went to the website, and apparently the "free" version of the stream no longer exists. Any takers?
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Was listening to KPIG in the car earlier, and they ran a promo saying that they are offering a commercial-free version of their web stream for $5 a month. So I went to the website, and apparently the "free" version of the stream no longer exists. Any takers?
I love KPIG, but I'm not paying $5/mo for something I don't even have time to listen to.
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Wow, a while back KPIG completely eliminated DJs in the evenings. So now there's a campaign to Save The Pig: http://squeals.kpig.com/showthread.php?tid=213
Love the links to Mapleton (the current owner)'s manager and his love nest for sale.
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Renel returns to Kiss-FM, after "retiring" from radio last year. just in time for baseball season!
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/mornings_with_renel.html
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Renel returns to Kiss-FM, after "retiring" from radio last year. just in time for baseball season!
http://www.981kissfm.com/pages/mornings_with_renel.html
I listen to KISS in the morning and lunch and drive home. I do not fit into one clear demographic. I like KFOG but less and less, enjoy the Band, enjoy KISS, like 92.3 and alternative. I likes me some old school. As chance has it, after hearing Renel this morning, I went to the station at lunch to pick up my Santana tix. KISS and the Band are evil Clear Channel siblings. I asked if I could check out Tony Sandoval doing the lunch time old school show and was taken into the studio to meet him and he showed me the controls and computer stuff. Same studio Renel was in this morning. Very cool. Cross your fingers for me to be the Carlos meet and greet winner. Won't find out till night of the show on April 22.
I asked about Renel's departure and return. Sounded like she wanted time to refresh and recharge her batteries. Everyone seemed very pleased to have her back. The studio is total walking distance from the ballpark.
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Peter Wolf was on Fresh Air this morning. Great interview. He's had quite a fun life. Grew up in the Bronx, learned his showman chops from Apollo Theater legends, went to art school (where he was filmmaker David Lynch's roommate) etc.
He wouldn't commit to a favorite J. Geils track, but says his fave J. Geils album is Full House, and the template for that non-stop live energetic release was James Brown's Live From The Apollo Theater Vol. 1
archived here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125498015
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Peter Wolf was on Fresh Air this morning. Great interview. He's had quite a fun life. Grew up in the Bronx, learned his showman chops from Apollo Theater legends, went to art school (where he was filmmaker David Lynch's roommate) etc.
He wouldn't commit to a favorite J. Geils track, but says his fave J. Geils album is Full House, and the template for that non-stop live energetic release was James Brown's Live From The Apollo Theater Vol. 1
archived here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125498015
Heard that this afternoon on OPB. Very enlightening interview. Even my wife, who had no love whatsoever for the Geils band, really enjoyed it. And Teri Gross never mentioned once (although I did miss the first couple of minutes) that he was once married to Faye Dunaway.
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Peter Wolf was on Fresh Air this morning. Great interview. He's had quite a fun life. Grew up in the Bronx, learned his showman chops from Apollo Theater legends, went to art school (where he was filmmaker David Lynch's roommate) etc.
He wouldn't commit to a favorite J. Geils track, but says his fave J. Geils album is Full House, and the template for that non-stop live energetic release was James Brown's Live From The Apollo Theater Vol. 1
archived here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125498015
Heard that this afternoon on OPB. Very enlightening interview. Even my wife, who had no love whatsoever for the Geils band, really enjoyed it. And Teri Gross never mentioned once (although I did miss the first couple of minutes) that he was once married to Faye Dunaway.
I didn't know about Faye Dunaway -- I don't think Teri mentioned it, either. (I think she also dated Phil Bronstein, btw and fwiw).
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Peter Wolf was on Fresh Air this morning. Great interview. He's had quite a fun life. Grew up in the Bronx, learned his showman chops from Apollo Theater legends, went to art school (where he was filmmaker David Lynch's roommate) etc.
He wouldn't commit to a favorite J. Geils track, but says his fave J. Geils album is Full House, and the template for that non-stop live energetic release was James Brown's Live From The Apollo Theater Vol. 1
archived here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125498015
Heard that this afternoon on OPB. Very enlightening interview. Even my wife, who had no love whatsoever for the Geils band, really enjoyed it. And Teri Gross never mentioned once (although I did miss the first couple of minutes) that he was once married to Faye Dunaway.
I didn't know about Faye Dunaway -- I don't think Teri mentioned it, either. (I think she also dated Phil Bronstein, btw and fwiw).
oh, who HASN'T dated Bronstein? ;) (he was married to Sharon Stone -- is that who you were thinking of?)
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Peter Wolf was on Fresh Air this morning. Great interview. He's had quite a fun life. Grew up in the Bronx, learned his showman chops from Apollo Theater legends, went to art school (where he was filmmaker David Lynch's roommate) etc.
He wouldn't commit to a favorite J. Geils track, but says his fave J. Geils album is Full House, and the template for that non-stop live energetic release was James Brown's Live From The Apollo Theater Vol. 1
archived here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125498015
Heard that this afternoon on OPB. Very enlightening interview. Even my wife, who had no love whatsoever for the Geils band, really enjoyed it. And Teri Gross never mentioned once (although I did miss the first couple of minutes) that he was once married to Faye Dunaway.
I didn't know about Faye Dunaway -- I don't think Teri mentioned it, either. (I think she also dated Phil Bronstein, btw and fwiw).
oh, who HASN'T dated Bronstein? ;) (he was married to Sharon Stone -- is that who you were thinking of?)
nope, but I was mistaken: He actually dated Lauren Hutton, not Faye D.
everyone knows "Mr. Sharon Stone" was married to Sharon Stone..! :)
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Our beloved Greg Edwards, formerly of CGSS, will be on London's Jazz-FM for an undetermined number of weeks starting this weekend -- he's doing the 10am - 2pm shift (which, unfortunately, is 2a-6a Pacific).
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Our beloved Greg Edwards, formerly of CGSS, will be on London's Jazz-FM for an undetermined number of weeks starting this weekend -- he's doing the 10am - 2pm shift (which, unfortunately, is 2a-6a Pacific).
ah, but his show is available using their on-demand feature -- he's subbing for a DJ named Robbie Vincent, so it's filed under his name:
http://www.jazzfm.com/listen/aod/robbie-vincent/
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Those whose travels take them thru Chico will be sad to hear that KZAP 96.7, which was simulcasting KPIG, flipped to a talk format featuring Glenn Beck,Phil Hendrie,and Laura Ingram.
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Those whose travels take them thru Chico will be sad to hear that KZAP 96.7, which was simulcasting KPIG, flipped to a talk format featuring Glenn Beck,Phil Hendrie,and Laura Ingram.
what an ignominious turn!
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KFOG was doing the story about the medical marijuana dispensary in SF's Sunset district this morning. The supervisor from that district is feeling the heat from residents who don't want the pot store, and Peter Finch had a clip of that supervisor's aide -- Cammy Blackstone, yes, the same Cammy Blackstone who used to do mornings on KFRC!
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KFOG was doing the story about the medical marijuana dispensary in SF's Sunset district this morning. The supervisor from that district is feeling the heat from residents who don't want the pot store, and Peter Finch had a clip of that supervisor's aide -- Cammy Blackstone, yes, the same Cammy Blackstone who used to do mornings on KFRC!
Can't let them crazy potheads come out here in the fogland!
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Heads-up for those near a radio or computer tonite: KPOO's Monday nite oldies guy is doing a 3-hour Stax/Volt show. Needless to say, not the same old tunes you usually hear, but lots of rarities, B-sides etc. Should be great. 8:30-11:30pm.
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Vote early, vote often: the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has its annual ballot up and running -- vote for Dave Morey in the "Announcer" category!
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/2010/index.shtml
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Vote early, vote often: the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has its annual ballot up and running -- vote for Dave Morey in the "Announcer" category!
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/2010/index.shtml
Voted
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Vote early, vote often: the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has its annual ballot up and running -- vote for Dave Morey in the "Announcer" category!
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/2010/index.shtml
Can someone suggest worthy candidates in the other categories as well?
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Vote early, vote often: the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has its annual ballot up and running -- vote for Dave Morey in the "Announcer" category!
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/2010/index.shtml
Can someone suggest worthy candidates in the other categories as well?
Bill Ruck in the engineering category, Barbara Taylor (KCBS) in news, Mike Pechner in Specialty, Jon Miller in Sports. No suggestions in the owner or Pioneer categories.
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Giants radio voice Jon Miller was named the winner of this year's Ford C. Frick Award, and will be honored at the Hall of Fame ceremonies later this month.
http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100710&content_id=12150062¬ebook_id=12155342&vkey=notebook_sf&fext=.jsp&c_id=sf#12155346
Precious little about this on the Giants' site, and even less on the Chron's. Booo.
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In this week's Radio Waves column, Ben F-T gives a few tidbits about what Dave's been up to since his retirement.
Morey in Michigan: Dave Morey, retired from his KFOG morning show since late 2008, is being heard again in the Bay Area - on a commercial, anyway. Listen for spots for the Academy of Sciences. Morey charged nothing but did get "a bag of Peet's beans and some great swag." He's also mulling a pro bono assignment to voice the announcements played on public address systems after tests of the Emergency Alert Sirens. "The dream gig," Morey enthuses. "To be the voice telling San Francisco: 'Hey. It's OK. It was only a test.' " Morey was approached by a station (not KFOG) to be its imaging voice, but declined. He gets his radio fix by appearing on "WTF," a freewheeling pirate operation near his home in Harrisville, Mich. "It's the most listenable radio I've heard in decades," he says.
WTF is not online, which is too bad. It's a wildly free-form affair, with a radio-savvy wit. On "The Alconite Hour" (Harrisville is in Alcona County), an announcer advises: "If you have difficulty receiving this program, we advise that you move your receiver closer to the Harrisville area."
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/07/23/PK891EDUC1.DTL&type=entertainment#ixzz0ufvO2AgQ
Apparently Dave's no longer concerned about his stalker, as Ben reveals the town he's living near. And also delivers a few teasers about WTF's programming. Guess he's intent on keeping it for locals only. Bummer.
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True Oldies Channel (KFRC 1550 AM) is stealing a page from Bob Shannon's book and doing a "First & Foremost" Weekend -- meaning they play an artist's first hit followed by his/her biggest hit. Examples:
Chuck Berry: first -- the great "Maybelline"; biggest -- Yes, "My Ding-A-Ling"
Dr Hook: first -- the Shel Silverstein mini-masterpiece "Sylvia's Mother"; biggest -- the execrable BeeGees ripoff "Sexy Eyes"
Could be interesting listening.
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the Shel Silverstein mini-masterpiece "Sylvia's Mother"
"That word - I do not think it means what you think it means."
;)
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the Shel Silverstein mini-masterpiece "Sylvia's Mother"
"That word - I do not think it means what you think it means."
;)
TANC: both Casey K and Barry Scott subjected me to "Better Love Next Time" today. Barry said "a Lost 45 from Dr Hook -- thay had a LOT of 'em", and I immediately thought "yeah, because nobody wants to hear Ray Sawyer's voice ever again!"
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this is sort of radio related: Got a call at home to participate in an anonymous survey about radio listening habits. They asked me to name five stations I listenofo the most, so I started on the left of the dial. I said
"KQED -- eighty-eight point five."
"Ok, got it. next?"
"KPOO, 89.5.."
"hmm, that's not on my list. I can put that under 'other.'"
"dang, so they won't get any credit for my listening to them..?"
"yeah, I don't know that station b/c we're not a local marketing firm, and we got this list from somewhere else, so the
best i can do is say 'other.'"
"that's too bad.... ok, so my next one is KUSF, 90.3"
"Hmm, not on my list either."
then they asked me to say how likely I was to listen to this group or that group, and they were all large commercial major airplay acts, so if it wasn't apparently before then, I knew I was dealing with a corporate radio survey.
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Queen guitarist Brian May on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, airing now on KALW 91.7.
PhD in astrophysics, author (of this book > http://www.amazon.com/Village-Lost-Found-Brian-May/dp/0711230390), awesome hair. He's a legend. His guitar was made from a fireplace mantlepiece, the wood baked for decades above the fireplace and gave his guitar a tremendous resonance.
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Queen guitarist Brian May on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, airing now on KALW 91.7.
PhD in astrophysics, author (of this book > http://www.amazon.com/Village-Lost-Found-Brian-May/dp/0711230390), awesome hair. He's a legend. His guitar was made from a fireplace mantlepiece, the wood baked for decade above the fireplace and gave his guitar a tremendous resonance.
Wow, I knew some of that about the guitar, but not about his Ph.D. or authorship. Very cool.
And the guitar was not just built from a mantlepiece by anyone. He built it from a mantlepiece. Himself, with his father's help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special
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Sounds like the bay area frequency of KPIG may have gone away:
From Big Rick's FB status:
Bummer I liked having The Pig at the end of the am dial. From Inside Radio: It’s one of America’s quirkiest radio brands with a sizeable online audience. But Mapleton Communication wasn’t able to make KPIG, San Francisco (1510) profitable. “At the end of the day we came up short,” market manager Ed Monroe tells listeners.
http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=1911012&spid=32061
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Sounds like the bay area frequency of KPIG may have gone away:
From Big Rick's FB status:
Bummer I liked having The Pig at the end of the am dial. From Inside Radio: It’s one of America’s quirkiest radio brands with a sizeable online audience. But Mapleton Communication wasn’t able to make KPIG, San Francisco (1510) profitable. “At the end of the day we came up short,” market manager Ed Monroe tells listeners.
http://www.insideradio.com/Article.asp?id=1911012&spid=32061
Bummer. here's their official statement:
http://www.kpig.com/userfiles/file/KPIG_8-11-10.pdf
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For those who don't get The Sound's weekly email, this is kinda cool: Smokey Robinson will be playing Guest DJ on the Sound this Sunday nite at 6.
http://www.thesoundla.com/
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others)
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others)
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
Nice! Wonder if he'll appear at the induction in person?
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others)
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
*applause*
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others)
http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
*applause*
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZfSiy2A9mow/R1hNL8RyGzI/AAAAAAAAAeA/o5JaDTnz6X8/s400/applause.gif)
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others) http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
Induction dinner tix are open to the public, 9/25 at the Doubletree Berkeley Marina. Let's go!
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John (Cougar) Mellencamp on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, airing about now on KALW 91.7.
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John (Cougar) Mellencamp on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, airing about now on KALW 91.7.
is he talking about how evil the internet is? They were reading quotes from him about that on the Morning Show the other day, made him sound like a cranky old man. Now I know why the Dems didn't run him for Senate. ;)
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John (Cougar) Mellencamp on Fresh Air with Terri Gross, airing about now on KALW 91.7.
is he talking about how evil the internet is? They were reading quotes from him about that on the Morning Show the other day, made him sound like a cranky old man. Now I know why the Dems didn't run him for Senate. ;)
This must be before the crazy-internet-remarks thing; the interview if from last year, Fresh Air is running it b/c he just released a new album.
Terri says "So, you're a life-long Democrat.." and he cut her off saying "No, I'm not a Democrat or Repub, I'm very liberal."
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Per some people in-the-know on the radio-info.com SF board, KTRB 860 is pretty much kaput; ownership is bankrupt; the entire staff was let go today. The station is still on the air for the time being -- they have contracts to run Michael Savage's show as well as A's baseball for a few more weeks.
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Per some people in-the-know on the radio-info.com SF board, KTRB 860 is pretty much kaput; ownership is bankrupt; the entire staff was let go today. The station is still on the air for the time being -- they have contracts to run Michael Savage's show as well as A's baseball for a few more weeks.
Too bad they're not an FM signal--the folks from KPIG might be a good match to buy their license. They at least get better coverage around the bay than the old 1510 did.
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Per some people in-the-know on the radio-info.com SF board, KTRB 860 is pretty much kaput; ownership is bankrupt; the entire staff was let go today. The station is still on the air for the time being -- they have contracts to run Michael Savage's show as well as A's baseball for a few more weeks.
Too bad they're not an FM signal--the folks from KPIG might be a good match to buy their license. They at least get better coverage around the bay than the old 1510 did.
ahh, KPIG, I can dream of the day they return. Otherwise, I'll be down there first weekend in December, listening every chance I get.
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Dunno if anyone else here besides me and Urth listens to Vin Scelsa on WFUV, either via live stream or podcast, but he has recently cut his Sat nite show back to 2 hours from 4.
Now, I thought I remembered that after his surgery 4 years ago (?) he cut back from 4 hours "live" to a first-2-hours "live"/last-2-hours recorded thing. (Per Wiki, some permutation of this was still going on recently.) Whatever -- his Facebook page hasn't been updated since last year either. But, as is the Scelsa way, he turned this whole decision into an existential crisis that took weeks to resolve, and it forced 'FUV to bring in syndicated programming to replace the missing 2 hours. I've always loved the guy, but come on -- it's 4 freakin' hours of radio, dude.
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Dunno if anyone else here besides me and Urth listens to Vin Scelsa on WFUV, either via live stream or podcast, but he has recently cut his Sat nite show back to 2 hours from 4.
Now, I thought I remembered that after his surgery 4 years ago (?) he cut back from 4 hours "live" to a first-2-hours "live"/last-2-hours recorded thing. (Per Wiki, some permutation of this was still going on recently.) Whatever -- his Facebook page hasn't been updated since last year either. But, as is the Scelsa way, he turned this whole decision into an existential crisis that took weeks to resolve, and it forced 'FUV to bring in syndicated programming to replace the missing 2 hours. I've always loved the guy, but come on -- it's 4 freakin' hours of radio, dude.
Hate to say it, but that does sound pretty Vin-like. He's a radio genius, but he's pretty neurotic, too, so I can believe this scenario. I haven't listened to him much since the business kicked into gear in the spring, so I'll have to dig around a little and see what I can find.
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Dunno if anyone else here besides me and Urth listens to Vin Scelsa on WFUV, either via live stream or podcast, but he has recently cut his Sat nite show back to 2 hours from 4.
Now, I thought I remembered that after his surgery 4 years ago (?) he cut back from 4 hours "live" to a first-2-hours "live"/last-2-hours recorded thing. (Per Wiki, some permutation of this was still going on recently.) Whatever -- his Facebook page hasn't been updated since last year either. But, as is the Scelsa way, he turned this whole decision into an existential crisis that took weeks to resolve, and it forced 'FUV to bring in syndicated programming to replace the missing 2 hours. I've always loved the guy, but come on -- it's 4 freakin' hours of radio, dude.
Hate to say it, but that does sound pretty Vin-like. He's a radio genius, but he's pretty neurotic, too, so I can believe this scenario. I haven't listened to him much since the business kicked into gear in the spring, so I'll have to dig around a little and see what I can find.
His show is still avaialble as a podcast on the wfuv.org website, for several weeks after it airs.
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Just saw that Mickey Luckoff, who's been at the helm of KGO/KSFO radio for the past 35 years, announced his resignation abruptly today, with no further explanation.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bottomline/detail?entry_id=73787&tsp=1
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Just saw that Mickey Luckoff, who's been at the helm of KGO/KSFO radio for the past 35 years, announced his resignation abruptly today, with no further explanation.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bottomline/detail?entry_id=73787&tsp=1
Time to retire, I guess -- 35 years in one place, and Citadel (KGO's current owners) are belt-tightening and cost-cutting up the wazoo.
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Sunday is 10/10/10. remember when KFOG used to do 10@10s all day on 10/10? Dunno if they're doing that this year (if they were I think they'd've promoted it by now) but the Drive is doing a 10@10 marathon all day Sunday.
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Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame 2010 inductees announced: Dave Morey gets in! (along with Jon Miller, Bonnie Simmons, Ben Fong-Torres, others) http://www.bayarearadio.org/hof/
Induction dinner tix are open to the public, 9/25 at the Doubletree Berkeley Marina. Let's go!
Well, good thing we didn't go -- per Ben Fong-Torres' recap in today's Chron, Dave didn't bother to show.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/17/PKOD1FOM0M.DTL
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So I'm in a fruit'n'vegetable market in the Mission that always plays KOIT. And the KOIT deejay says "with so many stations changing their music, isn't it nice to know you can count on KOIT?" Er... what stations are "changing their music"? News to me.
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Fresh Air doing an interview w Keith Richards today:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130722581
airing now on KALW, will repeat later and also on KQED (man, NPR stations get a lot of mileage out of this syndicated show!)
The Life of Keith Richards
Keith Richards, guitarist for "The Rolling Stones," talks about his life and music. He's written a new autobiography, entitled "Life."
KALW 91.7
9 - 10 AM
6 - 7 PM
KQED 88.5
1 - 2 pm
7 - 8 pm
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Fresh Air doing an interview w Keith Richards today:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130722581
airing now on KALW, will repeat later and also on KQED (man, NPR stations get a lot of mileage out of this syndicated show!)
The Life of Keith Richards
Keith Richards, guitarist for "The Rolling Stones," talks about his life and music. He's written a new autobiography, entitled "Life."
KALW 91.7
9 - 10 AM
6 - 7 PM
KQED 88.5
1 - 2 pm
7 - 8 pm
Thanks for the heads up. Loved the part when Keef ended the interview with, "Good try, honey." Hahaha Love him!!!
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Hey Mike, Big Rick just changed his FB status to "Stunner in bay area radio today. Dang and stuff." Any clue what he's talking about?
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Fresh Air doing an interview w Keith Richards today:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130722581
airing now on KALW, will repeat later and also on KQED (man, NPR stations get a lot of mileage out of this syndicated show!)
The Life of Keith Richards
Keith Richards, guitarist for "The Rolling Stones," talks about his life and music. He's written a new autobiography, entitled "Life."
KALW 91.7
9 - 10 AM
6 - 7 PM
KQED 88.5
1 - 2 pm
7 - 8 pm
Thanks for the heads up. Loved the part when Keef ended the interview with, "Good try, honey." Hahaha Love him!!!
ha! that was good. I heard that and thought he was referring to when Terry Gross was pushing about info on the 'rift' between him and Mick. he got a little curt with her at that point, if you recall, basically saying "geez, lady, it's not that unusual, and people should buy the book to find out the details.."
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Hey Mike, Big Rick just changed his FB status to "Stunner in bay area radio today. Dang and stuff." Any clue what he's talking about?
Not a clue. Nothing on the radio-info.com SF board as of this moment. Hrm.
ETA: Big Rick followed that comment (on Twitter) with "Not about me" -- guess some folks thought he got fired or something. But nothing elsewhere indicates any breaking radio story.
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Hey Mike, Big Rick just changed his FB status to "Stunner in bay area radio today. Dang and stuff." Any clue what he's talking about?
Not a clue. Nothing on the radio-info.com SF board as of this moment. Hrm.
Others were pestering him for more info but now Rick's saying it's someone else's news, and he's not going to bust it until they do. OK, fair enough, but then whydafuck didja say anything in the first place?
ETA: OK, he posted a link to AllAccess, so I assume he's talking about this:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/82716/ricci-filiar-adds-pd-duties-at-kksf-alan-eisenson-?ref=search
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ETA: OK, he posted a link to AllAccess, so I assume he's talking about this:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/82716/ricci-filiar-adds-pd-duties-at-kksf-alan-eisenson-?ref=search
well, if that's it, it's... er... interesting but not exactly "stunning". Exaggerate much?
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ETA: OK, he posted a link to AllAccess, so I assume he's talking about this:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/82716/ricci-filiar-adds-pd-duties-at-kksf-alan-eisenson-?ref=search
well, if that's it, it's... er... interesting but not exactly "stunning". Exaggerate much?
Ah, I believe it's what that article didn't say that was the stunning part: Dave Logan got the boot from KKSF.
http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1998826
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ETA: OK, he posted a link to AllAccess, so I assume he's talking about this:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/82716/ricci-filiar-adds-pd-duties-at-kksf-alan-eisenson-?ref=search
well, if that's it, it's... er... interesting but not exactly "stunning". Exaggerate much?
Ah, I believe it's what that article didn't say that was the stunning part: Dave Logan got the boot from KKSF.
http://www.fmqb.com/article.asp?id=1998826
ah, OK. Funny, the guy replacing him comes from 98.1 Kiss, which apparently has improved ratings since accenting the "old school". I nearly posted the other day that I was in the car Sun afternoon and noticed that their Tony Sandoval Oldies show is apparently a thing of the past, now that they're "old school" all the time.
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Radio humor: someone posted something on the radio-info.com SF board about Greg Kihn, but they misspelled his name as "Kiln". So someone replied
"Good old Greg Kiln. I especially loved his crockery. I liked him most when he got fired up. He could get really hot. But when he wasn't, he'd make my eyes glaze over..."
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Radio humor: someone posted something on the radio-info.com SF board about Greg Kihn, but they misspelled his name as "Kiln". So someone replied
"Good old Greg Kiln. I especially loved his crockery. I liked him most when he got fired up. He could get really hot. But when he wasn't, he'd make my eyes glaze over..."
BTW, the post about Greg Kiln, er, Kihn, was about the fact that he is giving up his syndicated nighttime show -- I didn't even know he had one!
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Just saw that Mickey Luckoff, who's been at the helm of KGO/KSFO radio for the past 35 years, announced his resignation abruptly today, with no further explanation.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bottomline/detail?entry_id=73787&tsp=1
Time to retire, I guess -- 35 years in one place, and Citadel (KGO's current owners) are belt-tightening and cost-cutting up the wazoo.
nice interview with Luckoff by Ben Fong-Torres today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/29/PKPU1FVENS.DTL&type=entertainment
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Just saw that Mickey Luckoff, who's been at the helm of KGO/KSFO radio for the past 35 years, announced his resignation abruptly today, with no further explanation.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/bottomline/detail?entry_id=73787&tsp=1
Time to retire, I guess -- 35 years in one place, and Citadel (KGO's current owners) are belt-tightening and cost-cutting up the wazoo.
nice interview with Luckoff by Ben Fong-Torres today:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/29/PKPU1FVENS.DTL&type=entertainment
Just read that piece, and it sounds like Luckoff has reason to be bitter. Hope he enjoys his retirement--he's earned it.
Out of curiousity, I looked at Citadel's website to see where they owned stations (and to see if they had any around here --they don't). Often they own outlets in just one city per state. Looks like they've come in and just taken over the town. Like for instance Boise, where they own six stations. Or Tucson with five. Or Salt Lake City, with eight. In California they're a little more spread out, owning two stations each in SF, LA and Stockton, and six in...Modesto?!?
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KSJO sold! Goodbye "Channel 92.3"?
http://www.radio-info.com/news/sale-of-san-joses-modern-rock-channel-923-ksjo-means-a-format-change
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New ratings are out and thanks to the Giants' World Series run, KNBR are #1 for the first time ever:
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
and for a hilarious comparison, their rating is a 7.2, while the A's "flagship", KTRB has a .1 :o
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Cumulus (owners of KFOG & KNBR) wants to mate with Citadel (KGO, WABC etc etc); so far Citadel is rebuffing the offer. But both are in dire financial straits.
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/citadel-broadcasting-rejects-cumulus-media-offer-twice/
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KSJO/Channel 92.3 has been sold to Principle Broadcasting, which is almost certain to flip it to Spanish in the coming months.
http://radioinsight.com/2010/92-3-ksjo-san-jose-sold/
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New ratings are out and thanks to the Giants' World Series run, KNBR are #1 for the first time ever:
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
and for a hilarious comparison, their rating is a 7.2, while the A's "flagship", KTRB has a .1 :o
Interesting: I just read that, while KFOG are 15th in audience, they're 5th in billing -- Cumulus must be pleased. I'm still wondering how this slightly schizoid programming split of theirs -- running "classics" into the ground all day and then playing nothing but super-new stuff at nite -- is shaking out, ratings-wise. There are still rumors that Live 105 is going to flip to a sports format, I assume the KFOG evening programming is an attempt to build some cred with a younger demo if & when Live 105 disappears.
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New ratings are out and thanks to the Giants' World Series run, KNBR are #1 for the first time ever:
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
and for a hilarious comparison, their rating is a 7.2, while the A's "flagship", KTRB has a .1 :o
Interesting: I just read that, while KFOG are 15th in audience, they're 5th in billing -- Cumulus must be pleased. I'm still wondering how this slightly schizoid programming split of theirs -- running "classics" into the ground all day and then playing nothing but super-new stuff at nite -- is shaking out, ratings-wise. There are still rumors that Live 105 is going to flip to a sports format, I assume the KFOG evening programming is an attempt to build some cred with a younger demo if & when Live 105 disappears.
Live 105 needs to stop playing all that Linkin Park crap and go back to its original mid 80's - early 90's programming. That being said, I actually like the new indie stuff KFOG is playing. I have friends who only listen to KFOG at night, as well as the Sunday Side Show thing they have goin' on. They need to ease up on all those John Mayer/Dave Matthews/Train/Sheryl Crow/Jack Johnson songs they play 50 times a day. Yoicks. Just an opinion.
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They've been playing 92.7 The Rev at my gym this past week -- aside from that "I've Had the Time Of My Life" reboot, which they play endlessly, they have "Hey Soul Sister" in rotation as if it were current, when it's over a year old. Sheesh and yeesh.
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New ratings are out and thanks to the Giants' World Series run, KNBR are #1 for the first time ever:
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
and for a hilarious comparison, their rating is a 7.2, while the A's "flagship", KTRB has a .1 :o
Interesting: I just read that, while KFOG are 15th in audience, they're 5th in billing -- Cumulus must be pleased. I'm still wondering how this slightly schizoid programming split of theirs -- running "classics" into the ground all day and then playing nothing but super-new stuff at nite -- is shaking out, ratings-wise. There are still rumors that Live 105 is going to flip to a sports format, I assume the KFOG evening programming is an attempt to build some cred with a younger demo if & when Live 105 disappears.
Live 105 needs to stop playing all that Linkin Park crap and go back to its original mid 80's - early 90's programming. That being said, I actually like the new indie stuff KFOG is playing. I have friends who only listen to KFOG at night, as well as the Sunday Side Show thing they have goin' on. They need to ease up on all those John Mayer/Dave Matthews/Train/Sheryl Crow/Jack Johnson songs they play 50 times a day. Yoicks. Just an opinion.
No love for Linkin Park? I have my tix for the Feb 22 show.
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Channel 92.3 has let their listeners take over the airwaves for the holidays & they'll play my set tomorrow (Thursday 12/23) at 3 PM, for anyone who's interested! :) Lots of 80s new wave, some 90s & 00's new wave-ish tracks too.
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Channel 92.3 has let their listeners take over the airwaves for the holidays & they'll play my set tomorrow (Thursday 12/23) at 3 PM, for anyone who's interested! :) Lots of 80s new wave, some 90s & 00's new wave-ish tracks too.
Woo Hoo! Very cool -- I'll be out & about but I'll try to remember if I'm near a radio.
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Channel 92.3 has let their listeners take over the airwaves for the holidays & they'll play my set tomorrow (Thursday 12/23) at 3 PM, for anyone who's interested! :) Lots of 80s new wave, some 90s & 00's new wave-ish tracks too.
Sweet! I should be around to listen.
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Channel 92.3 has let their listeners take over the airwaves for the holidays & they'll play my set tomorrow (Thursday 12/23) at 3 PM, for anyone who's interested! :) Lots of 80s new wave, some 90s & 00's new wave-ish tracks too.
Excellent, I am a listener and anticipate being mobile at 3pm so I will listen for sure.
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Thanks RGMike, Gazoo, and Alicat! :)
I'm on now...they started me a bit early :)
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Thanks RGMike, Gazoo, and Alicat! :)
I'm on now...they started me a bit early :)
Is this you: West End Girls > The Ghost in You
Can't go wrong with new wave classics!
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Thanks RGMike, Gazoo, and Alicat! :)
I'm on now...they started me a bit early :)
Is this you: West End Girls > The Ghost in You
Can't go wrong with new wave classics!
Sure is! Thanks for listening!!! :)
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...and that's a wrap! :)
The playlist:
Platinum Blonde - Not in Love
Crystal Castles w/ Robert Smith - Not in Love
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Snow Patrol - Run
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Erasure - Always
Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (I did NOT pick this one, though I don't mind it -- they accidentally played this instead of Siouxsie and the Banshees, I think)
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
New Order - True Faith
Anberlin - True Faith
They omitted:
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
Go figure, they cut out the most obscure ones. And I had recorded intros that they didn't play to The Blue Nile and Thomas Dolby songs too... >:( Oh well, at least I got a dozen other songs on, so I can't complain too much! :)
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I heard some of this whie in and out of the car shopping. I liked the Amberlin, hadn't heard their version before.
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I heard some of this whie in and out of the car shopping. I liked the Amberlin, hadn't heard their version before.
Me too -- was about to ask who that was and I see the setlist above. Nice work!
And now over to KPOO for Johnny Brooklyn's Xmas Oldies...
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...and that's a wrap! :)
The playlist:
Platinum Blonde - Not in Love
Crystal Castles w/ Robert Smith - Not in Love
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Snow Patrol - Run
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Erasure - Always
Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (I did NOT pick this one, though I don't mind it -- they accidentally played this instead of Siouxsie and the Banshees, I think)
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
New Order - True Faith
Anberlin - True Faith
They omitted:
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
Go figure, they cut out the most obscure ones. And I had recorded intros that they didn't play to The Blue Nile and Thomas Dolby songs too... >:( Oh well, at least I got a dozen other songs on, so I can't complain too much! :)
Great playlist! Too bad about Siouxsie...Love that song.
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...and that's a wrap! :)
The playlist:
Platinum Blonde - Not in Love
Crystal Castles w/ Robert Smith - Not in Love
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost in You
Snow Patrol - Run
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Erasure - Always
Garbage - Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
Tori Amos - Smells Like Teen Spirit (I did NOT pick this one, though I don't mind it -- they accidentally played this instead of Siouxsie and the Banshees, I think)
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain
New Order - True Faith
Anberlin - True Faith
They omitted:
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Cities in Dust
Thomas Dolby - I Love You Goodbye
Go figure, they cut out the most obscure ones. And I had recorded intros that they didn't play to The Blue Nile and Thomas Dolby songs too... >:( Oh well, at least I got a dozen other songs on, so I can't complain too much! :)
Outstanding choices. (And I happen to love that Dolby song.)
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I heard some of this whie in and out of the car shopping. I liked the Amberlin, hadn't heard their version before.
Me too -- was about to ask who that was and I see the setlist above. Nice work!
Great playlist! Too bad about Siouxsie...Love that song.
Outstanding choices. (And I happen to love that Dolby song.)
Thanks for your kind words :) Glad you liked Anberlin! (And Siouxsie and Dolby too, even though those didn't get on sadly.)
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I commented elsewere about 92.7 The Rev, and how they play "Time of My Life" and "Gay 'Ho Blistah" endlessly, but that isn't even the half of it. This afternoon at the gym I heard them play Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" 4 times in less than 2 hours. Christ on a cracker, that's fucking insane. They appear to have a playlist of, like, 15 songs. Which is fine if you're 12 years old, maybe, but who listens to this station for more than half an hour at a time? No wonder their ratings are miniscule. And you thought KFOG was repetitive!
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I commented elsewere about 92.7 The Rev, and how they play "Time of My Life" and "Gay 'Ho Blistah" endlessly, but that isn't even the half of it. This afternoon at the gym I heard them play Ke$ha's "We R Who We R" 4 times in less than 2 hours. Christ on a cracker, that's fucking insane. They appear to have a playlist of, like, 15 songs. Which is fine if you're 12 years old, maybe, but who listens to this station for more than half an hour at a time? No wonder their ratings are miniscule. And you thought KFOG was repetitive!
I know there's lots of hate here for Hey Soul Sister. I don't hear the song that often, truthfully, but when I do, I don't necessarily turn the station, so I guess I would consider it a "guilty non-displeasure" for me. It seems Train cleverly and regretfully designed the song to be an ear worm hit of some sort ... and dang it, it worked. And it's only a matter of time before they cash in further on the song's success and license it with other lyrics to shill for products and services. To that end, here are some some other variations of the title and their and taking a cue from Mike's variations on the title (see above "Gay 'Ho Blistah').
Play Arista! - The record label uses it to get their name out there, again.
Say "Ar-I-sta" - This time, the record label uses it to help people pronounce their name correctly
Hey! Mole Blister! - Dermatological societies everywhere want to you get that thing checked.
Nay, Mole Twister - the same societies warn against bathroom surgery, let a professional deal with it!
Pay Toll, Mister - CalTrans campaign targeting commuting scofflaws
Gay Ol' Sister - Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence solicits donations for their retirement home for past members.
Très Pole Wrister - Onanism Society advertises with a very hands on version.
Maypole Twister - Druids and Pagans, realizing attendance is down at their yearly ritual, start advertising
Other variations are out there: for instance, "Fister" could be inserted into the title, too, if you know what I mean.
ok, sorry about that, I'm bored and I had these things in my head, and the only way for me to get rid of them is write them down.
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Other variations are out there: for instance, "Fister" could be inserted into the title, too, if you know what I mean.
I came very close to "Gay Hole Fister", actually.
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TANC, in that they're Big Rick's alma mater, but KUSF has been sold to a noncommercial classical outfit; the orig KUSF and its current programming will become internet-only:
KUSF Moves to Online Only Format 01-18-2011
The University of San Francisco (USF) announced today that KUSF, the university’s radio station, is moving to an online only format, effective immediately. The university has reached an agreement to assign the FCC license for radio frequency 90.3 FM to Classical Public Radio Network, which is launching a non-commercial classical music station in the Bay Area. CPRN is owned by University of Southern California.
The call letters KUSF were not sold, and the KUSF logo and all music inventory will remain USF property. All KUSF staff will be offered similar positions at KUSF.org.
The move to online-only distribution gives KUSF a powerful opportunity to grow its worldwide audience. Previously, the station was limited to 100 online listeners at a time, but capacity will be increased to accommodate thousands of listeners.
The station will go dark briefly for necessary engineering work. It is possible the electrical work could take several days.
As it shifts to an online-only format, USF will focus on the station’s primary purpose as a teaching laboratory for students. The university is evaluating ways to improve the student learning experience and enhance its curriculum in digital media and audio production. USF is also pleased to announce that CPRN will make internships available to qualified USF students interested in radio broadcasting.
USF will invest the proceeds from the sale to support its mission, and will continue to offer a valuable learning experience for its media students. USF is pleased that it can also help ensure the long-term presence of high-quality classical music programming in the Bay Area.
The sale must be approved by the Federal Communications Commission.
Wowsers. And it seems to me that a new "high-quality classical" station is a bit of a dig at KDFC, and one wonders of this could nudge KDFC to switch formats.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
I don't know what when down between BRS and KFOG, but they were stupid to let him go. There's absolutely no reason to listen in the afternoons anymore. Who can fill those shoes? Oh, I know! Dave Morey...
San Francisco can use a decent alternative station remeniscent of ye olde Live 105 or KROQ (L.A.). Or maybe that's just me talkin'.
Sorry for the italics. My computer at work is on peyote.
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And as mentioned elsewhere, the guy who's now in charge of Entercom's SF operations (they own K_FOX and sold KDFC) is an old buddy of Big Rick's who used to be with KFOG (before Cumulus bought them) so it makes sense that he'd wanna work for an old pal rather than the suits at Cumulus. And Cumulus is too busy trying to buy Citadel to care about retaining Rick, I guess.
One plus: we get to hear the Sharks radio broadcasts in SF.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
losing broadcast KUSF sucks SUCKS SUCKSSSS!
That's one of my top (three?) over the air stations.
No wonder Big Rick was so tight-lipped about this. Not sure how much he knew about the whole dial re-org, but there are probably some media folks who knew the deets but who could not do any bean spilling.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
losing broadcast KUSF sucks SUCKS SUCKSSSS!
That's one of my top (three?) over the air stations.
With you on this. Increasing their web visibility does not make up for the loss to the local terrestrial audience. The admin at USF should be ashamed. And I'd bet that Big Rick feels a little sheepish that the deal that brought him to K-FOX from KFOG was also responsible for the veritable demise of the station where he got his start.
So what's left? KALX and KFJC, I guess.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
losing broadcast KUSF sucks SUCKS SUCKSSSS!
That's one of my top (three?) over the air stations.
With you on this. Increasing their web visibility does not make up for their loss to the local terrestrial audience. The admin at USF should be ashamed.
did you see hartlaub's sidebar on KUSF? The staffers had only a few MINUTES warning it was going to happen. I can see the school administration's reason's for pulling the plug -- they got some good money for the license, and they're cash-strapped, and the bulk of the staff were not actually students -- but no advance warning is a tough one to accept.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DD8H1HARE7.DTL
KUSF online will go dark for a few days while they upgrade the stream to handle more than the current 100 listeners (they stream now at a paltry 56k, I hope that increases):
http://www.usfca.edu/Newsroom/Community_News/KUSF_Moves_to_Online_Only_Format/
One good thing that might come out of this is that KDFC's new owners -- USC, which will operate the station as a non-profit -- might actually improve the classical programming on that station. I'm sure no one here cares, but they play lots of light fare, single movements of pieces. This may allow them to branch out and take some chances with their programming.
btw, every weekend, KUSF plays played? the Metropolitan Opera's Simulcast: http://www.operainfo.org/stationfinder/stationFinder.cgi
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One good thing that might come out of this is that KDFC's new owners -- USC, which will operate the station as a non-profit -- might actually improve the classical programming on that station. I'm sure no one here cares, but they play lots of light fare, single movements of pieces. This may allow them to branch out and take some chances with their programming.
Well, we listen at certain times of the week, and day, and yes, I've noticed some very poppish tunes being played. I'm not a classical snob, but yes, I'm sure the true aficionados have probably been suffering.
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And as mentioned elsewhere, the guy who's now in charge of Entercom's SF operations (they own K_FOX and sold KDFC) is an old buddy of Big Rick's who used to be with KFOG (before Cumulus bought them) so it makes sense that he'd wanna work for an old pal rather than the suits at Cumulus. And Cumulus is too busy trying to buy Citadel to care about retaining Rick, I guess.
One plus: we get to hear the Sharks radio broadcasts in SF.
To paraphrase Richard Thompson, "did he jump or was he pushed?" Hate to say it, but I'm guessing the former, since he's resurfacing at his new gig so soon after leaving KFOG.
Btw, BR's FB page has been scrubbed of all KFOG-related posts.
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And as mentioned elsewhere, the guy who's now in charge of Entercom's SF operations (they own K_FOX and sold KDFC) is an old buddy of Big Rick's who used to be with KFOG (before Cumulus bought them) so it makes sense that he'd wanna work for an old pal rather than the suits at Cumulus. And Cumulus is too busy trying to buy Citadel to care about retaining Rick, I guess.
One plus: we get to hear the Sharks radio broadcasts in SF.
Didn't realize SF didn't get the Sharks broadcast. I take that for granted and guess I was lucky. That is all I listen to KFOX for as I lost my like of Greg Kihn. Wow. I said that so nicely. I will loudly boo him any time he is at the Tank when I am. I guess I should really refrain from that.
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And as mentioned elsewhere, the guy who's now in charge of Entercom's SF operations (they own K_FOX and sold KDFC) is an old buddy of Big Rick's who used to be with KFOG (before Cumulus bought them) so it makes sense that he'd wanna work for an old pal rather than the suits at Cumulus. And Cumulus is too busy trying to buy Citadel to care about retaining Rick, I guess.
One plus: we get to hear the Sharks radio broadcasts in SF.
To paraphrase Richard Thompson, "did he jump or was he pushed?" Hate to say it, but I'm guessing the former, since he's resurfacing at his new gig so soon after leaving KFOG.
Btw, BR's FB page has been scrubbed of all KFOG-related posts.
BRS made his "announcement" on his FB page last night. The ghosts of his radio past came out of the woodwork to wish him well (Alex Bennett, Sal Casteneda, Richard Sands, Web Fingors and even Deborah Iyall).
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And as mentioned elsewhere, the guy who's now in charge of Entercom's SF operations (they own K_FOX and sold KDFC) is an old buddy of Big Rick's who used to be with KFOG (before Cumulus bought them) so it makes sense that he'd wanna work for an old pal rather than the suits at Cumulus. And Cumulus is too busy trying to buy Citadel to care about retaining Rick, I guess.
One plus: we get to hear the Sharks radio broadcasts in SF.
To paraphrase Richard Thompson, "did he jump or was he pushed?" Hate to say it, but I'm guessing the former, since he's resurfacing at his new gig so soon after leaving KFOG.
It makes me wonder if BR was working without a contract at KFOG, since he left on a Wed and resurfaces the following Tue.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
K-FOX > The Band & hopefully this forces them to flip.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
K-FOX > The Band & hopefully this forces them to flip.
agreed. No way all four stations survive unchanged.
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Big Rick isn't going to The Band, but KUFX in the afternoons. :o
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/18/DDV71H9VL2.DTL&tsp=1
well, this is one wild-ass day in Bay Area radio! But why on earth would you simulcast K-FOX on an SF frequency when SF already has a Classic Rocker (The Band), a younger-skewing almost-Classic Rocker (The Bone) and a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG)?
Whatevs. Bet the folks at The Band are hella pissed.
K-FOX > The Band & hopefully this forces them to flip.
agreed. No way all four stations survive unchanged.
As I write this, KFOG has just finished playing Sweet Home Alabama. earlier today, The Bland gave us Layla. I don't know The Fox beyond it being the station where Greg Khin spins, and I heard on this board that he has his moments of reactionary politics. I did dial them up online yesterday and heard something that I hear on too many other stations, I forget what it was, maybe AC/DC or Led Zep. Nice, but not anything earth shattering. I will enjoy having Sharks broadcasts, I suppose.
the biggest news in all of this is the loss of KUSF. That was a true valuable resource. Without the USF agreeing to sell its license, we don't have all this reshuffling. KUSF played music you NEVER heard on any SF airwaves. The stuff that KFOG has been playing in its evening shift probably was heard on college stations like KUSF before any PD in Cumulus or CBS or Clear Channel heard of them. They say the station will go online, but big deal, we all know that's not the same.
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As I write this, KFOG has just finished playing Sweet Home Alabama. earlier today, The Bland gave us Layla. I don't know The Fox beyond it being the station where Greg Khin spins, and I heard on this board that he has his moments of reactionary politics...
Indeed, now we have 4 stations that will play "Sweet Home Alabama" 17 times a week! (5 if you count True Oldies Channel)
The folks at Cheap Channel must be pissed as hell right now. They could've simulcast K-FOX on 103.5 when they owned both stations (I said as much when The Band began), but instead went thru all the trouble of creating a new brand, even tho' they had a known quantity in KUFX.
It will be interesting to see how Kihn fares in this move. Indeed, a bit of a reactionary (he got into a bit of a kerfuffle a few years ago when he said he was against gay marriage), and when the idea of a K-FOX SF simulcast was first mentioned I said they could probably use Kihn's "political incorrectness" to their advantage, since he'd be a marked (and marketable, for better or worse) alternative to KFOG's laid-back, generally left-leaning morning crew. Time will tell.
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Not quite local, but pertinent to our numbers since one of the stations involved is one of our 10@10 proponents:
Bonneville has sold 17 stations to Hubbard Broadcasting, including WDRV (The Drive) in Chicago. All told, the sale involves clusters of stations in Chicago, Washington DC, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.
Details here:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/86101/hubbard-buys-17-stations-from-bonneville
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Not quite local, but pertinent to our numbers since one of the stations involved is one of our 10@10 proponents:
Bonneville has sold 17 stations to Hubbard Broadcasting, including WDRV (The Drive) in Chicago. All told, the sale involves clusters of stations in Chicago, Washington DC, St. Louis, and Cincinnati.
interesting in that The Drive and The Sound (which Bonneville also owns and which wasn't sold) are very similar, and their 10@10s are practically clones of each other.
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was walking around SOMA and Civic Center today and could pick up Radio Valencia on my trusty transistor radio. The playlist was a mix of standard rockers (Cheap Trick Southern Girls, Kinks' All Day And All of the Night, Animals It's My Life) and punk (The Descendants, The Ramones).
87.9 on the FM dial. They have a web site here: http://radiovalencia.fm/
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BRS sat in with Greg Kihn on KFOX this morning. Didn't get to hear the interview, but according to a FB post, something was said about no more Natalie Merchant. ;)
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BRS sat in with Greg Kihn on KFOX this morning. Didn't get to hear the interview, but according to a FB post, something was said about no more Natalie Merchant. ;)
Cute. and no more Feist-alikes. OTOH, he'll be hearing "Under Pressure" twice as often.
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BRS sat in with Greg Kihn on KFOX this morning. Didn't get to hear the interview, but according to a FB post, something was said about no more Natalie Merchant. ;)
Cute. and no more Feist-alikes. OTOH, he'll be hearing "Under Pressure" twice as often.
I made the above comment on the radio-info SF board and some guy there said *he* made a similar comment on Big Rick's FB page -- and Rick deleted it. Sheesh, big guy -- if ya give snark, ya gotta be able to take snark, y'know?
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Please sign the Save KUSF petition!
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savekusf/
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BRS sat in with Greg Kihn on KFOX this morning. Didn't get to hear the interview, but according to a FB post, something was said about no more Natalie Merchant. ;)
Cute. and no more Feist-alikes. OTOH, he'll be hearing "Under Pressure" twice as often.
I made the above comment on the radio-info SF board and some guy there said *he* made a similar comment on Big Rick's FB page -- and Rick deleted it. Sheesh, big guy -- if ya give snark, ya gotta be able to take snark, y'know?
My snarky anti-Kihn post was deleted.
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Ben Fong-Torres mentioned nada about the big radio drama that went down last week in his latest blog. Disappointing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/21/PK6A1H7VKQ.DTL
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Ben Fong-Torres mentioned nada about the big radio drama that went down last week in his latest blog. Disappointing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/21/PK6A1H7VKQ.DTL
I think Ben files way ahead of time, so this week's column probably was done before the KUDF/KDFC news broke. The Big Rick Stuart departure from KFOG either didn't register with him for some reason, or -- more likely -- he did know about it but kept silent b/c of embargo agreements and to protect his sources: Rick leaving KFOG might have been a messy situation and the details are sensitive. I'm sure several press people knew about the deal ahead of time (by a few days, maybe even?), but they could not reveal the info until the deal was announced.
Anyway, I think (hope?) he'll weigh in next time.
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Ben Fong-Torres mentioned nada about the big radio drama that went down last week in his latest blog. Disappointing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/21/PK6A1H7VKQ.DTL
I think Ben files way ahead of time, so this week's column probably was done before the KUDF/KDFC news broke. The Big Rick Stuart departure from KFOG either didn't register with him for some reason, or -- more likely -- he did know about it but kept silent b/c of embargo agreements and to protect his sources: Rick leaving KFOG might have been a messy situation and the details are sensitive. I'm sure several press people knew about the deal ahead of time (by a few days, maybe even?), but they could not reveal the info until the deal was announced.
Anyway, I think (hope?) he'll weigh in next time.
Yeah, it's rare that BF-T covers any story that's broken recently, the one exception being the firing of Mickey Luckoff at KGO, and that had some serious dish potential that would translate to readers/pageviews. I hope he covers the story next time, although if both Rick and KFOG aren't talking about the split now, I have to wonder if he'll have much more beyond the company line to tell us.
Btw, I don't think the Radio Waves column is considered a blog, strictly speaking, since it appears in print simultaneously with its online version. Aren't blogs exclusively a web-based forum?
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Ben Fong-Torres mentioned nada about the big radio drama that went down last week in his latest blog. Disappointing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/21/PK6A1H7VKQ.DTL
I think Ben files way ahead of time, so this week's column probably was done before the KUDF/KDFC news broke. The Big Rick Stuart departure from KFOG either didn't register with him for some reason, or -- more likely -- he did know about it but kept silent b/c of embargo agreements and to protect his sources: Rick leaving KFOG might have been a messy situation and the details are sensitive. I'm sure several press people knew about the deal ahead of time (by a few days, maybe even?), but they could not reveal the info until the deal was announced.
Anyway, I think (hope?) he'll weigh in next time.
Yeah, it's rare that BF-T covers any story that's broken recently, the one exception being the firing of Mickey Luckoff at KGO, and that had some serious dish potential that would translate to readers/pageviews. I hope he covers the story next time, although if both Rick and KFOG aren't talking about the split now, I have to wonder if he'll have much more beyond the company line to tell us.
Btw, I don't think the Radio Waves column is considered a blog, strictly speaking, since it appears in print simultaneously with its online version. Aren't blogs exclusively a web-based forum?
yes, BF-T writes a column for print, technically not a blog. I don't think there will be much dish-y stuff if/when he covers it, b/c he'll want to stay in his sources' good graces.
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Tried to tune into KFOX with the 3 radios around the house and nada. Sheesh. Listening online now and heard Big Rick pipe in here and there. I dunno. I guess I'm not good with change or something. ::)
ETA: BRS started with The Joker, Steely Dan and now Journey. No comment. Someone he knew called in and requested some Natalie Merchant (hehe). He said something like, "Nah, but I can play some Zeppelin for you instead!"
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Tried to tune into KFOX with the 3 radios around the house and nada. Sheesh. Listening online now and heard Big Rick pipe in here and there. I dunno. I guess I'm not good with change or something. ::)
on both signals? 102.1 oughta come in well in SF even if 98.5 doesn't. Someone on the Facebook page seemed to imply that they played "Roll Over Beethoven" (I'm guessing the ELO version) at noon when they took over 102.1 from KDFC... which signed off with "Fanfare For The Common Man".
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Tried to tune into KFOX with the 3 radios around the house and nada. Sheesh. Listening online now and heard Big Rick pipe in here and there. I dunno. I guess I'm not good with change or something. ::)
I'm pulling in the 102.1 signal very well. Caught the tail end of The Who's Bargain, now they're playing Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me. I was going to say ho-hum... but then I espied THIS on their FB page:
98.5 KFOX Big Rick is on the air! All of you have a shot at front Row tickets to see Rush on June 26th at the Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord! Be listening Friday.
GOD, I LOVE THIS STATION! (KUSF Who?)
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Tried to tune into KFOX with the 3 radios around the house and nada. Sheesh. Listening online now and heard Big Rick pipe in here and there. I dunno. I guess I'm not good with change or something. ::)
I'm pulling in the 102.1 signal very well. Caught the tail end of The Who's Bargain, now they're playing Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me. I was going to say ho-hum... but then I espied THIS on their FB page:
98.5 KFOX Big Rick is on the air! All of you have a shot at front Row tickets to see Rush on June 26th at the Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord! Be listening Friday.
GOD, I LOVE THIS STATION! (KUSF Who?)
I heard him say he had front row Rush tickets and thought of you, TC! :)
Can't seem to get 102.1 at all. It's just as well. I wasn't feeling KFOX when I gave them a whirl online today and BRS doesn't seem like a good fit there, IMO. With KFOG, he at least got to play something contemporary - which is what I associate him with since the Quake/LIVE 105 days. Never did get to hear him on KUSF. I think I was listening to KFRC back then. I was like, 10.
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98.5 KFOX Big Rick is on the air! All of you have a shot at front Row tickets to see Rush on June 26th at the Sleep Train Pavilion
It'll *really* be a sleep train pavilion if Rush plays there ;)
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98.5 KFOX Big Rick is on the air! All of you have a shot at front Row tickets to see Rush on June 26th at the Sleep Train Pavilion
It'll *really* be a sleep train pavilion if Rush plays there ;)
I thought I heard it was a Rush tribute band at Shoreline. I changed the channel quickly.
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Tried to tune into KFOX with the 3 radios around the house and nada. Sheesh. Listening online now and heard Big Rick pipe in here and there. I dunno. I guess I'm not good with change or something. ::)
I'm pulling in the 102.1 signal very well. Caught the tail end of The Who's Bargain, now they're playing Def Leppard Pour Some Sugar On Me. I was going to say ho-hum... but then I espied THIS on their FB page:
98.5 KFOX Big Rick is on the air! All of you have a shot at front Row tickets to see Rush on June 26th at the Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord! Be listening Friday.
GOD, I LOVE THIS STATION! (KUSF Who?)
I heard him say he had front row Rush tickets and thought of you, TC! :)
Can't seem to get 102.1 at all. It's just as well. I wasn't feeling KFOX when I gave them a whirl online today and BRS doesn't seem like a good fit there, IMO. With KFOG, he at least got to play something contemporary - which is what I associate him with since the Quake/LIVE 105 days. Never did get to hear him on KUSF. I think I was listening to KFRC back then. I was like, 10.
So enough about Big Rick--it's like he's dead to me. ;) But has KFOG got anyone taking over afternoon drive? No new faces on the staff page, just the six remaining stalwarts, four of whom comprise the Morning Show, and one is the weekend/vacay fill-in. Doesn't bode well for the future of live announcers on radio, I tellya.
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So enough about Big Rick--it's like he's dead to me. ;) But has KFOG got anyone taking over afternoon drive? No new faces on the staff page, just the six remaining stalwarts, four of whom comprise the Morning Show, and one is the weekend/vacay fill-in. Doesn't bode well for the future of live announcers on radio, I tellya.
someone said there's a new male voice in the evenings but I haven't heard him yet. But hey, that's how Webster started at KFOG (doing part-time fill-ins), so ya never know.
I was thinking back to when BRS started at KFOG, as a replacement for Grappone. Rick had been off-the-air for a year or more, after leaving Live 105. And it was a big deal that KFOG landed him for his big comeback. But there are no "names" that I can think of lurking in the shadows now.
It's gonna be an interesting year -- no *way* SF needs THREE Classic Rock stations plus a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG). Something's gotta give. The Band or The Bone most likely to change in some way, methinks. (Entercom apparently has money to spend promoting K-Fox and they wouldn't've hired BRS if they didn't plan a big push.)
BTW, someone on radio-info said "Yesterday [BRS] almost slipped and said KFOG a few times, but if you start to say KFOG, its easy to correct yourself on K-Fox" LOL!
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I've had Greg Kihn in my ear this morning, listening for that Rush song so I can be caller #10.
Some lame humor, not as bad as The Bone. He gave Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser props for his guitar playing and compositional style in BÖC, and compared that with the typical three-chord structures of "English bands." played a clip from Bad Company's Paul Rodgers and then a nice segue into Can't Get Enough. Yeah, those English really have a monopoly on three chords. We Americans are so advanced when it comes to writing rock songs.
Speaking of Monopoly, earlier he said "Even the Commies play it! Like in Poland. You know I'm Polish, right? So in Poland, you don't buy Railroads or Utilities, you buy TOILET PAPER and Food..! Guffaw!"
egads.
BANTER UPDATE:
Oh, this just in! Tom, the guy after Greg, asks "What do you think about the Superbowl? who do you like, think it matters?"
After a slight pause, Greg weighs in. "I think it DOES matter. I like Pittsburgh."
Tom, "This is the first Superbowl where neither team has cheerleaders...! and your team, the Baltimore Ravens, has MALE cheerleaders!"
Zing! it's like being at the Algonquin Round Table!
The biggest winners in this radio shakeup are Lamont and Tonelli, because suddenly they no longer seem as sophomoric and inane. (ok, that might be a stretch.)
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Black Keys were on Fresh Air this AM. They've licensed many songs in commercials, and Terri asked them, "Do you get grief for that?"
They replied, "lots of 17 year old boys on Facebook don't seem to like it... but bands that *I* like have licensed songs and it didn't make me lose respect for them. This was before we even started the Black Keys."
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From the "Save KUSF" folks on FB, regarding their rally:
"Please don't bring Anti-classical music signs. That's not the image we'd like to give. Remember, we had 8 hours of classical programming at KUSF plus the Met Opera. Those programs had thousands of listeners who all want KUSF to be back on the air.
So no 'Mozart my ass' signs please. It's not good to look as though we hate classical music, we just want our radio back. With all its shows."
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It's gonna be an interesting year -- no *way* SF needs THREE Classic Rock stations plus a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG). Something's gotta give. The Band or The Bone most likely to change in some way, methinks. (Entercom apparently has money to spend promoting K-Fox and they wouldn't've hired BRS if they didn't plan a big push.)
And sure enuf -- I saw K-Fox's new TV commercial tonite, blasting that Classic Rock cliche "We Will Rock You" as it trumpets their artists ("Steve Miller! Boston!") and their deejay lineup ("Greg Kihn mornings! Tim Jeffries midday! Big Rick afternoons!"). So they're obviously planning to be aggressive.
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From the "Save KUSF" folks on FB, regarding their rally:
"Please don't bring Anti-classical music signs. That's not the image we'd like to give. Remember, we had 8 hours of classical programming at KUSF plus the Met Opera. Those programs had thousands of listeners who all want KUSF to be back on the air.
So no 'Mozart my ass' signs please. It's not good to look as though we hate classical music, we just want our radio back. With all its shows."
yes, lots of folks are unclear on the concept. The "Save KUSF" online petition I signed -- do these really work? -- had a commenter who said "SF doesn't need another classical music station!"
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BFT's article about the recent shakeup in SF radio:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/04/PK241HEINF.DTL
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BFT's article about the recent shakeup in SF radio:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/04/PK241HEINF.DTL
one commenter, called ' davelivesagain' says
KFUX really, really sucks. It's sad to see one of the better Bay Area DJs from the last couple of decades, Big Rick, lowering himself to their level. The good news for SF radio types is, it's gonna go down the toilet like "The Bone".
DaveLivesAgain? sounds like a morey fan -- or maybe himself! ha!
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It's gonna be an interesting year -- no *way* SF needs THREE Classic Rock stations plus a classics-heavy Triple-A (KFOG). Something's gotta give. The Band or The Bone most likely to change in some way, methinks. (Entercom apparently has money to spend promoting K-Fox and they wouldn't've hired BRS if they didn't plan a big push.)
And sure enuf -- I saw K-Fox's new TV commercial tonite, blasting that Classic Rock cliche "We Will Rock You" as it trumpets their artists ("Steve Miller! Boston!") and their deejay lineup ("Greg Kihn mornings! Tim Jeffries midday! Big Rick afternoons!"). So they're obviously planning to be aggressive.
And the Band is now running their (rather generic) TV commercial using "Won't Get Fooled Again". Unlike the K-Fox spot, it just has a little logo for The Band in the bottom right of the screen; looks like something produced on the cheap for use by multiple radio stations in different cities.
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I think The Band is behind a current survey:
We have an online music study coming up.
Here are the particulars:
Who: Adults 40-52 years old who listen to the radio for music. You must be able to listen to music clips from a computer.
When: You can do it when you like. You don't have to do it all at once. You should finish no later than next Monday.
Where: Anywhere you have decent internet access and can focus on listening to music.
Why: It will be interesting, and you'll be paid $60
How long: It'll take 75 minutes. (Our client swore it's really 75 minutes.) It's in several segments so you don't have to do the whole thing at once.
Click here if interested:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/EckerRadioFeb2011
If the link doesn't cooperate, please cut-and-paste the address above into your browser.
We will call back those who seem like a likely fit for this study to ask a few more questions.
Thanks very much!
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The Band also offering $1000 three times a day to caller 103. Way to buy listeners. Gotta say I do prefer the Band over KUFX. KUFX is only good to me for Sharks broadcasts.
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The Band also offering $1000 three times a day to caller 103. Way to buy listeners. Gotta say I do prefer the Band over KUFX. KUFX is only good to me for Sharks broadcasts.
per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox. One poster listened for a while:
"Turtles, Mamas and Papas, Jonathan Edwards, Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Don McLean, Harry Chapin, Raspberries, Dobie Gray, Jim Croce, Lovin;' Spoonful, Four Seasons, Looking Glass, Orleans and Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds..."
A smart move on their part. I'll have to sample them in a bit, after JJ's soul hour.
ETA: been listening about 25 mins. Still pretty rock-heavy (U2, FMac, BufSpgfld) but I'm being subjected to "American Pie" right now -- a KFRC staple -- which I'm guessing they haven't played much previously. More pop, please.
OK, early Beatles is pop-y as is BJ "Movin' Out" and S&G getting up to wash their face -- such cunning linguists.
aaaack! "Brown-Eyed Girl". time to change stations.
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The Band also offering $1000 three times a day to caller 103. Way to buy listeners. Gotta say I do prefer the Band over KUFX. KUFX is only good to me for Sharks broadcasts.
per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox. One poster listened for an hour:
"Turtles, Mamas and Papas, Jonathan Edwards, Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Don McLean, Harry Chapin, Raspberries, Dobie Gray, Jim Croce, Lovin;' Spoonful, Four Seasons, Looking Glass, Orleans and Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds..."
A smart move on their part. I'll have to sample them in a bit, after JJ's soul hour.
Me too. Saw post re new PD at 104.5. What happened to who?
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Me too. Saw post re new PD at 104.5. What happened to who?
KFOG got rid of Benson something like 2 years ago and never replaced him. Music Director (and host of "Sideshow") Kelly Ransford was also assistant PD and was presumably doing Benson's job in the interim. Benson ended up in Seattle at KMTT "The Mountain", and Ransford got tired of waiting for Cumulus to either promote her or give her some sort of support, so she finally quit and moved to Seattle to work for Benson as KFOG was hiring the new guy, Dennis Constantine, who has done this format everywhere including KINK Portland and KBCO Boulder.
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OK, I'm really trying to give the "new" 103.7 The Band a chance, but sheesh: one painfully overplayed "classic" after another. This half-hour alone:
"Barracuda"
"Down Under"
"Dream On"
"Boys Are Back in Town"
"Layla"
"What a Fool Believes"
"Moondance"
Gawd.
AAACK! "Lights" sends me screaming from the computer. Alert me when they start playing more KFRC-style pop & soul.
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OK, I'm really trying to give the "new" 103.7 The Band a chance, but sheesh: one painfully overplayed "classic" after another. This half-hour alone:
"Barracuda"
"Down Under"
"Dream On"
"Boys Are Back in Town"
"Layla"
"What a Fool Believes"
"Moondance"
Gawd.
AAACK! "Lights" sends me screaming from the computer. Alert me when they start playing more KFRC-style pop & soul.
amazing, all those songs and Boston doesn't appear once! They're slipping. I like most of the music in their narrow scope, butt don't listen that much. It gets boring.
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OK, I'm really trying to give the "new" 103.7 The Band a chance, but sheesh: one painfully overplayed "classic" after another. This half-hour alone:
"Barracuda"
"Down Under"
"Dream On"
"Boys Are Back in Town"
"Layla"
"What a Fool Believes"
"Moondance"
Gawd.
AAACK! "Lights" sends me screaming from the computer. Alert me when they start playing more KFRC-style pop & soul.
amazing, all those songs and Boston doesn't appear once! They're slipping. I like most of the music in their narrow scope, butt don't listen that much. It gets boring.
Still better than KFOX!
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16 hour Grateful Dead marathon today 9AM to Sunday 1AM on KPFA 94.1, hosted by David Gans
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/02/19/MNBI1HPCB9.DTL
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Sunday at 2 PM PST, Sound Opinion will do a show examining The Monkees.
airs locally at KALW 91.7 FM on your regular, non-app dial.
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interesting thread on radio-info.com about Big Rick:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=185370.0
love the guy who says he basically couldn't see much difference between BR and his replacement.
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interesting thread on radio-info.com about Big Rick:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=185370.0
love the guy who says he basically couldn't see much difference between BR and his replacement.
yeah, that guy is radical!
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interesting thread on radio-info.com about Big Rick:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=185370.0
love the guy who says he basically couldn't see much difference between BR and his replacement.
yeah, that guy is radical!
OMG -- I didn't notice it was our own R-348! And he has a point, actually -- The Big Rick of KFOG was a lot less interesting than the BR of his Live 105 heyday (before they made him "shut up and play the music").
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interesting thread on radio-info.com about Big Rick:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=185370.0
love the guy who says he basically couldn't see much difference between BR and his replacement.
yeah, that guy is radical!
OMG -- I didn't notice it was our own R-348! And he has a point, actually -- The Big Rick of KFOG was a lot less interesting than the BR of his Live 105 heyday (before they made him "shut up and play the music").
funny, I really didn't like the Big Rick of Live 105, liked him a lot better at KFOG.
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interesting thread on radio-info.com about Big Rick:
http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=185370.0
love the guy who says he basically couldn't see much difference between BR and his replacement.
lol
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The Bone was giving away Prince tix this afternoon. And, um, how often does the Bone actually PLAY Prince??
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The Bone was giving away Prince tix this afternoon. And, um, how often does the Bone actually PLAY Prince??
Never?
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For those who like their "lite rock" REALLY lite... a station in Miami has burst into the Top Ten, ratings-wise, with a lite-rock format heavy on older stuff like the Carpenters etc (I'm hearing Glen Campbell as I write this). All the stuff that most "Lite" stations have jettisoned in favor of Los Lonely Boys and Rhianna. So it sounds like KOIT did... 15 years ago. Granted, Florida is, er, unique demographicaly with all those retirees, but some folks are surprised at how well the station is doing. "Easy 93.1":
http://streaming.easy93.com/_players/coxradio/index.php?callsign=WHDRFM
OMG: Jackie DeShannon, "What the World Needs Now".
People on radio message boards have been saying for several years now that in markets where there's a dominant "lite" staiton that has made its playlist more upbeat and current, a station that goes "liter than lite" could do well (even tho' it would skew older) -- and I can totally see why this station is doing well in FLA. I feel like I'm at the dentist... in a good way. And here's Anne Murray!
And now Sheena Easton, "For Your Eyes Only". Of course, the songs I've heard this hour may repeat 20 times a week for all I know, but at the moment I'm kinda enjoying this.
ETA: it's always fun until someone gets hurt -- a couple hours of enjoyment climaxes with a HFH, Patrick Swayze, "She's Like Passing Wind". But Ms Ronstadt's Nelson Riddle-period "What's New" makes it all better. adieu!
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Thanks for this - my soft spot for lite-lite grows larger with every passing year.
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Thanks for this - my soft spot for lite-lite grows larger with every passing year.
WARNING: prolonged exposure to this station may cause early-bird dinnering and elderly Jewishness. Oy!
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Thanks for this - my soft spot for lite-lite grows larger with every passing year.
If I had an alley, this station would be right up it. However, much as I like the playlist, the stream fidelity isn't very clear.
Gaz, and other lite-lite fans: if you have itunes, the "Radio" tab has a couple tabs you might dig:
70s Retro and
Golden Oldies
you can always find something good there, with good sounding (128k bit) streams
and one more thing: You kids, GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Thanks for this - my soft spot for lite-lite grows larger with every passing year.
If I had an alley, this station would be right up it. I like the playlist, but the stream fidelity isn't very clear.
well, old people's ears don't really notice the diff. ;)
There are apparently a couple other stations like this in that neck o' the woods; I'll post as I investigate.
ETA: another is "Easy 97.7" in the Baltimore area:
http://www.easy977.com/
They didn't exactly thrill me with Crapton's "Wonderful Tonite" but they instantly got bonus points for Mercy's "Love Can make You Happy"
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re: Lite-Lite:
here's one that might be good:
http://1club.fm/radio-stations/viewgroup/58-70slitehits
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apparently "Channel 92.3" signed off at 1 PM and are now replaced by another alternative format, a DJ-less mix that advertises "SaveAlternative.com".
http://www.savealternative.com/
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apparently "Channel 92.3" signed off at 1 PM and are now replaced by another alternative format, a DJ-less mix that advertises "SaveAlternative.com".
http://www.savealternative.com/
Wonder if the Save KUSF folks know about this? They'd love to take over 92.3. :)
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apparently "Channel 92.3" signed off at 1 PM and are now replaced by another alternative format, a DJ-less mix that advertises "SaveAlternative.com".
http://www.savealternative.com/
And it sounds MUCH better than it did before! :) Like a cross between the pre-sellout (June 2010) Channel 92.3 and KFOG's new music nights. Digging it. Hope it stays.
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I hopped into the car at 9:48am & almost crashed pulling out of the driveway. I'd been listening to 92.3 when I parked the night before (apparently), and so I turn the key & first thing I know I'm right in the middle of Television's 10-minute tour-de-force "Marquee Moon".
HOLEEE SHHHHHIIITTT!!!!!!
that said, I'm really gonna miss Madden. I called in from time to time & he was always really cool to chat with. I guess Tanner, only slightly less cool to talk to, is now on Live 105 head to head with Annalisa.
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I hopped into the car at 9:48am & almost crashed pulling out of the driveway. I'd been listening to 92.3 when I parked the night before (apparently), and so I turn the key & first thing I know I'm right in the middle of Television's 10-minute tour-de-force "Marquee Moon".
HOLEEE SHHHHHIIITTT!!!!!!
sadly, the comapny that owns the station is Principle, whose main business is selling brokered time to ethnic broadcasters, so it's doubtful the current format will last. Enjoy it while ya can!
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I hopped into the car at 9:48am & almost crashed pulling out of the driveway. I'd been listening to 92.3 when I parked the night before (apparently), and so I turn the key & first thing I know I'm right in the middle of Television's 10-minute tour-de-force "Marquee Moon".
HOLEEE SHHHHHIIITTT!!!!!!
OMFG!!!!!! Noooo waaaay!!!
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I hopped into the car at 9:48am & almost crashed pulling out of the driveway. I'd been listening to 92.3 when I parked the night before (apparently), and so I turn the key & first thing I know I'm right in the middle of Television's 10-minute tour-de-force "Marquee Moon".
HOLEEE SHHHHHIIITTT!!!!!!
OMFG!!!!!! Noooo waaaay!!!
noice. I can't get the station from here, a building in downtown SF. Maybe I'll walk around on my lunch hour and see if I can.
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I caught "This is the Day" from The The & "Revenge" from Ministry last night! Now they're playing some of the things that they did yesterday (in the same order, too :-X ). Looking at the yes.com logs, it seems to be in a 22-hour loop, at least for its first two days. Still, could be much worse. I'll still be locked in!
...and now Placebo's remake of "Running Up That Hill" came on. Yeah!!!!!
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apparently "Channel 92.3" signed off at 1 PM and are now replaced by another alternative format, a DJ-less mix that advertises "SaveAlternative.com".
http://www.savealternative.com/
I KNEW I'd learn about it here. Over the weekend I was totally digging the all request format. Guess they had no format, hah! Friday must have been everyones last day! Things didn't sound normal there this morning and on my drive home tonight I could not bear to listen to 92.3. Came here to get the 411. The new 92.3 is not my cuppa joe. They were all over the place at HP last week sponsoring Linkin Park. I have been listening a lot to KISS. Renel in the morning and great old school. A few years back 92.3 went all Spanish and Lamont and Tonelli went to the Bone. The Spanish didn't last long. Will it make a comeback?
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I hopped into the car at 9:48am & almost crashed pulling out of the driveway. I'd been listening to 92.3 when I parked the night before (apparently), and so I turn the key & first thing I know I'm right in the middle of Television's 10-minute tour-de-force "Marquee Moon".
HOLEEE SHHHHHIIITTT!!!!!!
sadly, the comapny that owns the station is Principle, whose main business is selling brokered time to ethnic broadcasters, so it's doubtful the current format will last. Enjoy it while ya can!
as predicted: 92.3 goes "ethnic" today...
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/88664/ksjo-set-to-debut-new-format?ref=mail_recap#
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Their last song was "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. And it went straight into...
a Chinese rock song! :o LMAO! (I think I'm actually digging this!)
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B F-T's latest deals with various internet radio purveyors and apps for your smart phone.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
The one that really caught my attention is DAR.fm, which he describes as "TiVo for radio." Since lately I miss a lot of 10@10s due to scheduling conflicts, I'm all over that.
Or rather I would be if KFOG were on the list of stations they cover. It's not, nor is KFFG, the south bay repeater frequency. Will contact them to see if they can add it and report back.
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B F-T's latest deals with various internet radio purveyors and apps for your smart phone.
http://www.sfgate.com/columns/radiowaves/
The one that really caught my attention is DAR.fm, which he describes as "TiVo for radio." Since lately I miss a lot of 10@10s due to scheduling conflicts, I'm all over that.
Or rather I would be if KFOG were on the list of stations they cover. It's not, nor is KFFG, the south bay repeater frequency. Will contact them to see if they can add it and report back.
Well, I read in the article about Karel leaving Green960 for KGO. I guess he had to do it, he was pretty broke, but Green960 was very supportive. I wonder who will fill that slot. I listen to Stephanie Miller for about 15+ minutes in the morning, and Karel on the way home, up until now.
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Looks like the A's new radio home (at least temporarily) will be 1550 AM, KFRC. So look forward to more pre-emptions of Casey Kasem on Saturdays, I guess.
The A's are trying to buy KTRB 860, which went into receivership last year. But in the meantime they needed a local outlet that is, y'know, actually broadcasting 24/7. So KFRC has... stepped up to the plate.
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Looks like the A's new radio home (at least temporarily) will be 1550 AM, KFRC. So look forward to more pre-emptions of Casey Kasem on Saturdays, I guess.
The A's are trying to buy KTRB 860, which went into receivership last year. But in the meantime they needed a local outlet that is, y'know, actually broadcasting 24/7. So KFRC has... stepped up to the plate.
Well cut off mah legs and call me shorty! Did not see this coming: the A's new flagship station is... 95.7 The Wolf! Yes, the country station whose ratings are in the toilet. Guess team owner Lew Wolff liked their name...
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http://oakland.athletics.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20110331&content_id=17225284&vkey=pr_oak&fext=.jsp&c_id=oak
KFRC carried the Bay Bridge series games this week. But damn, now KTRB is even more worthless than it was before (which was pretty worthless).
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Their last song was "There is a Light that Never Goes Out" by The Smiths. And it went straight into...
a Chinese rock song! :o LMAO! (I think I'm actually digging this!)
I was so bummed. I went into the house about 5:45pm and it was still alternative, and got back into the car at 6:30pm & it was Chinese (which I could mostly understand mind you). Turned it on again with the family in the car on that Saturday so my Taiwanese wife (& chinese-learning kids) could hear it, and it was The. Exact. Same. Song. Some female singer voicing lyrics about 'I love you, but not enough'. Even Christina thought it was crap!
I can barely listen to the radio anymore in the morning outside of 10at10.
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
BTW, in addition to L&M's "Danny's Song" I heard KFOG playing David Essex yesterday morning which has never been in their regular mix before.
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
Layla 24 hours a day?
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
Layla 24 hours a day?
that might get better ratings than what they have now ;)
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
Layla 24 hours a day?
that might get better ratings than what they have now ;)
My gut says they're flipping to something other than classic rock, which didn't take long after KUFX started horning in on things. What they're flipping to, not a clue.
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
Layla 24 hours a day?
that might get better ratings than what they have now ;)
My gut says they're flipping to something other than classic rock, which didn't take long after KUFX started horning in on things. What they're flipping to, not a clue.
Not a flip so much as a segue: They're officially calling themselves "Oldies 103.7"., tho' the website is a bit schizoid, with both logos in various places.
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per a thread on radio-info.com, The Band has tweaked its format and is now "the Bay's Greatest Hits" -- in other words, it's now closer to the old KFRC or 'CBS-FM than K-Fox....
Just tried The Band again after someone on radio-info blurbed them again, and now it seems they're (finally) full-on "Classic Hits". I've heard '60s Motown and other soul (JJ Jacksons' "But It's Alright" was a nice treat) as well as staples like "Rocket man".
per the radio-info SF board, The Band says "listen today at 3pm for an annoucement that will change Bay Area Radio". Er, OK. Any guesses?
Layla 24 hours a day?
that might get better ratings than what they have now ;)
My gut says they're flipping to something other than classic rock, which didn't take long after KUFX started horning in on things. What they're flipping to, not a clue.
Not a flip so much as a segue: They're officially calling themselves "Oldies 103.7"., tho' the website is a bit schizoid, with both logos in various places.
sounds like they're having a senior, er... Oldies moment! BWAHAHHA!
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sounds like they're having a senior, er... Oldies moment! BWAHAHHA!
And -- oxymoron alert! -- they're "the NEW Oldies 103.7". As someone on radio-info asked, "what about OLD oldies?"
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sounds like they're having a senior, er... Oldies moment! BWAHAHHA!
And -- oxymoron alert! -- they're "the NEW Oldies 103.7". As someone on radio-info asked, "what about OLD oldies?"
and here's what they're playing: http://www.oldies1037.com/iplaylist/playlist.html
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sounds like they're having a senior, er... Oldies moment! BWAHAHHA!
And -- oxymoron alert! -- they're "the NEW Oldies 103.7". As someone on radio-info asked, "what about OLD oldies?"
and here's what they're playing: http://www.oldies1037.com/iplaylist/playlist.html
"The Band" didn't last too long.
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sounds like they're having a senior, er... Oldies moment! BWAHAHHA!
And -- oxymoron alert! -- they're "the NEW Oldies 103.7". As someone on radio-info asked, "what about OLD oldies?"
and here's what they're playing: http://www.oldies1037.com/iplaylist/playlist.html
"The Band" didn't last too long.
2 years, believe it or not. (began in May 2009) Time flies!
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Another format change: 95.7 The Wolf (which recently acquired the A's) has dropped country for all-sports
http://www.957thewolf.com/index.php
The "first sports station on FM" in the Bay Area. I see Sharks and A's pics on the website; presumably they'll simulcast the Sharks with K-Fox thru the playoffs and Stanley Cup (if we're lucky) and then take over the games next season? (both stations are owned by Entercom).
ETA: further explanation from the A's Blog on sfgate...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/athletics/detail?entry_id=87148&tsp=1
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Another big surprise in Bay area radio Arbitron ratings: KQED is now #1 in the April book, ahead of KCBS, KOIT, KNBQ and KMVQ. And former perennial kingpin KGO isn't even in the top 5. (They're tied for #6 with KYLD.)
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Ben Fong-Torres gives Big Rick a big wet kiss:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/27/PKVJ1JHVIN.DTL&type=entertainment
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wait... there's a "SF Mixtape Society"? Why wasn't I informed??
http://www.7x7.com/music-nightlife/sf-mixtape-society-meet-makeout-room-weekend
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This year, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has listed 91 (!) nominees in seven categories. Voters are asked to select one for each category, although more than one may be inducted. Nominees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/12/PK5F1JNFBA.DTL&ao=all
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This year, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has listed 91 (!) nominees in seven categories. Voters are asked to select one for each category, although more than one may be inducted. Nominees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/12/PK5F1JNFBA.DTL&ao=all
Go Rosalie! vote early and often!
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This year, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has listed 91 (!) nominees in seven categories. Voters are asked to select one for each category, although more than one may be inducted. Nominees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/12/PK5F1JNFBA.DTL&ao=all
Go Rosalie! vote early and often!
I'm down for Rosalie, but a little surprised that Kim Wonderley is also nommed, in the Specialty division for KCBS traffic.
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This year, the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame has listed 91 (!) nominees in seven categories. Voters are asked to select one for each category, although more than one may be inducted. Nominees:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/12/PK5F1JNFBA.DTL&ao=all
Go Rosalie! vote early and often!
I'm down for Rosalie, but a little surprised that Kim Wonderley is also nommed, in the Specialty division for KCBS traffic.
I'm thinking anyone who's worked X-number-of-years in SF automatically gets on the ballot? I still remember when Kim abruptly left KFOG in a huff, setting the stage for Renee's big break.
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heading over to get an oilchange this morning I inadvertantly flipped over to Kevin & Bean on Live 105 (I mean, I hated those guys when the were on KROQ, and I certainly didn't hear them that much even then).
Anyhooo...they were conducting a phone interview with some female person who had set the Guinness World Record for receiving three thousand two hundred and some body piercings.
Maybe that idiot in Oakland is right, the world really IS coming to an end.
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Marshall Crenshaw has a radio show --he's heard on WFUV Sat nites right after Scelsa
http://power-pop.tumblr.com/post/6315535646
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latest chapter in the KTRB-AM 860 saga: the onetime A's flagship will become the home of ESPN Deportes on Friday
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2011/06/flash-espn-deportes-to-take-over-ktrb.html
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Although my dislike of Alan Sniffen is well-documented, his "Rewound Radio" website is doing a salute to legendary WABC jock Dan Ingram on 4th of July weekend. It's keyed to the 50th anniv of Dan's debut on WABC in 1961. For those non-NYers and younger folks who've heard me and urth reference Dan over the years, it's a chance for you to hear unedited airchecks of his stuff -- all the original songs and commercials and of course his many hilarious bits of shtick.
http://www.musicradio77.com/wwwboard/messages/383996.html
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Those who listen to AT40 on KFRC 1550-AM might want to stay tuned for the rest of the day; True Oldies Channel is doing a "2-Hit Wonder Weekend", acts that just had 2 hits (Climax Blues Band, for one example).
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Those who listen to AT40 on KFRC 1550-AM might want to stay tuned for the rest of the day; True Oldies Channel is doing a "2-Hit Wonder Weekend", acts that just had 2 hits (Climax Blues Band, for one example).
First band that comes to mind is Nekkid Eyes, though I don't know if they quite classify as true oldies. (Even though it's been, what, almost 30 years!) Yoicks.
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Laurie Roberts joins BR at KFOX
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F07%2F21%2FPKO11KA026.DTL
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Laurie Roberts joins BR at KFOX
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F07%2F21%2FPKO11KA026.DTL
so they're running Ben's columns on Thursdays now? nothing about the new improved KFOG in there. ;)
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Laurie Roberts joins BR at KFOX
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F07%2F21%2FPKO11KA026.DTL
so they're running Ben's columns on Thursdays now? nothing about the new improved KFOG in there. ;)
Some Sunday Pink stories show up early -- like this one -- it will move along and live forever as a Sunday eventually.
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SportsRadio 95.7 -- after just a few months on the air -- gets a new name: The Game. Whatevs.
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For those with Sirius/XM: all disco all the time on the new Studio 54 Channel:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/got-to-boogie-on-the-disco-round-studio-54-radio-on-siriusxm/?hp
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For those with Sirius/XM: all disco all the time on the new Studio 54 Channel:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/got-to-boogie-on-the-disco-round-studio-54-radio-on-siriusxm/?hp
ooohhh ohhhh. I feel the need to run out to my car to check it out.
BRB.
eta: Not there yet. Coming Aug 15 to channel 15. Can hardly wait. I have really been enjoying the XM in the car.
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Big heads-up for next Monday nite: Jim Rigsbee, KPOO's oldies guy, will be doing a all-Philles Records show, as in the Spector stuff. Ronettes, Crystals etc etc. he'll be playing most of the singles in chronological order. Should be awesome.
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LSi9dCjKKwM/SgSKTaDPyXI/AAAAAAAAAbE/3VGpB5Jzpgo/s1600/ronettes_2.jpg)
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"Jack Johnson is the Jimmy Buffett of today...without the sense of humor." Sez Big Rick. Hahaha
There's also a couple of subtle KFOG disses in his interview. Interesting read.
http://www.themonthly.com/kilduff1108.html
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"Jack Johnson is the Jimmy Buffett of today...without the sense of humor." Sez Big Rick. Hahaha
There's also a couple of subtle KFOG disses in his interview. Interesting read.
http://www.themonthly.com/kilduff1108.html
there's also a podcast you can listen to.
The interviewer is Paul Kilduff, whose father (Marshall Kilduff) works at the Chronicle, writing for the Op-Ed page.
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"Jack Johnson is the Jimmy Buffett of today...without the sense of humor." Sez Big Rick. Hahaha
There's also a couple of subtle KFOG disses in his interview. Interesting read.
http://www.themonthly.com/kilduff1108.html
there's also a podcast you can listen to.
The interviewer is Paul Kilduff, whose father (Marshall Kilduff) works at the Chronicle, writing for the Op-Ed page.
"KFOG, where they claim to play a mix of new and old rock. (One caveat: the new stuff must sound exactly like the old stuff.)" Word!
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"Jack Johnson is the Jimmy Buffett of today...without the sense of humor." Sez Big Rick. Hahaha
There's also a couple of subtle KFOG disses in his interview. Interesting read.
http://www.themonthly.com/kilduff1108.html
there's also a podcast you can listen to.
The interviewer is Paul Kilduff, whose father (Marshall Kilduff) works at the Chronicle, writing for the Op-Ed page.
"KFOG, where they claim to play a mix of new and old rock. (One caveat: the new stuff must sound exactly like the old stuff.)" Word!
This must have been written before DC's shift in format was enacted last month. Either that or PK isn't paying much attention.
Also: I would submit that Robert Earl Keen is the alt-country Jimmy Buffett. And a fair number of his fans are alt-country parrotheads.
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"Jack Johnson is the Jimmy Buffett of today...without the sense of humor." Sez Big Rick. Hahaha
There's also a couple of subtle KFOG disses in his interview. Interesting read.
http://www.themonthly.com/kilduff1108.html
there's also a podcast you can listen to.
The interviewer is Paul Kilduff, whose father (Marshall Kilduff) works at the Chronicle, writing for the Op-Ed page.
update: Paul is NOT the son of Marshall. Just wanted to set the record straight.
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Just happened to tune past Live 105 and they're doing a "Nuthin' But the '90s" weekend. Hrm... is somebody feeling the "new" KFOG breathing down their neck, perhaps? Heard "Semi-Charmed Life" and "Beautiful Oblivion" in the few minutes I listened.
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Big heads-up for next Monday nite: Jim Rigsbee, KPOO's oldies guy, will be doing a all-Philles Records show, as in the Spector stuff. Ronettes, Crystals etc etc. he'll be playing most of the singles in chronological order. Should be awesome.
Just a reminder that this show starts in 15 minutes. And I'm betting next week will be a Jerry Lieber-Nick Ashford tribute.
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Big heads-up for next Monday nite: Jim Rigsbee, KPOO's oldies guy, will be doing a all-Philles Records show, as in the Spector stuff. Ronettes, Crystals etc etc. he'll be playing most of the singles in chronological order. Should be awesome.
Just a reminder that this show starts in 15 minutes. And I'm betting next week will be a Jerry Lieber-Nick Ashford tribute.
Listening! Thanks for the reminder. Workin' the beehive and eyelinah! ;)
ETA: So good! He's a Rebel, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, etc. Damn, is somebody recording this?
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Big heads-up for next Monday nite: Jim Rigsbee, KPOO's oldies guy, will be doing a all-Philles Records show, as in the Spector stuff. Ronettes, Crystals etc etc. he'll be playing most of the singles in chronological order. Should be awesome.
Just a reminder that this show starts in 15 minutes. And I'm betting next week will be a Jerry Lieber-Nick Ashford tribute.
Listening! Thanks for the reminder. Workin' the beehive and eyelinah! ;)
ETA: So good! He's a Rebel, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, etc. Damn, is somebody recording this?
Sadly, their signal is too crappy to record off-the-air, tho' it's perfectly listenable. Bet "He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)" shows up in that Al Pacino-as-Phil Spector HBO movie.
Wow, this version of "Chapel of Love" (Crystals? Blossoms?) is NTM.
ah, the oft-covered "And Then He/She Kissed Me". I even like the KISS version.
Ha! I was just about to comment that a lot of these sax solos show up again (almost verbatim) on the Spector Xmas LP -- and up pops Darlene Love's "Johnny (Baby Please Come Home)" which was indeed repurposed as "Christmas (Baby Please...)"
And here's the Crystals' "Little Boy", which Mink DeVille covered as "Little Girl". This is truly one swoonworthy 45 after another. Here's the Philles Records discography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philles_Records#Singles_discography
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Big heads-up for next Monday nite: Jim Rigsbee, KPOO's oldies guy, will be doing a all-Philles Records show, as in the Spector stuff. Ronettes, Crystals etc etc. he'll be playing most of the singles in chronological order. Should be awesome.
Just a reminder that this show starts in 15 minutes. And I'm betting next week will be a Jerry Lieber-Nick Ashford tribute.
Listening! Thanks for the reminder. Workin' the beehive and eyelinah! ;)
ETA: So good! He's a Rebel, Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, etc. Damn, is somebody recording this?
Sadly, their signal is too crappy to record off-the-air, tho' it's perfectly listenable. Bet "He Hit Me (And it Felt Like a Kiss)" shows up in that Al Pacino-as-Phil Spector HBO movie.
Wow, this version of "Chapel of Love" (Crystals? Blossoms?) is NTM.
ah, the oft-covered "And Then He/She Kissed Me". I even like the KISS version.
Ha! I was just about to comment that a lot of these sax solos show up again (almost verbatim) on the Spector Xmas LP -- and up pops Darlene Love's "Johnny (Baby Please Come Home)" which was indeed repurposed as "Christmas (Baby Please...)"
And here's the Crystals' "Little Boy", which Mink DeVille covered as "Little Girl". This is truly one swoonworthy 45 after another. Here's the Philles Records discography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philles_Records#Singles_discography
Box set!!
http://www.amazon.com/Spector-Presents-Philles-Album-Collection/dp/tracks/B005BSCQPI/ref=dp_tracks_all_full#disc_1
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I'm not exactly sure when this will be available, but it's certainly right up my alley:
http://www.live-jive.org/LIVE_JIVE/SAMPLE_-_LIVE_JIVE_CD.html
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I joked the other day about "if you wanna hear 'Hey Jude', just turn on Oldies 103.7 and wait 10 minutes..." Well, I got in the car yesterday afternoon, turned on the radio and ... you guessed it!
In other news, 92.7 The Rev has discovered "Pumped-Up Kicks", so now in addition to KFOG, I'm hearing it endlessly at the gym (along with "Rolling in the Goddamn Deep").
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Went to the burrito place down the street, and for years they've been playing the same mariachi cassette over and over. But they splurged for a new boombox and as I walked in they were jammin' Expose, "Point of No Return"! HAAAAAAAY!
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Went to the burrito place down the street, and for years they've been playing the same mariachi cassette over and over. But they splurged for a new boombox and as I walked in they were jammin' Expose, "Point of No Return"! HAAAAAAAY!
((Haaaaaay!!!)) ;D
Man, the Latins sure still love them some Expose! I listened to this many a time whilst Aqua Netting my skyhigh hairdo in la Mission.
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dunno how I missed this, but Madden (formerly of Live 105) is now the PD at The Bone -- he's been there (and doing afternoons) since June!
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dunno how I missed this, but Madden (formerly of Live 105) is now the PD at The Bone -- he's been there (and doing afternoons) since June!
He was also PD at Channel for their last year (CC hired him to sell them out before fading off into obscurity.)
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It's AAA sampler season again and the first release is out: KINK Live 14. The tracklisting, sadly (but unsurprisingly) sucks:
http://www.kink.fm/pages/kl14
It was much better when DC was in charge, so hopefully that means KFOG's LFTA will rock this year for the first time in at least three years. My guess is Amos Lee, Matt Nathanson, Head/Heart, Iron/Wine, Scars on 45, Foster the People and Fitz/Tantrums are going to be on at least half of this year's compilations. Edward Sharpe, the Avett Bros, and that Sarah McLesbian song are already on too many previous compilations. Love the Cockburn song but that's already made a few other appearances in the past. The only thing worthwhile on that CD looks like Black Dub. I might just pass this one by (which would end my streak of KINK Live's as I have 1-13).
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dunno how I missed this, but Madden (formerly of Live 105) is now the PD at The Bone -- he's been there (and doing afternoons) since June!
He was also PD at Channel for their last year (CC hired him to sell them out before fading off into obscurity.)
Someone on radio-info was complaining that he was saying "Live 105" by mistake on the Bone -- multiple times. But I can't imagine he'd still be doing that 3 months after taking over as PD!
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dunno how I missed this, but Madden (formerly of Live 105) is now the PD at The Bone -- he's been there (and doing afternoons) since June!
He was also PD at Channel for their last year (CC hired him to sell them out before fading off into obscurity.)
Someone on radio-info was complaining that he was saying "Live 105" by mistake on the Bone -- multiple times. But I can't imagine he'd still be doing that 3 months after taking over as PD!
That's odd. I don't think he would either since more recently at Channel he never said it (as far as I know.) I think people are just mad that he's been making it more Alt. leaning lately. I do know when he first went over, there were a lot of complaints on their FB page, some calling it "Live 107.7".
Speaking of, Live 105 has improved drastically these past few weeks too. They've added a lot more variety other than the same RedHotFooStoneTempleFighterPilotsAgainsttheNiranaMachine songs all day, started playing current (meaning not two year old like their previous definition of "current") & made their 90s weekends permanent. They're also playing a lot of obscure-ish songs during their 90s weekends (i.e. Material Issue, Primitives, Dino Jr, School of Fish, etc) & even throwing in songs like "Holiday in Cambodia" during regular programming. They must have gotten a swift kick in the @$$ from the new KFOG.
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Damn, Big Rick must hate KFOG with a passion: It seems every other day he posts stuff on FB like "It's a Coldplay-free day on KFOX show". Today it's an "Adele-free Friday". Bitter, much?
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Damn, Big Rick must hate KFOG with a passion: It seems every other day he posts stuff on FB like "It's a Coldplay-free day on KFOX show". Today it's an "Adele-free Friday". Bitter, much?
Snarkiness is transferable, I guess. When he was on Live 105 he made fun of people who listened to dinosaur Classic Rock; now he's on a dinosaur Classic Rock station so he had to switch targets. I mean, an "Adele-free Friday" sounds great to me but not if you're just replacing her with Skynyrd.
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Damn, Big Rick must hate KFOG with a passion: It seems every other day he posts stuff on FB like "It's a Coldplay-free day on KFOX show". Today it's an "Adele-free Friday". Bitter, much?
Snarkiness is transferable, I guess. When he was on Live 105 he made fun of people who listened to dinosaur Classic Rock; now he's on a dinosaur Classic Rock station so he had to switch targets. I mean, an "Adele-free Friday" sounds great to me but not if you're just replacing her with Skynyrd.
Funny, that's why I liked him better on KFOG. He was too snarky for my milquetoast tastes on Live 105. He seemed more comfortable at KFOG. I guess now he's just bitter.
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Speaking of, Live 105 has improved drastically these past few weeks too. They've added a lot more variety other than the same RedHotFooStoneTempleFighterPilotsAgainsttheNiranaMachine songs all day, started playing current (meaning not two year old like their previous definition of "current") & made their 90s weekends permanent.
Spoke too soon; they just did away with their 90s weekends this week.
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Last year I stopped listening to Little Steven on Sunday nites -- The Bone was consistently screwing up the show (playing segments in the wrong order, or leaving segments out, or playing last weeks show...) and it was preferable to catch up with him on his website during the week. And i discovered the Autumn King's wonderful Sun nite oldies show on KPOO.
Autumn King was off last nite (first weekend of Autumn ... coincidence?) and I listened to The Bone. They didn't screw up Steven, but it was interesting hearing them a year-and-a-half later and finding they're still using the same "KSAN Underground Radio" sounders they've been using on Sunday nites for the past 8 years. And Joel Selvin's show is still on too -- last nite he played a vintage Otis Redding "live at the Whiskey a-Go-Go" tape from 1966. Nice to see some things never change; consider the several different line-ups KFOG has had in that timeslot in the last decade.
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Last year I stopped listening to Little Steven on Sunday nites -- The Bone was consistently screwing up the show (playing segments in the wrong order, or leaving segments out, or playing last weeks show...) and it was preferable to catch up with him on his website during the week. And i discovered the Autumn King's wonderful Sun nite oldies show on KPOO.
Autumn King was off last nite (first weekend of Autumn ... coincidence?) and I listened to The Bone. They didn't screw up Steven, but it was interesting hearing them a year-and-a-half later and finding they're still using the same "KSAN Underground Radio" sounders they've been using on Sunday nites for the past 8 years. And Joel Selvin's show is still on too -- last nite he played a vintage Otis Redding "live at the Whiskey a-Go-Go" tape from 1966. Nice to see some things never change; consider the several different line-ups KFOG has had in that timeslot in the last decade.
Does DC have any responsibility over the Bone as well as KFOG? If he does, I'd guess that the only reason changes haven't been made to Sunday nights there is that it's a ratings ghost town during that daypart and not worth his time to mess with--yet. Or maybe those shows are actually pulling numbers he considers acceptable for that slot.
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Last year I stopped listening to Little Steven on Sunday nites -- The Bone was consistently screwing up the show (playing segments in the wrong order, or leaving segments out, or playing last weeks show...) and it was preferable to catch up with him on his website during the week. And i discovered the Autumn King's wonderful Sun nite oldies show on KPOO.
Autumn King was off last nite (first weekend of Autumn ... coincidence?) and I listened to The Bone. They didn't screw up Steven, but it was interesting hearing them a year-and-a-half later and finding they're still using the same "KSAN Underground Radio" sounders they've been using on Sunday nites for the past 8 years. And Joel Selvin's show is still on too -- last nite he played a vintage Otis Redding "live at the Whiskey a-Go-Go" tape from 1966. Nice to see some things never change; consider the several different line-ups KFOG has had in that timeslot in the last decade.
Does DC have any responsibility over the Bone as well as KFOG? If he does, I'd guess that the only reason changes haven't been made to Sunday nights there is that it's a ratings ghost town during that daypart and not worth his time to mess with--yet. Or maybe those shows are actually pulling numbers he considers acceptable for that slot.
DC has supervisory capacity over The Bone; Madden (formerly of Live 105 and Channel 92.3) is the actual PD. I have to assume Little Steven does OK, since they've kept him all this time (and if they dumped him I'm sure K-Fox would snap him up). KFOG meanwhile, in the 9pm slot has had House o'Blues (now at midnite), that jamband/"groove" show whose name I can't recall, the Sideshow, and now the British dude. Have I forgotten anything?
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Last year I stopped listening to Little Steven on Sunday nites -- The Bone was consistently screwing up the show (playing segments in the wrong order, or leaving segments out, or playing last weeks show...) and it was preferable to catch up with him on his website during the week. And i discovered the Autumn King's wonderful Sun nite oldies show on KPOO.
Autumn King was off last nite (first weekend of Autumn ... coincidence?) and I listened to The Bone. They didn't screw up Steven, but it was interesting hearing them a year-and-a-half later and finding they're still using the same "KSAN Underground Radio" sounders they've been using on Sunday nites for the past 8 years. And Joel Selvin's show is still on too -- last nite he played a vintage Otis Redding "live at the Whiskey a-Go-Go" tape from 1966. Nice to see some things never change; consider the several different line-ups KFOG has had in that timeslot in the last decade.
Does DC have any responsibility over the Bone as well as KFOG? If he does, I'd guess that the only reason changes haven't been made to Sunday nights there is that it's a ratings ghost town during that daypart and not worth his time to mess with--yet. Or maybe those shows are actually pulling numbers he considers acceptable for that slot.
DC has supervisory capacity over The Bone; Madden (formerly of Live 105 and Channel 92.3) is the actual PD. I have to assume Little Steven does OK, since they've kept him all this time (and if they dumped him I'm sure K-Fox would snap him up). KFOG meanwhile, in the 9pm slot has had House o'Blues (now at midnite), that jamband/"groove" show whose name I can't recall, the Sideshow, and now the British dude. Have I forgotten anything?
The "jamband/groove show" was the one Mike Powers hosted for years, yes? I don't recall what he called it either.
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So the Sound is doing an entire weekend of "Connected"-type sets -- they're looking for suggestions in a shitload of categories and will play the 5-song sets starting Friday afternoon...
http://thesoundla.com/?sid=3759&nid=55
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So the Sound is doing an entire weekend of "Connected"-type sets -- they're looking for suggestions in a shitload of categories and will play the 5-song sets starting Friday afternoon...
http://thesoundla.com/?sid=3759&nid=55
great idea!
I like this category: "Rush Songs That Aren't Played Enough"
uh.. ALL of them!
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KNBR's Ralph Barbieri reveals his "secret": he has Parkinsons.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/05/SPT01LDDVS.DTL
For years I thought his "secret" was that he was gay. And apparently he's straight, but that whole surrogate-mother thing struck me as really odd at the time.
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I know that syndicated radio, where a celeb (like John Tesh) is made to sound like he's doing a show on KRAP in Bumfuck, Iowa, is generally bad, but I'm listening to the Donny Osmond show on CKRU, and jeezus talk about a disembodied voice reading OBVIOUS liners (repeated multiple times an hour) and seeming shoehorned-in... gawd this is even worse than I expected it to be.
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So the Sound is doing an entire weekend of "Connected"-type sets -- they're looking for suggestions in a shitload of categories and will play the 5-song sets starting Friday afternoon...
http://thesoundla.com/?sid=3759&nid=55
great idea!
I like this category: "Rush Songs That Aren't Played Enough"
uh.. ALL of them!
Noooooooooooo. Please Nooooooooooo.
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In the car for Saturday errands, doin' the ol' BB&B/Trader Joe's 2-step. And I turn on Oldies 103.7 and get "Sweet Home Ala-bummer". I let out a blood-curdling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" and hit The Bone... they're playing "Killer Queen". Yeesh. Then I hit Live 105 and got U2 -- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", what, are they doing an '80s weekend? Nope, it's followed by RHCPs, tick-tock they want to rock me like the '80s. Ugh.
Glad I'm home, streaming Magic 98 for a bit.
ETA: it's 81 degrees in Madison, WI at 5:40 pm on Oct 8th? Ah, but there's no such thing as climate change.
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In the car for Saturday errands, doin' the ol' BB&B/Trader Joe's 2-step. And I turn on Oldies 103.7 and get "Sweet Home Ala-bummer". I let out a blood-curdling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" and hit The Bone... they're playing "Killer Queen". Yeesh. Then I hit Live 105 and got U2 -- "Sunday Bloody Sunday", what, are they doing an '80s weekend? Nope, it's followed by RHCPs, tick-tock they want to rock me like the '80s. Ugh.
Glad I'm home, streaming Magic 98 for a bit.
RHCP worst of the lot, IMO.
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Driving home from SJ last nite, still too far away to pick up KPOO and I hit 98.1 Kiss -- they were doing "Saturday Night Disco" -- is this a new thing? how long have they been doing that? It was every overplayed standard-issue disco hit you've heard a million times (BeeGees, Ohio Players, etc), at least in the 45 mins I listened. God forbid they should play a lost club hit or 3.
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Driving home from SJ last nite, still too far away to pick up KPOO and I hit 98.1 Kiss -- they were doing "Saturday Night Disco" -- is this a new thing? how long have they been doing that? It was every overplayed standard-issue disco hit you've heard a million times (BeeGees, Ohio Players, etc), at least in the 45 mins I listened. God forbid they should play a lost club hit or 3.
Christ, is everyone dumbing down their playlists for maximum recognition? DC and his lot are everywhere.
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I don't know anything about Harmon Leon's stand-up act (tho' the commenters on his blog are pretty unkind) but this entry, talking abbout being interviewed on a horriffic "Morning Zoo" radio show in Atlanta, is pretty dead-on.
http://blog.sfgate.com/hleon/2011/10/18/the-worst-morning-radio-show-in-america-project-9-6-1-atlanta/
Reminded me of the awful radio show that Stan woke up to on South Park recently...
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Well, Ralph Barbieri may have Parkinsons, but he's also kind of a dick, per Ben Fong-Torres' run-down of the Radio HOF ceremonies:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/30/PKK51LJLRQ.DTL
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Well, Ralph Barbieri may have Parkinsons, but he's also kind of a dick, per Ben Fong-Torres' run-down of the Radio HOF ceremonies:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/30/PKK51LJLRQ.DTL
Well, he was a dick long before he had Parkinsons, so I can't imagine having a disease would change that. At least not in his case.
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A few more AAA live sampler CDs tracklistings are out. Sadly, a lot of the usual suspects (Mat Kearney, Scars on 45, Iron & Wine, etc) make repeat appearances.
Cities 97 (Minneapolis):
http://www.cities97.com/pages/Cities97SamplerVolume23.html
This one has a few of the bands' "other" tracks (i.e. "Don't Gotta Work It Out" by Fitz/Tantrums, "Poison & Wine" by Civil Wars, "Only the Wine" by David Gray) & I'm excited to see Lissie on here, but there still a lot of repeats. But $25.97?!?!?!? I understand they're trying to discourage the "black market" but...wow. They're making a limited # of these available online, but I think I'll pass, especially since it comes out to ~$33 with shipping.
103.7 The Mountain (Seattle):
http://www.1037themountain.com/pages/11327385.php
Also mostly underwhelming. Of note: at least the Sarah McLesbian track (Adia) is one that to my knowledge has not appeared on previous AAA samplers (or at least not very many times; otoh "Angel" has about 10 appearances between them all.) That and the Bob Schneider & Burned tracks may make it worth it, since it's literally half the cost of Cities 97's.
So far, all of this years' are disappointing. It hasn't been this bland and/or overlapping since the 2004 series. Maybe KBCO's will be better...they usually do a pretty good job. I wonder what the future of these is going to be. The proceeds to go charity but aside from the CDs from the Borders going out of business sale these are my only CD purchases this year & I can't imagine that the already dying-out hype of these is something that would translate too well to digital downloads (i.e. are people going to look forward every year to making an online donation and downloading a set of live tracks from the station's website? Especially since you can already stream many of their performances for free?)
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Just heard on Oldies 103.7, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" followed by "Love Shack". Jarring.
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Just heard on Oldies 103.7, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" followed by "Love Shack". Jarring.
no wonder her tin roof rusted!
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Just heard on Oldies 103.7, "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" followed by "Love Shack". Jarring.
no wonder her tin roof rusted!
You were missed today! LOL!
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nice piece about the death of rock radio by a Chicago DJ:
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/11/alternative_rock_radio_the_sad_unwarranted_decline_of_fm_rock_stations_.single.html
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NYC's 98.7 Kiss-FM, one of those "Old School and today's R&B" station (what SF's Kiss-FM was like before they went all-Old School) has finally begun streaming after years of refusing to do so for reasons never explained
http://www.987kissfm.com/kissguide/
What's good about this is: now West Coasters can finally hear Felix Hernandez's "Rhythm Revue" oldies show on Sundays from 9a-3p Pacific time. He's pretty wonderful and will be a welcome choice on Sundays when Casey's '80s chart is particularly lackluster.
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NYC's 98.7 Kiss-FM, one of those "Old School and today's R&B" station (what SF's Kiss-FM was like before they went all-Old School) has finally begun streaming after years of refusing to do so for reasons never explained
http://www.987kissfm.com/kissguide/
What's good about this is: now West Coasters can finally hear Felix Hernandez's "Rhythm Revue" oldies show on Sundays from 9a-3p Pacific time. He's pretty wonderful and will be a welcome choice on Sundays when Casey's '80s chart is particularly lackluster.
Any idea how many stations use "Kiss" as their on-air moniker regardess of their actual call letters? More than a few, safe to say.
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NYC's 98.7 Kiss-FM, one of those "Old School and today's R&B" station (what SF's Kiss-FM was like before they went all-Old School) has finally begun streaming after years of refusing to do so for reasons never explained
http://www.987kissfm.com/kissguide/
What's good about this is: now West Coasters can finally hear Felix Hernandez's "Rhythm Revue" oldies show on Sundays from 9a-3p Pacific time. He's pretty wonderful and will be a welcome choice on Sundays when Casey's '80s chart is particularly lackluster.
Any idea how many stations use "Kiss" as their on-air moniker regardess of their actual call letters? More than a few, safe to say.
yeah it was one of the early radio station "names" -- and the one in NYC was the first, I think, dating back to '80 or '81. And it remains one of the most popular.
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FYI, from 3 to 5:30 on KPOO today, Johnny Brooklyn is doing his annual festival of food songs. Pass the savoy truffles, mah man.
NTM: Jerry Lee Lewis, "Milkshake Mademoiselle" (!)
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This weekend WFNX/Boston (streaming at www.wfnx.com or on iTunes Radio under "alternative") is doing a flashback weekend. Real good stuff so far. This station must have been where AL got a lot of her inspiration from...I'm hearing a lot of songs from her sets in here. The past three have been Heaven 17 - "Let Me Go", X - "Blue Spark", and Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm an Adult Now".
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Ben Fong-Torres column from Sunday, 11/27/11:
What a DJ does when radio jobs disappear
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/27/PKQM1M00Q8.DTL&ao=all
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Big Rick posted this on his FB page and asked, "I wonder if a finch will fly in the front door?"
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Big Rick posted this on his FB page and asked, "I wonder if a finch will fly in the front door?"
Yeah, I'm guessing that was the "opportunity" he hinted at
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Big Rick posted this on his FB page and asked, "I wonder if a finch will fly in the front door?"
Yeah, I'm guessing that was the "opportunity" he hinted at
The Finch just FB'd that he will be at KGO on Monday.
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Also out at KGO - Bill Wattenburg, Len Tillam, Joannie Greggins, John Rothmann, Lloyd Lindsay-Young.
The inside story of the bloodbath at KGO: http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Big Rick posted this on his FB page and asked, "I wonder if a finch will fly in the front door?"
Yeah, I'm guessing that was the "opportunity" he hinted at
The Finch just FB'd that he will be at KGO on Monday.
Evening news anchor, 7pm to midnight. Wow, his circadian rhythm is going to be double-clutching for awhile to adjust to that, after doing early am shifts for 14 years up until just over a week ago.
Oh, and Peter's pic has now been excised from the KFOG staff page. Renee is still shown between Webster and Irish Greg, implying that she's still part of the morning show--is that the case or is she now strictly on afternoons with DC? Not sure based on previous comments here.
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Big news: KGO fires Burns, Taliafero, Gil Gross... they'll be "all-news" from 2pm-midnite starting next week. Cumulus strikes again.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/01/MNMM1M7B9E.DTL&tsp=1
Also out at KGO - Bill Wattenburg, Len Tillam, Joannie Greggins, John Rothmann, Lloyd Lindsay-Young.
The inside story of the bloodbath at KGO: http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/
Nice, not so nice. Was Peter tapped for KGO prior to departing KFOG and knew what was going to go down? He'll be back at 55 Hawthorne if he lasts a few months.
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Oh, and Peter's pic has now been excised from the KFOG staff page. Renee is still shown between Webster and Irish Greg, implying that she's still part of the morning show--is that the case or is she now strictly on afternoons with DC? Not sure based on previous comments here.
It's unclear -- she was not on in mornings this week (but was on with DC in the PM). But the "auditioner" for Peter's job this week was a woman (Jen Lee from Metro Traffic) so maybe they didn't want 2 female voices on at once.
And yes, Ali, Peter made comments about "an amazing opportunity" that he wasn't at liberty to etc etc, so I think he knew he was going to KGO.
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And yes, Ali, Peter made comments about "an amazing opportunity" that he wasn't at liberty to etc etc, so I think he knew he was going to KGO.
Now that we know where he's going, it would almost have to be previously arranged. The timing is too perfect--for him to leave a job at a major market station and two weeks later start at another station with the same ownership in the same market is beyond coincidental.
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Spent time in the car yeasterday listening to Kiss-FM -- very enjoyable and quite a few surprises like Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison", one of Shannon's *other* hits, "Give Me Tonight" (!) and interesting token white folks like Spandau Ballet.
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Spent time in the car yeasterday listening to Kiss-FM -- very enjoyable and quite a few surprises like Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison", one of Shannon's *other* hits, "Give Me Tonight" (!) and interesting token white folks like Spandau Ballet.
I listen to Renel every weekday morning. No more KFOG for me.
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Spent time in the car yeasterday listening to Kiss-FM -- very enjoyable and quite a few surprises like Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison", one of Shannon's *other* hits, "Give Me Tonight" (!) and interesting token white folks like Spandau Ballet.
I listen to Renel every weekday morning. No more KFOG for me.
I'm not a big Renel fan and Kiss is as repetitive as any other station if you listen often. I may switch to Oldies 103.7 in Jan when Don Bleu moves over there -- hope they give him a decent newsperson.
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Spent time in the car yeasterday listening to Kiss-FM -- very enjoyable and quite a few surprises like Bell Biv Devoe's "Poison", one of Shannon's *other* hits, "Give Me Tonight" (!) and interesting token white folks like Spandau Ballet.
I listen to Renel every weekday morning. No more KFOG for me.
I'm not a big Renel fan and Kiss is as repetitive as any other station if you listen often. I may switch to Oldies 103.7 in Jan when Don Bleu moves over there -- hope they give him a decent newsperson.
I'm all over the dial in the mornings, but usually make extended stops at KQED and/or KALW to make me feel like I'm keeping on top of something newsworthy. I like the music on 98.1, but I'm not a big fan of Renel on the air either. And I can't change the station fast enough when they do that celebrity gossip bit. That makes my head explode, form and content both.
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switched on KGO last nite around 8:45 just to hear what Peter Finch sounded like. He introduced a sports report that wasn't there (oops!) and then went to a "Music Report" featuring "my friends Renee and Dennis from our sister station KFOG" ::)
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switched on KGO last nite around 8:45 just to hear what Peter Finch sounded like. He introduced a sports report that wasn't there (oops!) and then went to a "Music Report" featuring "my friends Renee and Dennis from our sister station KFOG" ::)
I did the same around 10:15--and he wasn't there. I thought he was doing 7 to midnight, but just listened to an interview he did on Channel 7 yesterday and he said his hours are 7 to 10. That seems to be a change--last week he def. said midnight was when his shift ended. Or maybe they're breaking him in slowly to the evening shift.
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Really shitty news:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/99558/clear-channel-san-francisco-shuffles-talk-station-
Cause what we need is more Glenn Beck & Armstrong/Getty >:(
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Really shitty news:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/99558/clear-channel-san-francisco-shuffles-talk-station-
Cause what we need is more Glenn Beck & Armstrong/Getty >:(
I've posted this link on a couple of fb host pages (Stephanie Miller, Norm Goldman) I can't believe there's no market for progressive radio in SF! If anyone hears anything, let me know.
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Really shitty news:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/99558/clear-channel-san-francisco-shuffles-talk-station-
Cause what we need is more Glenn Beck & Armstrong/Getty >:(
I've posted this link on a couple of fb host pages (Stephanie Miller, Norm Goldman) I can't believe there's no market for progressive radio in SF! If anyone hears anything, let me know.
according to Gil Gross (a swell guy; I worked with him at ABC in the '80s), who I'm FB-friends with, there are "irons in the fire" or whatever and left-of-center talk radio may rise phoenix-like in the Bay Area sooner than later.
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Really shitty news:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/99558/clear-channel-san-francisco-shuffles-talk-station-
Cause what we need is more Glenn Beck & Armstrong/Getty >:(
I've posted this link on a couple of fb host pages (Stephanie Miller, Norm Goldman) I can't believe there's no market for progressive radio in SF! If anyone hears anything, let me know.
according to Gil Gross (a swell guy; I worked with him at ABC in the '80s), who I'm FB-friends with, there are "irons in the fire" or whatever and left-of-center talk radio may rise phoenix-like in the Bay Area sooner than later.
I hope you and Gil are correct (as opposed to being right).
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The Palo Alto Pop Overthrow is my favorite Bay Area radio show.
http://blog.palopop.org/
It's on Thursday mornings from 7-9 and streams here:
http://kzsulive.stanford.edu/
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Really shitty news:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/99558/clear-channel-san-francisco-shuffles-talk-station-
Cause what we need is more Glenn Beck & Armstrong/Getty >:(
I've posted this link on a couple of fb host pages (Stephanie Miller, Norm Goldman) I can't believe there's no market for progressive radio in SF! If anyone hears anything, let me know.
according to Gil Gross (a swell guy; I worked with him at ABC in the '80s), who I'm FB-friends with, there are "irons in the fire" or whatever and left-of-center talk radio may rise phoenix-like in the Bay Area sooner than later.
I hope you and Gil are correct (as opposed to being right).
looks like "Green 960" may stay progressive after all, per this post on the radio-info board:
Several sources tell ALL ACCESS that CLEAR CHANNEL has changed its mind, and will keep KKGN-A intact. Why? Perhaps the changes at crosstown CUMULUS Talk KGO-A made the planned moves worth revisiting.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/100196/has-clear-channel-changed-its-mind-on-kkgn-a
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looks like "Green 960" may stay progressive after all, per this post on the radio-info board:
Several sources tell ALL ACCESS that CLEAR CHANNEL has changed its mind, and will keep KKGN-A intact. Why? Perhaps the changes at crosstown CUMULUS Talk KGO-A made the planned moves worth revisiting.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/100196/has-clear-channel-changed-its-mind-on-kkgn-a
Hopeful news, but I couldn't really follow the logic of the article. Could you figure out what they were implying?
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looks like "Green 960" may stay progressive after all, per this post on the radio-info board:
Several sources tell ALL ACCESS that CLEAR CHANNEL has changed its mind, and will keep KKGN-A intact. Why? Perhaps the changes at crosstown CUMULUS Talk KGO-A made the planned moves worth revisiting.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/100196/has-clear-channel-changed-its-mind-on-kkgn-a
Hopeful news, but I couldn't really follow the logic of the article. Could you figure out what they were implying?
seems pretty clear to me ;) Cheap Channel was going to replace most of the KKGN lineup with conservative syndicated crap; now that KGO is no longer a (slightly-)left-leaning talk station they've reconsidered. The possibility exists that some of the KGO folks could end up at KKGN (tho' I suspect at a much lower salary)
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It's been ages since I listened to Little Steven on Sun nite on The Bone -- I long ago got tired of how they screw the show up each week and switched to listening via his website at work. But I turned the station on around 8:50 to see if I ciould catch some of Part 1 of his Xmas show while waiting for the Autumn King on KPOO at 10. And here we are, it's 9:21 and they're still playing regular stuff (Henley's "Boys of Summer" -- sheesh -- folloowed by Zep's "Kashmir"). Some things never change.
Meanwhile the "Lost & Found" Xmas show is on KFOG as I type, and he actually played Madonna's atrocious "Santa Baby" cover and praised it to the skies (!) -- methinks he's had too much eggnog.
ETA: OK, it's now 9:30... Nikki Blakk just said "stick around, Joel Selvin is coming up at 11:00". So they've discontinued Steven? He's still listed on their website, FWIW.
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Meanwhile the "Lost & Found" Xmas show is on KFOG as I type, and he actually played Madonna's atrocious "Santa Baby" cover and praised it to the skies (!) -- methinks he's had too much eggnog.
OMG, he just played Maria Mena :o :o :o :o :o
She had a minor pop hit with this "gem" in 2004, which also landed the #1 spot on my Annoying List for that year (and yes, this year's is coming!) :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oLVB5k3z_M&ob=av2e
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Eeeeek-Now he's playing MercyMe. I realize this is the Christmas edition, but still...this is not Lost & Found's week.
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
one of the guest DJs on this show was James Damn Brown of KUSF-in-Exile; his Xmas show will be this Wed morning from 9-to-noon ( http://kusfinexile.tumblr.com/player ) and here's the playlist:
THE JAMESDAMNBROWN SHOW
Wednesday 12/21/11
Keith Richards / Run Run Rudolph
The Hickoids / We Got The Eggnog If You Got The Whiskey
Sonny Boy Williamson / Santa Claus
Pee Wee Herman / Christmas Medley
Detroit Junior / Christmas Day
Eddie Campbell / Santa's Messin' With The Kid
Clarence Carter / Back Door Santa
AC/DC / I Want A Mistress For Christmas
Dan Hicks & The Christmas Jug Band / Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit
The Shut-Ins / I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus
The Voices / Santa Claus Boogie
Chuck Berry / Christmas
Marguerite Trina & The Savoys / The Rocking Tree
Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers / Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
Foghat / All I Want For Christmas Is You
Los Lobos / Rudolph The Manic Reindeer
Throwing Muses / Santa Claus
Prince / Another Lonely Christmas
Mabel Scott / Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Clarence Williams' Blue Five / Santa Claus Blues
Lightning Hopkins / Merry Christmas
Washboard Pete / Christmas Blues
Clyde Lasley & The Cadillac Baby Specials / Santa Came Home Drunk
Big John Greer / We Want To See Santa Do The Mambo
The Marcels / Merry Twistmas
Jerry & The Landslides / Get Off My Roof
The Sonics / Don't Believe In Christmas
Bob Seger / Sock It To Me Santa
Slade / Merry Christmas Everybody
Jack Scott / There's Trouble Brewin'
Huey "Piano" Smith / All I Want For Christmas
James Brown / Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
Rufus Thomas / I'll Be Your Santa Baby
The Jackson Trio / Jingle Bell Hop
Jimmy Butler / Trim Your Tree
The Marquees / Santa Done Got Hip
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth / Teenage Christmas
Ike & Tina Turner / Merry Christmas Baby
The Beatles / Everywhere It's Christmas
Cheap Trick / Come On Christmas
Johnny Guarnieri / Santa's Secret
Hank Ballard / Christmas Time For Everybody But Me
Gary Walker / Santa's Got A Brand New Bag
Canned Heat / Christmas Blues
Bobby Lloyd / Do You Hear What I Hear / You Really Got Me
The Sonics / Santa Claus
Albert King / Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
Koko Taylor / Have You Heard The News?
Bootsy Collins / Merry Christmas Baby
The Marshall Brothers / Mr. Santa's Boogie
Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds / Who Say There Ain't No Santa Claus?
The Youngsters / Christmas In Jail
The Marquees / Christmas In The Congo
The Martels / Rockin' Santa Claus
The Voices / Santa Claus Baby
Debbie Dabney / I Want To Spend Christmas With Elvis
Patti Smith Group / White Christmas
Johnny & Jon / Christmas In Vietnam
Ry Cooder / Christmas Time This Year
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
one of the guest DJs on this show was James Damn Brown of KUSF-in-Exile; his Xmas show will be this Wed morning from 9-to-noon ( http://kusfinexile.tumblr.com/player ) and here's the playlist:
THE JAMESDAMNBROWN SHOW
Wednesday 12/21/11
Keith Richards / Run Run Rudolph
The Hickoids / We Got The Eggnog If You Got The Whiskey
Sonny Boy Williamson / Santa Claus
Pee Wee Herman / Christmas Medley
Detroit Junior / Christmas Day
Eddie Campbell / Santa's Messin' With The Kid
Clarence Carter / Back Door Santa
AC/DC / I Want A Mistress For Christmas
Dan Hicks & The Christmas Jug Band / Somebody Stole My Santa Claus Suit
The Shut-Ins / I'm Gonna Lasso Santa Claus
The Voices / Santa Claus Boogie
Chuck Berry / Christmas
Marguerite Trina & The Savoys / The Rocking Tree
Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers / Dig That Crazy Santa Claus
Foghat / All I Want For Christmas Is You
Los Lobos / Rudolph The Manic Reindeer
Throwing Muses / Santa Claus
Prince / Another Lonely Christmas
Mabel Scott / Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Clarence Williams' Blue Five / Santa Claus Blues
Lightning Hopkins / Merry Christmas
Washboard Pete / Christmas Blues
Clyde Lasley & The Cadillac Baby Specials / Santa Came Home Drunk
Big John Greer / We Want To See Santa Do The Mambo
The Marcels / Merry Twistmas
Jerry & The Landslides / Get Off My Roof
The Sonics / Don't Believe In Christmas
Bob Seger / Sock It To Me Santa
Slade / Merry Christmas Everybody
Jack Scott / There's Trouble Brewin'
Huey "Piano" Smith / All I Want For Christmas
James Brown / Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto
Rufus Thomas / I'll Be Your Santa Baby
The Jackson Trio / Jingle Bell Hop
Jimmy Butler / Trim Your Tree
The Marquees / Santa Done Got Hip
Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth / Teenage Christmas
Ike & Tina Turner / Merry Christmas Baby
The Beatles / Everywhere It's Christmas
Cheap Trick / Come On Christmas
Johnny Guarnieri / Santa's Secret
Hank Ballard / Christmas Time For Everybody But Me
Gary Walker / Santa's Got A Brand New Bag
Canned Heat / Christmas Blues
Bobby Lloyd / Do You Hear What I Hear / You Really Got Me
The Sonics / Santa Claus
Albert King / Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
Koko Taylor / Have You Heard The News?
Bootsy Collins / Merry Christmas Baby
The Marshall Brothers / Mr. Santa's Boogie
Ron Holden & The Thunderbirds / Who Say There Ain't No Santa Claus?
The Youngsters / Christmas In Jail
The Marquees / Christmas In The Congo
The Martels / Rockin' Santa Claus
The Voices / Santa Claus Baby
Debbie Dabney / I Want To Spend Christmas With Elvis
Patti Smith Group / White Christmas
Johnny & Jon / Christmas In Vietnam
Ry Cooder / Christmas Time This Year
I'll try to remember to tune in. Msg to the Hickoids: Keep ur eggnog, I'm not sharing my whiskey!
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The latest on the KKGN/KNEW/KGO shuffle...
910, which *was* KNEW is now taking the KKSF call letters. 960, which *was* KKGN, becomes KNEW. Their new lineups as of Jan 3rd 2012:
910 - KKSF
Armstrong & Getty - 6-9 a.m.
NO ONE NAMED YET - 9-Noon
Tom Sullivan (Syndicated) - Noon - 3
Len Tillem (the Loy-ah) - 3-4
Gene Burns - 4-7 (and his Dining show will air Sat mornings)
No one named for nights yet. "
960 - KNEW
Glenn Beck - 6-9 a.m.
Dave Ramsey - 9-Noon
Randi Rhodes - Noon-3
Norman Goldman - 3-6
Market Wrap - 6-7
Stephanie Miller - 7-10
Thom Hartmann - 10-1
OVERNITES NOT NAMED YET
Seems odd that they're mixing up right & left on each station rather than having the stations be all of one or the other.
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The latest on the KKGN/KNEW/KGO shuffle...
910, which *was* KNEW is now taking the KKSF call letters. 960, which *was* KKGN, becomes KNEW. Their new lineups as of Jan 3rd 2012:
910 - KKSF
Armstrong & Getty - 6-9 a.m.
NO ONE NAMED YET - 9-Noon
Tom Sullivan (Syndicated) - Noon - 3
Len Tillem (the Loy-ah) - 3-4
Gene Burns - 4-7 (and his Dining show will air Sat mornings)
No one named for nights yet. "
960 - KNEW
Glenn Beck - 6-9 a.m.
Dave Ramsey - 9-Noon
Randi Rhodes - Noon-3
Norman Goldman - 3-6
Market Wrap - 6-7
Stephanie Miller - 7-10
Thom Hartmann - 10-1
OVERNITES NOT NAMED YET
Seems odd that they're mixing up right & left on each station rather than having the stations be all of one or the other.
Stephanie Millier's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour is going gangbusters around the country, but now she can't get a live feed in SF? Glenn Beck? Oy!
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
one of the guest DJs on this show was James Damn Brown of KUSF-in-Exile; his Xmas show will be this Wed morning from 9-to-noon ( http://kusfinexile.tumblr.com/player )
can't get the player to work, unfortunately...
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
one of the guest DJs on this show was James Damn Brown of KUSF-in-Exile; his Xmas show will be this Wed morning from 9-to-noon ( http://kusfinexile.tumblr.com/player )
can't get the player to work, unfortunately...
Me either. Alternative player or link? lemme know if you find one.
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On right now... the Grinder's Grooveyard Xmas show on KPOO 'til 11:30 Mambo Santa Mambo!
one of the guest DJs on this show was James Damn Brown of KUSF-in-Exile; his Xmas show will be this Wed morning from 9-to-noon ( http://kusfinexile.tumblr.com/player )
can't get the player to work, unfortunately...
Me either. Alternative player or link? lemme know if you find one.
nope. too bad...
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Per radio-info, the PD of K-Fox (the guy who hired Big Rick) has left. Hrm.
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It's been ages since I listened to Little Steven on Sun nite on The Bone -- I long ago got tired of how they screw the show up each week and switched to listening via his website at work. But I turned the station on around 8:50 to see if I ciould catch some of Part 1 of his Xmas show while waiting for the Autumn King on KPOO at 10. And here we are, it's 9:21 and they're still playing regular stuff (Henley's "Boys of Summer" -- sheesh -- folloowed by Zep's "Kashmir"). Some things never change.
Meanwhile the "Lost & Found" Xmas show is on KFOG as I type, and he actually played Madonna's atrocious "Santa Baby" cover and praised it to the skies (!) -- methinks he's had too much eggnog.
ETA: OK, it's now 9:30... Nikki Blakk just said "stick around, Joel Selvin is coming up at 11:00". So they've discontinued Steven? He's still listed on their website, FWIW.
OK here we are a week later, and the Bone is running a special called "Uncle Joe's Rockin' Christmas Show" -- WTFF?? Whothehell is "Uncle Joe"?? I guess they really have dumped Little Steven. That's a shame.
And KFOG is pre-empting "Lost & Found" tonite -- Acoustic Sunset goes until midnite. Again, WTF?
ETA: "Uncle Joe" is a deejay on KLOS in L.A. http://unclejoe.com/xmasshow.html
And to top it off: No Autumn King on KPOO either. Time for bed.
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A comment on the radio-info SF board that I found kinda funny:
"Don't understand why KCBS 740 is popular. I find its news format and presentation boring and predictable. If I listen it to for 30 minutes or more, my mind starts to tune it out. So I either turn to another station or shut off the radio. Which is why I miss the old KGO 810 AM -- the news was delivered with a particular kind of upbeat rhythm. Now that's gone, and since I can't stand Peter Finch's rendition of the news or his voice, I seldom listen to KGO 810 AM for news..."
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The sad reality of the end of Green 960 happened today. I tuned in for a second to check, and yes, it was Glenn Beck spewing bile in the morning. I listened to Stephanie Miller with one earbud on the way to work via the LA talk station, but it was depressing everytime I heard traffic reports driving the point home that I couldn't listen live in SF. From noon on, it's live progressive radio. What a weird mix.
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The sad reality of the end of Green 960 happened today. I tuned in for a second to check, and yes, it was Glenn Beck spewing bile in the morning. I listened to Stephanie Miller with one earbud on the way to work via the LA talk station, but it was depressing everytime I heard traffic reports driving the point home that I couldn't listen live in SF. From noon on, it's live progressive radio. What a weird mix.
Yeah, sad but true. Honestly, I don't believe for a second that Clear Channel is doing this to 960 to gain listeners in the morning - it's more to silence the left wing.
Only a matter of time before the bile starts enveloping the other shows.
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A comment on the radio-info SF board that I found kinda funny:
" since I can't stand Peter Finch's rendition of the news or his voice"
& here I thought I was the only one... :-X
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BTW, it's official: The Bone has discontinued Little Steven -- references to him have been deleted from their website. (I emailed them 2 weeks ago to ask what was up; they never replied.)
No way KFOG would pick him up, I guess, but K-Fox would be crazy not to carry his show.
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Went to K-Fox's website to see if maybe they've picked up Little Steven (so far, no) and discovered this page dedicated to their "Deep Tracks Project".
http://www.kfox.com/pages/9698255.php
"Thanks to your input, we've added a bunch of deep tracks to the KFOX Playlist. Here are some of the tracks we've added. Remember - you can always add more by filling out the form..."
uh... "Little Wing" is considered "deep"? "Mr Blue Sky"?? "Tumblin' Dice"?? Damn, radio sucks.
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Went to K-Fox's website to see if maybe they've picked up Little Steven (so far, no) and discovered this page dedicated to their "Deep Tracks Project".
http://www.kfox.com/pages/9698255.php
"Thanks to your input, we've added a bunch of deep tracks to the KFOX Playlist. Here are some of the tracks we've added. Remember - you can always add more by filling out the form..."
uh... "Little Wing" is considered "deep"? "Mr Blue Sky"?? "Tumblin' Dice"?? Damn, radio sucks.
Just read thru that list with an eye toward release dates, and I see that it's heavily weighted toward the 70s (big surprise there). There are a few songs from the 60s and a handful from the 80s, but by far that's all about the 70s.
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Went to K-Fox's website to see if maybe they've picked up Little Steven (so far, no) and discovered this page dedicated to their "Deep Tracks Project".
http://www.kfox.com/pages/9698255.php
"Thanks to your input, we've added a bunch of deep tracks to the KFOX Playlist. Here are some of the tracks we've added. Remember - you can always add more by filling out the form..."
uh... "Little Wing" is considered "deep"? "Mr Blue Sky"?? "Tumblin' Dice"?? Damn, radio sucks.
Just read thru that list with an eye toward release dates, and I see that it's heavily weighted toward the 70s (big surprise there). There are a few songs from the 60s and a handful from the 80s, but by far that's all about the 70s.
My guess is K-FOX is trying to pick up aging, disenfranchised Fogheads.
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interesting article about Austin's KGSR -- they're sorta the KFOG of Austin, but traditionally included a lot of alt-country in the mix. Apparently the local flavor has been eliminated and some folks were pissed (tho' the ratings have increased):
http://www.austin360.com/music/changes-at-kgsr-sounding-good-to-more-listeners-933771.html
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interesting article about Austin's KGSR -- they're sorta the KFOG of Austin, but traditionally included a lot of alt-country in the mix. Apparently the local flavor has been eliminated and some folks were pissed (tho' the ratings have increased):
http://www.austin360.com/music/changes-at-kgsr-sounding-good-to-more-listeners-933771.html
Isn't it ironic? The program director who is making the station more generic is named Edge. He did seem a little more upfront about the effect of his changes than those in charge of our local AAA.
I don't think anyone affiliated with KFOG has said one word publicly (including on FB) about the change to 10@10. It's as if they want to keep up the facade that AL is just pickin' the years she wants to pick and spinnin' the records she wants to spin.
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interesting article about Austin's KGSR -- they're sorta the KFOG of Austin, but traditionally included a lot of alt-country in the mix. Apparently the local flavor has been eliminated and some folks were pissed (tho' the ratings have increased):
http://www.austin360.com/music/changes-at-kgsr-sounding-good-to-more-listeners-933771.html
Isn't it ironic? The program director who is making the station more generic is named Edge. He did seem a little more upfront about the effect of his changes than those in charge of our local AAA.
I don't think anyone affiliated with KFOG has said one word publicly (including on FB) about the change to 10@10. It's as if they want to keep up the facade that AL is just pickin' the years she wants to pick and spinnin' the records she wants to spin.
On the other hand, when AL took over no one made any announcement saying AL was going to start busting out 5-8 songs per set. We figured it out fairly quickly. Many on FB weren't far behind. But quite honestly, most people probably had no clue and still don't.
I just looked at the KGSR playlist. OMG...I nearly vomited. The article made it sound like he was just tweaking it a bit younger (i.e. some Muse here, Silversun Pickups there...and perhaps a *bit* less alt-country, because they were very heavy on that before.) But noooooo....it seriously looks like a cross between a generic AAA and Alice now, only with Bob Schneider every two hours probably just to say they're still playing local music. Andy Grammer? Christina Perri? Sara Paralysis? Gavin DeGraw??? :'( They completely ruined a good station for 25% more listeners. ::)
Their live CDs are probably going to suck from now on, too. Too bad.
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The Peak posed this question on FB: "Are there any songs or artists on The Peak that you're getting tired of hearing?" Pretty brave of them, I think. Keeping an eye on that one -- so far the answers include
"Adele. I love her voice, but she is way overplayed, even on The Peak"
"Definitely Mumford & Sons"
"The only one on The Peak that I am tired of is Coldplay. Everything else you play is freakin awesome." (this woman would make a good Foghead)
"I would live a very happy life if I never heard a Eurythmics song again" (that one kinda surprised me)
and someone mentioned "Time Spent in Los Angeles" by Dawes -- I'm not familiar with it. Anybody?
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The Peak posed this question on FB: "Are there any songs or artists on The Peak that you're getting tired of hearing?" Pretty brave of them, I think. Keeping an eye on that one -- so far the answers include
"Adele. I love her voice, but she is way overplayed, even on The Peak"
"Definitely Mumford & Sons"
"The only one on The Peak that I am tired of is Coldplay. Everything else you play is freakin awesome." (this woman would make a good Foghead)
"I would live a very happy life if I never heard a Eurythmics song again" (that one kinda surprised me)
and someone mentioned "Time Spent in Los Angeles" by Dawes -- I'm not familiar with it. Anybody?
An alt-country song that did decently on the AAA chart (Top 20, I think...perhaps Top 15) but KFOG never picked up up, except during new music Thursday. I wish they would have. It'll make an appearance on my Top 50 of 2011 live countdown. (coming soon :) )
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The Peak posed this question on FB: "Are there any songs or artists on The Peak that you're getting tired of hearing?" Pretty brave of them, I think. Keeping an eye on that one -- so far the answers include
"Adele. I love her voice, but she is way overplayed, even on The Peak"
"Definitely Mumford & Sons"
"The only one on The Peak that I am tired of is Coldplay. Everything else you play is freakin awesome." (this woman would make a good Foghead)
"I would live a very happy life if I never heard a Eurythmics song again" (that one kinda surprised me)
and someone mentioned "Time Spent in Los Angeles" by Dawes -- I'm not familiar with it. Anybody?
An alt-country song that did decently on the AAA chart (Top 20, I think...perhaps Top 15) but KFOG never picked up up, except during new music Thursday. I wish they would have. It'll make an appearance on my Top 50 of 2011 live countdown. (coming soon :) )
a few more:
"Oh, and playing right NOW for the ten millionth time...The Black Keys, "I'm A Lonely Boy"!!!"
"Well, there's that one song by Adele. And then there's that other song by...umm...what's her name? Oh, yeah... Adele. I think that's it. Oh, no, wait! There's that song by Adele, too."
"Both foster the people songs. And John mellencamp. I feel like every 10@10 which covers a year of his career has a John mellencamp song. He's a hack."
So... JCM is the INXS of the Peak, then. ;)
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"Well, there's that one song by Adele. And then there's that other song by...umm...what's her name? Oh, yeah... Adele. I think that's it. Oh, no, wait! There's that song by Adele, too."
Lol.
I guess we should be lucky. I'd rather have excessive INXS > JCM.
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An alt-country song that did decently on the AAA chart (Top 20, I think...perhaps Top 15) but KFOG never picked up up, except during new music Thursday. I wish they would have. It'll make an appearance on my Top 50 of 2011 live countdown. (coming soon :) )
Found it on YouTube -- quite nice, and apparently in addition to a Wilco connection they've been working with Robbie Robertson.
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I totally get Kiss-FM playing white-soul-ish New Wave stuff like Spandau or Culture Club, but I got in the car and turned them on and they were playing Matthew Wilder's "BreaK My Stride". Wha?
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For some reason they were playing Live 105 at my gym this afterenoon. I hadn't listened to them for an extended period in a long time. And damn they're a worthless radio station. Christ on a cracker -- they've still got "Little Lion Man" in rotation. Virtually everything I heard in 2 hours was a (today's) KFOG staple, except for maybe 2 songs, one of which was "We Are Young" by Fun (presumably new?). But it was Green Day and Cake and Foster the People and Black Keys and Florence and RHCPs and Coldplay and AL's beloved Foos. It's like KFOG without the '80s gold (in other words KFOG without the handful of things that make KFOG bearable). The oldest thing I heard was Beck's "Loser". Oh and there were the ads for AdamAndEve.com -- ick.
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Stew, the guy who led the band The Negro Problem, will be on Fresh Air today:
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/30/144318767/stew-making-it-after-a-tough-breakup
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For some reason they were playing Live 105 at my gym this afterenoon. I hadn't listened to them for an extended period in a long time. And damn they're a worthless radio station. Christ on a cracker -- they've still got "Little Lion Man" in rotation. Virtually everything I heard in 2 hours was a (today's) KFOG staple, except for maybe 2 songs, one of which was "We Are Young" by Fun (presumably new?). But it was Green Day and Cake and Foster the People and Black Keys and Florence and RHCPs and Coldplay and AL's beloved Foos. It's like KFOG without the '80s gold (in other words KFOG without the handful of things that make KFOG bearable). The oldest thing I heard was Beck's "Loser". Oh and there were the ads for AdamAndEve.com -- ick.
Yes, that station is a disaster and has been since CBS took over. It's as much as a disaster as Alice and Star (Mix isn't quite as bad yet, but it's coming up close.)
Live 105's current Top 50:
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud
4 1 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know 64 50 14 0.4833
1 2 COLDPLAY Paradise 62 64 -2 0.4677
2 3 BLACK KEYS Lonely Boy 61 63 -2 0.4802
6 4 M83 Midnight City 54 35 19 0.4281
11 5 NEON TREES Animal 49 32 17 0.3871
12 6 FOO FIGHTERS These Days 33 31 2 0.2728
5 7 GROUPLOVE Tongue Tied 31 46 -15 0.2383
7 8 NAKED AND FAMOUS Young Blood 31 35 -4 0.2439
8 9 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup 31 35 -4 0.2545
35 10 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling 30 14 16 0.2259
3 11 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop (Color On The Walls 30 53 -23 0.2344
37 12 FUN. We Are Young f/Janelle Monae 30 13 17 0.2259
9 13 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Panic Switch 27 33 -6 0.2081
75 14 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Little Talks 26 1 25 0.1775
34 15 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Shake It Out 25 15 10 0.1903
17 16 WIZ KHALIFA/SNOOP DOGG Young, Wild & Free f/B. Mars 25 23 2 0.1762
26 17 FOO FIGHTERS Rope 24 20 4 0.1929
29 18 AVICII Levels (ID) 23 19 4 0.158
21 19 DIRTY HEADS Lay Me Down f/Rome 23 21 2 0.1816
28 20 PHOENIX 1901 23 20 3 0.1728
24 21 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Adventures Of Rain Dance... 23 21 2 0.1855
32 22 BLACK KEYS Tighten Up 22 18 4 0.185
22 23 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over 21 21 0 0.1632
23 24 MUMFORD & SONS Little Lion Man 21 21 0 0.1704
27 25 MUMFORD & SONS The Cave 21 20 1 0.1602
25 26 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Shake Me Down 20 20 0 0.1351
10 27 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks 20 32 -12 0.1596
20 28 PHOENIX Lisztomania 20 22 -2 0.1668
15 29 BLINK 182 After Midnight 19 25 -6 0.1605
14 30 SKRILLEX Scary Monsters And Nice ... 19 26 -7 0.1431
31 31 BLACK KEYS Howlin' For You 18 18 0 0.149
36 32 EXAMPLE Changed The Way You Kiss Me 15 13 2 0.0821
0 33 NAKED AND FAMOUS Punching In A Dream 14 0 14 0.1068
0 34 RISE AGAINST Satellite 14 0 14 0.1027
13 35 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Beekeeper's Daughter 13 28 -15 0.086
33 36 SHINS Simple Song 12 16 -4 0.0477
44 37 FRANZ FERDINAND No You Girls 8 5 3 0.0554
42 38 LINKIN PARK New Divide 8 7 1 0.0554
38 39 NEON TREES Everybody Talks 8 12 -4 0.0302
18 40 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Monarchy Of Roses 8 23 -15 0.0586
19 41 BUSH The Sound Of Winter 7 22 -15 0.0553
0 42 COLDPLAY Charlie Brown 7 0 7 0.051
39 43 LANA DEL REY Video Games 7 10 -3 0.0091
41 44 LINKIN PARK Waiting For The End 7 8 -1 0.0571
30 45 FOO FIGHTERS Walk 6 19 -13 0.0444
40 46 SKRILLEX Bangarang 6 10 -4 0.0242
46 47 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS This Is War 6 4 2 0.053
47 48 MUSE Resistance 5 3 2 0.021
43 49 MUSE Undisclosed Desires 5 7 -2 0.0431
45 50 WEEZER I Want To 5 5 0 0.0295
Listening to them makes one appreciate KFOG more...pre-or-post DC (depending on one's prerogative.) The top three songs have over 60 spins apiece, the next two are ~50. Compare that to KFOG's top 5, which have around 33-37 (and even that's gone up. It used to be right at 30.) Then, #s six through twelve all have 30+ spins.
That block of songs from #19-28 is particularly troublesome, considering the newest ones are Raindance Maggie or Pumped Up Kicks but they still have at least 20 spins. Everything else is at least one year old. Heck, some of those are two years old. ::) Such as "1901," "Lisztomania"...and why the heck are they still playing both of those? "Little Lion Man" & "The Cave" aren't far behind, and their newer song "Roll Away Your Stone" is nowhere to be found. On a related note, "Panic Switch," which is also about two years old, is still at #13. They've had a number of singles since them, which Live 105 played for a few weeks and then dropped (including "Broken Bottles," which is still charting on alternative) all while holding onto "Panic Switch."
There are a few bright spots, like seeing Gotye at #1. It's probably going to stay on their playlist for the next 14 years, but at least 64 spins are being used up by a band that doesn't have any other songs that sound exactly like it already on their playlist yet. Ditto with M83 at #4. It's also nice to see Avicii, Skrillex and Example. And The Naked And Famous, too although it's annoying that they're only now playing "Punching in a Dream," which is about to go recurrent, while "Young Blood" is a year old and still in ~30ish rotation.
The main problem is...it's becoming so difficult to sit through all the rest of the nonsense to hear something worth hearing. This really used to be a good station. The only times it's good are their new music program, Soundcheck on Sun. nites from 7-10 (but it's the same time as all the other good programs on the other stations), and their electro program, Subsonic, on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings from 12-3. I'm usually not up then. I might as well put in a CD...or better yet, download the MP3. (Oh, and since it took Live 105 so long, I'm lobbying DC to add "Punching in a Dream" so I won't have to listen to Live 105 to hear it. Bwahaha.)
What isn't shown is their recurrents, which are even more intolerable. They're still playing the most overplayed RedHotStoneTempleFooNirvanaRiseAgainstthesoundgardenSublimeFighterPilotNirvanaCakeMachine hits from the past 20 years, almost all of which from their respective artists, and in some cases from different artists too, sound the same.
Alice is exactly like this too, just replace RedHotStoneTempleFooNirvanaRiseAgainstthesoundgardenSublimeFighterPilotNirvanaCakeMachine with KatyJasonLadyGooGooGagaLifehouseKellyScriptJohnTrainClarksonPerryGreenPinkDayMayerMrazDolls.
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For some reason they were playing Live 105 at my gym this afterenoon. I hadn't listened to them for an extended period in a long time. And damn they're a worthless radio station. Christ on a cracker -- they've still got "Little Lion Man" in rotation. Virtually everything I heard in 2 hours was a (today's) KFOG staple, except for maybe 2 songs, one of which was "We Are Young" by Fun (presumably new?). But it was Green Day and Cake and Foster the People and Black Keys and Florence and RHCPs and Coldplay and AL's beloved Foos. It's like KFOG without the '80s gold (in other words KFOG without the handful of things that make KFOG bearable). The oldest thing I heard was Beck's "Loser". Oh and there were the ads for AdamAndEve.com -- ick.
Yes, that station is a disaster and has been since CBS took over. It's as much as a disaster as Alice and Star (Mix isn't quite as bad yet, but it's coming up close.)
Live 105's current Top 50:
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud
4 1 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know 64 50 14 0.4833
1 2 COLDPLAY Paradise 62 64 -2 0.4677
2 3 BLACK KEYS Lonely Boy 61 63 -2 0.4802
6 4 M83 Midnight City 54 35 19 0.4281
11 5 NEON TREES Animal 49 32 17 0.3871
12 6 FOO FIGHTERS These Days 33 31 2 0.2728
5 7 GROUPLOVE Tongue Tied 31 46 -15 0.2383
7 8 NAKED AND FAMOUS Young Blood 31 35 -4 0.2439
8 9 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup 31 35 -4 0.2545
35 10 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling 30 14 16 0.2259
3 11 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop (Color On The Walls 30 53 -23 0.2344
37 12 FUN. We Are Young f/Janelle Monae 30 13 17 0.2259
9 13 SILVERSUN PICKUPS Panic Switch 27 33 -6 0.2081
75 14 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Little Talks 26 1 25 0.1775
34 15 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Shake It Out 25 15 10 0.1903
17 16 WIZ KHALIFA/SNOOP DOGG Young, Wild & Free f/B. Mars 25 23 2 0.1762
26 17 FOO FIGHTERS Rope 24 20 4 0.1929
29 18 AVICII Levels (ID) 23 19 4 0.158
21 19 DIRTY HEADS Lay Me Down f/Rome 23 21 2 0.1816
28 20 PHOENIX 1901 23 20 3 0.1728
24 21 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Adventures Of Rain Dance... 23 21 2 0.1855
32 22 BLACK KEYS Tighten Up 22 18 4 0.185
22 23 FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over 21 21 0 0.1632
23 24 MUMFORD & SONS Little Lion Man 21 21 0 0.1704
27 25 MUMFORD & SONS The Cave 21 20 1 0.1602
25 26 CAGE THE ELEPHANT Shake Me Down 20 20 0 0.1351
10 27 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks 20 32 -12 0.1596
20 28 PHOENIX Lisztomania 20 22 -2 0.1668
15 29 BLINK 182 After Midnight 19 25 -6 0.1605
14 30 SKRILLEX Scary Monsters And Nice ... 19 26 -7 0.1431
31 31 BLACK KEYS Howlin' For You 18 18 0 0.149
36 32 EXAMPLE Changed The Way You Kiss Me 15 13 2 0.0821
0 33 NAKED AND FAMOUS Punching In A Dream 14 0 14 0.1068
0 34 RISE AGAINST Satellite 14 0 14 0.1027
13 35 ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Beekeeper's Daughter 13 28 -15 0.086
33 36 SHINS Simple Song 12 16 -4 0.0477
44 37 FRANZ FERDINAND No You Girls 8 5 3 0.0554
42 38 LINKIN PARK New Divide 8 7 1 0.0554
38 39 NEON TREES Everybody Talks 8 12 -4 0.0302
18 40 RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Monarchy Of Roses 8 23 -15 0.0586
19 41 BUSH The Sound Of Winter 7 22 -15 0.0553
0 42 COLDPLAY Charlie Brown 7 0 7 0.051
39 43 LANA DEL REY Video Games 7 10 -3 0.0091
41 44 LINKIN PARK Waiting For The End 7 8 -1 0.0571
30 45 FOO FIGHTERS Walk 6 19 -13 0.0444
40 46 SKRILLEX Bangarang 6 10 -4 0.0242
46 47 THIRTY SECONDS TO MARS This Is War 6 4 2 0.053
47 48 MUSE Resistance 5 3 2 0.021
43 49 MUSE Undisclosed Desires 5 7 -2 0.0431
45 50 WEEZER I Want To 5 5 0 0.0295
Listening to them makes one appreciate KFOG more...pre-or-post DC (depending on one's prerogative.) The top three songs have over 60 spins apiece, the next two are ~50. Compare that to KFOG's top 5, which have around 33-37 (and even that's gone up. It used to be right at 30.) Then, #s six through twelve all have 30+ spins.
That block of songs from #19-28 is particularly troublesome, considering the newest ones are Raindance Maggie or Pumped Up Kicks but they still have at least 20 spins. Everything else is at least one year old. Heck, some of those are two years old. ::) Such as "1901," "Lisztomania"...and why the heck are they still playing both of those? "Little Lion Man" & "The Cave" aren't far behind, and their newer song "Roll Away Your Stone" is nowhere to be found. On a related note, "Panic Switch," which is also about two years old, is still at #13. They've had a number of singles since them, which Live 105 played for a few weeks and then dropped (including "Broken Bottles," which is still charting on alternative) all while holding onto "Panic Switch."
There are a few bright spots, like seeing Gotye at #1. It's probably going to stay on their playlist for the next 14 years, but at least 64 spins are being used up by a band that doesn't have any other songs that sound exactly like it already on their playlist yet. Ditto with M83 at #4. It's also nice to see Avicii, Skrillex and Example. And The Naked And Famous, too although it's annoying that they're only now playing "Punching in a Dream," which is about to go recurrent, while "Young Blood" is a year old and still in ~30ish rotation.
The main problem is...it's becoming so difficult to sit through all the rest of the nonsense to hear something worth hearing. This really used to be a good station. The only times it's good are their new music program, Soundcheck on Sun. nites from 7-10 (but it's the same time as all the other good programs on the other stations), and their electro program, Subsonic, on Saturday nights/Sunday mornings from 12-3. I'm usually not up then. I might as well put in a CD...or better yet, download the MP3. (Oh, and since it took Live 105 so long, I'm lobbying DC to add "Punching in a Dream" so I won't have to listen to Live 105 to hear it. Bwahaha.)
What isn't shown is their recurrents, which are even more intolerable. They're still playing the most overplayed RedHotStoneTempleFooNirvanaRiseAgainstthesoundgardenSublimeFighterPilotNirvanaCakeMachine hits from the past 20 years, almost all of which from their respective artists, and in some cases from different artists too, sound the same.
Alice is exactly like this too, just replace RedHotStoneTempleFooNirvanaRiseAgainstthesoundgardenSublimeFighterPilotNirvanaCakeMachine with KatyJasonLadyGooGooGagaLifehouseKellyScriptJohnTrainClarksonPerryGreenPinkDayMayerMrazDolls.
Cliff Notes:
Radio sucks.
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Cliff Notes:
Radio sucks.
hee hee. But seriously, Radical's analysis was much appreciated as he's closer to Live 105's demo than I am and now I never have to listen to them on purpose again. (and hearing them at my gym yesterday was actually an improvement over our usual diet of Rev 92.7)
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Cliff Notes:
Radio sucks.
hee hee. But seriously, Radical's analysis was much appreciated as he's closer to Live 105's demo than I am and now I never have to listen to them on purpose again. (and hearing them at my gym yesterday was actually an improvement over our usual diet of Rev 92.7)
I'm almost thinking that Live 105 is now at the point many classic rock stations were in the mid-90's... an overreliance on material from 20 years ago while being very conservative on what new material they're breaking in. You'd think there's a format waiting to be discovered amongst all the clutter...
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Cliff Notes:
Radio sucks.
hee hee. But seriously, Radical's analysis was much appreciated as he's closer to Live 105's demo than I am and now I never have to listen to them on purpose again. (and hearing them at my gym yesterday was actually an improvement over our usual diet of Rev 92.7)
I'm almost thinking that Live 105 is now at the point many classic rock stations were in the mid-90's... an overreliance on material from 20 years ago while being very conservative on what new material they're breaking in. You'd think there's a format waiting to be discovered amongst all the clutter...
KPIG plays new and old
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DUUUUUUDE! It's Rush Day! (and we don't mean Limbaugh)
http://www.rttnews.com/Story.aspx?type=ent&Section=2&Id=1809021&%3BSM=1
So, are The Bone and/or K-Fox participating in this?
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DUUUUUUDE! It's Rush Day! (and we don't mean Limbaugh)
http://www.rttnews.com/Story.aspx?type=ent&Section=2&Id=1809021&%3BSM=1
So, are The Bone and/or K-Fox participating in this?
Most definitely an Ehhhhhh! moment
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DUUUUUUDE! It's Rush Day! (and we don't mean Limbaugh)
http://www.rttnews.com/Story.aspx?type=ent&Section=2&Id=1809021&%3BSM=1
So, are The Bone and/or K-Fox participating in this?
Oh good lord nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.............. sez the Alicat that doesn't appreciate Rush.
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DUUUUUUDE! It's Rush Day! (and we don't mean Limbaugh)
http://www.rttnews.com/Story.aspx?type=ent&Section=2&Id=1809021&%3BSM=1
So, are The Bone and/or K-Fox participating in this?
Oh good lord nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.............. sez the Alicat that doesn't appreciate Rush.
A wise man once said on this very forum board:
"Believe it if you need it, leave it if you dare!"
Today's Tom Sawyer: He gets high on you, man.
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A wise man once said on this very forum board:
"Believe it if you need it, leave it if you dare!"
On that tenuous note/connection, the KPFA Grateful Dead Marathon is on all day today. There may only be a couple of us interested.
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From Ben Fong-Torres' column today: "If any local stations are still talking to me, I'll be on various morning shows this Friday..." plugging his hosting gig on the Chinese New Year parade. I wonder who he's referring to besides maybe KFOG.
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interesting comments on the Peak's FB page regarding "Stairway to Heaven" making an appearance this morning:
"Stairway to Heaven???? If I wanted to listen to over played music I would listen to KRock"
"This was peaks cheesy way to sneek it in without putting in the normal rotation. Better throw that spot away that promised you never play stairway like those other stations... hmmmmm"
"Ugh, can't stand Led Zep! Stairway is the most overplayed song in the history of rock"
I commented that I hadn't heard it with headphones in awhile and that it sounded good to me, and another guy said
"Funny - I haven't actually heard "Stairway To Heaven" in 5 or 6 years. Anywhere on any station. I'm with Mike above - sounded pretty fresh and I don't ever remember promising it would never play on The Peak... No worries...we'll put it away for another year or two."
and Rob Arrow replied
"Compared to other commercial stations, I think The Peak does a great job not overplaying well-worn classics. But the 10@10 brings back music from a specific time and you couldn't listen to rock radio in February of 1972 WITHOUT hearing "Stairway to Heaven". We've never promised not to play it and this is only the 10th time it's aired in our 8 years. Besides it's an incredible piece of music. If you're tired of it, you're listening to classic rock radio too much!"
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interesting comments on the Peak's FB page regarding "Stairway to Heaven" making an appearance this morning:
"Stairway to Heaven???? If I wanted to listen to over played music I would listen to KRock"
"This was peaks cheesy way to sneek it in without putting in the normal rotation. Better throw that spot away that promised you never play stairway like those other stations... hmmmmm"
"Ugh, can't stand Led Zep! Stairway is the most overplayed song in the history of rock"
I commented that I hadn't heard it with headphones in awhile and that it sounded good to me, and another guy said
"Funny - I haven't actually heard "Stairway To Heaven" in 5 or 6 years. Anywhere on any station. I'm with Mike above - sounded pretty fresh and I don't ever remember promising it would never play on The Peak... No worries...we'll put it away for another year or two."
and Rob Arrow replied
"Compared to other commercial stations, I think The Peak does a great job not overplaying well-worn classics. But the 10@10 brings back music from a specific time and you couldn't listen to rock radio in February of 1972 WITHOUT hearing "Stairway to Heaven". We've never promised not to play it and this is only the 10th time it's aired in our 8 years. Besides it's an incredible piece of music. If you're tired of it, you're listening to classic rock radio too much!"
Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
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Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
I don't think Dave ever played it, certainly. Funny that KFOG didn't even play it during the past couple years when it was trying to compete with the Bone and KKSF and *was* playing "Sweet Home Alabama" 27 times a week. KFOG began in '82 as a "Superstars II" format (created by famous radio consultants Burkhardt & Abrams) which was an AOR format that specifically promised NOT to play "burned out" tracks like "STH", but instead would play other Zep songs that were not as overexposed ("Kashmir" for example). The Triple-A format sort of evolved from that philosophy. (Lord knows KFOG has played "Goin to California" enuf times in the last 10 years.)
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Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
I don't think Dave ever played it, certainly. Funny that KFOG didn't even play it during the past couple years when it was trying to compete with the Bone and KKSF and *was* playing "Sweet Home Alabama" 27 times a week. KFOG began in '82 as a "Superstars II" format (created by famous radio consultants Burkhardt & Abrams) which was an AOR format that specifically promised NOT to play "burned out" tracks like "STH", but instead would play other Zep songs that were not as overexposed ("Kashmir" for example). The Triple-A format sort of evolved from that philosophy. (Lord knows KFOG has played "Goin to California" enuf times in the last 10 years.)
So, if AL played it on 10@10, you couldn't call it a Katrina, but you'd classify it as LN?
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Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
I don't think Dave ever played it, certainly. Funny that KFOG didn't even play it during the past couple years when it was trying to compete with the Bone and KKSF and *was* playing "Sweet Home Alabama" 27 times a week. KFOG began in '82 as a "Superstars II" format (created by famous radio consultants Burkhardt & Abrams) which was an AOR format that specifically promised NOT to play "burned out" tracks like "STH", but instead would play other Zep songs that were not as overexposed ("Kashmir" for example). The Triple-A format sort of evolved from that philosophy. (Lord knows KFOG has played "Goin to California" enuf times in the last 10 years.)
So, if AL played it on 10@10, you couldn't call it a Katrina, but you'd classify it as LN?
I probably wouldn't call it an LN, since I rarely hear it anywhere (I don't really listen to The Bone or K-Fox; I'm guessing they play it occasionally). It really did sound good Friday morning on the Peak with the headphones on. But I wouldn't want it to pop up regularly.
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Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
I don't think Dave ever played it, certainly. Funny that KFOG didn't even play it during the past couple years when it was trying to compete with the Bone and KKSF and *was* playing "Sweet Home Alabama" 27 times a week. KFOG began in '82 as a "Superstars II" format (created by famous radio consultants Burkhardt & Abrams) which was an AOR format that specifically promised NOT to play "burned out" tracks like "STH", but instead would play other Zep songs that were not as overexposed ("Kashmir" for example). The Triple-A format sort of evolved from that philosophy. (Lord knows KFOG has played "Goin to California" enuf times in the last 10 years.)
So, if AL played it on 10@10, you couldn't call it a Katrina, but you'd classify it as LN?
I probably wouldn't call it an LN, since I rarely hear it anywhere (I don't really listen to The Bone or K-Fox; I'm guessing they play it occasionally). It really did sound good Friday morning on the Peak with the headphones on. But I wouldn't want it to pop up regularly.
In my book, a LN is something that regularly appears on KFOG, i.e. "Wild Wild Life", without necessarily having appeared on 10@10 enough to be a Katrina.
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In my book, a LN is something that regularly appears on KFOG, i.e. "Wild Wild Life", without necessarily having appeared on 10@10 enough to be a Katrina.
yes -- you nailed it. Tho' the fact that I listen to the Peak and Drive 10@10s regularly tends to color my perception of songs.
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Truth be told, I can't remember it ever appearing on 10@10, although the song might have been/might be a bit too rock for KFOG.
I don't think Dave ever played it, certainly. Funny that KFOG didn't even play it during the past couple years when it was trying to compete with the Bone and KKSF and *was* playing "Sweet Home Alabama" 27 times a week. KFOG began in '82 as a "Superstars II" format (created by famous radio consultants Burkhardt & Abrams) which was an AOR format that specifically promised NOT to play "burned out" tracks like "STH", but instead would play other Zep songs that were not as overexposed ("Kashmir" for example). The Triple-A format sort of evolved from that philosophy. (Lord knows KFOG has played "Goin to California" enuf times in the last 10 years.)
So, if AL played it on 10@10, you couldn't call it a Katrina, but you'd classify it as LN?
I probably wouldn't call it an LN, since I rarely hear it anywhere (I don't really listen to The Bone or K-Fox; I'm guessing they play it occasionally). It really did sound good Friday morning on the Peak with the headphones on. But I wouldn't want it to pop up regularly.
The Bone does play it every once in a while, and I turn it up every time. I will sit in my car until it's over. It is the greatest rock and roll song of all time, but I wouldn't say it's necessary in any 10@10.
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was in the car last nite bouncing around the dial. Laura Branigan's "Gloria" came on (to my great delight) and it wasn't until it ended that i discovered I was not listening to Kiss-FM as I thought, but Oldies 103.7! Kudos.
Meanwhile, how many times a week does Kiss play "Bad Mama Jama"?
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Rush (the band) hates Rush (the Limbaugh):
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/03/07/rockers-rush-gabriel-want-music-off-limbaugh-show/?tsp=1
Spirit of radio, indeed. Limbaugh's popular with sayyyyyyyyylesmayun.
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Rush (the band) hates Rush (the Limbaugh):
http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/03/07/rockers-rush-gabriel-want-music-off-limbaugh-show/?tsp=1
Spirit of radio, indeed. Limbaugh's popular with sayyyyyyyyylesmayun.
good comment:
"Rush rocks. Can't they make Limbaugh change his name too?"
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I got the Sound's email today:
"The Sound A to Z 2012 is over for now, but we’re still playing a wide range of music – everything from The Monkees to Nirvana. Why? Listener input has all been saying the same thing: 'I’m lovin’ A to Z, but would you put these cool songs on shuffle when A to Z is over, too?'
Done.
So far this week, during your drive to work, we’ve played…
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” by James Brown
“Superman” by REM
“For You” by Manfred Mann
“Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker
“Must Of Got Lost” by J. Geils Band
Just to mention a few. Many more forgotten gems to come, every morning and all day while you work...
uh, seriously?
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I got the Sound's email today:
"The Sound A to Z 2012 is over for now, but we’re still playing a wide range of music – everything from The Monkees to Nirvana. Why? Listener input has all been saying the same thing: 'I’m lovin’ A to Z, but would you put these cool songs on shuffle when A to Z is over, too?'
Done.
So far this week, during your drive to work, we’ve played…
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” by James Brown
“Superman” by REM
“For You” by Manfred Mann
“Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker
“Must Of Got Lost” by J. Geils Band
Just to mention a few. Many more forgotten gems to come, every morning and all day while you work...
uh, seriously?
I wonder if this is something that the DC-era KFOG will ever attempt again.
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I got the Sound's email today:
"The Sound A to Z 2012 is over for now, but we’re still playing a wide range of music – everything from The Monkees to Nirvana. Why? Listener input has all been saying the same thing: 'I’m lovin’ A to Z, but would you put these cool songs on shuffle when A to Z is over, too?'
Done.
So far this week, during your drive to work, we’ve played…
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” by James Brown
“Superman” by REM
“For You” by Manfred Mann
“Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker
“Must Of Got Lost” by J. Geils Band
Just to mention a few. Many more forgotten gems to come, every morning and all day while you work...
uh, seriously?
I wonder if this is something that the DC-era KFOG will ever attempt again.
The last few non-DC years (10 & 11) we haven't gotten it either, & not to mention it was really bad in 09. DC did say when he first took over that he was planning on bringing it back, although that was before the 'real' 'changeover'.
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I got the Sound's email today:
"The Sound A to Z 2012 is over for now, but we’re still playing a wide range of music – everything from The Monkees to Nirvana. Why? Listener input has all been saying the same thing: 'I’m lovin’ A to Z, but would you put these cool songs on shuffle when A to Z is over, too?'
Done.
So far this week, during your drive to work, we’ve played…
“I Got You (I Feel Good)” by James Brown
“Superman” by REM
“For You” by Manfred Mann
“Boom Boom” by John Lee Hooker
“Must Of Got Lost” by J. Geils Band
Just to mention a few. Many more forgotten gems to come, every morning and all day while you work...
uh, seriously?
I wonder if this is something that the DC-era KFOG will ever attempt again.
The last few non-DC years (10 & 11) we haven't gotten it either, & not to mention it was really bad in 09. DC did say when he first took over that he was planning on bringing it back, although that was before the 'real' 'changeover'.
The first time I ever listened to it was I believe in 1999, when it lasted about two weeks. Seemingly with each subsequent run it became shorter and shorter. With the KFOG list of today, it would last about eight hours.
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got in the car, turned on Kiss-FM and lo, they were playing Breakfast Club's "Right on Track" which I hadn't heard in several dog's ages. Another one for the 1987 AL wish-list.
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got in the car, turned on Kiss-FM and lo, they were playing Breakfast Club's "Right on Track" which I hadn't heard in several dog's ages. Another one for the 1987 AL wish-list.
Both IE Tim and I have requested this in vain. Maybe she's never heard it?
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got in the car, turned on Kiss-FM and lo, they were playing Breakfast Club's "Right on Track" which I hadn't heard in several dog's ages. Another one for the 1987 AL wish-list.
Both IE Tim and I have requested this in vain. Maybe she's never heard it?
TANC: Heard this at Trader Joe's today! It's pretty sad when the grocery store plays stuff we can't hear on 10@10.
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got in the car, turned on Kiss-FM and lo, they were playing Breakfast Club's "Right on Track" which I hadn't heard in several dog's ages. Another one for the 1987 AL wish-list.
Both IE Tim and I have requested this in vain. Maybe she's never heard it?
TANC: Heard this at Trader Joe's today! It's pretty sad when the grocery store plays stuff we can't hear on 10@10.
OTOH, I heard "Hungry Like The Wolf" on KOIT today -- which makes it an automatic LN from here on in.
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got in the car, turned on Kiss-FM and lo, they were playing Breakfast Club's "Right on Track" which I hadn't heard in several dog's ages. Another one for the 1987 AL wish-list.
Both IE Tim and I have requested this in vain. Maybe she's never heard it?
TANC: Heard this at Trader Joe's today! It's pretty sad when the grocery store plays stuff we can't hear on 10@10.
OTOH, I heard "Hungry Like The Wolf" on KOIT today -- which makes it an automatic LN from here on in.
I was waiting for my sandwiches at Charley's Market on Irving and 41st, and they were playing the Bone, who was doing a Mondegreen lunch set!
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Today's Chron Datebook is focused on radio. Basically some big wet kisses blown at Live 105 (!) and Ben Fong-Torres gets to say nice things about KDOG again. But a nice piece about Bobby "Spider" Webb from KPOO.
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In a semi-related vein, big changes on the progressive talk radio scene. I rarely get to listen to Thom Hartmann or Randi Rhodes live any more, but I sneak it in once in a while. Today, during my prep period, I turned on my iPhone radio program to listen to some Thom Hartmann (should be required listening for anyone desiring to get up to speed on current events) and found he'd changed his time slot to go up against Randi Rhodes! These are probably the two biggest progressive talkers, and now they're in the same slot?
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In a semi-related vein, big changes on the progressive talk radio scene. I rarely get to listen to Thom Hartmann or Randi Rhodes live any more, but I sneak it in once in a while. Today, during my prep period, I turned on my iPhone radio program to listen to some Thom Hartmann (should be required listening for anyone desiring to get up to speed on current events) and found he'd changed his time slot to go up against Randi Rhodes! These are probably the two biggest progressive talkers, and now they're in the same slot?
Totally agreed on Hartmann... listening to him reminds me of a little bit of an intense college course.
OTOH, I never quite got the appeal of Rhodes... a little too "me me me" for my tastes. Stephanie Miller is far funnier (and for that matter, informative).
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In a semi-related vein, big changes on the progressive talk radio scene. I rarely get to listen to Thom Hartmann or Randi Rhodes live any more, but I sneak it in once in a while. Today, during my prep period, I turned on my iPhone radio program to listen to some Thom Hartmann (should be required listening for anyone desiring to get up to speed on current events) and found he'd changed his time slot to go up against Randi Rhodes! These are probably the two biggest progressive talkers, and now they're in the same slot?
Totally agreed on Hartmann... listening to him reminds me of a little bit of an intense college course.
OTOH, I never quite got the appeal of Rhodes... a little too "me me me" for my tastes. Stephanie Miller is far funnier (and for that matter, informative).
I love Stephanie, and listen to her via my earpiece in the morning on KTLK in LA. I don't know the ratings (where do you find those sort of things?) but I think Thom and Randi are the two biggest, but I could be wrong, and I don't know what Ed Schultz' ratings are either. Randi can be grating at times, but over the years, I've found her big picture analysis to be spot-on.
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Heads-up for vintage Soul fans: KPOO's oldies guy begins a 2-part salute to Stax/Volt on his show tonite at 8:30 He'll be going chronologically; tonite will cover the Fifties thru (roughly) 1966 and part 2 next Monday will go from there thru the '70s. Not to be missed.
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For you young'uns: a "gen-X oldies" format on a station on Lawn Guyland:
http://www.my94x.com/Listen-Live/6089805
They basically play Top 40 hits from 1985-2005. I just tuned in and they went from "Hollaback Girl" to Mariah Carey's "Someday". This shit is bananas, all right. I'm told they play quite a bit of rock too. Will investigate more tomorrow.
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For you young'uns: a "gen-X oldies" format on a station on Lawn Guyland:
http://www.my94x.com/Listen-Live/6089805
They basically play Top 40 hits from 1985-2005. I just tuned in and they went from "Hollaback Girl" to Mariah Carey's "Someday". This shit is bananas, all right. I'm told they play quite a bit of rock too. Will investigate more tomorrow.
Damned gen-Xers and their incessant navel gazing....
;)
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For you young'uns: a "gen-X oldies" format on a station on Lawn Guyland:
http://www.my94x.com/Listen-Live/6089805
They basically play Top 40 hits from 1985-2005. I just tuned in and they went from "Hollaback Girl" to Mariah Carey's "Someday". This shit is bananas, all right. I'm told they play quite a bit of rock too. Will investigate more tomorrow.
Damned gen-Xers and their incessant navel gazing....
;)
you know who never gazes into their navels?
RUSH, that's who. Always looking forward, my friends! None of that schmaltzy nostalgia for THIS Canadian power trio, eh?!
a new album rumored for late May:
http://ultimateclassicrock.com/rushs-new-album-reported-to-be-released-on-may-29/
(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2012/03/Rush-Ethan-Miller.jpg)
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For you young'uns: a "gen-X oldies" format on a station on Lawn Guyland:
http://www.my94x.com/Listen-Live/6089805
They basically play Top 40 hits from 1985-2005. I just tuned in and they went from "Hollaback Girl" to Mariah Carey's "Someday". This shit is bananas, all right. I'm told they play quite a bit of rock too. Will investigate more tomorrow.
Damned gen-Xers and their incessant navel gazing....
;)
This should really be from 1984-1995. And it's shoegazing, people!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoegazing
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(http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2012/03/Rush-Ethan-Miller.jpg)
That's so cool they got William Shatner to jam with them!
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For you young'uns: a "gen-X oldies" format on a station on Lawn Guyland:
http://www.my94x.com/Listen-Live/6089805
They basically play Top 40 hits from 1985-2005. I just tuned in and they went from "Hollaback Girl" to Mariah Carey's "Someday". This shit is bananas, all right. I'm told they play quite a bit of rock too. Will investigate more tomorrow.
Damned gen-Xers and their incessant navel gazing....
;)
gonna listen to them for the next hour -- we're starting off with DM's "Enjoy the Silence"
Damn -- the reverb they're using on the deejay makes '60s Top 40 sound like NPR.
Finger Eleven, "One Thing"
Lauryn Hill, "Doo Wop (That Thing)"
yay! we get RickRolled! "Never Gonna Give You up"
Salt'n'Pepa, "Whatta man" (HAAAAAAAY!)
Justin Timberlake, "What Goes Around..."
Alanis Meredith Brooks, "Bitch"
Nelly, "Country Grammar"
Black Crowes, "Hard to Handle"
AB Logic "The Hitman"
Bon Jovi, "Livin' on a Prayer"
Seal, "Crazy"
Well, that was kinda interesting. Wouldn't want it as a steady diet (and that Nelly --> Black Crowes segue is dicey) but if I were 35 I'd be all over it -- surprised this format isn't more widespread, market-wise.
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The Peak did another of their "what do you like/dislike?" polls on FB. Best comment:
In general, I'd rather hear less of whomever just won a ton of Grammy Awards (i.e. Adele), a band I can hear on every other station, or see playing on The Today Show (i.e. Coldplay), or someone who is in heavy rotation on LITE FM (i.e. John Mayer). For the duration of those songs, you become like all the stations I try to ignore by choosing to listen to The Peak in the first place.
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USC is buying KCNL 104.9 in order to make it a simulcast of KDFC.
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USC is buying KCNL 104.9 in order to make it a simulcast of KDFC.
Where is the transmitter? How strong?
answering my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNL
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
As I noted on FB, in 2 hours of Live 105 Sunday afternoon, I heard "We Are Young" 3 times. Damn, I hate People-Meters.
The KREV figure actually seems low, considering I hear songs twice an hour --I'm guessing different mixes of the same song count as different songs? I also see they've added the Billy Bush syndicated crapfest in evenings. Heard a bit at the gym tonite -- yeesh. And they played a dance mix of "Pumped-Up Kicks" that was painful.
And I guess the KFOG number seems right -- 38 spins per week is roughly 5-1/2 times a day, when you factor in all the "specialty" shows on Sunday.
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
"Simple Song," "Cough Syrup," and "Love Interruption." Also "It's Time," but that looks like it's about to be replaced by "Gold on the Ceiling." "Somebody That I Used to Know" just got bumped down to 10x this week, although it was in high rotation for months.
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Jeez...talk about a drive-by!
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Jeez...talk about a drive-by!
and they didn't even give him a Hefty bag to hold his stuff.
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Jeez...talk about a drive-by!
and they didn't even give him a Hefty bag to hold his stuff.
Criminy, I know the man has more than his share of issues, still it seems like a fairly shitty way of letting him go.
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Jeez...talk about a drive-by!
and they didn't even give him a Hefty bag to hold his stuff.
AWWWWWWK-ward!
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Our Canuck friends at CKRU-FM appear to have tweaked their music mix -- adding a lot of '90s tunes they never used to play and de-emphasizing '60s stuff. Just heard the BNLs, who never used to pop up in rotation.
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Went looking for Ben Fong-Torres' Radio Waves column on SFGate today, since it's been two weeks since the last one. There doesn't seem to be one, so I'm hoping this means Ben is on vacay or something. TC, any news you can offer as to the whereabouts of Radio Waves?
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
"Simple Song," "Cough Syrup," and "Love Interruption." Also "It's Time," but that looks like it's about to be replaced by "Gold on the Ceiling." "Somebody That I Used to Know" just got bumped down to 10x this week, although it was in high rotation for months.
another Sunday afternoon at the gym, another 2 hours of Live 105 -- and it seemed to me I heard alot more non-shared-with-KFOG songs than I did a month ago (don't ask me to name any). Yeah, they're still playing Gotye, Fun(period) and Coldplay hourly, but could it be that someone finally figured out that being "KFOG without the '80s" is a bad business plan?
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
"Simple Song," "Cough Syrup," and "Love Interruption." Also "It's Time," but that looks like it's about to be replaced by "Gold on the Ceiling." "Somebody That I Used to Know" just got bumped down to 10x this week, although it was in high rotation for months.
another Sunday afternoon at the gym, another 2 hours of Live 105 -- and it seemed to me I heard alot more non-shared-with-KFOG songs than I did a month ago (don't ask me to name any). Yeah, they're still playing Gotye, Fun(period) and Coldplay hourly, but could it be that someone finally figured out that being "KFOG without the '80s" is a bad business plan?
I wouldn't hold my breath. You might have just gotten a lucky two hours. Of their current Top 12, eight are shared with KFOG.
3 1 FUN. We Are Young f/Janelle Monae 89 86 3 0.7361
1 2 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know 89 90 -1 0.752
4 3 GROUPLOVE Tongue Tied 88 74 14 0.7418
2 4 M83 Midnight City 88 88 0 0.7422
8 5 COLDPLAY Paradise 53 51 2 0.4594
7 6 AVICII Levels 51 51 0 0.4446
19 7 NEON TREES Everybody Talks 51 23 28 0.4481
6 8 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup 51 55 -4 0.4365
27 9 CALVIN HARRIS Feel So Close 49 12 37 0.418
12 10 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop (Color On The Walls 47 42 5 0.3783
11 11 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling 46 43 3 0.3896
5 12 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks 46 64 -18 0.3888
The other four being Grouplove, M83, Avicii, and Calvin Harris. Interesting that the latter three (and to a degree, even Grouplove) are straight-up electronica.
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The Razor has been, er, cut:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieri-let-go-by-knbr/?tsp=1
Well, now Cumulus doesn't have to pay for his Parkinsons-related medical bills, I guess.
Wow, Haven't RTFA, but he's been around since I was in high school.
Ralph's comments on SFGate -- the whole firing process took 7 minutes:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/11/ralph-barbieris-response-to-being-fired-by-knbr/?tsp=1
and the war begins! Ralph hires Angela Alioto and sues for wrongful termination:
http://blog.sfgate.com/sportsevents/2012/04/15/ralph-barbieri-and-knbr-release-dueling-press-releases/?tsp=1
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So, as Kaiser was blocking live-streams today, I *was* able to listen to podcasts, and I stumbled across old airchecks of Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie and others.
Over the intro to "Seasons in the Sun": "... and now let's listen as Terry... Jacks." Ah, those were the days.
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So, as Kaiser was blocking live-streams today, I *was* able to listen to podcasts, and I stumbled across old airchecks of Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie and others.
Over the intro to "Seasons in the Sun": "... and now let's listen as Terry... Jacks." Ah, those were the days.
Just wondering why they're just blocking streams for only a couple of days--hope they're not testing out a new policy or something.
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So, as Kaiser was blocking live-streams today, I *was* able to listen to podcasts, and I stumbled across old airchecks of Dan Ingram, Cousin Brucie and others.
Over the intro to "Seasons in the Sun": "... and now let's listen as Terry... Jacks." Ah, those were the days.
Just wondering why they're just blocking streams for only a couple of days--hope they're not testing out a new policy or something.
Kaiser's annual Conference is going on in LA -- it's a national thing and they're streaming all the events internally so that folks from the East Coast don't have to travel. Happened last year too. But it does prove they CAN block all live streams if they ever want to...
I brought my 20-year-old Walkman to work today so I'm good-to-go for 1992.
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
"Simple Song," "Cough Syrup," and "Love Interruption." Also "It's Time," but that looks like it's about to be replaced by "Gold on the Ceiling." "Somebody That I Used to Know" just got bumped down to 10x this week, although it was in high rotation for months.
another Sunday afternoon at the gym, another 2 hours of Live 105 -- and it seemed to me I heard alot more non-shared-with-KFOG songs than I did a month ago (don't ask me to name any). Yeah, they're still playing Gotye, Fun(period) and Coldplay hourly, but could it be that someone finally figured out that being "KFOG without the '80s" is a bad business plan?
I wouldn't hold my breath. You might have just gotten a lucky two hours. Of their current Top 12, eight are shared with KFOG.
3 1 FUN. We Are Young f/Janelle Monae 89 86 3 0.7361
1 2 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know 89 90 -1 0.752
4 3 GROUPLOVE Tongue Tied 88 74 14 0.7418
2 4 M83 Midnight City 88 88 0 0.7422
8 5 COLDPLAY Paradise 53 51 2 0.4594
7 6 AVICII Levels 51 51 0 0.4446
19 7 NEON TREES Everybody Talks 51 23 28 0.4481
6 8 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup 51 55 -4 0.4365
27 9 CALVIN HARRIS Feel So Close 49 12 37 0.418
12 10 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop (Color On The Walls 47 42 5 0.3783
11 11 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling 46 43 3 0.3896
5 12 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks 46 64 -18 0.3888
The other four being Grouplove, M83, Avicii, and Calvin Harris. Interesting that the latter three (and to a degree, even Grouplove) are straight-up electronica.
LMAO...speak of the devil, KFOG just added Grouplove! As well as the new Dirty Heads, which is also no doubt going to be a Live 105 overplay, though I could do without that one. Neither of these are that hot on Triple A, in general...Grouplove has a grand combined total of 45 spins on all AAA stations and Dirty Heads has even less than that. DC really is trying to go for Live 105's jugular.
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Holy smokes: Live 105 has upped their Top four songs to 87-89 spins per week. ( :o & ::) ) A few weeks ago they were 70-74...before that, ~60.
Alice, Star, and Mix aren't much better, with highs in the upper 60s.
KREV's top songs are between 114-119. Movin's are from 115 to 127. ::)
In contrast...KFOG tops out at 38. The top 6 have 26-38 spins per week. Everything else, 16 or less.
So those six would be... "Drive By", "Somebody That I Used To Know", "We Are Young"... and what other three?
"Simple Song," "Cough Syrup," and "Love Interruption." Also "It's Time," but that looks like it's about to be replaced by "Gold on the Ceiling." "Somebody That I Used to Know" just got bumped down to 10x this week, although it was in high rotation for months.
another Sunday afternoon at the gym, another 2 hours of Live 105 -- and it seemed to me I heard alot more non-shared-with-KFOG songs than I did a month ago (don't ask me to name any). Yeah, they're still playing Gotye, Fun(period) and Coldplay hourly, but could it be that someone finally figured out that being "KFOG without the '80s" is a bad business plan?
I wouldn't hold my breath. You might have just gotten a lucky two hours. Of their current Top 12, eight are shared with KFOG.
3 1 FUN. We Are Young f/Janelle Monae 89 86 3 0.7361
1 2 GOTYE Somebody That I Used To Know 89 90 -1 0.752
4 3 GROUPLOVE Tongue Tied 88 74 14 0.7418
2 4 M83 Midnight City 88 88 0 0.7422
8 5 COLDPLAY Paradise 53 51 2 0.4594
7 6 AVICII Levels 51 51 0 0.4446
19 7 NEON TREES Everybody Talks 51 23 28 0.4481
6 8 YOUNG THE GIANT Cough Syrup 51 55 -4 0.4365
27 9 CALVIN HARRIS Feel So Close 49 12 37 0.418
12 10 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Don't Stop (Color On The Walls 47 42 5 0.3783
11 11 BLACK KEYS Gold On The Ceiling 46 43 3 0.3896
5 12 FOSTER THE PEOPLE Pumped Up Kicks 46 64 -18 0.3888
The other four being Grouplove, M83, Avicii, and Calvin Harris. Interesting that the latter three (and to a degree, even Grouplove) are straight-up electronica.
LMAO...speak of the devil, KFOG just added Grouplove! As well as the new Dirty Heads, which is also no doubt going to be a Live 105 overplay, though I could do without that one. Neither of these are that hot on Triple A, in general...Grouplove has a grand combined total of 45 spins on all AAA stations and Dirty Heads has even less than that. DC really is trying to go for Live 105's jugular.
OMFG...THEY'RE PLAYING M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY!!!! (And it's not New Music Thursday!) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
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OMFG...THEY'RE PLAYING M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY!!!! (And it's not New Music Thursday!) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
they played it right before 10@10 this morning too.
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OMFG...THEY'RE PLAYING M83 - MIDNIGHT CITY!!!! (And it's not New Music Thursday!) :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o
they played it right before 10@10 this morning too.
OTOH, KFOG is also playing the new Lisa Marie Presley -- WTFF??
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An East Bay Express piece on the changes at KBLX:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/EarBud/archives/2012/05/03/quiet-storm-brand-may-dissolve-in-wake-of-kblx-sale
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Meant to note this earlier in the week, but apparently Gene Burns, who had been hired by 910 AM after KGO let him go, and who then had a stroke, is offically not returning to radio anytime soon. Gil Gross (also ex-KGO) has been given Gene's timeslot on 910 permanently.
And Gil (with whom I worked many years ago at ABC) is just terrific. Sad circumstances, obviously but nice to see him get a regular gig.
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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?
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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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Listening to Kiss-FM, thinking maybe they'd be playing Donna Summer (so far no luck) but it was weird hearing Mike Krukow doing that AAA car insurance commercial that references the Giants -- I figured those only ran on Cumulus stations; Kiss-FM is Clear Channel.
ETA: another oddity... if a song is followed by commercials, Kiss-FM's stream will play another song by the same artist. It's happened twice this hour (first Lisa Lisa and then Janet Jackson) so I'm assuming it's not coincidence. WDAS (which is also on the iHeartRadio platform) does not do this.
OMFG: Newcleus, "Jam on It". Smurf voices on black records in the '80s: worst. fad. evah.
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Listening to Kiss-FM, thinking maybe they'd be playing Donna Summer (so far no luck) but it was weird hearing Mike Krukow doing that AAA car insurance commercial that references the Giants -- I figured those only ran on Cumulus stations; Kiss-FM is Clear Channel.
ETA: another oddity... if a song is followed by commercials, Kiss-FM's stream will play another song by the same artist. It's happened twice this hour (first Lisa Lisa and then Janet Jackson) so I'm assuming it's not coincidence. WDAS (which is also on the iHeartRadio platform) does not do this.
OMFG: Newcleus, "Jam on It". Smurf voices on black records in the '80s: worst. fad. evah.
on my lunchtime constitutional I dialed up KBLX (102.9 FM) and heard Bad Girls
toot toot! beep beep!
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And so my search for a new morning radio home begins. I tried Kiss-FM today; musically they're perfectly fine but... while I realize Renel has to be voice-tracked (at least during baseball season), it all sounds so... canned. Tomorrow: KQED.
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Renee's on with new music. Had not been a big fan of her in the morning, but compared to Melanie...Renee sounds absolutely sublime.
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Renee's on with new music. Had not been a big fan of her in the morning, but compared to Melanie...Renee sounds absolutely sublime.
Bwahahaha! She's like an adult sent in to explain radio to the children.
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Renee's on with new music. Had not been a big fan of her in the morning, but compared to Melanie...Renee sounds absolutely sublime.
absolutely what I was thinking. Not a huge Renee fan, but I was like "thank GOD you're here!"
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More Cumulosity: KGO had replaced its overnite programming with "Red Eye Radio" (aka the Midnite Truckers Network, also owned by sCumulus) back in Dec. As a very right-wing-ish show, it was of course a very poor fit with KGO and they've moved it to KSFO. Now they're running a feed of Bloomberg radio from NYC and per a poster on the NYRMB it includes NY weather traffic and local commercials, which led that poster to ask "is anyone competent in charge over there?" (you don't know the half of it, bub!) Another poster commented
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!
The answer seems to be ... no.
I'll have to listen again to make sure this is the absolute truth, but the person between Noon and 2pm, Kim Foster, is a news anchor, not a talk host, and that's still a news block. And they had been running news (albeit a badly-done one, hosted by a refugee from the KFOG Morning Show) from 7pm-Midnight, which now seems to end at 11pm so they can carry Bloomberg. I should point out that the 11pm hour is the audio from the "Bloomberg West" TV program, which is produced locally, contains local (largely Silicon Valley) content, but is 8 hours old by the time it airs on KGO.
The consensus out here is that the asylum has been turned over to the inmates. And now that the inmates have pillaged and burned KGO, they've set their sites on KFOG. I'm left wondering if this could be revenge for Sherman's march through Georgia.
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Someone on the radio-info.com SF Board posted this rather amusing bit: imagine if Classical stations had Morning Zoos...
Mahler-Boy: "Y'know, Joshua Bell is going to be in San Francisco playing his fiddle with the symphony. I think that's AWESOME!"
DJ Scherzo: "You're all happy because you have a crush on him. ADMIT it!"
Mahler-Boy: "Well, it's a man-crush. Just like you and Yo Yo Ma."
DJ Scherzo: "Yeah, but cello players are STUDS! I asked my girlfriend about Yo Yo Ma and she went all dreamy, so I know it's stud power at work there."
Mahler-Boy: "Well, I happen to like Joshua Bell because he's GOOD! Have you heard him do Bruch's Concerto #1? Well, I HAVE, and he rocks on it. He played it with the San Francisco Symphony and they couldn't even keep up with him. "
DJ Scherzo: "Yeah, but they threw in some Wagner on that show, so that's cheating. Anybody can make Wagner sound good. You can drive a truck through a Wagner concert and it won't even hurt the sound."
Mahler-Boy: "Which reminds me, we're late with traffic. Here's Joe McBeethoven with traffic...
Joe McBeethoven: "Well, there's a jack-knifed big rig on the Nimitz. They spilled a number of violins on the freeway, but since they're low-priced Chinese violins, the CHP doesn't expect any traffic backup."
DJ Scherzo: "Can I pick one up for my kid?"
Mahler-Boy: "Yeah, she destroyed her last one, swatting at her brother."
Joe McBeethoven: "Over on Ygnacio Valley Road, there's a slowdown, probably for the concert at the Lesher Center."
Mahler-Boy: "Naw, they're playing Gershwin and nobody but blue-haired grandmas go to Gershwin..."
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KMTT/Seattle appears to no longer be Triple A. They look like something between Classic Rock and Jack. The only things they are spinning that are close to currents are "Somebody That I Used to Know" (9x) and Rolling in the Deep (7x) -- and they don't show up anymore in the mediabase AAA airplay leaders for these. There are also a handful of current songs that have one spin apiece. Too bad -- they used to be one of my favorite AAA stations.
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KMTT/Seattle appears to no longer be Triple A. They look like something between Classic Rock and Jack. The only things they are spinning that are close to currents are "Somebody That I Used to Know" (9x) and Rolling in the Deep (7x) -- and they don't show up anymore in the mediabase AAA airplay leaders for these. There are also a handful of current songs that have one spin apiece. Too bad -- they used to be one of my favorite AAA stations.
A couple of years ago they did that great countdown of songs that rip off other songs. Didn't Benson spend some time there after he left KFOG?
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Big news in Beantown: Oldoes WODS flips to CHR today as "AMP 103" or something. the oldies format moves to HD-2 (and presumably Barry Scott's "Lost 45s" as well)
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/107621/wods-to-flip-to-top-40-as-103-3-amp-radio-tomorrow
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so, I heard once on the Stephanie Miller Show (listening to KTLK via iPhone) that the local outlet KNEW had a big ratings decline when it switched from her show to Glenn Beck, I think it was in the beginning of the year. You guys know a lot more about radio than I do. How would one find that sort of info?
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The "all-news on FM for a younger female demo" experiment in NY and Chicago has ended as both stations with that format, after a year of dreadful ratings, have switched to alt-rock. The first half-hour:
BEASTIE BOYS/No Sleep Til Brooklyn
ALEX CLARE/Too Close
FOO FIGHTERS/Walk
THIRD EYE BLIND/Graduate
PHOENIX/1901
OF MONSTERS AND MEN/Little Talks
OFFSPRING/Self Esteem
BLACK KEYS/Tighten Up
PEARL JAM/Daughter
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE/Guerilla Radio
wonder if they'll be playing currents ("Little Talks" et al) as many times a day as Live 105 does...
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The "all-news on FM for a younger female demo" experiment in NY and Chicago has ended as both stations with that format, after a year of dreadful ratings, have switched to alt-rock. The first half-hour:
BEASTIE BOYS/No Sleep Til Brooklyn
ALEX CLARE/Too Close
FOO FIGHTERS/Walk
THIRD EYE BLIND/Graduate
PHOENIX/1901
OF MONSTERS AND MEN/Little Talks
OFFSPRING/Self Esteem
BLACK KEYS/Tighten Up
PEARL JAM/Daughter
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE/Guerilla Radio
wonder if they'll be playing currents ("Little Talks" et al) as many times a day as Live 105 does...
WTH was all news for younger female demo? reciting tweets and gawker blogs? I imagine a station that can easily change format from NEWS to that kind of music was doing what too many web sites now do to harvest clicks: repurpose eye candy items from other sites. They obviously had no "real" news department beyond a couple people who crawled the wires.
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WTH was all news for younger female demo? reciting tweets and gawker blogs? I imagine a station that can easily change format from NEWS to that kind of music was doing what too many web sites now do to harvest clicks: repurpose eye candy items from other sites. They obviously had no "real" news department beyond a couple people who crawled the wires.
you are not far off with that description, actually. Lots of "entertainment" news and giggly bubbleheaded anchorpeople. It tanked, and after 6 months both stations tried to get more "serious" but it was too late.
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Amusing gaffe reported by the NYRMB:
"Sherman Hemsley (famous for playing George Jefferson) passed away. At 5:40am-ish today 1010 WINS did the story and instead of the theme from THE JEFFERSONS, they played the theme from THE JETSONS under the story. George JETSON didn't die. FAIL!"
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I've mentioned The Peak's Sun nite show "Anything Anything" -- a free-form show similar to KFOG's old "Adventure Hours" I really need to start listening to this. Here's last nite's playlist:
Anything, Anything - Dramarama
Theme from The Jeffersons - Ja’net DuBois & Jeff Barry
Ghost Fever - Sherman Hemsley (RIP Sherman)
Ghosts Of Princes In Towers - Rich Kids
Prince Charming - Adam & The Ants
Even A Dog Can Shake Hands - Warren Zevon
Me And You And A Dog Named Boo - Lobo
You and Me - Outside The Box
Here Comes My Man - The Gaslight Anthem
Luxury - The Rolling Stones
Miami - Counting Crows
Square Dance For Round Cats - Edd Byrnes
Turn A Square - The Shins
turn it up - Man raze
Bringing on the heartbreak - Def Leppard
Bring On The Night - Bruce Springsteen
Lucky Girl - Patti Scialfa (happy bday Patti)
Happy Hour - The Housemartins
I Don’t Want to Know If You Are Lonely - Husker Du
Lonely Boy - Paul Anka (happy bday Paul)
Lonely Boy - Black keys
catholic boy - Jim Carroll with pearl jam (happy bday Jim)
People Who Died - Ariel Aprecio
All Strung out Chad Everett (RIP Chad)
Don’t Ease Me In - Grateful Dead (happy bday Jerry Garcia)
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl (happy bday Sid Krofft)
B-A-B-Y - Rachel Sweet (happy bday Rachel)
Jackie Onassis - Human Sexual Response (happy bday Jackie)
chapel bells - Fascinators (happy bday Dad)
That's some impressive range, ahtellyawhut.
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The July ratings are out and...ouch. :-\
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
2.2.
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The July ratings are out and...ouch. :-\
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
2.2.
hrm. Hard to say if this is residual/delayed Twitch-ism (some people who defected probably think he's still here), or what. Alice is down slightly and Live 105 is unchanged, so... WTF?
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The July ratings are out and...ouch. :-\
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
2.2.
hrm. Hard to say if this is residual/delayed Twitch-ism (some people who defected probably think he's still here), or what. Alice is down slightly and Live 105 is unchanged, so... WTF?
More Fogheads switching to Pandora? Also, KUFX is up by 0.2.
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The July ratings are out and...ouch. :-\
http://www.radio-info.com/markets/san-francisco
2.2.
hrm. Hard to say if this is residual/delayed Twitch-ism (some people who defected probably think he's still here), or what. Alice is down slightly and Live 105 is unchanged, so... WTF?
More Fogheads switching to Pandora?
Cumulus: "our evil plan to drive people away from terrestrial radio is working! Bwahahaha!"
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Sad to report that 1340 The Boardwalk, that Carolina Beach Music station I was so enamored of, has bitten the dust. They're now a right-wing talk station. RIP.
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It's all so depressing. I'm off to XM radio.
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"The new Live 105! It *IS* better!" (so sez their new top-of-the-hour sounder.)
"Live 105! This is *OUR* music!" That HAS to be a dig at KFOG, no? played right before they spun Grouplove for the billionth time, but whatevs. They seem to be trying to seize the moment in any case. Like, "old people shouldn't be listening to Green Day, dammit!"
And speaking of, has KFOG totally backed off on playing "Oh Love"? I only see 2 spins in the last 24 hours -- unlike Alanis' "Guardian" which is getting the Mumford/fun./Matt Nathanson treatment.
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Gaz will be pleased to hear that Barry Scott's "Lost 45s" has a Boston station again (WOCD has switched formats a few months back, leaving the show chomeless). It will now be heard on 105.7 WROR.
http://www.wror.com/
(jeez, how far outside of the city is this station? "Loren and Wally"? they make Cliff and Norm from Cheers look like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.)
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A trend? 2 stations switched to all-comedy formats last week. Boston's WXKS-AM 1200 (formerly right-wing talk):
http://www.mattyscomedy1200.com/main.html
and a Canadian station, Funny 820 (had been country):
http://www.funny820.com/
ETA: turns out both stations are running the same syndicated service. Lots of clips of comedians. Some very funny stuff, but in an attempt to cover all bases, you segue from Louis Black (great) to Larry the Cable Guy (feh). Or from Ron White to Lisa Lampanelli. A mixed bag to say the least.
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A trend? 2 stations switched to all-comedy formats last week. Boston's WXKS-AM 1200 (formerly right-wing talk):
http://www.mattyscomedy1200.com/main.html
and a Canadian station, Funny 820:
http://www.funny820.com/
ETA: turns out both stations are running the same syndicated service. Lots of clips of comedians. Some very funny stuff, but in an attempt to cover all bases, you segue from Louis Black (great) to Larry the Cable Guy (feh). Or from Ron White to Lisa Lampanelli. A mixed bag to say the least.
I can't imagine it will last. And how long before they land in hot water because an F-bomb slips through?
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Gaz will be pleased to hear that Barry Scott's "Lost 45s" has a Boston station again (WOCD has switched formats a few months back, leaving the show chomeless). It will now be heard on 105.7 WROR.
http://www.wror.com/
(jeez, how far outside of the city is this station? "Loren and Wally"? they make Cliff and Norm from Cheers look like Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.)
The only bad thing about listening to "Lost 45s" is hearing Scott Brown's re-election ads. Feh.
However... BONUS! WROR follows "Lost 45s" with Little Steven! "I Can Only Give You Everything" indeed.
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sCumulus strikes again: remember a few months back when KFOG dedicated a day to World Concern, that Xtian ministry raising $$ to fight parasites that kill undernourished third-world kids (or something)? Well, KGO did the same thing last week and Rich Lieberman says it wasn't as charitable as it may have seemed:
KGO's all-day, (Wednesday), on-air charity to World Concern, a Christian outreach ministry; a day in which commercial spots were not played, was, in fact, a client of the station. Furthermore, according to two independent sources close to KGO, the "charity" paid for the commercial time and made it appear as if it were a charity event.
Both sources provided information on the condition that they were not named due to the nature of the story.
Added one source: "this was a far cry from the leukemia foundation work where KGO really did give up all its time and all the money went to the search for a cure."
Added the other source: "I'd be willing to bet the reason KGO dropped all their ads for a day to fight parasites....is that they were either being paid by Christa or getting a cut of the donations."
It would be great to know. Repeated calls to KGO were not returned.
Curiously, the all-day event was not promoted much and appeared out of nowhere. In addition, most on-air staffers seemed indifferent, at best, to the goings-on. Even Ronn Owens seemed to pooh-pooh the proceedings.
"It's even uglier than you thought.", offered one of the sources.
This sort of reeks of distortion, if it's true, and I stand by my source's information. Nobody faults any non-profit providing aid and contributions to people and kids who need it. Only it would have been nice if KGO sought to inform its listeners where exactly the donations were going and, more importantly, if this was really a true no-commercial affair or that the organization paid for the time.
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and here's "Maybe I'm Amazed" -- once a KFOG staple that disappeared for a while. It's back.
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Greg Kihn leaving K-FOX:
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2012/09/breaking-greg-kihn-parts-ways-at-kfox.html
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So, I'm looking at this mornings music log for "the new sound of KFOX" and sorry, but I'm not feelin' it.
Everlast -- feh. 4 Non-Blondes -- uber-feh. Pearl jam and RHCPs too -- mixed together with (and sometimes segued to/from) the '70s wimp-pop likes of "Margaritaville" and "Sister Golden Hair". It may be "expanded" but it's also all-over-the-place and designed to confuse as many as it entertains. Do America fans want to hear Everlast? or vice-versa? Color me skeptical.
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Is KISS FM's old school R&B plus (synth-pop) Eighties format part of a national trend or unique to that station? It sounds like a Puff Daddy song deconstructed.
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Is KISS FM's old school R&B plus (synth-pop) Eighties format part of a national trend or unique to that station? It sounds like a Puff Daddy song deconstructed.
They seem to be one of the first stations to do that. Happened because Clear Channel owns both KISS and Oldies 103.7 and so the idea was to have 2 formats that didn't overlap/cannibalize each other. It was risky -- would their core demo of black people in their 40s freak out about hearing Human League? -- but it seems to be working.
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Our own Tinka Cat was the first person to win tix (Joe Walsh) from Annalisa this morning. Congrats!
It's nice to hear AL's voice but the show's pretty bare-bones -- she needs a newsperson and some traffic reports, ASAP. And I dunno if I can handle Whitesnake at 6am.
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Our own Tinka Cat was the first person to win tix (Joe Walsh) from Annalisa this morning. Congrats!
It's nice to hear AL's voice but the show's pretty bare-bones -- she needs a newsperson and some traffic reports, ASAP. And I dunno if I can handle Whitesnake at 6am.
Congrats Tinka!
Yeah, as much as I like AL, from what I'm hearing r/ KFOX, I'll stick w/ KFOG.
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It's nice to hear AL's voice but the show's pretty bare-bones.
Yeah, it's a pretty small sample size so far, but she seemed to talk more between songs on KFOG. I thought morning drive time was all about gabbing.
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It's nice to hear AL's voice but the show's pretty bare-bones.
Yeah, it's a pretty small sample size so far, but she seemed to talk more between songs on KFOG. I thought morning drive time was all about gabbing.
I guess that -- for the moment -- they want everyone to be amazed by their, like, totally awesome expanded playlist! But except for a brief mention of which teams won over the weekend, I didn't hear much in the way of current events between 6 and 7 am. Which (just as with KFOG) is the only time I'll probably listen.
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I guess that -- for the moment -- they want everyone to be amazed by their, like, totally awesome expanded playlist!
Their playlist was pretty minuscule before, but their "new" 80s and 90s songs sound just as tired as their 70s standards.
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Our own Tinka Cat was the first person to win tix (Joe Walsh) from Annalisa this morning. Congrats!
It's nice to hear AL's voice but the show's pretty bare-bones -- she needs a newsperson and some traffic reports, ASAP. And I dunno if I can handle Whitesnake at 6am.
Congrats Tinka!
Yeah, as much as I like AL, from what I'm hearing r/ KFOX, I'll stick w/ KFOG.
pretty psyched to win..! I'm surprised I got through at all, but it was pretty early (for me, anyway).
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Per a post on radio-info.com... Around 9:40 AM on Tuesday, Ronn Owens was talking about the Green Bay/Seattle game and a caller, in an attempt to show how bad the replacement refs are, said "it would be like someone buying a talk radio station and hiring a bunch of replacement hosts."
LOL! Apparently Ronn didn't acknowledge the comment.
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Per a post on radio-info.com... Around 9:40 AM on Tuesday, Ronn Owens was talking about the Green Bay/Seattle game and a caller, in an attempt to show how bad the replacement refs are, said "it would be like someone buying a talk radio station and hiring a bunch of replacement hosts."
LOL! Apparently Ronn didn't acknowledge the comment.
That's pretty funny.
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KPOO appears to be off-the-air since yesterday, tho' they are still streaming live.
and I mentioned this on FB, but amid speculation that The Bone might "go older" to pick up disaffected former KFOX listeners, yesterday I heard the Bone play Living Color, "Cult of Personality" which didn't use to be in their wheelhouse. They're also doing 10@10-ish flashback segments all weekend, mixing songs and news clips from specific years.
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September ratings are in:
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
KFOG pretty much holds steady. Ditto K-FOX, Live 105, Alice. Slight uptick for The Bone. KNBR, thanks to the Giants, is #1
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KPOO appears to be off-the-air since yesterday, tho' they are still streaming live.
KPOO appeared to be back on the air yesterday, so they were down for apx a week. Their signal sounded strong last nite; dunno if the repairs had a side-effect of boosting their power but that would be nice if so.
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flipped on K-FOX last nite around 9:30 and was surprised they were playing Tracy Chapman's "Give me One Reason". And I thought: well that's not very compatible with AC/DC and the Scorpions. And sure enuf we then got the trainwreck segue of the week... Tracy Chapman --> Billy Squier's "The Stroke". Egads.
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flipped on K-FOX last nite around 9:30 and was surprised they were playing Tracy Chapman's "Give me One Reason". And I thought: well that's not very compatible with AC/DC and the Scorpions. And sure enuf we then got the trainwreck segue of the week... Tracy Chapman --> Billy Squier's "The Stroke". Egads.
Exactly the problem.
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Rather odd message on the home page for Dave Morey's WTF Radio...
WTF OFF AIR FOR HALLOWEEN DECORATING 10/10-10/17.
Be listening for details regarding our new share-time agreement with
WDOA - "The Absolute FINAL word in Soul and Blues."
There doesn't appear to be an actual radio station with the WDOA calls so I'm guessing this is another Morey side project? Stay tuned...
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Nice tidbit from Rich Lieberman, re: the Giants Series victory..
In the 10th inning of the the Giants clinching World Series game against Detroit, Miller was offered a broadcast treasure, history really, and in a class move to Dave Flemming, turned it down.
To wit: Duane Kuiper said that because the game went into ten innings, it was Dave Flemming's turn at the mic...but when the bottom of the 10th came...Dave asked Jon Miller if he would like to take over, and have the chance to call the possible last out of the Series. "Out of respect," Duane said.
Jon declined...saying "it's your time, kid" and Dave called the final out.
Class act, Mr Miller. Kudos.
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October (actually more like mid-Sept thru mid-Oct) ratings are out:
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
KFOG drops back a bit (from 2.8 to 2.5); KFOX, Live 105 both down slightly; the Bone up slightly. KNBR was #1 (no surprise considering the Giants playoff run).
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Nice tidbit from Rich Lieberman, re: the Giants Series victory..
In the 10th inning of the the Giants clinching World Series game against Detroit, Miller was offered a broadcast treasure, history really, and in a class move to Dave Flemming, turned it down.
To wit: Duane Kuiper said that because the game went into ten innings, it was Dave Flemming's turn at the mic...but when the bottom of the 10th came...Dave asked Jon Miller if he would like to take over, and have the chance to call the possible last out of the Series. "Out of respect," Duane said.
Jon declined...saying "it's your time, kid" and Dave called the final out.
Class act, Mr Miller. Kudos.
I didn't buy the last one, but if they do a DVD again with the Giants announcers audio, I think I'll get it.
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Nice tidbit from Rich Lieberman, re: the Giants Series victory..
In the 10th inning of the the Giants clinching World Series game against Detroit, Miller was offered a broadcast treasure, history really, and in a class move to Dave Flemming, turned it down.
To wit: Duane Kuiper said that because the game went into ten innings, it was Dave Flemming's turn at the mic...but when the bottom of the 10th came...Dave asked Jon Miller if he would like to take over, and have the chance to call the possible last out of the Series. "Out of respect," Duane said.
Jon declined...saying "it's your time, kid" and Dave called the final out.
Class act, Mr Miller. Kudos.
I didn't buy the last one, but if they do a DVD again with the Giants announcers audio, I think I'll get it.
ditto
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Nice tidbit from Rich Lieberman, re: the Giants Series victory..
In the 10th inning of the the Giants clinching World Series game against Detroit, Miller was offered a broadcast treasure, history really, and in a class move to Dave Flemming, turned it down.
To wit: Duane Kuiper said that because the game went into ten innings, it was Dave Flemming's turn at the mic...but when the bottom of the 10th came...Dave asked Jon Miller if he would like to take over, and have the chance to call the possible last out of the Series. "Out of respect," Duane said.
Jon declined...saying "it's your time, kid" and Dave called the final out.
Class act, Mr Miller. Kudos.
I didn't buy the last one, but if they do a DVD again with the Giants announcers audio, I think I'll get it.
The 2010 edition has the Giants announcers on an alternate audio track. I've got it and have never listened to the primary channel with Buck and McDipshit. So I'd assume there will be one again this year, with the same feature.
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Nice tidbit from Rich Lieberman, re: the Giants Series victory..
In the 10th inning of the the Giants clinching World Series game against Detroit, Miller was offered a broadcast treasure, history really, and in a class move to Dave Flemming, turned it down.
To wit: Duane Kuiper said that because the game went into ten innings, it was Dave Flemming's turn at the mic...but when the bottom of the 10th came...Dave asked Jon Miller if he would like to take over, and have the chance to call the possible last out of the Series. "Out of respect," Duane said.
Jon declined...saying "it's your time, kid" and Dave called the final out.
Class act, Mr Miller. Kudos.
I didn't buy the last one, but if they do a DVD again with the Giants announcers audio, I think I'll get it.
The 2010 edition has the Giants announcers on an alternate audio track. I've got it and have never listened to the primary channel with Buck and McDipshit. So I'd assume there will be one again this year, with the same feature.
It's already available for pre-order, for release on my birthday, but not many details yet:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008TYGDIW/gdforumcom-20
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not all radio puff-pieces in the Chron are written by BFT. This article about Greg Kihn appeared yesterday.
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Greg-Kihn-off-the-air-on-creative-burst-4010087.php
I don't know who in this market would hire him at this point... but then, does he really *need* to work?
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KDVS, the campus station of UC Davis, is giving their studios over to the former staff of KZAP, Sacramento's original free-form FM station of the late 60s and 70s (not to be confused with the Classic Rock station it morphed into in the 80s and early 90s) for 48 hours beginning Nov 8 @ 6am and continuing until 6 am on the 9th. I can't imagine many of you will know any of the jocks, but it might be a nice flashback to what free form radio used to sound like. I'm hearing Dan Hicks' I Scare Myself right now, and heard FMac's Oh Well in its entirety earlier this morning.
http://www.kdvs.org/kzapschedule
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Just noticed this on Morey's WTF website, under the Tuesday on-air schedule:
Look at all these empty Tuesday slots - Waiting for you to make a show happen!
I wonder if you actually have to be in Michigan to do it *live*...
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Just noticed this on Morey's WTF website, under the Tuesday on-air schedule:
Look at all these empty Tuesday slots - Waiting for you to make a show happen!
I wonder if you actually have to be in Michigan to do it *live*...
Ben F-T had a show, so I believe the answer is "no" (although being a longtime radio geek and former RS editor probably did not hurt his case).
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Just noticed this on Morey's WTF website, under the Tuesday on-air schedule:
Look at all these empty Tuesday slots - Waiting for you to make a show happen!
I wonder if you actually have to be in Michigan to do it *live*...
Ben F-T had a show, so I believe the answer is "no" (although being a longtime radio geek and former RS editor probably did not hurt his case).
they also appear to be running Harry Shearer's "Le Show".
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New radio ratings just out -- covers the period from Oct 10 thru Nov 7. Not surprisingly KNBR is #1 with an 8.1 (!) KQED and KCBS both up (elections, I assume). KFOG and K-Fox each down a tick.
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FWIW, I note that Oldies 103.7 is promoting a "no-repeat workday" (remember those?) between 9 and 5 Mon-Fri.
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Geek Alert: Dave Morey's WTF internet station is running "A Star Wars Christmas" this Friday nite at 8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific. Not sure if he has a copy of the actual TV special of if it's just the sndtk LP.
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I had to share this -- there's been discussion on the NY Radio Message Board about the possibility of NYC getting a Country station for the first time in nearly 20 years. A guy named Craig posted this analysis of Country as a format/genre. I could've written it myself. Dead-on, really.
Let's look at the lyrics from a recent Country hit by Tim McGraw. "Where The Green Grass Grows" is about a guy who has to drive a truck for a living but he dreams of owning a farm.
"I'm gonna live where the green grass grows.
Watchin' my corn popping up in rows.
Every night being tucked in close to you.
Raise our kids where the Good Lord's blessed.
Pointing our rocking chairs toward the west.
Plant our dreams where the peaceful river flows,
Where the green grass grows."
Why is every Country song about how "We're poor and we work hard but we love each other and that's all that counts"? In each Country song the singer didn't really succeed in life but that doesn't matter because simple things are more important. God, family, patriotism, farm. But not much financial success.
I'm sure you've heard the joke: What happens when you play a Country song backward? You get your wife, your job, your dog and your truck back. Notice in this one chorus of a three-minute Tim McGraw song, he manages to get grass, growing corn, the wife, the kids, God, rocking chairs, his dreams of a better life and The West into only a few lines of the song.
Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills. He HAS to wear a hat all the time, just like Brad Paisley, just like Kenny Chesney, as if they have to protect their heads from the blazing sun while herding cattle. They HAVE to wear the hat to prove to their rural, Country-lifestyle audience that they are one of them.
If you take the D train from Bay Ridge to your job in an office on Seventh Avenue, this music just doesn't speak to you. You don't dream about owning a farm, you don't drive a truck, you're more likely to wear a Yankees cap than a cowboy hat. You're probably Catholic or Jewish or go to a Black church or maybe you attend a Muslim, Hindu or Buddist temple... or belong to no organized religion at all. You're not Evangelical Protestant. You learned to swim at a city pool or the YMCA, not in the Chattahoochie River. You probably only rode a horse or fired a gun a few times in your entire life.
Yes, I know most of the music we listen is about lifestyles we don't REALLY live. Many Rock songs deal with how tough life on the road in a rock band is. Many Rap songs deal with growing up in the projects with violence all around. Many songs we like, we may not even understand what they mean.
But Country is such a stretch. I hear this Tim McGraw song, which starts off with a Country fiddle solo before the band kicks in, and I say to myself, they've simply taken the same old Country instruments and song concepts and only SLIGHTLY updated them for today. I just don't see a Country station ever making the Top 10 in NYC.
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
yes... sorta. Bruce sings "about" such people a lot but when it's in the first person it's clear he's playing a character (or at least it has always seemed so to me). In country, perhaps because of the twang (which is often exaggerated for effect) it seems more of a "this is me" thing. And Bruce's songs are more "man, life is hard" than, "we're poor but we're happy"
And of course, Bruce is a big pro-union type whereas most country artists tend to be Republican. (McGraw is actually that rare country superstar who is a Democrat; he has talked of running for office some day)
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
yes... sorta. Bruce sings "about" such people a lot but when it's in the first person it's clear he's playing a character (or at least it has always seemed so to me). In country, perhaps because of the twang (which is often exaggerated for effect) it seems more of a "this is me" thing. And Bruce's songs are more "man, life is hard" than, "we're poor but we're happy"
And of course, Bruce is a big pro-union type whereas most country artists tend to be Republican. (McGraw is actually that rare country superstar who is a Democrat; he has talked of running for office some day)
Well said. I guess I would have stirred up more s**t at another venue.
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
yes... sorta. Bruce sings "about" such people a lot but when it's in the first person it's clear he's playing a character (or at least it has always seemed so to me). In country, perhaps because of the twang (which is often exaggerated for effect) it seems more of a "this is me" thing. And Bruce's songs are more "man, life is hard" than, "we're poor but we're happy"
And of course, Bruce is a big pro-union type whereas most country artists tend to be Republican. (McGraw is actually that rare country superstar who is a Democrat; he has talked of running for office some day)
Well said. I guess I would have stirred up more s**t at another venue.
I think you were essentially right about Bruce. He wears a uniform too, but I think writes better songs. I'm not so sure country wouldn't work in NYC, simply as an alternative. Having never lived there before, I'm just talking through my (cowboy Giants) hat. It probably wouldn't break the top ten in such a big market.
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
There is no doubt in my mind that Bruce Springsteen's talent exceeds approximately 100% of the country world, and that he's more sincere than approximately 100% of the country world. That said, the G-snipe love for him borders on lunacy.
And I don't know NY well at all, but I'd have to say that the Bay Area would almost have to be more country music-receptive. And given that there aren't any country stations in the Bay Area proper, I would have to think one would not make the top ten, or even the top forty, in NY.
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
There is no doubt in my mind that Bruce Springsteen's talent exceeds approximately 100% of the country world, and that he's more sincere than approximately 100% of the country world. That said, the G-snipe love for him borders on lunacy.
And I don't know NY well at all, but I'd have to say that the Bay Area would almost have to be more country music-receptive. And given that there aren't any country stations in the Bay Area proper, I would have to think one would not make the top ten, or even the top forty, in NY>
If you mean NYC proper (the 5 boroughs) then yeah, it's very, um, "urban" (and I don't mean Keith Urban). But the NY 'burbs are as receptive to country as Concord or Livermore are here. The Wolf did kinda OK here for a while but Entercom had other ideas. And KRTY does well in the South Bay.
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And KRTY does well in the South Bay.
The South Bay is a whole different kettle of fish, man. I work down there, and it has a noticeable hick element. Before the tech boom, San Jose wasn't much different than Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Salinas, and points south.
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Live 105 has added a bunch of overplayed 80s, 90s, & 00s tracks to the mix and is now calling themselves "Everything Alternative."
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Tim McGraw is a good looking guy, married to Faith Hill who is also a Country singer. They're both incredibly successful. He attended college on a baseball scholarship. But he HAS to sing songs as if he's a blue collar worker who didn't get an education and is struggling to pay his bills.
Bruce Springsteen
There is no doubt in my mind that Bruce Springsteen's talent exceeds approximately 100% of the country world, and that he's more sincere than approximately 100% of the country world. That said, the G-snipe love for him borders on lunacy.
And I don't know NY well at all, but I'd have to say that the Bay Area would almost have to be more country music-receptive. And given that there aren't any country stations in the Bay Area proper, I would have to think one would not make the top ten, or even the top forty, in NY>
If you mean NYC proper (the 5 boroughs) then yeah, it's very, um, "urban" (and I don't mean Keith Urban). But the NY 'burbs are as receptive to country as Concord or Livermore are here. The Wolf did kinda OK here for a while but Entercom had other ideas. And KRTY does well in the South Bay.
Nyc's got a large transient population. Young folks moving there for work, school. There prob a slight percentage of people who move there who like country music. Of course, that's assuming you're gonna like country if you're from "country" country. Who's to say there isn't come kid in East New York who adores songs about pickups and porches. It might happen..... Okay, stop laughing.
Anyhoo, it would get some numbers, but not big'uns.
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Latest ratings out: KFOG and The Bone bounce up (and to a lesser degree K-Fox does too). Live 105 is foundering.
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
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Live 105 is foundering.
Oh oh oh oh oh [pound kettle drum]
oh oh oh oh oh [strum acoustic guitar]
oh oh oh oh oh [stroke beard]
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Latest ratings out: KFOG and The Bone bounce up (and to a lesser degree K-Fox does too). Live 105 is foundering.
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
NPR is #1? We really do deserve our rep, don't we?
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Latest ratings out: KFOG and The Bone bounce up (and to a lesser degree K-Fox does too). Live 105 is foundering.
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
NPR is #1? We really do deserve our rep, don't we?
It used to be a tight race between KQED and KGO, but since Cumulus castrated and lobotomized KGO a year ago, KQED has had smooth sailing. Only KNBR during the last 2 ratings periods of the baseball season managed to beat them (for obvious reasons).
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Live 105 is foundering.
Ouch. :-X While their signal isn't the strongest, 1.4 is the weakest I've seen for that station, ever.
When they were in their "Energy 105" phase earlier this year they were pulling in about 2.4. They also sounded good. They should go back to that.
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B F-T borrows a page from the Herb Caen playbook and does a end-of-year shoutout to the local radio community in verse. Managed to get most of the KFOG personalities past and present in (save for Steve Rockwell and Irish Greg). Herb would be proud.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/A-year-s-end-poem-from-your-radio-friend-4138478.php
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Nice blog post from Dave Morey's WTF:
http://www.879harrisville.com/15/post/2012/12/do-you-know-who-clear-channel-is.html
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Listening to "Soul et Funk", the French stream formerly known as "Radio Sebb" and lo, they're playing Joe Bataan's groovy instrumental take on Gil Sccott Heron's "The Bottle". Nice.
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I wake up to Annalisa out of loyalty -- it's nice to hear her voice -- but K-Fox's endless recycling of the most obvious classic rock tracks ever is really trying. This morning they played the Doors twice in a half-hour: "Light my Fire" at 5:50 and "People Are Strange" at 6:20. Seriously, WTF?
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I wake up to Annalisa out of loyalty -- it's nice to hear her voice -- but K-Fox's endless recycling of the most obvious classic rock tracks ever is really trying. This morning they played the Doors twice in a half-hour: "Light my Fire" at 5:50 and "People Are Strange" at 6:20. Seriously, WTF?
I'd be happy to listen in in the morning as I get ready for work but I can't for the life of me pick up KFOX in Marin. Not sure if there's another station blocking their signal but it's not happening in San Rafael.
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I wake up to Annalisa out of loyalty -- it's nice to hear her voice -- but K-Fox's endless recycling of the most obvious classic rock tracks ever is really trying. This morning they played the Doors twice in a half-hour: "Light my Fire" at 5:50 and "People Are Strange" at 6:20. Seriously, WTF?
I'd be happy to listen in in the morning as I get ready for work but I can't for the life of me pick up KFOX in Marin. Not sure if there's another station blocking their signal but it's not happening in San Rafael.
I'm able to pick it up from Novato to Larkspur (102.1 seems to work better). Of course, as Mike points out, given their music roster, there isn't much point. Of course, we do have the Sharks coming up.
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I wake up to Annalisa out of loyalty -- it's nice to hear her voice -- but K-Fox's endless recycling of the most obvious classic rock tracks ever is really trying. This morning they played the Doors twice in a half-hour: "Light my Fire" at 5:50 and "People Are Strange" at 6:20. Seriously, WTF?
I'd be happy to listen in in the morning as I get ready for work but I can't for the life of me pick up KFOX in Marin. Not sure if there's another station blocking their signal but it's not happening in San Rafael.
I'm able to pick it up from Novato to Larkspur (102.1 seems to work better). Of course, as Mike points out, given their music roster, there isn't much point. Of course, we do have the Sharks coming up.
Part of the blame could lie with the crappy pre-Civil War clock radio that I'm using to to tune it in. KFOG and KISS come in fine; KFOX not so much.
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Someone on FB mentioned they were listening to Oldies 103.7 and I quipped "have you heard American Pie or Hey Jude yet? it usually happens within half an hour of tuning them in"... and he replied "LOL! they just played Hey Jude 15 mins ago!" Oy.
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K-Fox just seems to get worse. Turned them on at 5:50 and they were playing a live Tom Petty track ... less than an hour later they played him again. At 6:00 we got 3 Eagles songs in a row -- apparently a new "[insert artist here] for Breakfast" feature. AL's "Radio Rewind" segment is either shitcanned or else they're doing it later in the show. And to top it all off, they've added Coldplay to the library -- AL played "Yellow". Yeesh.
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and, for the first time in nearly 20 years, NYC has a country station.
http://www.examiner.com/article/and-the-format-wheel-stops-on
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K-Fox just seems to get worse. Turned them on at 5:50 and they were playing a live Tom Petty track ... less than an hour later they played him again. At 6:00 we got 3 Eagles songs in a row -- apparently a new "[insert artist here] for Breakfast" feature. AL's "Radio Rewind" segment is either shitcanned or else they're doing it later in the show. And to top it all off, they've added Coldplay to the library -- AL played "Yellow". Yeesh.
You ain't kiddin'. Listening to the commercial-free three hours, I heard Live and Let Die, Peace of Mind, Shout, Black Water, Double Vision, Start Me Up, and Losing My Religion. Which brings up the question: "What's more annoying, commercials or songs that have been played to death?"
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Today's hot rumor, per Rich Lieberman's blog, is that Cumulus is going to "de-Bone" 107.7 and switch it to country. Cumulus has a nationally-syndicated country feed called "Nash-FM" that it is putting in markets where it owns stations, and making available in markets where it doesn't. It just bought a station in NYC (Harold Camping's old NY frequency) specifically to put "Nash-FM" on the air there. It would make sense for them to want it on in SF, the 4th largest radio market. It would make K-Fox very happy, too.
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the Holiday (December thru New Year's) ratings are out. KOIT zoomed into first place with a 7.8 (yeah that Xmas crap really works). Most adult music formats dipped slightly as a result. Oddly, the Bone was up a bit
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Today's hot rumor, per Rich Lieberman's blog, is that Cumulus is going to "de-Bone" 107.7 and switch it to country. Cumulus has a nationally-syndicated country feed called "Nash-FM" that it is putting in markets where it owns stations, and making available in markets where it doesn't. It just bought a station in NYC (Harold Camping's old NY frequency) specifically to put "Nash-FM" on the air there. It would make sense for them to want it on in SF, the 4th largest radio market. It would make K-Fox very happy, too.
When the bullet hits The Bone
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K-Fox just seems to get worse. Turned them on at 5:50 and they were playing a live Tom Petty track ... less than an hour later they played him again. At 6:00 we got 3 Eagles songs in a row -- apparently a new "[insert artist here] for Breakfast" feature. AL's "Radio Rewind" segment is either shitcanned or else they're doing it later in the show. And to top it all off, they've added Coldplay to the library -- AL played "Yellow". Yeesh.
credit where credit is due: AL's "Breakfast with..." feature at 6am today was 3 Stones songs -- not only that but all 3 were from Let it Bleed: "Gimme Shelter", "Monkey Man" and the little-heard "Country Honk" (a subtle dig at Cumulus' plans?). Not too shabby, and it almost made up for the fact that they keep adding more '90s/'00s songs to their mix. Heard STP "Plush" and Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" in the last 2 mornings. Feh.
Anyone know if KFOG still does "6 o'clock Stones" every morning?
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K-Fox just seems to get worse. Turned them on at 5:50 and they were playing a live Tom Petty track ... less than an hour later they played him again. At 6:00 we got 3 Eagles songs in a row -- apparently a new "[insert artist here] for Breakfast" feature. AL's "Radio Rewind" segment is either shitcanned or else they're doing it later in the show. And to top it all off, they've added Coldplay to the library -- AL played "Yellow". Yeesh.
credit where credit is due: AL's "Breakfast with..." feature at 6am today was 3 Stones songs -- not only that but all 3 were from Let it Bleed: "Gimme Shelter", "Monkey Man" and the little-heard "Country Honk" (a subtle dig at Cumulus' plans?). Not too shabby, and it almost made up for the fact that they keep adding more '90s/'00s songs to their mix. Heard STP "Plush" and Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun" in the last 2 mornings. Feh.
Anyone know if KFOG still does "6 o'clock Stones" every morning?
yes, I hear it usually in the morning, depending on other factors of my schedule.
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This morning's "Breakfast with..." on K-Fox was RHCPs. I lost my appetite.
And someone on the "Fogheads for the old format" FB page said that (per a convo on the KFOG Morning Show) neither Greg G nor Tim J knew what a dobro is. What the what? The mind reels.
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Is The Bone simulcasting the Super Bowl on Sunday? If so, I'm thinking Monday morning would be a good time for them to flip formats -- lots of radios will be tuned to 107.7 when they get turned off after the game Sun nite and when they're switchwed back on Monday morning --- SURPRISE!
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Is The Bone simulcasting the Super Bowl on Sunday? If so, I'm thinking Monday morning would be a good time for them to flip formats -- lots of radios will be tuned to 107.7 when they get turned off after the game Sun nite and when they're switchwed back on Monday morning --- SURPRISE!
I think they will be doing the game. Lament and ToeNail-y hav been doing a remote from New Orleans this week. They've had all manner of sports talking heads on, they had some other jocks talking about tuning in the game and turning down the Teevee. Not a bad idea (except for commercials, which are part of the fun). and they keep using the "You official Forty-Niner game day station" bumper. So yes.
Format changing -- think it's a done deal? What does Rich "Crystal Meth Ball" Lieberman* say?
* I am not implying drug use on his part of any kind.
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Format changing -- think it's a done deal? What does Rich "Crystal Meth Ball" Lieberman* say?
Hard to say -- The Bone has been beating K-Fox of late, but both stations tend to fluctuate. I'm not sure how good their billing is. KFOG's billing has traditionally been very good, or better than you'd expect compared to their ratings. I'm sure Cumulus would *like* to have their national cunt-ry format on the air here, but their only options are 104.5 and 107.7
L&T should stay in N'awlins another week, for Mardi Gras, so they can see how "Ta-Tas Tuesday" is *really* done.
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Format changing -- think it's a done deal? What does Rich "Crystal Meth Ball" Lieberman* say?
Hard to say -- The Bone has been beating K-Fox of late, but both stations tend to fluctuate. I'm not sure how good their billing is. KFOG's billing has traditionally been very good, or better than you'd expect compared to their ratings. I'm sure Cumulus would *like* to have their national cunt-ry format on the air here, but their only options are 104.5 and 107.7
L&T should stay in N'awlins another week, for Mardi Gras, so they can see how "Ta-Tas Tuesday" is *really* done.
Think those Ta-Ta Tuesday bits are real? How many 58 year old ex-biker chicks are out there flashing any old bumper sticker they see on I-880 anyway?
I say NONE.
And the phony phone calls are probably as fake as the imaginary boobs. It's obvious they're edited down (in any case), but who in their right mind would come on a call through til the end, and then sign a release for airplay when they come off as they biggest effin' mean-spirited hick ignoramus in the state?
And are there REALLY that many people with countrified southern drawl accents in Northern Cal? I know there are many rednecks in this part of the world, but do they all talk like Jed Clampett?
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ya can't make this stuff up: K-Fox played a Grocery Outlet "BOGO a-go-go" commercial, followed by one for TOGO's.
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Annalisa has been off Friday and today, with Webster being the go-to morning fill-in guy now at K-Fox.
It may be too early to say, but to my ears (with limited listening-time, obviously) it seems like the new PD there is scaling back on the '90s stuff. That would be nice, and would differentiate them from the Bone. I actually heard Beck's "Devil's Haircut" on the Bone the other day and I thought that sounded kinda out-of-place.
ETA: looking at the recent K-Fox "just played" I see only 4 or 5 '90s tracks in 8 hours, whereas recently it had been more like 2 an hour. When listeing to AL in the mornings I personally found, say, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden in the same hour (or Nirvana and STPs) a bit much, but then I'm old.
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Annalisa has been off Friday and today, with Webster being the go-to morning fill-in guy now at K-Fox.
It may be too early to say, but to my ears (with limited listening-time, obviously) it seems like the new PD there is scaling back on the '90s stuff. That would be nice, and would differentiate them from the Bone. I actually heard Beck's "Devil's Haircut" on the Bone the other day and I thought that sounded kinda out-of-place.
ETA: looking at the recent K-Fox "just played" I see only 4 or 5 '90s tracks in 8 hours, whereas recently it had been more like 2 an hour. When listeing to AL in the mornings I personally found, say, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden in the same hour (or Nirvana and STPs) a bit much, but then I'm old.
guess AL is on vacay -- Webster was on again today. No clues on her FB page. And looking at 8 hours of playlist again today, it does seem like less '90s. But this is weird: both Eddie Money's "Think I'm in Love" and Queen's "Crazy Little thing" got played twice in less than 3 hours. Automation is supposed to prevent that sorta thing, no?
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latest ratings:
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
Not much change since last month as far as the cluster(fuck) of stations we care about are concerned -- KFOG, the Bone, Live 105 K-Fox all pretty much unchanged.
KOIT plummeted from 7.8 to 4.7 because the holidays are over. Oldies 103 up a bunch after losing listeners to KOIT at Xmastime.
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AL on K-Fox this morning: "People will think I'm some kinda Dave Grohl fanatic or something" Gee, ya think? :)
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
I don't know. He's stayed (relatively) popular by pandering, and that can lure in people of all ages. The Werewolves of London sample didn't grab you?
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
I don't know. He's stayed (relatively) popular by pandering, and that can lure in people of all ages. The Werewolves of London sample didn't grab you?
that one song he has that starts off with him yelling MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID was an attention getter. The one with the lyrics that go "Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy." Yes, I'm serious, I like it.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
I don't know. He's stayed (relatively) popular by pandering, and that can lure in people of all ages. The Werewolves of London sample didn't grab you?
Both "Werewolves" and "Alabama" are songs I never need to hear again, ever. I realize he's big in the midwest & south but I don't know that he ever got consistent airplay in this market.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
I don't know. He's stayed (relatively) popular by pandering, and that can lure in people of all ages. The Werewolves of London sample didn't grab you?
that one song he has that starts off with him yelling MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID was an attention getter. The one with the lyrics that go "Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy." Yes, I'm serious, I like it.
Me, too. And while I'm confessing, I'll admit to liking "Nookie." But I was NOT one if those a-holes at Woodstock '99.
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I've put up with a lot listening to K-Fox in the mornings the past few months. But hearing that godawful Kid Rock song that samples "Sweet Home Alabama" today may have been the last straw.
*shudder*
I didn't get Kid Rock in the first place; with that song, I never will.
Me three. I am still amazed that he got signed in the first place (back when bands still got signed). Seems like a redneck bar band that got really lucky.
it was that (thankfully brief) bubble of "rock'n'rap" (see also: Limp Bizkit). The Bone plays that song too, I think, and it's clearly because of the Skynyrd sample and not because of any Kid Rock fan base here. I understand trying to "youth-ify" your demos but cume is important too and I gotta think that song makes every listener over 40 change the station.
I don't know. He's stayed (relatively) popular by pandering, and that can lure in people of all ages. The Werewolves of London sample didn't grab you?
that one song he has that starts off with him yelling MY NAME IS KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID was an attention getter. The one with the lyrics that go "Bawitdaba da bang a dang diggy diggy diggy said the boogy said up jump the boogy." Yes, I'm serious, I like it.
"Cowboy" is on my all-time guilty pleasure list. "Nookie" is on my "really sucks, but I gotta admit it's catchy" list.
"All Summer Long"... yeah, it's the worst sort of "sample a classic, they'll eat it up" type of tune around, but honestly I'm ambivalent about it.
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I like Nookie too. I wouldn't be surprised if that shows up on 10@10.
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New ratings are out:
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
same-old, same-old. KFOG, the Bone, K-Fox and Live 105 all pretty much where they were last month. Ditto Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.5.
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Learned last night that our local AM oldies station, KLYC, is going off the air this Friday. The owner passed away about a year or so ago, and his widow had entered an agreement to sell with another radio vet. But the deal collapsed last week when they could not get FCC certification, supposedly because the station is still using outdated hardware that would be prohibitive to bring up to code.
Sad day for me, as I had grown to enjoy their mix of local events, folksy djs, and a range of music ranging from 50s rock to 70s and 80s pop. Not to mention that they were the only electronic media in our county, so could be counted on for breaking news and other stories centered on our county. They were really old school--they didn't even have a web site (and of course no web streaming) but they do have a Facebook page--with 24 likes!
Their final signoff is this Friday at 1pm (aka 1260, which was their frequency).
You can't fight progress. Sigh. RIP KLYC.
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Learned last night that our local AM oldies station, KLYC, is going off the air this Friday. The owner passed away about a year or so ago, and his widow had entered an agreement to sell with another radio vet. But the deal collapsed last week when they could not get FCC certification, supposedly because the station is still using outdated hardware that would be prohibitive to bring up to code.
Sad day for me, as I had grown to enjoy their mix of local events, folksy djs, and a range of music ranging from 50s rock to 70s and 80s pop. Not to mention that they were the only electronic media in our county, so could be counted on for breaking news and other stories centered on our county. They were really old school--they didn't even have a web site (and of course no web streaming) but they do have a Facebook page--with 24 likes!
Their final signoff is this Friday at 1pm (aka 1260, which was their frequency).
You can't fight progress. Sigh. RIP KLYC.
sad, sad, sad. Local radio (especially on AM) is truly an endangered species. When I think of how great a station like WLNG is --and successful too -- it really makes the number of stations that disappear that much more depressing. Your description, "mix of local events, folksy djs, and a range of music ranging from 50s rock to 70s and 80s pop" describes WLNG to a "T", and they make a mint out there on Eastern LI. (This year happens to be their 50th anniv.)
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Learned last night that our local AM oldies station, KLYC, is going off the air this Friday. The owner passed away about a year or so ago, and his widow had entered an agreement to sell with another radio vet. But the deal collapsed last week when they could not get FCC certification, supposedly because the station is still using outdated hardware that would be prohibitive to bring up to code.
Sad day for me, as I had grown to enjoy their mix of local events, folksy djs, and a range of music ranging from 50s rock to 70s and 80s pop. Not to mention that they were the only electronic media in our county, so could be counted on for breaking news and other stories centered on our county. They were really old school--they didn't even have a web site (and of course no web streaming) but they do have a Facebook page--with 24 likes!
Their final signoff is this Friday at 1pm (aka 1260, which was their frequency).
You can't fight progress. Sigh. RIP KLYC.
sad, sad, sad. Local radio (especially on AM) is truly an endangered species. When I think of how great a station like WLNG is --and successful too -- it really makes the number of stations that disappear that much more depressing. Your description, "mix of local events, folksy djs, and a range of music ranging from 50s rock to 70s and 80s pop" describes WLNG to a "T", and they make a mint out there on Eastern LI. (This year happens to be their 50th anniv.)
ugh. sorry to hear that.
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Holee crap!! Steve Masters returning to Live 105 to do Mornings starting this coming Monday. Wow.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/116747/steve-masters-joins-live-105-san-francisco-for-mor
All they need now is Webb Fingers to do surf reports.
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Holee crap!! Steve Masters returning to Live 105 to do Mornings starting this coming Monday. Wow.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/116747/steve-masters-joins-live-105-san-francisco-for-mor
All they need now is Webb Fingers to do surf reports.
Aidan Viziri posted an item about it on SFGate:
http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2013/03/27/masters105/
ETA: been listening to Live 105 for the past hour and none of the "alt oldies" they've played would be out-of-place on KFOG (Pixies "Here Comes Your man" and the like). Perfectly pleasant, but nothing that made me say "wow, haven't heard THIS in a long time".
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Holee crap!! Steve Masters returning to Live 105 to do Mornings starting this coming Monday. Wow.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/116747/steve-masters-joins-live-105-san-francisco-for-mor
All they need now is Webb Fingers to do surf reports.
Aidan Viziri posted an item about it on SFGate:
http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2013/03/27/masters105/
ETA: been listening to Live 105 for the past hour and none of the "alt oldies" they've played would be out-of-place on KFOG (Pixies "Here Comes Your man" and the like). Perfectly pleasant, but nothing that made me say "wow, haven't heard THIS in a long time".
On a workday afternoon, it's unlikely. But they've been a little ballsier on the weekends. A month or two ago when they did the 49 hour "gold rush" for the 49ers, they threw in a bunch of tracks like "88 Lines About 44 Women," "Master & Servant," "Everything Counts," "Strip," "Destination Unknown," "Anarchy in the UK," and even Oingo Boingo's "Little Girls"... :o Some of these have been showing up on weekends since then.
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a bunch of tracks like "88 Lines About 44 Women," "Master & Servant," "Everything Counts," "Strip," "Destination Unknown," "Anarchy in the UK," and even Oingo Boingo's "Little Girls"... :o Some of these have been showing up on weekends since then.
"Everything Counts" may be my fave DM song. And it truly is one you rarely hear.
I'm really anxious to see what this does for their ratings and what direction it may push KFOG in.
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a bunch of tracks like "88 Lines About 44 Women," "Master & Servant," "Everything Counts," "Strip," "Destination Unknown," "Anarchy in the UK," and even Oingo Boingo's "Little Girls"... :o Some of these have been showing up on weekends since then.
"Everything Counts" may be my fave DM song. And it truly is one you rarely hear.
I'm really anxious to see what this does for their ratings and what direction it may push KFOG in.
Now that I'm back to listening to over-the-air radio (at least temporarily), I'm checking out Live 105 -- they're jockless this morning in anticipation of Mr Master's arrival Monday. Just heard the Primitives "Crash".
I'm awaiting Steve Masters with bated breath -- guess that means I'm Masters-bate-ing.
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a bunch of tracks like "88 Lines About 44 Women," "Master & Servant," "Everything Counts," "Strip," "Destination Unknown," "Anarchy in the UK," and even Oingo Boingo's "Little Girls"... :o Some of these have been showing up on weekends since then.
"Everything Counts" may be my fave DM song. And it truly is one you rarely hear.
I'm really anxious to see what this does for their ratings and what direction it may push KFOG in.
Now that I'm back to listening to over-the-air radio (at least temporarily), I'm checking out Live 105 -- they're jockless this morning in anticipation of Mr Master's arrival Monday. Just heard the Primitives "Crash".
I'm awaiting Steve Masters with bated breath -- guess that means I'm Masters-bate-ing.
Been listening to Masters this morning. So far it seems another case of hring a big name talent and then not letting him say very much. Their "traffic chick" makes Cinema Sam sound like Judi Dench.
OMFG: a Nik Kershaw song that isn't "Wouldn't It Be Good": "The Riddle", which I haven't heard on the radio in ages. Nice.
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I was able to catch a few minutes before heading to work & heard him play "one from [his] personal record collection" -- The Model by Kraftwerk. With a respectable segue into Death Cab's Soul Meets Body. Not bad.
They bumped the previous morning guy to 7-10 pm, and the previous evening guy to weekdays 12-3 am. :o. When was the last time that stations had DJs that late? Mix 106 is the latest I know of around here, until 1 am.
When KFOG went younger, they gave Live 105 exactly what it needed in my opinion...a swift kick in the pants.
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I was able to catch a few minutes before heading to work & heard him play "one from [his] personal record collection" -- The Model by Kraftwerk. With a respectable segue into Death Cab's Soul Meets Body. Not bad.
They bumped the previous morning guy to 7-10 pm, and the previous evening guy to weekdays 12-3 am. :o. When was the last time that stations had DJs that late? Mix 106 is the latest I know of around here, until 1 am.
When KFOG went younger, they gave Live 105 exactly what it needed in my opinion...a swift kick in the pants.
I just heard "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the first time -- wow. It that song getting pop/urban airplay?
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wow, Masters is only working a 3-hour shift, 6-to-9? Nice.
Also nice: B-Movie, "Nowhere Girl", another classic I haven't heard in a while.
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107.7 The Bone morning show jocks Lamont & Tonelli seem to be gone.
nightime DJ Nikki Blakk is on today, with "Chasta on Traffic" (who was dong traffic w L&T) and some dude doing news. Within one second of tuning in, I was rolling my eyes. Lots of giggling and wacky news bits "dude drove INTO Walmart..! Into a PALLET OF BEER! GUFFAW!" at least she likes (and knows) the music.
ETA: apparently it's an April Fool's joke. OK, now back to Ta-Ta Tuesdays, Do You A Favor Thursdays, Dirty Fridays and assorted buffoonery.
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107.7 The Bone morning show jocks Lamont & Tonelli seem to be gone.
nightime DJ Nikki Blakk is on today, with "Chasta on Traffic" (who was dong traffic w L&T) and some dude doing news. Within one second of tuning in, I was rolling my eyes. Lots of giggling and wacky news bits "dude drove INTO Walmart..! Into a PALLET OF BEER! GUFFAW!" at least she likes (and knows) the music.
wow -- if Ms Blakk is a permanent replacement, it makes me think AL on K-Fox was cutting into their numbers. OTOH... maybe this was an April Fool's thing? I can't find a story anywhere about them being fired, which would surely be news if they were.
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107.7 The Bone morning show jocks Lamont & Tonelli seem to be gone.
nightime DJ Nikki Blakk is on today, with "Chasta on Traffic" (who was dong traffic w L&T) and some dude doing news. Within one second of tuning in, I was rolling my eyes. Lots of giggling and wacky news bits "dude drove INTO Walmart..! Into a PALLET OF BEER! GUFFAW!" at least she likes (and knows) the music.
wow -- if Ms Blakk is a permanent replacement, it makes me think AL on K-Fox was cutting into their numbers. OTOH... maybe this was an April Fool's thing? I can't find a story anywhere about them being fired, which would surely be news if they were.
yes, it was April Fool's. L&T do very well for The Bone, so I've been told by someone at the station a couple years back at one of those KFOG Live & Local morning appearances.
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wow, Masters is only working a 3-hour shift, 6-to-9? Nice.
Also nice: B-Movie, "Nowhere Girl", another classic I haven't heard in a while.
yet another little-heard alt classic this morning: English Beat "Never You Done That". Hope mshray is listening to this station.
OTOH, they're still playing Of Monsters & Men waaaay too often.
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From the KITS yes.com logs today:
9:29 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
9:01 Romeo Void - Never Say Never
8:34 MICRO CHIP LEAGUE - New York ( :o :o :o :o :o!!!)
7:37 Clash - Bankrobber/Robber Dub
6:36 TRANS X - Living On Video
There were probably a couple others that didn't show up in the logs, like the English Beat song that RGMike mentioned.
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From the KITS yes.com logs today:
9:29 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
9:01 Romeo Void - Never Say Never
8:34 MICRO CHIP LEAGUE - New York ( :o :o :o :o :o!!!)
7:37 Clash - Bankrobber/Robber Dub
6:36 TRANS X - Living On Video
There were probably a couple others that didn't show up in the logs, like the English Beat song that RGMike mentioned.
The Trans-X was a treat this morning. Just now: "Plowed" by Sponge from 1994 -- haven't heard that one in a while -- has it ever appeared in a '94 10@10?
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So I'm listening to AL's "all-request lunch". She says she's trying to establish a theme: "Glory days" followed by "She's a Beauty"... huh? Songs with words that end in "s"? or "y"?
ah, I see: each song has to begin with the last letter of the previous song title. Damn, AL that's too much work. "Young Lust" follows "She's a Beauty". Then "...Lust" is followed by "T.N.T."
Well, I guess the theme thing makes it more fun for her. And (maybe) spares us "Killer Queen" and "Dream On" every day.
ETA: AL will have a "big announcement" tomo'w morn at 6:15 "right after 'Breakfast with the Stones' " (hint, hint). Guess KFOG will also be mentioning it. Presumably Live 105 will not.
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ETA: AL will have a "big announcement" tomo'w morn at 6:15 "right after 'Breakfast with the Stones' " (hint, hint). Guess KFOG will also be mentioning it. Presumably Live 105 will not.
Tim/Gory mentioned a "major, major concert announcement" tomorrow morning, so you are probably right. Certain GS folk are probably putting on extra Depends even as we speak.
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ETA: AL will have a "big announcement" tomo'w morn at 6:15 "right after 'Breakfast with the Stones' " (hint, hint). Guess KFOG will also be mentioning it. Presumably Live 105 will not.
Tim/Gory mentioned a "major, major concert announcement" tomorrow morning, so you are probably right. Certain GS folk are probably putting on extra Depends even as we speak.
Bwahahaha! TANC: Depends will be the corporate sponsor of the new Stones tour. "Are we touring? it Depends..."
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now that I'm not streaming at work, and listening to over-the-air radio, I gotta say: Kiss-FM must play "No Parking on the Dance Floor" as often as KFOG used to play "Rocket Man".
Don't park your booty
Don't park your can
It's time to party
It's time to jam!
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From the KITS yes.com logs today:
9:29 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
9:01 Romeo Void - Never Say Never
8:34 MICRO CHIP LEAGUE - New York ( :o :o :o :o :o!!!)
7:37 Clash - Bankrobber/Robber Dub
6:36 TRANS X - Living On Video
There were probably a couple others that didn't show up in the logs, like the English Beat song that RGMike mentioned.
The Trans-X was a treat this morning. Just now: "Plowed" by Sponge from 1994 -- haven't heard that one in a while -- has it ever appeared in a '94 10@10?
more gems: Smiths, "What Difference...?" and Gene Loves Jezebel "Motion of Love", which I got AL to play in the request days. Which begs the question, will any of these songs that Live 105 is unearthing start showing up on 10@10?
ETA: and here's Dramarama's "Anything Anything" which HAS made multiple appearances on 10@10.
and another: Rancid, "Time Bomb"
(meanwhile, KFOG has revived Sneaker Pimps' "6 Underground" -- one of the songs they played incessantly in the early days of DC's big format tweak. A record I truly never need hear again)
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From the KITS yes.com logs today:
9:29 Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
9:01 Romeo Void - Never Say Never
8:34 MICRO CHIP LEAGUE - New York ( :o :o :o :o :o!!!)
7:37 Clash - Bankrobber/Robber Dub
6:36 TRANS X - Living On Video
There were probably a couple others that didn't show up in the logs, like the English Beat song that RGMike mentioned.
The Trans-X was a treat this morning. Just now: "Plowed" by Sponge from 1994 -- haven't heard that one in a while -- has it ever appeared in a '94 10@10?
more gems: Smiths, "What Difference...?" and Gene Loves Jezebel "Motion of Love", which I got AL to play in the request days. Which begs the question, will any of these songs that Live 105 is unearthing start showing up on 10@10?
ETA: and here's Dramarama's "Anything Anything" which HAS made multiple appearances on 10@10.
and another: Rancid, "Time Bomb"
(meanwhile, KFOG has revived Sneaker Pimps' "6 Underground" -- one of the songs they played incessantly in the early days of DC's big format tweak. A record I truly never need hear again)
Also Camouflage's "The Great Commandment" at 7 AM. I may have to drive to work tomorrow instead of taking the train just so I can listen to this guy's show in my car. I wonder how long they'll let him keep playing these. Could it be just this week, to welcome him back? Or will we regularly be getting them?
Interesting that Megan Holiday is now in the 10-2 slot. She's head to head with Renee.
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I was able to catch a few minutes before heading to work & heard him play "one from [his] personal record collection" -- The Model by Kraftwerk. With a respectable segue into Death Cab's Soul Meets Body. Not bad.
They bumped the previous morning guy to 7-10 pm, and the previous evening guy to weekdays 12-3 am. :o. When was the last time that stations had DJs that late? Mix 106 is the latest I know of around here, until 1 am.
When KFOG went younger, they gave Live 105 exactly what it needed in my opinion...a swift kick in the pants.
I just heard "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the first time -- wow. It that song getting pop/urban airplay?
Jayn on Alice spun it when SCOTUS heard arguments on same-sex marriage:
https://www.facebook.com/radioalice/posts/10151394452028042
But looking at my yes.com logs for KLLC, that looks like the only day they played it. :-{
It is a great song, and the album on a whole is pretty excellent as well. I'm disappointed that they chose not to perform it when they were on SNL last month. I wonder if Lorne thought it would be too "controversial", as we all know how utterly bland and lame SNL has been for many decades, generally speaking. (See also: longtime ban of Elvis Costello, permanent ban on Sinead, etc.)
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I was able to catch a few minutes before heading to work & heard him play "one from [his] personal record collection" -- The Model by Kraftwerk. With a respectable segue into Death Cab's Soul Meets Body. Not bad.
They bumped the previous morning guy to 7-10 pm, and the previous evening guy to weekdays 12-3 am. :o. When was the last time that stations had DJs that late? Mix 106 is the latest I know of around here, until 1 am.
When KFOG went younger, they gave Live 105 exactly what it needed in my opinion...a swift kick in the pants.
I just heard "Same Love" by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the first time -- wow. It that song getting pop/urban airplay?
Jayn on Alice spun it when SCOTUS heard arguments on same-sex marriage:
https://www.facebook.com/radioalice/posts/10151394452028042
But looking at my yes.com logs for KLLC, that looks like the only day they played it. :-{
It is a great song, and the album on a whole is pretty excellent as well. I'm disappointed that they chose not to perform it when they were on SNL last month. I wonder if Lorne thought it would be too "controversial", as we all know how utterly bland and lame SNL has been for many decades, generally speaking. (See also: longtime ban of Elvis Costello, permanent ban on Sinead, etc.)
It's taking off on Alternative. 26 spins on Live 105 last week and a similar amount on a handful of other stations, such as KROQ and KNDD.
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It's taking off on Alternative. 26 spins on Live 105 last week and a similar amount on a handful of other stations, such as KROQ and KNDD.
safe to say the SCOTUS story revived it -- whether these stations did that on their own or if the label "reminded" them I dunno. It's quite the perfect sort of thing for Live 105 to be playing, not just because this is SF but because it's something KFOG will probably never add.
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It's taking off on Alternative. 26 spins on Live 105 last week and a similar amount on a handful of other stations, such as KROQ and KNDD.
safe to say the SCOTUS story revived it -- whether these stations did that on their own or if the label "reminded" them I dunno. It's quite the perfect sort of thing for Live 105 to be playing, not just because this is SF but because it's something KFOG will probably never add.
With KFOG and Live 105 sharing like 90% of their currents and KFOG being pretty gay-friendly, I wouldn't count KFOG adding it out just yet. They for some reason added the new Linkin Park...they're the only AAA station playing it.
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It's taking off on Alternative. 26 spins on Live 105 last week and a similar amount on a handful of other stations, such as KROQ and KNDD.
safe to say the SCOTUS story revived it -- whether these stations did that on their own or if the label "reminded" them I dunno. It's quite the perfect sort of thing for Live 105 to be playing, not just because this is SF but because it's something KFOG will probably never add.
With KFOG and Live 105 sharing like 90% of their currents and KFOG being pretty gay-friendly, I wouldn't count KFOG adding it out just yet. They for some reason added the new Linkin Park...they're the only AAA station playing it.
Still, KFOG's pretty skittish when it comes to anything remotely hip-hoppy. It would be perfect for this year's 10@10 Pride Set, assuming we get one. But I heard that Linkin Park song on Live 105 this morning (this is their "folk" album? WTF?) and my first thought was "I'll bet KFOG plays this".
Conversely, KFOG's playing Crapton's latest blooze-you-can-snooze, which thankfully Live 105 will never touch. ;D
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now that I'm not streaming at work, and listening to over-the-air radio, I gotta say: Kiss-FM must play "No Parking on the Dance Floor" as often as KFOG used to play "Rocket Man".
listening again -- I previously only heard the station for an hour or 2 a week when I'm in the car doing errands -- I'm far more aware of repetition. Heard "Purple rain" for the 2nd time in less than 24 hours. I also have an issue with their ever-broadening definition of "Old School". I think mixing danceable new wave and white pop ("Don't You Want Me", "Safety Dance", anything by Madonna) with Cameo, various Jacksons and Bel Biv DeVoe is a brilliant idea but rock-oriented stuff like TFF and Simple Minds seems wrong, somehow. I just heard "I Ran" which I wouldn't've played if I were them. Noticing more '90s in the mix too -- CeCePeniston's fabulous "Finally"and Montell Jordan both in the last half-hour.
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Damn, there's more to read in this forum today then there has over the last month, or so it seems. Let's keep it up!
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ETA: AL will have a "big announcement" tomo'w morn at 6:15 "right after 'Breakfast with the Stones' " (hint, hint). Guess KFOG will also be mentioning it. Presumably Live 105 will not.
Tim/Gory mentioned a "major, major concert announcement" tomorrow morning, so you are probably right. Certain GS folk are probably putting on extra Depends even as we speak.
If the Stones and Springsteen ever toured together... nah, that's too easy.
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one of Mr Masters' nuggets this morning was the Chrissie/Moodswings "State of Independence" -- the MLK mix, on this the 45th anniv of his death.
OK, I hoped that I was mondegreening that Atlas Genius song but they really are saying "Your Trojans in my head" er, WTFF?
and here's James, "Laid", which would easily make my list of 'best singles of the 90s'
ETA: but this is odd -- they're playing Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out" for the 2nd time in 2 hours.
OMFG: they played "Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight"! That one was *huge* on NY alt-radio (WLIR) back in the day. It was on my AL wish list but I never did get her to play it.
Hrm: I did not expect Live 105 to play something as mainstream as the Police, "Message in a Bottle". What's next, "The Tide is High"?
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More Live 105 forgotten gems: Masters just played Wire Train's "Chamber of Hello" which I'd never heard until Dave played it on 10@10.
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tuned in to K-Fox to hear AL's "all-request lunch". She's doing that "last letter of one song title is the first letter of the next" thing again. And I'm hearing "No Matter What" in an unfamiliar version. Their website says it's Badfinger (and she backannounces it as such) but it sure doesn't sound like their original. Unforgivable if they have one of those re-recorded abominations in their library.
ETA: sure enuf, per Amazon, there is a re-recorded version of the song. For shame, K-Fox.
only mildly rare track so far: "South City Midnight lady" -- I'm much obliged to whoever requested it.
caller on phone making request: "uh, I'm pretty sure it's called... 'Yesterday'? I think it's a Beatles song?" er, yes and yes, oh uncertain one.
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so we're a week into "Masters in the Morning" on Live 105. It's nice to hear the occasional "oh wow!" forgotten alt-rock gem, but the show itself is strictly from blandsville. This morning he's taking phone calls asking people to tell him their favorite TV show. Seriously?
I'll probably switch back-n-forth between him and KFOG. "Inoffensive" is the best that can be said about either station in morning drive.
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so we're a week into "Masters in the Morning" on Live 105. It's nice to hear the occasional "oh wow!" forgotten alt-rock gem, but the show itself is strictly from blandsville. This morning he's taking phone calls asking people to tell him their favorite TV show. Seriously?
I'll probably switch back-n-forth between him and KFOG. "Inoffensive" is the best that can be said about either station in morning drive.
I heard the station play Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" this morning. that's not the cutting edge station I remember. :(
my first trip to the Fillmore was courtesy of Live 105: I won tix to see the B-52's back in July of 1989, and it might've been from Steve Master's himself. I also won tix to see the Tom Tom Club from them, too.
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so we're a week into "Masters in the Morning" on Live 105. It's nice to hear the occasional "oh wow!" forgotten alt-rock gem, but the show itself is strictly from blandsville. This morning he's taking phone calls asking people to tell him their favorite TV show. Seriously?
I'll probably switch back-n-forth between him and KFOG. "Inoffensive" is the best that can be said about either station in morning drive.
I heard the station play Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun" this morning. that's not the cutting edge station I remember. :(
that one comes up frequently. For every truly haven't-heard-it-in-ages alt memory-jogger, there are 5 far more mainstream oldies -- your U2s, your Simple Mindses, etc. And of course they play most of the same currents as KFOG (Fun., Mumfords, the Mowglis) and just about as often as KFOG does.
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Cute Live 105 interstitial: "This is Green Day. They live here. So we play their music. In case we run into them at Safeway."
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Cute Live 105 interstitial: "This is Green Day. They live here. So we play their music. In case we run into them at Safeway."
The best alt tagline I've heard:
"There are a number of radio stations based in this area. We are one of them'.
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Nicest discovery from listening to Live 105 lately: Frank Turner, "Recovery", which I've become quite fond of -- if KFOG's not playing it... they should be. (ETA: Jeffreys just mentioned it as something we'll be hearing on New Releases Thurs)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1L5zJ2afLs
meanwhile, Live 105 played some Sublime so I switched to KFOG... who were playing Counting Crows. I can't win, I tells ya!
BTW, I notice that the #1 song on the Triple-A chart is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO1q8Zwuc24
the latest Adele imitator, Serena Ryder -- this doesn't seem to be very big on either KFOG or Live 105, or maybe I'm just not listening often enuf.
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TANC: on Live 105 right now, "Black Hole Sun", the 2nd time I've heard them play it today and easily the 6th or 7th time I've heard it (between them and KFOG) in the past week.
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Is it me, or does the lead singer of Imagine Dragons sound like he's channeling Jazn Mrazzz?
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Promo on Live 105 just now with a listenern saying: "what I like about Live 105 is that the deejays actually sound like they know what they're talking about. Unlike *cough* KFOG"
Wow, really?
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Promo on Live 105 just now with a listenern saying: "what I like about Live 105 is that the deejays actually sound like they know what they're talking about. Unlike *cough* KFOG"
Wow, really?
That's ballsy. True, but ballsy.
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Promo on Live 105 just now with a listenern saying: "what I like about Live 105 is that the deejays actually sound like they know what they're talking about. Unlike *cough* KFOG"
Wow, really?
That's ballsy. True, but ballsy.
I can't tell if "know what they're talking about" is literal (as in "they're smart") or more like "they're hipper". Because to my ears everyone on Live 105 sounds like a perpetual adolescent, even the ones who are older, like Masters and No-Name. DUUUUDE! Awwwwesommme!
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Promo on Live 105 just now with a listenern saying: "what I like about Live 105 is that the deejays actually sound like they know what they're talking about. Unlike *cough* KFOG"
Wow, really?
That's ballsy. True, but ballsy.
I can't tell if "know what they're talking about" is literal (as in "they're smart") or more like "they're hipper". Because to my ears everyone on Live 105 sounds like a perpetual adolescent, even the ones who are older, like Masters and No-Name. DUUUUDE! Awwwwesommme!
That's true, but I think it works well for their audience and station image.
KFOG, on the other hand...I'm not really sure what they're trying to portray with their on-air staff, if anything. DJs have not really been their strong point (at least since 2009) in my opinion. The ones from this time frame I've actually liked are AL, who's no longer there, Rosalie, who's hardly ever on, and Dred. Gory has a good voice but seems to have a little much of an axe to grind (though to be fair so does Dred but at least Dred has a sense of humor about it. Gory doesn't.) Then there are/were a bunch that are pleasant but unmemorable...Jeffries, Rockwell, Webster, and whoever the new Dean Kay person is. Everyone else circa 2009+ (unless I'm forgetting someone) sounded, to me, like nails on a chalkboard.
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Is it me, or does the lead singer of Imagine Dragons sound like he's channeling Jazn Mrazzz?
ditto the lead singer of The Neighborhood. seriously, Mraz's voice annoys the crap out of me and to hear all these guys imitating him is beyond ridiculous.
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so, Masters has been giving away tix to some "secret" Soundgarden acoustic private concert tonite, asking people to call in and say why they should win -- how they're connected to Soundgarden (emotionally, spritually, whatever). And this guy calls in, he sounds older than me, he's trying to give Masters a story about how his wife really needs to go to a show because she just retired and... I'm thinking "retired"?? Way to attract that younger demo, guys!
OTOH, they just played the 12" mix of OMD's "If You Leave" which I hadn't heard since 1986, probably.
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more interesting lost gems on Live 105: Chameleons, "Up the Down Staircase" and Kraftwerk "Pocket Calculator". Almost makes suffering thru Coldplay worthwhile.
OMG: Dead or Alive, the 12" version of "Lover Come Back to Me"
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March radio ratings out: same-old, same-old for the most part. KFOG and K-Fox dip, The Bone and Live 105 up slightly (tho' we'll wait until next month to see if Masters has had any effect). Alice is ahead of all of them, and I still don't know who listens to that station, in a market with 3 CHRs and an upbeat AC like Star 101. We had Alice on in the gym the other day -- first time I'd heard them in years -- and it was lots of currents and recurrents (Fun., Bruno Mars, etc) and very little gold (the better not to compete with Live 105 I guess). Oldies 103 is tied for 5th place -- kind of amazing.
ETA: I just tuned past Star 101 and even THEY play the Lumineers.
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Pleasant surprise on Kiss-FM: Madonna's "Burning Up", from her first LP, tho' it was never a single. Hadn't heard that in a dog's age.
Also: Men Without Hats' *other* hit, "Pop Goes the World".
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ETA: I just tuned past Star 101 and even THEY play the Lumineers.
I wouldn't be surprised if KREV or NOW 99.7 played it too. It somehow went Top 3 on CHR/Pop.
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AL doing that lunchtime "last letter/first letter" song title thingy and when she needed an "F" song she played "Friday on my Mind" -- and it was the version by Earthquake! Damn, she probably got docked an hour's pay for that.
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On Live 105 it seems like Steve Masters has settled into playing a forgotten gem at approximately 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30...the 8:30 one is being played up as his Modern Mix track. Today:
6:30 New Order - Your Silent Face
7:30 Chapterhouse - Pearl
8:30 Westworld - Painkiller
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On Live 105 it seems like Steve Masters has settled into playing a forgotten gem at approximately 6:30, 7:30, and 8:30...the 8:30 one is being played up as his Modern Mix track. Today:
6:30 New Order - Your Silent Face
7:30 Chapterhouse - Pearl
8:30 Westworld - Painkiller
He also played the new Daft Punk. Guessing KFOG won't add that one.
there's an oddly schizoid vibe with the Masters show -- they brought him on to bring older listeners back but yet he keeps having to explain to the young'uns who he is and why they should care. The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
ETA: just heard Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" for the 3rd time this week. A song I need to hear once a year, tops.
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Tomorrow -- for 4/20 -- K-Fox is giving away Doobies tix. Heh. "Whenever you hear us roll some Doobies -- call in and win!"
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ETA: just heard Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" for the 3rd time this week. A song I need to hear once a year, tops.
The video for that song is amusing. If memory serves, it riffs on a lot of the visual tropes from
various MJ videos, such as the lit sidewalk panels in Billie Jean.
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ETA: just heard Alien Ant Farm's "Smooth Criminal" for the 3rd time this week. A song I need to hear once a year, tops.
The video for that song is amusing. If memory serves, it riffs on a lot of the visual tropes from
various MJ videos, such as the lit sidewalk panels in Billie Jean.
And I'd say that it certainly belongs in a 2001 10@10 one of these days.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
Speaking of which, I wonder how KFOX's morning newscasts went this week.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
Speaking of which, I wonder how KFOX's morning newscasts went this week.
So, what happened to Gory? He didn't do much besides recite the morning paper anyway.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
Speaking of which, I wonder how KFOX's morning newscasts went this week.
So, what happened to Gory? He didn't do much besides recite the morning paper anyway.
we were talking about Live 105 and K-FOX, not KFOG.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
Speaking of which, I wonder how KFOX's morning newscasts went this week.
So, what happened to Gory? He didn't do much besides recite the morning paper anyway.
we were talking about Live 105 and K-FOX, not KFOG.
AFAIK, K-FOX has no news in the AM.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
Speaking of which, I wonder how KFOX's morning newscasts went this week.
So, what happened to Gory? He didn't do much besides recite the morning paper anyway.
we were talking about Live 105 and K-FOX, not KFOG.
AFAIK, K-FOX has no news in the AM.
Interesting... I've only listened to AL a few times before I'm shooed away by the frequency of overplayed geezer rock. I wonder if they make exceptions for remarkable scenarios.
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The lack of a newsperson suddenly became an issue during the Boston stuff this week.
So, what happened to Gory? He didn't do much besides recite the morning paper anyway.
we were talking about Live 105 and K-FOX, not KFOG.
sorry, didn't see any reference; incorrectly assumed the default would be KFOG.
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
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I feel like I've heard "Lightning Crashes" more times in the past 2 weeks than I ever did when it was new.
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Steve Masters' retro-mix today was Stephen "Tin Tin" Duffy's fabulous "Kiss Me".. 2 thumbs up!
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Doing AL's lunchtime request-thingy on K-FOX; was delighted to hear Alice Cooper's "Under My Wheels" which I suspect is not in the regular rotay there.
Ditto Rod the Mod's "Every Picture Tells of Storied Donuts".
(http://www.toplessrobot.com/Donuts.jpg)
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
Masters just played it and apparently the singer is none other than Pharrell Williams of the Neptunes (and for those of you with small children he did the songs for Despicable Me).
OMG: the 8:30 "Modern Mix Classic" is the Pet Shop Boys remix of Blur's "Boys & Girls". Fab. Yoo. Luss!
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Doing AL's lunchtime request-thingy on K-FOX
so AL needs a song that begins with an "N".. and a guy who sounded like a total stoner/surfer/Jeff Spicoli type asked for "(K)Nockin' on Heaven's Door". Uh, sorry bro'.
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Doing AL's lunchtime request-thingy on K-FOX
so AL needs a song that begins with an "N".. and a guy who sounded like a total stoner/surfer/Jeff Spicoli type asked for "(K)Nockin' on Heaven's Door". Uh, sorry bro'.
But you gotta admit that's kinda funny.
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
A funky song with inane lyrics? Gee, that NEVER happens. ;)
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
A funky song with inane lyrics? Gee, that NEVER happens. ;)
TANC: I was about to comment that it's interesting that KFOG loves to add songs after Live 105 discovers them, but the opposite never seems to happen -- Live 105 isn't playing that OMD song, afaik. And I wish they would... anyway I saw and liked your FB comment about it. Does KFOG only play it on Thursdays?
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
A funky song with inane lyrics? Gee, that NEVER happens. ;)
TANC: I was about to comment that it's interesting that KFOG loves to add songs after Live 105 discovers them, but the opposite never seems to happen -- Live 105 isn't playing that OMD song, afaik. And I wish they would... anyway I saw and liked your FB comment about it. Does KFOG only play it on Thursdays?
Thanks man! Yeah, KFOG only plays the OMD song on Thursdays. I checked Mediabase and no AAA or Alternative stations have OMD in regular rotation, yet. It's a shame because they seem to be getting a LOT of buzz right now, and definitely more than their 2011 album (which was also a respectable effort.) I have not even heard the OMD song on Live 105's new music program, Soundcheck. But it does sound like something that would fit right in now, especially with all the electro-rock that's dominating the alternative chart and the new wave gems they've been throwing around lately. Live 105 is also the current format leader for the new Depeche Mode song, "Soothe My Soul" which is pretty much a rehash of "Personal Jesus"...and much inferior to OMD's "Metroland" in my opinion.
Although, Depeche Mode has somehow manage to stay relevant on alternative over the past two decades. They're the only new wave band that has, for some reason. The latest efforts by New Order or Simple Minds did nothing on any US chart, sadly. Duran Duran's stuff from the last decade for some reason only charted on Alice(!!!)-like stations.
The only shared songs I know of that KFOG for sure got to first are Alabama Shakes "Hold On" and The Mowgli's "San Francisco." Part of it has to do with the timing...a lot of songs are just plain released to one format first (usually the Americana-esque types are sent to AAA first, like Alabama Shakes, Lumineers, etc...but I couldn't tell who got to "Hey Ho" first because for an AAA station, KFOG was VERY late in picking that one up. But the Mumfords and Black Keys generally get sent to Alternative first.) KFOG also played Muse's "Panic Station" for a couple of weeks, way before Live picked up on it but KFOG has since dropped it and gone back to "Madness," whereas Live 105 is currently spinning the hell out of both of them.
That being said...KFOG on its own volition still rips off Live 105, because they've played a bunch of songs that other AAA stations barely touch and even sound out of format for AAA (Linkin Park, Passion Pit, M83, Neon Trees) and were onto a couple of others before they got released to AAA (Alex Clare, Grouplove.) I'd include Capital Cities in this bunch as I don't see how it's any more AAA-friendly than Passion Pit or M83, but for some reason it's doing decently on a bunch of AAA stations. I was rooting for KFOG doing this at first because after the changeover, in addition to ripping off a couple of Live songs, they also played songs that Live 105 should have played, but didn't (i.e. Airborne Toxic's "All I ever Wanted," Kooks, Givers.) But now Live's gotten significantly better while KFOG has stagnated, even regressed a bit and the electro-alternative tracks really don't sound too good alongside Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton or Joan Osblorf. I'm glad that both stations seem to be trying to out-do each other, though. Both of them are more exciting than they've ever been in the past 5 years in my opinion.
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I'm really digging this new Daft Punk song; it's almost a mid-'70s BeeGees kinda thing. Really wondering whether KFOG will end up adding this one.
DC (a self-proclaimed Daft Punk fan) spun it on New Music Thursday this morning. Live 105 has also been playing it like every other hour.
I want to love it because it's funky as hell but I just can't get past the inane lyrics.
"We've come too far to give up who we are / I'm up all night to have fun / she's up all night to get lucky / we're up all night to get lucky" WTF...it's as if they're defining themselves by having random sex in colloquial terms.
A funky song with inane lyrics? Gee, that NEVER happens. ;)
TANC: I was about to comment that it's interesting that KFOG loves to add songs after Live 105 discovers them, but the opposite never seems to happen -- Live 105 isn't playing that OMD song, afaik. And I wish they would... anyway I saw and liked your FB comment about it. Does KFOG only play it on Thursdays?
Thanks man! Yeah, KFOG only plays the OMD song on Thursdays. I checked Mediabase and no AAA or Alternative stations have OMD in regular rotation, yet. It's a shame because they seem to be getting a LOT of buzz right now, and definitely more than their 2011 album (which was also a respectable effort.) I have not even heard the OMD song on Live 105's new music program, Soundcheck. But it does sound like something that would fit right in now, especially with all the electro-rock that's dominating the alternative chart and the new wave gems they've been throwing around lately. Live 105 is also the current format leader for the new Depeche Mode song, "Soothe My Soul" which is pretty much a rehash of "Personal Jesus"...and much inferior to OMD's "Metroland" in my opinion.
Although, Depeche Mode has somehow manage to stay relevant on alternative over the past two decades. They're the only new wave band that has, for some reason. The latest efforts by New Order or Simple Minds did nothing on any US chart, sadly. Duran Duran's stuff from the last decade for some reason only charted on Alice(!!!)-like stations.
The only shared songs I know of that KFOG for sure got to first are Alabama Shakes "Hold On" and The Mowgli's "San Francisco." Part of it has to do with the timing...a lot of songs are just plain released to one format first (usually the Americana-esque types are sent to AAA first, like Alabama Shakes, Lumineers, etc...but I couldn't tell who got to "Hey Ho" first because for an AAA station, KFOG was VERY late in picking that one up. But the Mumfords and Black Keys generally get sent to Alternative first.) KFOG also played Muse's "Panic Station" for a couple of weeks, way before Live picked up on it but KFOG has since dropped it and gone back to "Madness," whereas Live 105 is currently spinning the hell out of both of them.
That being said...KFOG on its own volition still rips off Live 105, because they've played a bunch of songs that other AAA stations barely touch and even sound out of format for AAA (Linkin Park, Passion Pit, M83, Neon Trees) and were onto a couple of others before they got released to AAA (Alex Clare, Grouplove.) I'd include Capital Cities in this bunch as I don't see how it's any more AAA-friendly than Passion Pit or M83, but for some reason it's doing decently on a bunch of AAA stations. I was rooting for KFOG doing this at first because after the changeover, in addition to ripping off a couple of Live songs, they also played songs that Live 105 should have played, but didn't (i.e. Airborne Toxic's "All I ever Wanted," Kooks, Givers.) But now Live's gotten significantly better while KFOG has stagnated, even regressed a bit and the electro-alternative tracks really don't sound too good alongside Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton or Joan Osblorf. I'm glad that both stations seem to be trying to out-do each other, though. Both of them are more exciting than they've ever been in the past 5 years in my opinion.
Wow! Great analysis! For what it's worth, it does seem as if KFOG has been trying to expand a little bit in its playlist - I never thought "Genius Of Love" as even being tangentially-AAA material, but sure enough it came on last night.
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I really hate these bullshit "multi-city" radio contests where you text them a word and are entered to win a thousand bucks -- you're competing against several hundred thousand people all over the country. Sad that Live 105 is doing one of these via CBS. Kiss-FM (Clear Channel) does it too.
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Live 105 brings back the "Screamer of the Week". This week it's "Hurricane" by a Brooklyn band called Miss Mister. A bit too Florence/Machine-meets-whoever for me.
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NTM but apparently old: The Forest Hillbillies, doing a ska version of the Munsters theme. another one pulled out of mothballs on Masters in the Morning.
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NTM but apparently old: The Forest Hillbillies, doing a ska version of the Munsters theme. another one pulled out of mothballs on Masters in the Morning.
Also this morning: 6:30 The Stranglers' "Ice Queen" and 8:30 Camouflage's "The Great Commandment" - the latter also played on April 3, which makes it the first vinyl repeat I've heard on his show.
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Meant to mention that Masters spent a surprising amount of time talking about the Jason Collins thing yesterday and tied it all in with a spiel about how Live 105 has always reached out to the LGBT community and how it used to become "K-GAY" every Pride Weekend. Of course, it's been a good 5 or 6 years since they did that but it made me wonder if maybe they'll bring it back this year as part of their new retro-ish attitude. It was always a hoot.
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Live 105 "Screamer of the Week": Phoenix's new one, "Trying to be Cool".
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Any Rick Dees fans left in the world? he's now carried locally on 92.7 The Rev, 6-10 am.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/118075/royce-adds-rick-dees-in-mornings-for-san-francisco#ixzz2SZ5BVPS3
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Tonite at 9, Live 105 will be playing the entire new Daft Punk album. Remember when stations used to do that sorta thing all the time?
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New local radio ratings are out. same-old, same-old again: KFOG up a tick, K-Fox and the Bone down a tick. Live 105 also down a tick, sadly -- so far their "reboot" hasn't caused any upward movement. That's too bad.
KNBR, predictably, shoots from a 3.1 to a 6.0 now that the Giants are back. They're #1, beating KQED by 5-tenths of a point.
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Tonite at 9, Live 105 will be playing the entire new Daft Punk album. Remember when stations used to do that sorta thing all the time?
Oh yes, how I miss those days.
But how much money would one've won if when posed the question back in, say, 2005 (In 2013 a prominent radio station will play ACT X's album in its entirety), and you said "Daft Punk"?
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New local radio ratings are out. same-old, same-old again: KFOG up a tick, K-Fox and the Bone down a tick. Live 105 also down a tick, sadly -- so far their "reboot" hasn't caused any upward movement. That's too bad.
KNBR, predictably, shoots from a 3.1 to a 6.0 now that the Giants are back. They're #1, beating KQED by 5-tenths of a point.
Judging by this, if Marty Lurie isn't being paid $1MM/yr, something's wrong. :P
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Tonite at 9, Live 105 will be playing the entire new Daft Punk album. Remember when stations used to do that sorta thing all the time?
Oh yes, how I miss those days.
BTW, that Daft Punk tune ("Get Lucky") is the #1 single in the UK this week.
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Live 105 plays Butthole Surfers, "Pepper", which I hadn't heard in some time -- not since AL played it on 10@10 a few years ago.
Per someone on the radio-info.com SF board, Live 105, despite their anemic overall ratings, are Top 5 in the 18-34 demo. News to me.
ETA: 8:30 "modern mix" was a 12" version of "True Faith".
When I was a very small boy
Michael Jackson talked to me...
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Quote from a friend r/ Live 105 (specifically about a Seahorses song):
once upon a time, Live 105 had more than stone temple pilots' first album, RHCP's greatest hits and "now that's what i call grunge! vol 3" on rotation. those were the days....
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ETA: 8:30 "modern mix" was a 12" version of "True Faith".
I wonder if they've had him cut back on the rare 80s tracks or if this week is just happens to be a little sparse. I haven't heard a 7:30-ish vinyl track this week so far (he played "Lips Like Sugar" but that doesn't really qualify IMO) and this morning's 8:30 modern mix was a Depeche Mode track, albeit a very obscure one. The logs don't show much out of the ordinary either, but often times the really obscure ones don't appear. On the other hand, they showed "This Corrosion" by Sisters of Mercy at 6:30 this morning.
Also, The Primitives' "Crash" is popping up at all hours as much as the rest of the requisite overplayed 80s tracks.
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The Primitives' "Crash" is popping up at all hours as much as the rest of the requisite overplayed 80s tracks.
indeed, that hoariest of New Wave chestnuts, "I Melt With You" has been coming up rather often.
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ETA: 8:30 "modern mix" was a 12" version of "True Faith".
I wonder if they've had him cut back on the rare 80s tracks or if this week is just happens to be a little sparse. I haven't heard a 7:30-ish vinyl track this week
This morning's 7:30 flashback was St Etienne's fab cover of "Only Love Can Break Your Heart". Nice.
ETA: 8:30 we get M/A/R/R/S "Pump Up the Volume" which I'm surprised Kiss-FM doesn't have in heavy rotation. Put da needle on da record!
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What Mumford hath wrought: Live 105 is playing this song called "F-ing Around". That phrase appears dozens of times in the lyric and the F-word is bleeped each time.
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What Mumford hath wrought: Live 105 is playing this song called "F-ing Around". That phrase appears dozens of times in the lyric and the F-word is bleeped each time.
"If you resort to swearing, you don't know how to use the English language properly."
--- Howard Stern
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an excellent read, regarding the state of radio:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/hfr-music-radio/index.html?iref=allsearch
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The cluelessness of the average person regarding radio is often astounding. Masters was wandering around BFD yesterday interviewing people and the number of people AT A LIVE 105 EVENT who didn't know that Live 105 was sponsoring the show (!), or who didn't even know there was a station called Live 105 (!!) was just mind-blowing.
These are the same sort of people who tell Renee she's wonderful and vote for the biggest uber-LNs for BOS every day.
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The cluelessness of the average person regarding radio is often astounding. Masters was wandering around BFD yesterday interviewing people and the number of people AT A LIVE 105 EVENT who didn't know that Live 105 was sponsoring the show (!), or who didn't even know there was a station called Live 105 (!!) was just mind-blowing.
These are the same sort of people who tell Renee she's wonderful and vote for the biggest uber-LNs for BOS every day.
Eek, but I'm sadly not surprised. :-\ A lot of people just go because they hear there's something big going on and they want a piece, and/or they tag along with their friends who at least know what Live 105 is.
There have also been many times where I've been to a concert and there's an astounding number of people who have no clue who the main band is, or know anything about them other than "I've heard a song or two of theirs that I don't remember what it's called, but I'll remember when I hear it." Erm...
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an excellent read, regarding the state of radio:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/17/showbiz/hfr-music-radio/index.html?iref=allsearch
Although quite lengthy it is an interesting article. I haven't finished yet,
but I did skim ahead to find my suspicions confirmed. In short, the sorry state
of music radio these days is in large part due to corporate greed, followed by
corporate greed squared. In other words, the consolidation facilitated by the
Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996, followed by the LBO of Clear
Channel by Bain Capital (!) in 2008.
Margot Chobanian, former music director of Atlanta's now-defunct DaveFM, says the trend has been to cut back on DJs and their patter because ratings show that people don't like chatter.
She doesn't agree with that interpretation of the data though. What corporations don't understand, she says, is that the amount of DJ chatter has nothing do with tuning out -- it's the quality of what the DJs say.
"(People) were engaged by the DJs," Chobanian says.
I know that Things Are Different Today (tm), what with the myriad entertainment
options available, but Back In The Day (tm), we actually cared about and enjoyed
what the jocks had to say. Some of it was information and trivia about the music
and the groups they played. Knowing about that stuff was actually a requirement
for DJs -- imagine that! But their patter also included personal observations and
anecdotes that were an integral part of their shows. WNEW-FM's Jonathon Schwartz
was particularly noted for this; in one clip archived on the Internet he regales the
audience for nearly ten minutes about trying to retrieve a letter to a girlfriend from the
post office in a snowstorm after realizing it contained a minor mistake. Such an indulgence
wouldn't be tolerated today, but it used to be a regular occurance. If you were driving
and had reached your destination, you would stay in the car listening to the radio until
the story was finished. It was an important part of how on-air personalities connected
with listeners, and how radio stations distinguished themselves and established unique
identities.
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I'm a little late to the party on Icona Pop's "I Love it (I Don't Care)" -- it came out last year and I didn't really get hip to it until it showed up in that Shoedazzle.com commercial recently -- but now it's a total earworm for me. Catchy as fuck. I love it. And I don't care.
Live 105 has been playing it a lot the last few weeks; today for the fir time they played it uncensored. There's a verse that goes
You're on a different road, I'm in the milky way
You want me down on earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch
and they had been bleeping "Bitch"... but not this morning.
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I'm a little late to the party on Icona Pop's "I Love it (I Don't Care)" -- it came out last year and I didn't really get hip to it until it showed up in that Shoedazzle.com commercial recently -- but now it's a total earworm for me. Catchy as fuck. I love it. And I don't care.
Live 105 has been playing it a lot the last few weeks; today for the fir time they played it uncensored. There's a verse that goes
You're on a different road, I'm in the milky way
You want me down on earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch
and they had been bleeping "Bitch"... but not this morning.
Live 105 spun it for a couple of weeks last year and dropped it. They probably picked up on it again because it's rocketing up the pop charts, which I was shocked about as I think of them as an alterna-hipster girl duo, which isn't usually CHR/Pop's cup of tea. IIRC last year they played the "bitch" version most of the time (which is the one you heard this morning). Now, they usually play "chick".
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I'm a little late to the party on Icona Pop's "I Love it (I Don't Care)" -- it came out last year and I didn't really get hip to it until it showed up in that Shoedazzle.com commercial recently -- but now it's a total earworm for me. Catchy as fuck. I love it. And I don't care.
Live 105 has been playing it a lot the last few weeks; today for the fir time they played it uncensored. There's a verse that goes
You're on a different road, I'm in the milky way
You want me down on earth, but I am up in space
You're so damn hard to please, we gotta kill this switch
You're from the 70's, but I'm a 90's bitch
and they had been bleeping "Bitch"... but not this morning.
Live 105 spun it for a couple of weeks last year and dropped it. They probably picked up on it again because it's rocketing up the pop charts, which I was shocked about as I think of them as an alterna-hipster girl duo, which isn't usually CHR/Pop's cup of tea. IIRC last year they played the "bitch" version most of the time (which is the one you heard this morning). Now, they usually play "chick".
it's getting played at hockey games and whatnot -- the Kings were playing it during the Sharks game Tues nite.
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Steve Masters' traffic chick, Vanessa, just did her last report. She's leaving, no indication where to.
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Any Rick Dees fans left in the world? he's now carried locally on 92.7 The Rev, 6-10 am.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/118075/royce-adds-rick-dees-in-mornings-for-san-francisco#ixzz2SZ5BVPS3
Attention Big Fingers McG: In addition to the above, 92.7 is also running Mr Dees' "Weekly Top 40" countdown on Sunday afternoons.
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Any Rick Dees fans left in the world? he's now carried locally on 92.7 The Rev, 6-10 am.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/118075/royce-adds-rick-dees-in-mornings-for-san-francisco#ixzz2SZ5BVPS3
Attention Big Fingers McG: In addition to the above, 92.7 is also running Mr Dees' "Weekly Top 40" countdown on Sunday afternoons.
Thanks. I occasionally catch the show online from www.rick.com, but there may one day be an occasion for me to listen while driving.
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Dear Live 105: I don't need to hear "Under Pressure" on your station. Or any other, for that matter.
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Dear Live 105: I don't need to hear "Under Pressure" on your station. Or any other, for that matter.
Ditto "I Melt With You"...
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This morning's Modern Mix track on Live: the 12" version of Peter Godwin's "Images of Heaven." Nice!
Aside: every time we get a modern mix track by someone from Germany...Masters always tells us so. I swear I hear him say "This is _____, from Germany" at least 2-3x/week.
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This morning's modern mix track: BLUE by Eiffel 65! :o
-Did they actually play it back then? (Outside of their specialty EDM show.) Steve Masters says they were the first station in the area to.
-It sounded good in between The Naked & Famous and M83.
-It would have sounded even better during their "Energy 105" phase last year.
-Live 105 should add it as a recurrent/gold. Nobody plays it anymore, so it qualifies as "alternative."
-This song got shafted on Pop, it was supposed to hit #1 but stalled at #3 and took a nosedive. :(
-I feel somewhat cheated out of a vintage track today...their 7:30 retro track was "Enjoy the Silence." ::)
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This morning's modern mix track: BLUE by Eiffel 65! :o
-Did they actually play it back then? (Outside of their specialty EDM show.) Steve Masters says they were the first station in the area to.
-It sounded good in between The Naked & Famous and M83.
-It would have sounded even better during their "Energy 105" phase last year.
-Live 105 should add it as a recurrent/gold. Nobody plays it anymore, so it qualifies as "alternative."
-This song got shafted on Pop, it was supposed to hit #1 but stalled at #3 and took a nosedive. :(
-I feel somewhat cheated out of a vintage track today...their 7:30 retro track was "Enjoy the Silence." ::)
Trying to remember what it stalled behind... it was probably around March 2000? "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" might have been one of the culprits.. I don't think "Bye Bye Bye" had started its meteoric rise yet.
And try telling anybody that they had a second hit! ("Move Your Body").
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This morning's modern mix track: BLUE by Eiffel 65! :o
-Did they actually play it back then? (Outside of their specialty EDM show.) Steve Masters says they were the first station in the area to.
-It sounded good in between The Naked & Famous and M83.
-It would have sounded even better during their "Energy 105" phase last year.
-Live 105 should add it as a recurrent/gold. Nobody plays it anymore, so it qualifies as "alternative."
-This song got shafted on Pop, it was supposed to hit #1 but stalled at #3 and took a nosedive. :(
-I feel somewhat cheated out of a vintage track today...their 7:30 retro track was "Enjoy the Silence." ::)
Trying to remember what it stalled behind... it was probably around March 2000? "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" might have been one of the culprits.. I don't think "Bye Bye Bye" had started its meteoric rise yet.
And try telling anybody that they had a second hit! ("Move Your Body").
You're on the right track...for all 3 weeks, #2 was Christina Aguilera "What a Girl Wants" and #1 was Savage Garden "I Knew I Loved You."
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This morning's modern mix track: BLUE by Eiffel 65! :o
-Did they actually play it back then? (Outside of their specialty EDM show.) Steve Masters says they were the first station in the area to.
-It sounded good in between The Naked & Famous and M83.
-It would have sounded even better during their "Energy 105" phase last year.
-Live 105 should add it as a recurrent/gold. Nobody plays it anymore, so it qualifies as "alternative."
-This song got shafted on Pop, it was supposed to hit #1 but stalled at #3 and took a nosedive. :(
-I feel somewhat cheated out of a vintage track today...their 7:30 retro track was "Enjoy the Silence." ::)
Trying to remember what it stalled behind... it was probably around March 2000? "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" might have been one of the culprits.. I don't think "Bye Bye Bye" had started its meteoric rise yet.
And try telling anybody that they had a second hit! ("Move Your Body").
You're on the right track...for all 3 weeks, #2 was Christina Aguilera "What a Girl Wants" and #1 was Savage Garden "I Knew I Loved You."
Those Top 3: all artists that have never appeared on 10@10, as far as I know. What I wouldn't give to see the reaction after those three songs are played consecutively in a 1999 or 2000 set! Actually, Savage Garden's "I Want You" would be a very good TOTHK for a 97 set, but I ain't holding my breath.
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You're on the right track...for all 3 weeks, #2 was Christina Aguilera "What a Girl Wants" and #1 was Savage Garden "I Knew I Loved You."
Those Top 3: all artists that have never appeared on 10@10, as far as I know. What I wouldn't give to see the reaction after those three songs are played consecutively in a 1999 or 2000 set! Actually, Savage Garden's "I Want You" would be a very good TOTHK for a 97 set, but I ain't holding my breath.
the Aguilera tune was on my 2000 wish list; given that she played Pink, I think she would've eventually played Christina.
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This morning's modern mix track: BLUE by Eiffel 65! :o
-Did they actually play it back then? (Outside of their specialty EDM show.) Steve Masters says they were the first station in the area to.
-It sounded good in between The Naked & Famous and M83.
-It would have sounded even better during their "Energy 105" phase last year.
-Live 105 should add it as a recurrent/gold. Nobody plays it anymore, so it qualifies as "alternative."
-This song got shafted on Pop, it was supposed to hit #1 but stalled at #3 and took a nosedive. :(
-I feel somewhat cheated out of a vintage track today...their 7:30 retro track was "Enjoy the Silence." ::)
Trying to remember what it stalled behind... it was probably around March 2000? "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely" might have been one of the culprits.. I don't think "Bye Bye Bye" had started its meteoric rise yet.
And try telling anybody that they had a second hit! ("Move Your Body").
You're on the right track...for all 3 weeks, #2 was Christina Aguilera "What a Girl Wants" and #1 was Savage Garden "I Knew I Loved You."
Those Top 3: all artists that have never appeared on 10@10, as far as I know. What I wouldn't give to see the reaction after those three songs are played consecutively in a 1999 or 2000 set! Actually, Savage Garden's "I Want You" would be a very good TOTHK for a 97 set, but I ain't holding my breath.
Agreed. Ditto with To the Moon and Back, which has been on my wishlist.
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May radio ratings. All our "usual suspects" essentially unchanged and blah blah blah...
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
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May radio ratings. All our "usual suspects" essentially unchanged and blah blah blah...
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
Did a double-take when I noticed that the chart linked above lists KTCT (KNBR's second frequency) as being a Susquehanna station. They sold out in what, 2007? Earlier?
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Steve Masters's Modern Mix tracks for last week:
Monday: The Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
Tuesday: Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance”
Wednesday: Erasure “Oh L’Amour”
Thursday: Laid Back “White Horse”
Friday: Information Society “What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)”
The first three are pretty mainstream and 4 & 5 aren't terribly unusual either. :-\ The vintage tracks are gradually being dumbed down, I fear.
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Steve Masters's Modern Mix tracks for last week:
Monday: The Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
Tuesday: Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance”
Wednesday: Erasure “Oh L’Amour”
Thursday: Laid Back “White Horse”
Friday: Information Society “What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)”
The first three are pretty mainstream and 4 & 5 aren't terribly unusual either. :-\ The vintage tracks are gradually being dumbed down, I fear.
Agreed. This morning he did Siouxie's "Cities in Dust" (12" mix)
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Steve Masters's Modern Mix tracks for last week:
Monday: The Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
Tuesday: Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance”
Wednesday: Erasure “Oh L’Amour”
Thursday: Laid Back “White Horse”
Friday: Information Society “What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)”
The first three are pretty mainstream and 4 & 5 aren't terribly unusual either. :-\ The vintage tracks are gradually being dumbed down, I fear.
Agreed. This morning he did Siouxie's "Cities in Dust" (12" mix)
They seem to have scaled way back on the "classic alternative" stuff generally.
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Sadly, Philly's WDAS-AM, that fabulous classic soul station, is no more :'(
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Steve Masters's Modern Mix tracks for last week:
Monday: The Human League “Don’t You Want Me”
Tuesday: Men Without Hats “The Safety Dance”
Wednesday: Erasure “Oh L’Amour”
Thursday: Laid Back “White Horse”
Friday: Information Society “What’s On Your Mind (Pure Energy)”
The first three are pretty mainstream and 4 & 5 aren't terribly unusual either. :-\ The vintage tracks are gradually being dumbed down, I fear.
Agreed. This morning he did Siouxie's "Cities in Dust" (12" mix)
They seem to have scaled way back on the "classic alternative" stuff generally.
I haven't heard the Modern Mix for the past week and I've been tuning in at 8:30, so it appears to be gone unless they played it early and/or moved the time, for multiple days in a row.
Also, after hearing Daft Punk, Neighborhood, Capital Cities, and Imagine Dragons virtually every hour on Live 105, I checked their playlist and...
lw TW Artist Title TW lw Move Aud
1 1 DAFT PUNK Get Lucky 100 94 6 0.6239
5 2 NEIGHBOURHOOD Sweater Weather 94 66 28 0.6014
2 3 CAPITAL CITIES Safe And Sound 87 80 7 0.5283
4 4 IMAGINE DRAGONS Demons 85 72 13 0.5332
3 5 IMAGINE DRAGONS Radioactive 84 75 9 0.53
::) .
They did something like this last year during their "Energy 105" phase (which was also the recent period when they were getting the highest ratings). But 169 spins of Imagine Dragons/week?
This is par for the course for Live 105. Every 3-6 months they seem to drastically change things up. Some of these periods are better than others. Since they went through the trouble of bringing Steve Masters back, and really played up their gold selection, I was hoping this would finally be the change that would stick. Sadly that wasn't the case.
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This is par for the course for Live 105. Every 3-6 months they seem to drastically change things up. Some of these periods are better than others. Since they went through the trouble of bringing Steve Masters back, and really played up their gold selection, I was hoping this would finally be the change that would stick. Sadly that wasn't the case.
Too bad, as the alt "classics" you don't hear everyday were the reason I've been listening to them lately. OTOH, I don't need to hear "I Melt With You" multiple times a week either. Gotta assume KFOG's latest incarnation has made Live 105 go back to the 85+ spins-per-week model, for currents. I like the Daft Punk tune but jeezus. Something tells me the Masters experiment is not long for this world.
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Gotta assume KFOG's latest incarnation has made Live 105 go back to the 85+ spins-per-week model, for currents.
Yep. Every time a station gives Live 105 a reason to be worried, it adapts.
And likewise, when the other station dumbs itself back down, Live 105 does too.
When Channel 104.9 moved to 92.3 and expanded their reach up to SF, Live 105 suddenly started playing a lot more experimental songs (and golds).
Then when Clear Channel turned 92.3 into a Live 105 clone (~June, July 2010)...Live 105 turned itself back into an even worse Live 105 clone.
I credit DC's "let's be more alternative than Live 105" strategy with giving Live the kick in the @$$ it needed to start sounding good again. Now it's no longer being kicked.
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according to a post on radio-info.com, Derek Madden, PD of The Bone, is leaving. I'm guessing Mr Pugh of KFOG will probably assume his duties (it's cheaper). But let the rumor-mongering begin!
ETA: apparently the reason for that post is that Madden changed his FB status from "works at 107.7 The Bone" to "worked at..." But he's still on their website.
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according to a post on radio-info.com, Derek Madden, PD of The Bone, is leaving. I'm guessing Mr Pugh of KFOG will probably assume his duties (it's cheaper). But let the rumor-mongering begin!
ETA: apparently the reason for that post is that Madden changed his FB status from "works at 107.7 The Bone" to "worked at..." But he's still on their website.
I've never found the verb tense on FB profiles to be particularly consistent or accurate, so if that's what they used for a source for their story without at least getting some kind of corroboration, that's kinda lame.
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From Facebook:
Derek Madden
No show today. REALLY BIG news tomorrow AM. That is all.
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From Facebook:
Derek Madden
No show today. REALLY BIG news tomorrow AM. That is all.
At least he didn't use exclamation points.
I need to find a way of filtering out posts with an excess of capital letters and exclamation points. They're never worth reading.
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So Pugh is taking over the PD role at the Bone *and* joining the Morning show with Greg G. (wonder how long that will last?), Tim Jeffries is going to afternoons on the Bone, and Webster is coming back to do afternoons on KFOG (which I suppose means that Dred and Rockwell are resuming their previous time slots).
Correctamundo. I seem to recall that DC was co-PD of KFOG and the Bone for a while, no? Somebody was.
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So Pugh is taking over the PD role at the Bone *and* joining the Morning show with Greg G. (wonder how long that will last?), Tim Jeffries is going to afternoons on the Bone, and Webster is coming back to do afternoons on KFOG (which I suppose means that Dred and Rockwell are resuming their previous time slots).
Correctamundo. I seem to recall that DC was co-PD of KFOG and the Bone for a while, no? Somebody was.
Dude, not sure what happened here, but it looks like you modified my post and deleted a bit of it (nothing crucial, to be fair), then added your response that looks like it's part of my post. I know it had to be an accident, so just be careful if something looks weird, it probably is.
Btw, here's the all-access article announcing the changes:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/120094/derek-madden-officially-named-pd-at-klos?ref=mail_bulletin
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So Pugh is taking over the PD role at the Bone *and* joining the Morning show with Greg G. (wonder how long that will last?), Tim Jeffries is going to afternoons on the Bone, and Webster is coming back to do afternoons on KFOG (which I suppose means that Dred and Rockwell are resuming their previous time slots).
Correctamundo. I seem to recall that DC was co-PD of KFOG and the Bone for a while, no? Somebody was.
Dude, not sure what happened here, but it looks like you modified my post and deleted a bit of it (nothing crucial, to be fair), then added your response that looks like it's part of my post. I know it had to be an accident, so just be careful if something looks weird, it probably is.
Btw, here's the all-access article announcing the changes:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/120094/derek-madden-officially-named-pd-at-klos?ref=mail_bulletin
I cannot tell you how many times I've clicked "Modify" when I meant to click "quote".
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June SF ratings in.
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
same-old, same-old as far as the KFOG/Bone/Alice/K-FOX/competition goes. Live105 actually dropped a couple notches. Sheesh.
KNBR drops from 5.8 to a 5.3 -- that's what happens when the Giants start to suck donkey balls.
(OTOH, the A's are smokin' hot and that hasn't helped 95.7 The Game)
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Gotta assume KFOG's latest incarnation has made Live 105 go back to the 85+ spins-per-week model, for currents.
Yep. Every time a station gives Live 105 a reason to be worried, it adapts.
And likewise, when the other station dumbs itself back down, Live 105 does too.
When Channel 104.9 moved to 92.3 and expanded their reach up to SF, Live 105 suddenly started playing a lot more experimental songs (and golds).
Then when Clear Channel turned 92.3 into a Live 105 clone (~June, July 2010)...Live 105 turned itself back into an even worse Live 105 clone.
I credit DC's "let's be more alternative than Live 105" strategy with giving Live the kick in the @$$ it needed to start sounding good again. Now it's no longer being kicked.
Tomorrow is "Throwback Thursday" on Live 105 -- they're soliciting requests.
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Gotta assume KFOG's latest incarnation has made Live 105 go back to the 85+ spins-per-week model, for currents.
Yep. Every time a station gives Live 105 a reason to be worried, it adapts.
And likewise, when the other station dumbs itself back down, Live 105 does too.
When Channel 104.9 moved to 92.3 and expanded their reach up to SF, Live 105 suddenly started playing a lot more experimental songs (and golds).
Then when Clear Channel turned 92.3 into a Live 105 clone (~June, July 2010)...Live 105 turned itself back into an even worse Live 105 clone.
I credit DC's "let's be more alternative than Live 105" strategy with giving Live the kick in the @$$ it needed to start sounding good again. Now it's no longer being kicked.
Tomorrow is "Throwback Thursday" on Live 105 -- they're soliciting requests.
Oy: "Throwback Thursday" so far has amounted to one or 2 songs an hour -- one of which, around 6:30am, was "Under Pressure", which between KFOG, K-FOX, The Bone and Oldies 103.7 you can probably hear 87 times a week in this market. Are you really telling me somebody requested that song because they hadn't heard it in ages? Good gawd.
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Gotta assume KFOG's latest incarnation has made Live 105 go back to the 85+ spins-per-week model, for currents.
Yep. Every time a station gives Live 105 a reason to be worried, it adapts.
And likewise, when the other station dumbs itself back down, Live 105 does too.
When Channel 104.9 moved to 92.3 and expanded their reach up to SF, Live 105 suddenly started playing a lot more experimental songs (and golds).
Then when Clear Channel turned 92.3 into a Live 105 clone (~June, July 2010)...Live 105 turned itself back into an even worse Live 105 clone.
I credit DC's "let's be more alternative than Live 105" strategy with giving Live the kick in the @$$ it needed to start sounding good again. Now it's no longer being kicked.
Tomorrow is "Throwback Thursday" on Live 105 -- they're soliciting requests.
Oy: "Throwback Thursday" so far has amounted to one or 2 songs an hour -- one of which, around 6:30am, was "Under Pressure", which between KFOG, K-FOX, The Bone and Oldies 103.7 you can probably hear 87 times a week in this market. Are you really telling me somebody requested that song because they hadn't heard it in ages? Good gawd.
The other ones were "Girls" by the Beastie Boys, "Pictures of You" by the Cure, and "Damnit" by Blink 182. ::)
Live 105, despite having their periods of blah, usually delivers when they use a fancy phrase like that. (Even something that could have easily been horrendous, their "Nothin' But 90s weekends," turned out awesome.) But not this time.
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Guess I could have been confused (wouldn't be the first time), but I thought the great shuffle of KFOG/Bone airstaff was to take place starting today. But I tuned in to KFOG a few minutes ago and found that Tim J. is still on KFOG in the mornings, not the Bone in the afternoon. I guess that explains why there were no goodbyes or mention of a change in his schedule at the end of last Friday's morning show.
ETA: Guess I should have just been a l-e-e-e-e-t-le more patient. Tim just said his farewell to the morning show; the changes take place starting tomorrow.
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Listening to AL's lunchtime thingy. A guy called and requested Billy Idol doing "Money Money". Heh.
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Listening to AL's lunchtime thingy. A guy called and requested Billy Idol doing "Money Money". Heh.
(http://www.feelnumb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/mony_mony_tommy_james_mutual_of_new_york_building.jpg)
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AL's lunchtime thingy: she needed a song beginning with K -- and played "Keep Yourself Alive" by Queen. Stellar!
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Tuning around on my over-the-air radio to find KFOG and I come across Oldies 103.7 playing the Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun". Nice surprise, I didn't think Karen & Richard were in their wheelhouse these days. Of course it was followed by Aerosmith's unnecessary "Sweet Emotion", so that was the end of that.
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Tuning around on my over-the-air radio to find KFOG and I come across Oldies 103.7 playing the Carpenters "We've Only Just Begun". Nice surprise, I didn't think Karen & Richard were in their wheelhouse these days. Of course it was followed by Aerosmith's unnecessary "Sweet Emotion", so that was the end of that.
Oldies 103.7 played Close To You this morning, just a little while after playing Yes' Owner Of A Lonely Heart!
btw, here's a really fab take on OOALH :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ws9DMWx2-g
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2NG has been mind-blowingly wonderful today. They just played the partridges, "Point Me in the Direction of Albequerque" (TANC, Cap'n Jack!) followed by the Osmonds doing "The Proud One". swoon!
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Haven't noticed much new wave on 98.1 KISS FM lately. Although, if it is gone then experiment lasted much longer than most of their other ones.
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Haven't noticed much new wave on 98.1 KISS FM lately. Although, if it is gone then experiment lasted much longer than most of their other ones.
They're still playing Nu shooz, Soft Cell, Blondie, Modern English... but all those are more-or-less "danceable" and what I thought was dumb was playing stuff like Simple Minds. So maybe they're scaling back on the less-necessary stuff. They're still the most listenable commercial station in town, for me.
ETA: heard in the 5:00 hour yesterday: Devo, Human League, Go-Go's. What''s interesting is that their format was devised so that they wouldn't share songs with Oldies 103, which a year ago was leaning towards a lot of '70s AOR hits . Now they're adding a lot more '80s stuff.
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Apparently Clear Channel and KMEL showed Chuy Gomez the door yesterday after 20 years.
http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/08/16/clear-channels-kmel-unceremoniously-fires-popular-bay-area-dj-chuy-gomez-after-20-years/?fb_source=pubv1
Care to guess where he might land?
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Ralph Barbieri settled his lawsuit against Cumulus before it went to trial -- for a cool 4 million.
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot.com/2013/09/breaking-exclusive-barbieri-settles.html
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Former Triple A (which had turned into a somewhat generic Classic Rock station the past two years) KMTT/Seattle flips to Hot AC:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/121856/triple-a-kmtt-flips-to-hot-ac
Which makes it the third Hot AC in the market. There KPLZ (Star 101.5) and KLCK (which flipped from Smooth Jazz to Hot AC couple years back; after a brief stint as Alternative, they're Hot AC again).
Too bad. This also means no more live CDs. (They have 18.)
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latest SF radio ratings out:
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
KFOG dips to a 1.9 -- their lowest in ages. (They were at 2.6 in June) K-Fox down below 2 too. The Bone is at 2.5 and this has to fuel the Nash-FM rumors again.
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Wow, that's worse than DC's lowest point (which IIRC was a 2.2, which Pugh matched last month.) And as low as I've seen it, ever.
KFOG's gotten stale, IMO. It sounds at least as boring as when they had no PD. I've been drifting over to Live 105 lately, even though that station isn't going through one of its more interesting phases either.
I wonder if they're trying to mitigate interest and/or just stop trying, and then kill it off with the excuse that it wasn't getting high enough ratings, like what just happened to KMTT/Seattle.
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I wonder if they're trying to mitigate interest and/or just stop trying, and then kill it off with the excuse that it wasn't getting high enough ratings, like what just happened to KMTT/Seattle.
I was thinking that too, tho' if they were intending to run it down, why bring back Webster? 10@10 and Connected have become the most interesting dayparts, by default.
So if they were to kill KFOG, would KFOX take up the Triple-A torch? They certainly couldn't do worse than they are now.
ETA: and it goes w/out saying that the KFOG Morning Show is just abysmal. Gory thinks "Random Storytime Over Sappy Piano Music" (he repeats that phrase every day) is the funniest thing anyone has ever thought of. Oy.
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I wonder if they're trying to mitigate interest and/or just stop trying, and then kill it off with the excuse that it wasn't getting high enough ratings, like what just happened to KMTT/Seattle.
I was thinking that too, tho' if they were intending to run it down, why bring back Webster? 10@10 and Connected have become the most interesting dayparts, by default.
So if they were to kill KFOG, would KFOX take up the Triple-A torch? They certainly couldn't do worse than they are now.
ETA: and it goes w/out saying that the KFOG Morning Show is just abysmal. Gory thinks "Random Storytime Over Sappy Piano Music" (he repeats that phrase every day) is the funniest thing anyone has ever thought of. Oy.
Or, they brought back Webster thinking that the link to the past would boost ratings. When that failed, they think "See, NOTHING can save this station".
More likely, they really have no idea.
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I wonder if they're trying to mitigate interest and/or just stop trying, and then kill it off with the excuse that it wasn't getting high enough ratings, like what just happened to KMTT/Seattle.
I was thinking that too, tho' if they were intending to run it down, why bring back Webster? 10@10 and Connected have become the most interesting dayparts, by default.
Or, they brought back Webster thinking that the link to the past would boost ratings. When that failed, they think "See, NOTHING can save this station".
Perhaps they're throwing the listeners a bone, since he's apparently well liked but didn't get good enough ratings for them. Or rather...
More likely, they really have no idea.
^^^Yeah, this is probably it.
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More likely, they really have no idea.
I think this is the truth in so many situations when the inputs and outputs are loosely-coupled at
best... television and radio ratings, movie box office, song popularity (Gangnam Style? Really?),
sports coaching, marketing, catch phrases, etc. These practices border on voodoo, and often
with the same reliability and predictability.
There's an old saying in advertising that half the money you spend on it is wasted... it's just that
you don't know which half.
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Yesterday I heard K-FOX play a Sharks promo for the three games they played last week (Wed, Fri, Sat -- tix still available as a 3-pack!) and thought, "ooops!" As of this morning they're still playing it! Double ooops.
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
She just got back from a vacay in MA... and we know her mom is getting on in years... I'm guessing she found a gig close to the old homestead. She's not on the air this morning at KFOX. She's posting songs about "bubbles" on FB -- a clue of some sort?
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As of today, the radio-info.com message boards (which migrated to radiodiscussions.com about 6 months ago) have ceased operation. I posted there as RadioJunkieMike and Radical also was a frequent poster. No more.
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From the KFOX website:
"KFOX 98.5/102.1 Welcomes Back Chris Jackson to Mornings, starting December 10th. Jackson, a San Jose native, is a 20 year Bay Area radio veteran. He was an original crew member of KFOX, serving as co-host, creative director and lead writer. "
The name's not ringing a bell, but then I don't really have a long history of listening to them.
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FB Message from Dusti Rhodes to Annalisa:
"Dick wars. You in the crossfire. SUCKS! -! Must.lunch.soon. xox
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As of today, the radio-info.com message boards (which migrated to radiodiscussions.com about 6 months ago) have ceased operation. I posted there as RadioJunkieMike and Radical also was a frequent poster. No more.
:'( That bites. Seems really sudden...if there was any warning, I wasn't paying attention.
ETA: at least I won't have to read the end-of-year-prediction thread where every single person on the forum predicts that Live 105 is going to flip next year. (Like has happened every year I've been over there.)
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
While I don't do that Facepage thing, it seems perfectly reasonable that her profile has lots
of Bay State related items. I think that would only be significant if it had changed recently.
Also, as AL is married, I would think a move back to New England is less likely for the obvious
reasons. Just pure speculation on my part; I know little of her personal life.
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FB Message from Dusti Rhodes to Annalisa:
"Dick wars. You in the crossfire. SUCKS! -! Must.lunch.soon. xox
While we can read between the lines on that one, it would be interesting to know the details.
I don't follow the radio biz, but if the story comes out, perhaps someone can post it here.
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
While I don't do that Facepage thing, it seems perfectly reasonable that her profile has lots
of Bay State related items. I think that would only be significant if it had changed recently.
Also, as AL is married, I would think a move back to New England is less likely for the obvious reasons. Just pure speculation on my part; I know little of her personal life.
actually, AL got divorced a couple years ago. But I think it's clear she got fired (as opposed to having quit) so anything's possible if the right offer comes.
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From the KFOX website:
"KFOX 98.5/102.1 Welcomes Back Chris Jackson to Mornings, starting December 10th. Jackson, a San Jose native, is a 20 year Bay Area radio veteran. He was an original crew member of KFOX, serving as co-host, creative director and lead writer. "
The name's not ringing a bell, but then I don't really have a long history of listening to them.
Chris Jackson was the Irish Greg equivalent for Greg Kihn for many, many years. I always liked him better than GK myself.
ETA: if you scroll down far enough on Annalisa's FB you'll see a kind thought from Dennis Constantine
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
While I don't do that Facepage thing, it seems perfectly reasonable that her profile has lots
of Bay State related items. I think that would only be significant if it had changed recently.
Also, as AL is married, I would think a move back to New England is less likely for the obvious reasons. Just pure speculation on my part; I know little of her personal life.
actually, AL got divorced a couple years ago. But I think it's clear she got fired (as opposed to having quit) so anything's possible if the right offer comes.
Oh... double suckage. I'm surprised to hear she's divorced, because in a March 2010 e-mail to
me she mentioned her "new hubby" in passing. So apparently that marriage didn't last very
long. Any idea on why she was fired? Low ratings so hang the DJ?
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Oh... double suckage. I'm surprised to hear she's divorced, because in a March 2010 e-mail to me she mentioned her "new hubby" in passing. So apparently that marriage didn't last very long. Any idea on why she was fired? Low ratings so hang the DJ?
She married a friend of Renee's husband. Apparently he had issues. I can't really say more than that.
New manager came in to the Entercom SF "cluster" (more like "clusterfuck", heh), and he replaced the guy who hired her, which is never good. He decided they needed a new direction. I suspect the previous guy thought they would target women turned off by Lamont and Toe-nail-y and saw AL as a way to do that... meanwhile a lot of their listeners never forgave them for getting rid of Greg Kihn.
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Oh... double suckage. I'm surprised to hear she's divorced, because in a March 2010 e-mail to me she mentioned her "new hubby" in passing. So apparently that marriage didn't last very long. Any idea on why she was fired? Low ratings so hang the DJ?
She married a friend of Renee's husband. Apparently he had issues. I can't really say more than that.
New manager came in to the Entercom SF "cluster" (more like "clusterfuck", heh), and he replaced the guy who hired her, which is never good. He decided they needed a new direction. I suspect the previous guy thought they would target women turned off by Lamont and Toe-nail-y and saw AL as a way to do that... meanwhile a lot of their listeners never forgave them for getting rid of Greg Kihn.
The radio equivalent of being in a band that gets signed to a record deal, and then having the A&R guy (or gal) who signed you get canned, leaving no one at the label to stand up for your band.
Overall I don't see being away from KFOX as being bad for AL, since it seemed like they really had her in a creative straitjacket. But it's never pleasant to get fired, whether you see it coming or not. Hope she at least got a decent severance package or a long contract they had to buy out.
So what do you think? Would the current regime at KFOG consider bringing her back? Since DC is gone one hopes Bill Newguy doesn't have any big axe to grind over her departure -- it was just business. But if Gory's numbers aren't so good and AL is a known quantity (with a built-in audience), I could see them thinking about having her return to take over the morning drive -- and one hopes, a certain mid-morning franchise in which the current producer is not, ummm, flourishing.
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Noticed this evening that Annalisa changed her FB name from "Annalisa KFOX" to Annalisa Lisa, and has been posting youtube links to all sorts of radio-related songs. Should we draw any conclusion from this, or was she just in a playful mood?
I was wondering the same thing.
Per one of the 'Snipes, her identity has been scrubbed from the KFOX website, so it sounds like she's outta there. And her FB cover and profile pics both strongly suggest Massachusetts -- is she perhaps returning to the land of her birth?
While I don't do that Facepage thing, it seems perfectly reasonable that her profile has lots
of Bay State related items. I think that would only be significant if it had changed recently.
Also, as AL is married, I would think a move back to New England is less likely for the obvious
reasons. Just pure speculation on my part; I know little of her personal life.
Agreed--she has used lots of pics referring to her home state in the past. But the two shots I referred to were posted in concert with the name change on Tuesday, so one could assume at least a bit of significance there.
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Oh... double suckage. I'm surprised to hear she's divorced, because in a March 2010 e-mail to me she mentioned her "new hubby" in passing. So apparently that marriage didn't last very long. Any idea on why she was fired? Low ratings so hang the DJ?
She married a friend of Renee's husband. Apparently he had issues. I can't really say more than that.
New manager came in to the Entercom SF "cluster" (more like "clusterfuck", heh), and he replaced the guy who hired her, which is never good. He decided they needed a new direction. I suspect the previous guy thought they would target women turned off by Lamont and Toe-nail-y and saw AL as a way to do that... meanwhile a lot of their listeners never forgave them for getting rid of Greg Kihn.
The radio equivalent of being in a band that gets signed to a record deal, and then having the A&R guy (or gal) who signed you get canned, leaving no one at the label to stand up for your band.
Overall I don't see being away from KFOX as being bad for AL, since it seemed like they really had her in a creative straitjacket. But it's never pleasant to get fired, whether you see it coming or not. Hope she at least got a decent severance package or a long contract they had to buy out.
So what do you think? Would the current regime at KFOG consider bringing her back? Since DC is gone one hopes Bill Newguy doesn't have any big axe to grind over her departure -- it was just business. But if Gory's numbers aren't so good and AL is a known quantity (with a built-in audience), I could see them thinking about having her return to take over the morning drive -- and one hopes, a certain mid-morning franchise in which the current producer is not, ummm, flourishing.
I could go for that - AL being effectively the new Dave by doing both the Morning Show and 10@10.
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So what do you think? Would the current regime at KFOG consider bringing her back? Since DC is gone one hopes Bill Newguy doesn't have any big axe to grind over her departure -- it was just business. But if Gory's numbers aren't so good and AL is a known quantity (with a built-in audience), I could see them thinking about having her return to take over the morning drive -- and one hopes, a certain mid-morning franchise in which the current producer is not, ummm, flourishing.
Boy oh boy... wouldn't that be a sweet Christmas present?
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After Live 105's "Throwback Thursday" songs started entirely consisting of the likes of Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, STP, etc (basically songs they play anyway), I stopped paying attention. But I had them on this morning, and we got Jesus & Mary Chain's "Head On" & Morrissey's "Last of the International Playboys"! :o
Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
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Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
After today Masters in the Morning will be no more. Not a huge surprise. Oh well, at 9 months it had a nice run.
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Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
After today Masters in the Morning will be no more. Not a huge surprise. Oh well, at 9 months it had a nice run.
yeah, I suspected that was the big news. Funny, just as I switched back to K-FOX in the morning last month, they dumped AL, and I was thinking about giving Masters a try again but... ooops.
Anyone heard the new K-FOX guy yet?
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Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
After today Masters in the Morning will be no more. Not a huge surprise. Oh well, at 9 months it had a nice run.
Yup, I heard the news this morning when I stopped on the station to find out if the '80's synth song playing was from the new Arcade Fire album (it turned out to be American-Soviets by C.C.C.P.).
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Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
After today Masters in the Morning will be no more. Not a huge surprise. Oh well, at 9 months it had a nice run.
Wonder if that might be AL's next destination?
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Also, Steve Masters says he has a big announcement tomorrow morning that he really wants us to tune in for. Wonder what that will be...
After today Masters in the Morning will be no more. Not a huge surprise. Oh well, at 9 months it had a nice run.
Wonder if that might be AL's next destination?
While I'd love to hear her there, I don't think it's likely because her music expertise is roughly from the same period as Masters' (& even earlier) & I think they want someone newer. Attempts by Masters to make the Live listeners care about forgotten new wave tracks that were popular on Live 105's heyday seemed to fall flat (but were cool while it lasted).
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Oops: Ben Fong-Torres posted an interview with Steve Masters last weekend -- 2 days after Masters did his last show.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/Steve-Masters-returns-to-Live-105-5080294.php#page-1
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Latest radio ratings are in -- the "holiday" period -- and unsurprisingly all-Xmas KOIT practically doubled their number over the previous month. They're #1 with an 8.2 KFOG up slightly; KFOX down slightly after getting rid of AL.
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2NG is doing an hour of "psychedelic '60s" -- nothing terribly obscure, but They've already played 2 songs heard on this morning's 1967 10@10 on the Peak (Blues Magoos and The Seeds) as well as "Inna gadda Da Vida" (short version). Electric Prunes are surely yet to come. And here's Max Frost and the Troopers! *swoon*
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BIG NEWS: Gory will be going to LA to be part of a new Clear Channel syndicated morning monstrosity called "The Morning Woody" (I kid U not). It features most of the folks he did mornings with on Live 105 a few years back. It starts in April, so it's not clear how soon he'll leave KFOG, or if the syndicated show will be carried in SF. I can't imagine KFOG (Cumulus) or Live 105 (CBS) would want to get in bed withn Clear Channel, but stranger things have happened. Could be the perfect segue for AL to return to KFOG (hey, they brought back Webster) but I don't want to get my hopes up.
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BIG NEWS: Gory will be going to LA to be part of a new Clear Channel syndicated morning monstrosity called "The Morning Woody" (I kid U not). It features most of the folks he did mornings with on Live 105 a few years back. It starts in April, so it's not clear how soon he'll leave KFOG, or if the syndicated show will be carried in SF. I can't imagine KFOG (Cumulus) or Live 105 (CBS) would want to get in bed withn Clear Channel, but stranger things have happened. Could be the perfect segue for AL to return to KFOG (hey, they brought back Webster) but I don't want to get my hopes up.
Hey at least this provides an opening, whether they fill it with AL or not, I will welcome the change. (I almost said that whoever takes over can't be any worse than Gory, but caught myself. Yes, they probably can and I would hate find out by how much.)
You think they'll let Gory stick around since he's going to the competition (even if it is in LA)? I know in a lot of industries, if you give notice that you're jumping to a competitor, you might as well head for the door 'cause they're going to show it to you directly.
(All that said, I am crossing my fingers for AL.)
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BIG NEWS: Gory will be going to LA to be part of a new Clear Channel syndicated morning monstrosity called "The Morning Woody" (I kid U not). It features most of the folks he did mornings with on Live 105 a few years back. It starts in April, so it's not clear how soon he'll leave KFOG, or if the syndicated show will be carried in SF. I can't imagine KFOG (Cumulus) or Live 105 (CBS) would want to get in bed withn Clear Channel, but stranger things have happened. Could be the perfect segue for AL to return to KFOG (hey, they brought back Webster) but I don't want to get my hopes up.
Hey at least this provides an opening, whether they fill it with AL or not, I will welcome the change. (I almost said that whoever takes over can't be any worse than Gory, but caught myself. Yes, they probably can and I would hate find out by how much.)
You think they'll let Gory stick around since he's going to the competition (even if it is in LA)? I know in a lot of industries, if you give notice that you're jumping to a competitor, you might as well head for the door 'cause they're going to show it to you directly.
(All that said, I am crossing my fingers for AL.)
as I said on FB, it seems odd that this news was announced 3 months in advance, and once the word spreads, you can bet folks will start asking questions on the KFOG FB page; there are no secrets in the age of social media. So I doubt he'll be around until mid-April. Now if they could just steal Irish Greg away from Don Bleu...
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I almost said that whoever takes over can't be any worse than Gory, but caught myself. Yes, they probably can and I would hate find out by how much.)
LOL, yeah.... I would say that Gory is not as bad as Twitch. I'll give him that much. Which is essentially nothing.
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BIG NEWS: Gory will be going to LA to be part of a new Clear Channel syndicated morning monstrosity called "The Morning Woody" (I kid U not). It features most of the folks he did mornings with on Live 105 a few years back. It starts in April, so it's not clear how soon he'll leave KFOG, or if the syndicated show will be carried in SF. I can't imagine KFOG (Cumulus) or Live 105 (CBS) would want to get in bed withn Clear Channel, but stranger things have happened. Could be the perfect segue for AL to return to KFOG (hey, they brought back Webster) but I don't want to get my hopes up.
Hey at least this provides an opening, whether they fill it with AL or not, I will welcome the change. (I almost said that whoever takes over can't be any worse than Gory, but caught myself. Yes, they probably can and I would hate find out by how much.)
You think they'll let Gory stick around since he's going to the competition (even if it is in LA)? I know in a lot of industries, if you give notice that you're jumping to a competitor, you might as well head for the door 'cause they're going to show it to you directly.
(All that said, I am crossing my fingers for AL.)
as I said on FB, it seems odd that this news was announced 3 months in advance, and once the word spreads, you can bet folks will start asking questions on the KFOG FB page; there are no secrets in the age of social media. So I doubt he'll be around until mid-April. Now if they could just steal Irish Greg away from Don Bleu...
just a guess, but AL being released by KFOX prob got KFOG to thinking about how they could re-vamp their morning show. I don't listen to it, but last time I did it was pee-yoo-ish.
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BIG NEWS: Gory will be going to LA to be part of a new Clear Channel syndicated morning monstrosity called "The Morning Woody" (I kid U not). It features most of the folks he did mornings with on Live 105 a few years back. It starts in April, so it's not clear how soon he'll leave KFOG, or if the syndicated show will be carried in SF. I can't imagine KFOG (Cumulus) or Live 105 (CBS) would want to get in bed withn Clear Channel, but stranger things have happened. Could be the perfect segue for AL to return to KFOG (hey, they brought back Webster) but I don't want to get my hopes up.
Hey at least this provides an opening, whether they fill it with AL or not, I will welcome the change. (I almost said that whoever takes over can't be any worse than Gory, but caught myself. Yes, they probably can and I would hate find out by how much.)
You think they'll let Gory stick around since he's going to the competition (even if it is in LA)? I know in a lot of industries, if you give notice that you're jumping to a competitor, you might as well head for the door 'cause they're going to show it to you directly.
(All that said, I am crossing my fingers for AL.)
as I said on FB, it seems odd that this news was announced 3 months in advance, and once the word spreads, you can bet folks will start asking questions on the KFOG FB page; there are no secrets in the age of social media. So I doubt he'll be around until mid-April. Now if they could just steal Irish Greg away from Don Bleu...
I'd love to see AL back too, though not IG who makes my ears bleed. :-X. I don't see Gory going to a competitor being much of an issue though as he worked at CC before (Channel 92.3) and before that CBS...doesn't seem like it would do them good to grind an axe over DJs going to where they can find work. Also, why pay severance to get rid of someone a month or two early who's going to quit anyway, when they could just wait it out, and in the meantime look for a new DJ?
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Tonite the jock on Oldies 103.7, in his outro to "Beach Baby", managed to refer to First Class as "a Beach Boys satellite band" (er, what?), "a British surf group" (uh... no), "a collection of studio musicians" (yes) and "a group whose other big hit that you might know was 'Windy'" (!?!). Well, one out of four, bub. Seriously, wherethefuck do they find these people??
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The BFT kiss of death tour continues. Per his column a couple weeks ago, he recently guested on Piers Morgan's show on CNN. And now Morgan has been given his walking papers.
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I'm not sure what's the best thread for this, but tonight I noticed one of the tweets was for a UK 10@10 show:
http://www.sfmradio.com/10-10-els-sittingbourne
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This morning on 98.1 Kiss FM, Renell did a little bumper to sign off her show and the music playing underneath was Grace Jones' "Pull Up To The Bumper". He heh
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This morning on 98.1 Kiss FM, Renell did a little bumper to sign off her show and the music playing underneath was Grace Jones' "Pull Up To The Bumper". He heh
they use that bumper a lot -- but I don't think they ever actually play the song in rotation.
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Listening to KPOO's Wednesday morning Blues show, which is being guest-hosted by Jim from the Grinder's Grooveyard today, and Geoff will be delighted to hear that he just played Green-era Fleetwood Mac, "Showbiz Blues" -- blooze that DIDN'T make me snooze!
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latest take-with-grain-of-salt rumor is that KGO is going to reinvent itself by going back to its talk-show format in a few months. And that simulcasting it on FM is a possibility... meaning that either KFOG or The Bone, the 2 FMs owned by Cumulus, would bite the dust.
(this is via Lieberman, of course, so as I say... take with a LARGE grain of salt)
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latest take-with-grain-of-salt rumor is that KGO is going to reinvent itself by going back to its talk-show format in a few months. And that simulcasting it on FM is a possibility... meaning that either KFOG or The Bone, the 2 FMs owned by Cumulus, would bite the dust.
(this is via Lieberman, of course, so as I say... take with a LARGE grain of salt)
Just out of curiosity, is Lieberman ever right about anything? I mean, I know that corporate radio has a history of fucking things up, bleah, bleah, but it seems every one of his KFOG-related predictions have missed by a country mile.
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latest take-with-grain-of-salt rumor is that KGO is going to reinvent itself by going back to its talk-show format in a few months. And that simulcasting it on FM is a possibility... meaning that either KFOG or The Bone, the 2 FMs owned by Cumulus, would bite the dust.
(this is via Lieberman, of course, so as I say... take with a LARGE grain of salt)
That's ok, this is the 10@10 club, not the GS's. We're not going to crucify you for mentioning Lieberman's blog. ;-)
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latest take-with-grain-of-salt rumor is that KGO is going to reinvent itself by going back to its talk-show format in a few months. And that simulcasting it on FM is a possibility... meaning that either KFOG or The Bone, the 2 FMs owned by Cumulus, would bite the dust.
(this is via Lieberman, of course, so as I say... take with a LARGE grain of salt)
That's ok, this is the 10@10 club, not the GS's. We're not going to crucify you for mentioning Lieberman's blog. ;-)
(http://mgoblog.com/sites/mgoblog.com/files/images/Band-To-Dallas-Brandon-On-Jerryworld-Dol_BD2D/TorchGang.jpg)
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Well, NASH-FM is finally coming to the Bay Area. But not on 104.5, apparently:
http://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/88776/rumor-mill-cumulus-to-launch-nash-fm-in-san-francisco/
Maybe Lieberman should read radioInsight once in a while -- he might actually get something right.
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Reports are coming out of Washington state that Casey Kasem is in critical condition.
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/130324/casey-kasem-reported-in-critical-condition
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for the 4th or 5th time since they stopped playing Smooth Jazz, 103.7 has changed their branding yet again: now they're "Big 103.7"-- whatevs. Still Oldies/Classic Hits.
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for the 4th or 5th time since they stopped playing Smooth Jazz, 103.7 has changed their branding yet again: now they're "Big 103.7"-- whatevs. Still Oldies/Classic Hits.
Ben F-T referred to this peripherally in his column yesterday, about station "imaging," and the dearth of jingles these days. He said that 103.7 would need to produce something like 500 new sweepers to correspond to its new ID.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/Imaging-Where-have-all-the-jingles-gone-5532681.php
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for the 4th or 5th time since they stopped playing Smooth Jazz, 103.7 has changed their branding yet again: now they're "Big 103.7"-- whatevs. Still Oldies/Classic Hits.
Ben F-T referred to this peripherally in his column yesterday, about station "imaging," and the dearth of jingles these days. He said that 103.7 would need to produce something like 500 new sweepers to correspond to its new ID.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/Imaging-Where-have-all-the-jingles-gone-5532681.php
Ben also mentioned Mr Pugh's departure from KFOG, a month after the fact.
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Latest ratings: KFOG, the Bone, K-Fox, Alice -- all down thsi month, and Live 105 actually went up for the first time in ages.
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This fragment appeared in a Leah Garchick column yesterday:
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Oakland-sighting-of-prehistoric-tools-5544810.php
Larry Bensky, educator and Proust scholar, was at Yoshi's in San Francisco for a fundraising reunion of KSAN staff and fans, and sent a report: "If, indeed, Yoshi's on Fillmore is heading for a restructuring/reconfiguring, it would be hard to figure out why, based on Wednesday night's packed house on all three floors. Maybe they just need to more often musically revisit San Francisco's past, such as the period from 1969 to 1979, the glory years of KSAN."
The event was organized by Ken Wardell of BAM magazine as a benefit for the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, which hopes to move into its own building in Alameda. On hand were many of the "legendary DJs and on-air personalities from KSAN's golden years, among them Bonnie Simmons, Dusty Street, Richard Gossett, Beverly Wilshire, Norman Davis, Scoop Nisker, Larry Bensky, Peter Laufer, Glen Lambert, Edward Bear, Paul "Lobster" Wells and Rachel Donahue. Music was provided by stalwarts Dan Hicks, Country Joe McDonald, and Big Brother and the Holding Company."
Proustian Bensky says the gathering reminded him of "Time Recaptured," the last volume of "Remembrance of Things Past." "Everyone was the same, but they all looked different."
Gee, I listened to Larry Bensky a lot, and don't remember anything about Proust!
We went to the show (rare outing these days) and really enjoyed it. For those that haven't seen my pix on fb, here's a link to a Flickr collection of photos I took that night. If you want to know who the old people are, just ask me!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/29027472@N04/sets/72157645152792941/
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I forget where someone mentioned the Live 105 listeners who were bitching about how their BFD lineup was "just like a KFOG show"... but this is interesting: they're having another big show in August, "The Punk Rock Picnic" featuring Offspring, Bad Religion, the Vandals and (I kid U not) Stiff Little Fingers! This coincides with their new PD who apparently did great things with an alternative station in Milwaukee.
http://live105.cbslocal.com/2014/06/09/live-105s-punk-rock-picnic-general-info/
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I forget where someone mentioned the Live 105 listeners who were bitching about how their BFD lineup was "just like a KFOG show"... but this is interesting: they're having another big show in August, "The Punk Rock Picnic" featuring Offspring, Bad Religion, the Vandals and (I kid U not) Stiff Little Fingers! This coincides with their new PD who apparently did great things with an alternative station in Milwaukee.
http://live105.cbslocal.com/2014/06/09/live-105s-punk-rock-picnic-general-info/
Live 105: Modern Rock from 1980.
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Live 105: Modern Rock from 1980.
heh. Actually their playlist is pretty current/recurrent/'00s/'90s- centric. They do share a lot of songs with KFOG. Not sure what the new PD has done already or has planned.
Meanwhile, KFOG seems to have backed off on the '70s classics. I swear I've heard "Brass in Pocket" 4 times in the last week.
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I forget where someone mentioned the Live 105 listeners who were bitching about how their BFD lineup was "just like a KFOG show"... but this is interesting: they're having another big show in August, "The Punk Rock Picnic" featuring Offspring, Bad Religion, the Vandals and (I kid U not) Stiff Little Fingers! This coincides with their new PD who apparently did great things with an alternative station in Milwaukee.
http://live105.cbslocal.com/2014/06/09/live-105s-punk-rock-picnic-general-info/
So it looks like they dropped the ball on BFD because they were planning a new show... ::)
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Listened to Live 105 in the car a bit yesterday... the sound kinda like DC-era KFOG. Heard Franz Ferdinand's "Take Me Out", and it's astounding that song is 10 years old.
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latest ratings are in: KFOG bounces back up to a 2.2 (from a 1.9) and The Bone drops back again, as does Live 105. It really is a crapshoot every month; none of these stations (K-Fox too) is ever gonna beat the pants off the others.
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latest ratings are in: KFOG bounces back up to a 2.2 (from a 1.9) and The Bone drops back again, as does Live 105. It really is a crapshoot every month; none of these stations (K-Fox too) is ever gonna beat the pants off the others.
In stat-speak, the movements of KFOG/Bone/Live 105, etc. can be described as "noise".
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Story in today's Chron about Mike Krukow's degenerative muscle disease issues, which he's gone public with:
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/article/Giants-broadcaster-Mike-Krukow-fighting-through-5637622.php
TANC: Lieberman blogged just yesterday, in one of his I can't-tell-you-who-told-me-this items, that Giants mgmt were "unhappy" about Kruk, Kuip and Miller taking "too much time off". (this despite the fact that a nasty virus had ripped thru the Giants clubhouse recently -- and the announcers are all over 60. sheesh)
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Took a look at 5 or 6 hours worth of Alice 97.3's "recently played" lists... DAMN they play alot of Katy Perry. She comes up once an hour, on average. And we complain about KFOG overdoing Train or DMB or Tom Petty!
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Took a look at 5 or 6 hours worth of Alice 97.3's "recently played" lists... DAMN they play alot of Katy Perry. She comes up once an hour, on average. And we complain about KFOG overdoing Train or DMB or Tom Petty!
On our cross-country trip, if there was one constant amongst radio stations (apart, of course from too many commercials), it was too much damn Katy Perry.
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listening to my buddy Brian Bannon on WLNG and he was trying to give away tix to an oldies show. The question: "Who sang 'Da Doo Ron Ron'?"
First caller: "the Shondells"
Second caller: "The Jersey Boys"
seriously?
third caller got it right but this is an OLDIES station aimed at an older-than-dirt demo, fer chrissakes. (they were looking for The Crystals but I wonder if they'd've accepted Shaun Cassidy).
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On my trip to Sac'to and back today, I discovered a real interesting station up there, 97.5 KDEE
http://www.kdeefm.org/
They're a low-power "community station" that plays mostly Old School music but they have (they claim) a playlist of 7,000 songs. It's like Kiss-FM without the white people, and among the gems I heard that I've never heard on Kiss were Whodini, "Freaks Come Out at Night", Stacy Lattisaw, "Attack of the Name Game" and Gwen Guthrie "Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". They also went as far back as JB's "Make it Funky" and Hugh Masekela's "Grazin in the Grass". Def adding them to my streaming rotation.
Closer to home, I tuned past the Bone during Seaweed's Request Lunch Hour and heard the J Geils version of "First I Look at the Purse" (!).
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On my trip to Sac'to and back today, I discovered a real interesting station up there, 97.5 KDEE
http://www.kdeefm.org/
They're a low-power "community station" that plays mostly Old School music but they have (they claim) a playlist of 7,000 songs. It's like Kiss-FM without the white people, and among the gems I heard that I've never heard on Kiss were Whodini, "Freaks Come Out at Night", Stacy Lattisaw, "Attack of the Name Game" and Gwen Guthrie "Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". They also went as far back as JB's "Make it Funky" and Hugh Masekela's "Grazin in the Grass". Def adding them to my streaming rotation.
Closer to home, I tuned past the Bone during Seaweed's Request Lunch Hour and heard the J Geils version of "First I Look at the Purse" (!).
Keyword: Look
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On my trip to Sac'to and back today, I discovered a real interesting station up there, 97.5 KDEE
http://www.kdeefm.org/
They're a low-power "community station" that plays mostly Old School music but they have (they claim) a playlist of 7,000 songs. It's like Kiss-FM without the white people, and among the gems I heard that I've never heard on Kiss were Whodini, "Freaks Come Out at Night", Stacy Lattisaw, "Attack of the Name Game" and Gwen Guthrie "Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". They also went as far back as JB's "Make it Funky" and Hugh Masekela's "Grazin in the Grass". Def adding them to my streaming rotation.
Closer to home, I tuned past the Bone during Seaweed's Request Lunch Hour and heard the J Geils version of "First I Look at the Purse" (!).
Keyword: Look
Yeah, I was unaware the Weed Man did that "keyword" thing -- borrowed from Connected, I'm assuming. I may have to listen to him at lunchtime more often.
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On my trip to Sac'to and back today, I discovered a real interesting station up there, 97.5 KDEE
http://www.kdeefm.org/
They're a low-power "community station" that plays mostly Old School music but they have (they claim) a playlist of 7,000 songs. It's like Kiss-FM without the white people, and among the gems I heard that I've never heard on Kiss were Whodini, "Freaks Come Out at Night", Stacy Lattisaw, "Attack of the Name Game" and Gwen Guthrie "Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". They also went as far back as JB's "Make it Funky" and Hugh Masekela's "Grazin in the Grass". Def adding them to my streaming rotation.
Closer to home, I tuned past the Bone during Seaweed's Request Lunch Hour and heard the J Geils version of "First I Look at the Purse" (!).
Keyword: Look
Yeah, I was unaware the Weed Man did that "keyword" thing -- borrowed from Connected, I'm assuming. I may have to listen to him at lunchtime more often.
I'm not sure that Connected predates the Weed Man's Lunch. He stretches the heck out of that keyword, though. A line from a song that goes, "Hey, man, take a look at this," would qualify the song. Also, rarities are certainly played, but, as you might imagine, genre boundaries are not explored; you might get obscure Bone Rock, you might get familiar Bone Rock, but you're definitely getting Bone Rock.
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On my trip to Sac'to and back today, I discovered a real interesting station up there, 97.5 KDEE
http://www.kdeefm.org/
They're a low-power "community station" that plays mostly Old School music but they have (they claim) a playlist of 7,000 songs. It's like Kiss-FM without the white people, and among the gems I heard that I've never heard on Kiss were Whodini, "Freaks Come Out at Night", Stacy Lattisaw, "Attack of the Name Game" and Gwen Guthrie "Nothin' Goin' on But the Rent". They also went as far back as JB's "Make it Funky" and Hugh Masekela's "Grazin in the Grass". Def adding them to my streaming rotation.
Closer to home, I tuned past the Bone during Seaweed's Request Lunch Hour and heard the J Geils version of "First I Look at the Purse" (!).
Keyword: Look
Yeah, I was unaware the Weed Man did that "keyword" thing -- borrowed from Connected, I'm assuming. I may have to listen to him at lunchtime more often.
I'm not sure that Connected predates the Weed Man's Lunch. He stretches the heck out of that keyword, though. A line from a song that goes, "Hey, man, take a look at this," would qualify the song. Also, rarities are certainly played, but, as you might imagine, genre boundaries are not explored; you might get obscure Bone Rock, you might get familiar Bone Rock, but you're definitely getting Bone Rock.
Today's keyword is goodbye, in tribute to Robin Williams. Some of the selections are quite predictable (several übers in front of the LN predictable), and they're all very sentimental, but it's working in this context.
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This morning Chris Jackson on KUFX was talking about Robin Williams (natch), and I called in to suggest that Chris take a listen to Johnny Carson's final night, when the only two guests he had were RW & Bette M. (this was the first thing I looked up when I heard the news, btw).
About the clip:
Robin Williams gets a really nice intro from Johnny, and given that it was Johnny's farewell, it also plays quite nicely as a farewell to Williams (and after yesterday I defy anyone to have a dry eye!).
Williams goes ballistic as usual, and this was May '92, and apparently only 1 or 2 days after Quayle had gone off on Murphy Brown. So both Johnny in his monologue & everything after was rich with material. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLVcBe2O6w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjLVcBe2O6w)
They make a salient point about Comic Relief, and then Williams encourages Johnny to run for office. Eventually Johnny introduces his only other live guest, the divine Ms. M., & she does a number (I admit that I am remiss in not yet having seen 20 Feet From Stardom, but if those two gals weren't in there then it's a crying shame). BUT...
...after she sits down, Bette eventually mentions that she knows that one of Johnny's favorite songs is some ballad from the 40's and they proceed to do an entirely impromptu duet - right there at the desk! (which Johnny never, EVER did!) ((it's a long clip, but at the 26:10 mark you can hear the audience actually gasp when they realize that Johnny is singing!)) - and it's a tearjerker in the extreme. And then Bette does "One More for My Baby, and One More For the Road", and the camera keeps panning back to Johnny.
And now 22 yrs later I think is is a profound sendoff for RW. There's a brief camera angle on RW when Johnny & Bette are singing & he is totally choked up.
Back to the present...the instant I tell Chris Jackson that I had an idea for a Robin Williams moment, he pulls up a different segment from the Tonight Show, and then another one, and this was just for the two of us. It didn't air, and he stuck with me for several minutes and played at least 3 different clips, asked me what I thought of them, and eventually he asked if he needed to cheer ME up!? We agreed that if Williams was really suffering from that level of depression, then, CJ's words, "...a lot of people would say he was a coward for taking his life, but really...every day he had to climb Mt Everest just to do what he did, so that was actually pretty courageous"
Couldn't agree more, but still so sad.
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This morning Chris Jackson on FUFX was talking about Robin Williams (natch), and I called in to suggest that Chris take a listen to Johnny Carson's final night ....
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Couldn't agree more, but still so sad.
very nice, Shray. thanks for writing this...!
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Can't find confirmation anywhere, but someone posted on AL's FB page that K-Fox got rid of Big Rick. He's still on their website, FWIW.
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Can't find confirmation anywhere, but someone posted on AL's FB page that K-Fox got rid of Big Rick. He's still on their website, FWIW.
If they did, it happened very recently, 'cause he posted this KFOX blog yesterday:
http://www.kfox.com/iTunes-Honors-Robin-Williams/17790021?pid=420662&do=1&stnBlogPage=true
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Can't find confirmation anywhere, but someone posted on AL's FB page that K-Fox got rid of Big Rick. He's still on their website, FWIW.
If they did, it happened very recently, 'cause he posted this KFOX blog yesterday:
http://www.kfox.com/iTunes-Honors-Robin-Williams/17790021?pid=420662&do=1&stnBlogPage=true
yeah, he's still on the website. "Listen to Big Rick to win Frampton tix!" Guess maybe the guy who posted on AL's wall was drunk.
ETA: Mystery solved -- nearly 2 weeks ago (!) the SF version of KFOX at 102.1 became "Q-102". A rhythmic Top 40 (as if SF needs another one of those).
http://www.q102sf.com
KFOX remains at 98.5 in SJ. Talk about a format change that got zero publicity. (I found this on one of the radio message boards).
But hey: good news for Cumulus. KFOX no longer in SF means their Classic Rock listeners go to The Bone (and to a lesser extent KFOG). Only a handful of Sharks fans will miss that simulcast.
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in the car earlier, I punched up the new Q-102 just in time for the Fugees' cover of "Killing Me Softly" which I hadn't heard in quite some time -- now it's at the top of my wish-list next time AL does 1996.
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in the car earlier, I punched up the new Q-102 just in time for the Fugees' cover of "Killing Me Softly" which I hadn't heard in quite some time -- now it's at the top of my wish-list next time AL does 1996.
follow-up: over the weekend, we had KMEL on at the gym, and they played (surprise!) the same Fugees cover of "Killing Me Softly" -- and KMEL rarely plays anything that old. Coincidence?
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August ratings are out: K-Fox, which switched formats a month ago on its SF frequency, is (unsurprisingly) down from a 2.1 to a 1.3. So... where did all those rock-loving listeners go? Not to The Bone or KFOG, apparently, since both stations were down slightly. WTF?
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why I love WLNG, part XLVIII: My buddy Mr Bannon just played both versions of JT's "Carolina in My Mind" -- the orig, hard-to-find Apple version from '68 and the '76 Warners remake -- back-to-back. Long may they wave.
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Listening to Magic 98's "Saturday at the '70s" as I often do on weekends, and their deejay was doing her last show at the station -- she was actually allowed to say goodbye on the air (rare these days) and she closed the show with "Last Dance". Awwwww...
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September radio ratings are out and once again, KFOG, The Bone and Live 105 are each down a tenth-of-a-point. Still wondering where all those disenfranchised K-Fox listeners went. Maybe Oldies 103.7 (or "Big" or whatever they're calling themselves this month) which actually is up a couple of ticks. Yeah, people who love "Killer Queen" wanna hear "American Pie" 27 times a week, uh-huh.
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It seems that, in the last week or so, 103.7 has become much more '80s-centric. Used to be pretty even split between '70s and '80s, with a '60s song or 2 per hour. '60s I fear are gone (much like NY's 'CBS-FM famously did earlier this year) and it seems to be 60% '80s vs. 40% '70s. Bye-bye Miss American Pie, for realz.
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It seems that, in the last week or so, 103.7 has become much more '80s-centric. Used to be pretty even split between '70s and '80s, with a '60s song or 2 per hour. '60s I fear are gone (much like NY's 'CBS-FM famously did earlier this year) and it seems to be 60% '80s vs. 40% '70s. Bye-bye Miss American Pie, for realz.
You may be right. I was donating blood yesterday, and they had one of the local oldies stations playing, which was heavily promoting their "80s weekend." (I don't know what they play during the week, I never listen to this station.) Just another sign that the population is aging, and the generation that came of age in the 80s are now the demographic being most aggressively targeted.
While I was sitting there, I heard my first rock Christmas song for this year: the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping. Gotta say I enjoyed it, although hearing it the first week of December seemed a little early.
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Just another sign that the population is aging, and the generation that came of age in the 80s are now the demographic being most aggressively targeted.
Yes, yes and yes. This is a response I often give to those who lament the lack of older material on the radio (or other outlet). We (including me) are getting older, might as well adjust.
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It seems that, in the last week or so, 103.7 has become much more '80s-centric. Used to be pretty even split between '70s and '80s, with a '60s song or 2 per hour. '60s I fear are gone (much like NY's 'CBS-FM famously did earlier this year) and it seems to be 60% '80s vs. 40% '70s. Bye-bye Miss American Pie, for realz.
You may be right. I was donating blood yesterday, and they had one of the local oldies stations playing, which was heavily promoting their "80s weekend." (I don't know what they play during the week, I never listen to this station.) Just another sign that the population is aging, and the generation that came of age in the 80s are now the demographic being most aggressively targeted.
While I was sitting there, I heard my first rock Christmas song for this year: the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping. Gotta say I enjoyed it, although hearing it the first week of December seemed a little early.
NYC's 'CBS-FM recently purged the '60s songs from their library, and hired '80s NY super-deejay Scott Shannon, and they're doing fantastically well. So stations around the country are jumping on that bandwagon.
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It seems that, in the last week or so, 103.7 has become much more '80s-centric. Used to be pretty even split between '70s and '80s, with a '60s song or 2 per hour. '60s I fear are gone (much like NY's 'CBS-FM famously did earlier this year) and it seems to be 60% '80s vs. 40% '70s. Bye-bye Miss American Pie, for realz.
You may be right. I was donating blood yesterday, and they had one of the local oldies stations playing, which was heavily promoting their "80s weekend." (I don't know what they play during the week, I never listen to this station.) Just another sign that the population is aging, and the generation that came of age in the 80s are now the demographic being most aggressively targeted.
While I was sitting there, I heard my first rock Christmas song for this year: the Waitresses' Christmas Wrapping. Gotta say I enjoyed it, although hearing it the first week of December seemed a little early.
NYC's 'CBS-FM recently purged the '60s songs from their library, and hired '80s NY super-deejay Scott Shannon, and they're doing fantastically well. So stations around the country are jumping on that bandwagon.
35-54 demo FTW!
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Latest ratings are out: KNBR, now that baseball is over, plummeted from an 8.9 to a 3.7 (!). KOIT's all-Xmas, predictably, gave them a bump up.
And KFOG, after months of struggling, suddenly shot back up from 1.6 to 2.1, which is something of a surprise -- in fact a lot of music stations were up by a lot (KMEL, KYLD, Kiss-FM, KBLX -- that can't just be Giants bandwagon-jumpers looking for something to do between now and April).
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This is weird. The Bone is doing "years" right now. They started at 10 with 1981 and at 11 they switched to 1978. Unsurprisingly, every song has been an über LN.
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This is weird. The Bone is doing "years" right now. They started at 10 with 1981 and at 11 they switched to 1978. Unsurprisingly, every song has been an über LN.
Styx's Renegade is the closest thing to a rarity so far in either hour. Right now we're celebrating our annual Journey around the Wheel in the Sky. Wait a minute, don't we turn around the wheel in the sky? Why does the wheel in the sky keep on turning, then? Maybe they're talking about the moon? I'd better not think on this too hard . . .
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This is weird. The Bone is doing "years" right now. They started at 10 with 1981 and at 11 they switched to 1978. Unsurprisingly, every song has been an über LN.
Styx's Renegade is the closest thing to a rarity so far in either hour. Right now we're celebrating our annual Journey around the Wheel in the Sky. Wait a minute, don't we turn around the wheel in the sky? Why does the wheel in the sky keep on turning, then? Maybe they're talking about the moon? I'd better not think on this too hard . . .
Aha. Jaeger just announced the Bone is doing a "Years in Your Ears" weekend, which I'm guessing means they'll be switching years once an hour until Sunday night, except for special shows.
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1981
I LOVE ROCK & ROLL
JOAN JETT
10:58 AM
Bringin' On the Heartbreak
Def Leppard
10:53 AM
Start Me Up
The Rolling Stones
10:44 AM
Flying High Again
Ozzy Osbourne
10:36 AM
Limelight
Rush
10:26 AM
Don't Stop Believin'
Journey
10:22 AM
Urgent
Foreigner
10:13 AM
Burnin' for You
Blue Öyster Cult
10:09 AM
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC
10:02 AM
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1978
Good Times Roll
The Cars
11:54 AM
Roll With the Changes
REO Speedwagon
11:48 AM
Miss You
The Rolling Stones
11:43 AM
Straight On
Heart
11:32 AM
Wheel In the Sky
Journey
11:28 AM
Don't Look Back
Boston
11:21 AM
Double Vision
Foreigner
11:18 AM
Renegade
Styx
11:14 AM
Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
Van Halen
11:01 AM
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1989
This relies more on pop metal than your average Drive/Arrow/Sound '89 set, but still features Tom Petty and, for me, the ultimate A/F on the good/necessary scale, Rockin' in the Free World (which for some reason isn't on the Tunegenie, but was between Tesla and Lita Ford, I think).
Close My Eyes Forever
Lita Ford
12:55 PM
Love Song
Tesla
12:45 PM
Runnin' Down a Dream
Tom Petty
12:41 PM
18 And Life
Skid Row
12:37 PM
Fire Woman
The Cult
12:26 PM
Water Song / Janie's Got a Gun
Aerosmith
12:21 PM
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Great White
12:16 PM
Crossfire
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
12:06 PM
Dr. Feelgood
Mötley Crüe
12:01 PM
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1992
There's a hole in the Tunegenie (which included Tom Cochran's Life Is a Highway and acoustic Layla before I stopped listening), but yes it appears they played STP and AIC twice in the same hour/year. Is that a new low in frequent flying?
Sex Type Thing
Stone Temple Pilots
1:53 PM
Rooster
Alice In Chains
1:46 PM
November Rain
Guns N' Roses
1:22 PM
Remedy
The Black Crowes
1:11 PM
Down In a Hole
Alice In Chains
1:05 PM
Plush
Stone Temple Pilots
1:00 PM
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1983
In the Mood
Robert Plant
2:52 PM
Rainbow In the Dark
Dio
2:44 PM
Sister Christian
Night Ranger
2:34 PM
Sharp Dressed Man
ZZ Top
2:22 PM
She's a Beauty
The Tubes
2:10 PM
Photograph
Def Leppard
2:06 PM
New Year's Day
U2
2:01 PM
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yeah just punched The Bone up in the car and they were doing 1979: "In the City", "Head Games", some AC/DC song. The lists posted above are painfully predictable and I'm wondering how far back they're going (I'm gonna guess no further than '76 or so) and what's the most-recent year they've featured ('94?).
Being in the car more often lately means I punch them up on occasion and quite often they're playing a song I don't recognize at all, meaning it's probably a hard-rock hit from the '90s when nobody in the Bay Area (save perhaps KSJO) was playing such stuff, and when I was listening to KFOG, Live 105, KDIA and country stuff.
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1979
Hey, let's start off with a double shot of Robert Plant/Led Zeppelin (piggybacking off the end of '83) and play Petty, ZZ and VH again because it's been, like, an hour or two since they've been on. Also, kicking off the extravaganza with both Journey and Foreigner in both '81 and '78 was good, but we'd better get back to them now because a whole four hours have passed. Rock 'n' roll!
Beautiful Girls
Van Halen
3:50 PM
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
3:43 PM
Just the Same Way
Journey
3:40 PM
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
3:29 PM
Head Games
Foreigner
3:26 PM
I Thank You
ZZ Top
3:18 PM
Heartbreaker
Pat Benatar
3:15 PM
Dream Police
Cheap Trick
3:11 PM
Rock & Roll Fantasy
Bad Company
3:07 PM
Don't Do Me Like That
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
3:04 PM
Fool In the Rain
Led Zeppelin
2:58 PM
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1992
yes it appears they played STP and AIC twice in the same hour/year. Is that a new low in frequent flying?
it's an indication of how few '90s songs are stone (no pun intended) "classics" that have made it into rotation at these kinds of stations. When you think of what was huge on KFOG or Live 105 in '92, not a lot of it is likely to be a Bone "classic" -- kd lang, Lyle Lovett, Neil Young's Harvest Moon album, Toad/Sprocket, the Cure, REM, Soup Dragons...
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I'm wondering how far back they're going (I'm gonna guess no further than '76 or so) and what's the most-recent year they've featured ('94?).
So far the range is '78-'92, but '73 is ground zero for classic rock in general and has enough hard rockin' tunes for the TURBO-DRIVEN classic rock of The Bone, so I'm thinking the time machine will travel back that far. And if they're sticking with the theme in the wee hours, maybe they'll drop in a 1968-70 at 2 A.M. or so.
In general, yah, they need to open up the phone lines like they do for the All-Request Lunch because we're at a -143 on a 1-10 creativity scale.
Right now we're rockin' in 1985, with a Crüe encore, Thorogood and Dire Straits/Sting for starters!
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1992
yes it appears they played STP and AIC twice in the same hour/year. Is that a new low in frequent flying?
it's an indication of how few '90s songs are stone (no pun intended) "classics" that have made it into rotation at these kinds of stations. When you think of what was huge on KFOG or Live 105 in '92, not a lot of it is likely to be a Bone "classic" -- kd lang, Lyle Lovett, Neil Young's Harvest Moon album, Toad/Sprocket, the Cure, REM, Soup Dragons...
Still, though, go with the tried-and-true Alive or Smells Like Teen Spirit over a song from the same band in the same hour. Maybe one or both of those featured in the Tunegenie hole, but c'mon guys, try just a little.
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I'm wondering how far back they're going (I'm gonna guess no further than '76 or so) and what's the most-recent year they've featured ('94?).
So far the range is '78-'92, but '73 is ground zero for classic rock in general and has enough hard rockin' tunes for the TURBO-DRIVEN classic rock of The Bone, so I'm thinking the time machine will travel back that far. And if they're sticking with the theme in the wee hours, maybe they'll drop in a 1968-70 at 2 A.M. or so.
In general, yah, they need to open up the phone lines like they do for the All-Request Lunch because we're at a -143 on a 1-10 creativity scale.
Right now we're rockin' in 1985, with a Crüe encore, Thorogood and Dire Straits/Sting for starters!
Don't Come Around Here No More!
The over/under on Petty representation is 50% of the years played (if he gets two songs in the same year, the extra song will count towards a separate year). Place your bets!
Born in the U.S.A. Took long enough to get to the Boss (missed out on a chance in '78).
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"Years in Your Ears" Weekend
1992
yes it appears they played STP and AIC twice in the same hour/year. Is that a new low in frequent flying?
it's an indication of how few '90s songs are stone (no pun intended) "classics" that have made it into rotation at these kinds of stations. When you think of what was huge on KFOG or Live 105 in '92, not a lot of it is likely to be a Bone "classic" -- kd lang, Lyle Lovett, Neil Young's Harvest Moon album, Toad/Sprocket, the Cure, REM, Soup Dragons...
Still, though, go with the tried-and-true Alive or Smells Like Teen Spirit over a song from the same band in the same hour. Maybe one or both of those featured in the Tunegenie hole, but c'mon guys, try just a little.
So far the boundaries are 1977-1992, and they've hit all the years in that range except '87 and '88. They ended up saving Alive and Smells Like Teen Spirit for the '91 hour, though November Rain featured in both '92 and '91. Here's a link to the playlists:
http://ksan.tunegenie.com
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I recommend a show called Mix Tape (DJ is Future Man) on KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM. It has been running from 7-10 A.M. on Tuesdays the past few weeks. I live less than 10 miles from Stanford and can barely get the station in my house (though it comes in great in my car), so you'll probably have to stream. Here is this morning's playlist (I heard parts of the third to last and penultimate sets):
http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDate&seq=selList&playlist=29299&session=
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I recommend a show called Mix Tape (DJ is Future Man) on KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM. It has been running from 7-10 A.M. on Tuesdays the past few weeks. I live less than 10 miles from Stanford and can barely get the station in my house (though it comes in great in my car), so you'll probably have to stream. Here is this morning's playlist (I heard parts of the third to last and penultimate sets):
http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDate&seq=selList&playlist=29299&session=
wow, that is seriously all-over-the-place. In a good way.
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I recommend a show called Mix Tape (DJ is Future Man) on KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM. It has been running from 7-10 A.M. on Tuesdays the past few weeks. I live less than 10 miles from Stanford and can barely get the station in my house (though it comes in great in my car), so you'll probably have to stream. Here is this morning's playlist (I heard parts of the third to last and penultimate sets):
http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDate&seq=selList&playlist=29299&session=
wow, that is seriously all-over-the-place. In a good way.
Its heart seems to be in the Sixties, though. Also in a good way.
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I recommend a show called Mix Tape (DJ is Future Man) on KZSU Stanford, 90.1 FM. It has been running from 7-10 A.M. on Tuesdays the past few weeks. I live less than 10 miles from Stanford and can barely get the station in my house (though it comes in great in my car), so you'll probably have to stream. Here is this morning's playlist (I heard parts of the third to last and penultimate sets):
http://zookeeper.stanford.edu/index.php?action=viewDate&seq=selList&playlist=29299&session=
wow, that is seriously all-over-the-place. In a good way.
Its hear seems to be in the Sixties, though. Also in a good way.
I kind of expected him to close with "In The Hall of The Mountain King," but maybe that was too obvious?
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BFT's latest column, about how hard it is to find radio that isn't aimed at kids.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/A-Boomer-in-search-of-a-morning-radio-show-6015755.php
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Back-to-back heavy psychedelia on The Bone (key word for today's Hot Lunch is insects): Helter Skelter and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (key word relates to the band names here, of course). This In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has been going on for a while. I think the Weed Man is going to roll the entire 17:05 album version. If folks at corporate HQ are listening, I'm sure they're pleased.
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Back-to-back heavy psychedelia on The Bone (key word for today's Hot Lunch is insects): Helter Skelter and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (key word relates to the band names here, of course). This In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has been going on for a while. I think the Weed Man is going to roll the entire 17:05 album version. If folks at corporate HQ are listening, I'm sure they're pleased.
That was the best 17:05 I've heard on local radio in a while!
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Back-to-back heavy psychedelia on The Bone (key word for today's Hot Lunch is insects): Helter Skelter and In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (key word relates to the band names here, of course). This In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida has been going on for a while. I think the Weed Man is going to roll the entire 17:05 album version. If folks at corporate HQ are listening, I'm sure they're pleased.
That was the best 17:05 I've heard on local radio in a while!
Wow -- that's impressive, actually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlwtgaQZYDI
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Peter Finch just posted to his FB page that several people were let go at KGO yesterday, and he was one of them.
Drag. Hope he catches on someplace else fairly soon.
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Peter Finch just posted to his FB page that several people were let go at KGO yesterday, and he was one of them.
Drag. Hope he catches on someplace else fairly soon.
Well the KFOG Morning Show could use a credible news source (they don't do news at all since the new configuration began).
But that ain't gonna happen.
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BFT's latest column, about how hard it is to find radio that isn't aimed at kids.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/A-Boomer-in-search-of-a-morning-radio-show-6015755.php
Actually, my read on that was different. Yes, he's 65, but his main gripe wasn't about radio for kids. It was that KFOG wasn't playing enough *new* music.
What the what?
KFOG, at least in the morning, has turned into an oldies station and doesn’t have the community feel that it used to ... and the music is predictable, despite all of their talk about their huge library. I’m 65, still buy music, still go to shows, and still like to hear new good music. Where can I go for this now? There’s lots of people my age that I see at concerts that obviously like new music. Why is it that there’s is no radio station for us? I know Arbitron is all about 14-35-year-olds, but my age group has disposable income … yet everyone seems to be ignoring us or think that we only like bands like U2.”
I commented:
Funny Ben -- I'm no boomer (44!), but excepting the oldies-fest that is KFOG's current A-Z programming, I actually think KFOG has gotten a lot of flack from boomers for playing too many new artists, especially ones that not (sic) may not fit the "classical" rock genre.
I mean -- Sam Smith is a frequent spin, as is Hozier. I wish they'd be willing to play music like Nikki Bluhm and the Gramblers or Grace Potter and the Nocturnals more, which seems like it would be a perfect bridge between fans of the Dead and younger folks.
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Listening to my buddy Brian Bannon on WLNG -- he read a news item about Gary Glitter being in trouble yet again for child molesting... and then he played "Little Children" by Billy J Kramer.
A few minutes later he played "Get Down" by Gilbert O and I said "you couldn't play 'Clair'??"
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logged onto Gold (formerly Capital Gold) for the first time in ages and discovered our old DJ friend Dean Martin is long gone from there, along with nearly everyone else. They have TWO jocks, a weekday morning guy and a weekend morning guy and are jockless the rest of the time. And they're not even owned by Cumulus!
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Ran across this analysis of what constitutes "classic rock" and why from the Five-thirty-eight folks. Wonder how this may inform some of the 10@10 selections as well. Interesting, although they chose KUFX to monitor in San Francisco, shortly before it pulled out of the market.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
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Ran across this analysis of what constitutes "classic rock" and why from the Five-thirty-eight folks. Wonder how this may inform some of the 10@10 selections as well. Interesting, although they chose KUFX to monitor in San Francisco, shortly before it pulled out of the market.
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-classic-rock-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/
K-Fox was the closest to a "pure" classic rock format that SF had; The Bone has traditionally had a harder edge (more AC/DC and less pop-leaning stuff, tho' they have eased off on some of that lately). But stations do vary in that regard, there's no one monolithic format. I don't think either K-Fox or The Bone ever plays Billy Joel but he's #1 in NYC *and* Miami. And NYC's classic rocker, WAXQ (Q-104) is one of the worst stations around, as far as having a limited, repetitive, "same 300 songs repeated endlessly" type playlist.
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For those with NYC roots, Vin Scelsa announced tonite that he is retiring. His last show on WFUV will be Saturday May 2nd.
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For those with NYC roots, Vin Scelsa announced tonite that he is retiring. His last show on WFUV will be Saturday May 2nd.
Sorry to hear that, but I am not at all surprised, what with his apparently declining health in the past couple of years, and the fact that part or all of his shows of late have been recorded in advance for airing on Saturday nights. And really, how many others from the glory days of NYC radio (WNEW, K-ROCK, etc.) are still on the air? Is Dennis Elsas still doing a show on FUV?
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For those with NYC roots, Vin Scelsa announced tonite that he is retiring. His last show on WFUV will be Saturday May 2nd.
Sorry to hear that, but I am not at all surprised, what with his apparently declining health in the past couple of years, and the fact that part or all of his shows of late have been recorded in advance for airing on Saturday nights. And really, how many others from the glory days of NYC radio (WNEW, K-ROCK, etc.) are still on the air? Is Dennis Elsas still doing a show on FUV?
Elsas is still there. And Pat St John of WPLJ has been doing a weekend show on 'CBS-FM but he also announced this weekend that he's retiring.
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on an unusual Saturday in the office, I discovered Sonoma's 102.7 The Wolf, an oldies station that runs Classic AT40 at 9am. They're your typical Classic Hits format, but they haven't dumped the '60s songs (they play quite a lot) and interestingly they do a "Fifties Flashback" once an hour, which is pretty rare in stations of this type. Lotta old folks in Sonoma?
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For those who've spent time in Sac'to, this might be of interest: the return of KZAP.
http://www.sactownmag.com/Blog/2015/Legendary-Sacramento-radio-station-KZAP-set-for-comeback/
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For those who've spent time in Sac'to, this might be of interest: the return of KZAP.
http://www.sactownmag.com/Blog/2015/Legendary-Sacramento-radio-station-KZAP-set-for-comeback/
Saw that in my FB feed this morning. Sounds like their operation will be something like what DM has going in Michigan. One of the two guys behind the rebirth, Tom Cale, was one of my fave jocks back in the day. I don't expect it's gonna be 1974 all over again, but I'm curious to hear what they put together.
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I wasn't aware of this because I've been listening to KCSM in the car lately, but apparently there are big changes going on at 98.1 Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.7. Kiss, in an attempt to compete with that new "throwback" hip-hop station is playing a lot more old-school rap (Dr Dre etc) and the '80s dance stuff has been moved to 103.7 which now does the '80s Hour and Disco Sat Nite features that Kiss had been doing. iHeart are as ruthless as Cumulus, I suppose.
ETA: that new "Throwback" station, Q102 is coming on like gangbusters in the ratings -- from a 1.6 to a 2.9 since Feb; they beat Kiss for the first time this past month.
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I wasn't aware of this because I've been listening to KCSM in the car lately, but apparently there are big changes going on at 98.1 Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.7. Kiss, in an attempt to compete with that new "throwback" hip-hop station is playing a lot more old-school rap (Dr Dre etc) and the '80s dance stuff has been moved to 103.7 which now does the '80s Hour and Disco Sat Nite features that Kiss had been doing. iHeart are as ruthless as Cumulus, I suppose.
Oh, that’s too bad. The addition of 80s stuff made Kiss *just* interesting enough to listen to. But I can’t stomach 103.7 with or without the 80s. Both are off my dial now.
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I wasn't aware of this because I've been listening to KCSM in the car lately, but apparently there are big changes going on at 98.1 Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.7. Kiss, in an attempt to compete with that new "throwback" hip-hop station is playing a lot more old-school rap (Dr Dre etc) and the '80s dance stuff has been moved to 103.7 which now does the '80s Hour and Disco Sat Nite features that Kiss had been doing. iHeart are as ruthless as Cumulus, I suppose.
Oh, that’s too bad. The addition of 80s stuff made Kiss *just* interesting enough to listen to. But I can’t stomach 103.7 with or without the 80s. Both are off my dial now.
Kiss was my go-to station in the car for a while; I thought that mix of Funk, Disco and danceable (white) Pop was kind of inspired. But I've zero interest in hearing Ice Cube or Snoop 3 or 4 times an hour. 103.7 has "tweaked" their playlist every 6 weeks for the last year, it seems, so we'll see how long their latest incarnation lasts. They're getting rid of Don Bleu; wonder who'll take over mornings. Wonder if they'd shift Renel over there and hire some washed-up rapper to do mornings on Kiss.
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I wasn't aware of this because I've been listening to KCSM in the car lately, but apparently there are big changes going on at 98.1 Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.7. Kiss, in an attempt to compete with that new "throwback" hip-hop station is playing a lot more old-school rap (Dr Dre etc) and the '80s dance stuff has been moved to 103.7 which now does the '80s Hour and Disco Sat Nite features that Kiss had been doing. iHeart are as ruthless as Cumulus, I suppose.
ETA: that new "Throwback" station, Q102 is coming on like gangbusters in the ratings -- from a 1.6 to a 2.9 since Feb; they beat Kiss for the first time this past month.
I did notice last week that there was no Saturday Morning Beatles on 103.7. I drive to the golf course every Saturday morning and ended up listening to the Beatles more often than not...
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Anyone else here had a chance to tune into the reconstituted KZAP yet? Sacramento's original freeform station has been revived as a low-power FM station that's also webcasting. It's masterminded by Tom Cale and Dennis Newhall, a couple of radio lifers who were on their airstaff in the 70s and 80s, and they have a number of jocks from various times in their history involved as well. They say they want to reimagine what KZAP would sound like had it not gone away 20+ years ago. I listened to their sign-on on July 4 (the first song played was Harvey Mandel's Cristo Redentor, which was their first song back in 68, and also the last song they played when they went off the air in 91 or so). Since then it kind of sounds like they're trying to be all things to all people -- I've heard a few songs that made me say "Wow I haven't heard that in years" (Dave Mason's Headkeeper, and Pablo Cruise - Ocean Breeze, for instance) and also a few that I heard on KFOG this morning (Death Cab for Cutie, Pearl Jam). And a few that I've heard way too many times over the years, too (Tom Petty and Eagles for instance). Still worth checking out as they refine their format.
http://k-zap.org/
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Anyone else here had a chance to tune into the reconstituted KZAP yet? Sacramento's original freeform station has been revived as a low-power FM station that's also webcasting. It's masterminded by Tom Cale and Dennis Newhall, a couple of radio lifers who were on their airstaff in the 70s and 80s, and they have a number of jocks from various times in their history involved as well. They say they want to reimagine what KZAP would sound like had it not gone away 20+ years ago. I listened to their sign-on on July 4 (the first song played was Harvey Mandel's Cristo Redentor, which was their first song back in 68, and also the last song they played when they went off the air in 91 or so). Since then it kind of sounds like they're trying to be all things to all people -- I've heard a few songs that made me say "Wow I haven't heard that in years" (Dave Mason's Headkeeper, and Pablo Cruise - Ocean Breeze, for instance) and also a few that I heard on KFOG this morning (Death Cab for Cutie, Pearl Jam). And a few that I've heard way too many times over the years, too (Tom Petty and Eagles for instance). Still worth checking out as they refine their format.
http://k-zap.org/
yeah, I listened a bit on Saturday; same experience. Heard "Today" by the Airplane which was a delightful surprise. Also a new Ringo tune studded with Beatle references that was co-written by Todd Rundgren. But also... "White Wedding" which KFOG plays 17 times a week. And Petty.
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Anyone else here had a chance to tune into the reconstituted KZAP yet? Sacramento's original freeform station has been revived as a low-power FM station that's also webcasting. It's masterminded by Tom Cale and Dennis Newhall, a couple of radio lifers who were on their airstaff in the 70s and 80s, and they have a number of jocks from various times in their history involved as well. They say they want to reimagine what KZAP would sound like had it not gone away 20+ years ago. I listened to their sign-on on July 4 (the first song played was Harvey Mandel's Cristo Redentor, which was their first song back in 68, and also the last song they played when they went off the air in 91 or so). Since then it kind of sounds like they're trying to be all things to all people -- I've heard a few songs that made me say "Wow I haven't heard that in years" (Dave Mason's Headkeeper, and Pablo Cruise - Ocean Breeze, for instance) and also a few that I heard on KFOG this morning (Death Cab for Cutie, Pearl Jam). And a few that I've heard way too many times over the years, too (Tom Petty and Eagles for instance). Still worth checking out as they refine their format.
http://k-zap.org/
yeah, I listened a bit on Saturday; same experience. Heard "Today" by the Airplane which was a delightful surprise. Also a new Ringo tune studded with Beatle references that was co-written by Todd Rundgren. But also... "White Wedding" which KFOG plays 17 times a week. And Petty.
Been listening on and off this afternoon, and have heard far fewer of the overplayed songs -- not none, but fewer. And some nice rarities -- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, for example. And right now the afternoon jock (Jon Russell, who was on KFOG for several stints since KZAP went away the first time) is playing Astronomy Domine. So that's certainly notable.
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And for comparison, I tuned in to The Peak just before the 10@10 replay and heard "Sleepwalker" by the Kinks followed by "Kansas City" from that New Basement Tapes CD (which I think KFOG played for a week or 2, tops).
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And for comparison, I tuned in to The Peak just before the 10@10 replay and heard "Sleepwalker" by the Kinks followed by "Kansas City" from that New Basement Tapes CD (which I think KFOG played for a week or 2, tops).
Just heard the New Basement Tapes track -- they sound JUST like Mumford & Sons. (And I mean EXACTLY. Not even just sorta.)
ETA: I guess I should look this shit up first. Turns out the NBT is an all-star project put together by T-Bone Burnett, and the singer on that cut is, you guessed it, Marcus Mumford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_on_the_River:_The_New_Basement_Tapes
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More KZAP commentary:
They do seem to be getting away from the classic rock "evergreens" a bit, but I've heard a couple of odd segues today so far. Awhile ago we heard Donovan's Hey Gyp followed by Hot for Teacher, and just now they segued from Randy Newman's Kingfish to Dude Looks Like a Lady.
I guess if you're going to span 50-odd years of rock, there are going to be some double-clutch moments.
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I guess I should look this shit up first. Turns out the NBT is an all-star project put together by T-Bone Burnett, and the singer on that cut is, you guessed it, Marcus Mumford.
Phil Phillips was busy that day. :)
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And for comparison, I tuned in to The Peak just before the 10@10 replay and heard "Sleepwalker" by the Kinks followed by "Kansas City" from that New Basement Tapes CD (which I think KFOG played for a week or 2, tops).
Just heard the New Basement Tapes track -- they sound JUST like Mumford & Sons. (And I mean EXACTLY. Not even just sorta.)
ETA: I guess I should look this shit up first. Turns out the NBT is an all-star project put together by T-Bone Burnett, and the singer on that cut is, you guessed it, Marcus Mumford.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_on_the_River:_The_New_Basement_Tapes
Decided to listen to a typical (non-10@10) hour of the Peak - just heard that New Basement Tapes tune again and... Petty (he's everywhere, I tells ya!). Also Nick Lowe "...Breaking Glass" which hasn't shown up as a KFOG rotation oldie in forever.
ETA: and here's "Thunder Road" -- not exactly deep, but again, one that never shows up on KFOG anymore outside of 10@10. Oh and they do "Ne Releases Wednesday" -- and here's the new Toad the Wet Sprocket.
BTW, the new Beck ("Dreams") is #1 at Triple-A but KFOG doesn't seem to be playing it much so far, if at all.
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I wasn't aware of this because I've been listening to KCSM in the car lately, but apparently there are big changes going on at 98.1 Kiss-FM and Oldies 103.7. Kiss, in an attempt to compete with that new "throwback" hip-hop station is playing a lot more old-school rap (Dr Dre etc) and the '80s dance stuff has been moved to 103.7 which now does the '80s Hour and Disco Sat Nite features that Kiss had been doing. iHeart are as ruthless as Cumulus, I suppose.
Oh, that’s too bad. The addition of 80s stuff made Kiss *just* interesting enough to listen to. But I can’t stomach 103.7 with or without the 80s. Both are off my dial now.
Kiss was my go-to station in the car for a while; I thought that mix of Funk, Disco and danceable (white) Pop was kind of inspired. But I've zero interest in hearing Ice Cube or Snoop 3 or 4 times an hour. 103.7 has "tweaked" their playlist every 6 weeks for the last year, it seems, so we'll see how long their latest incarnation lasts. They're getting rid of Don Bleu; wonder who'll take over mornings. Wonder if they'd shift Renel over there and hire some washed-up rapper to do mornings on Kiss.
Kiss-FM tweaks again: I was listening yesterday and today and it seems like they gave last month's "format adjustment" a re-think. The harder-edged '90s rap (Snoop, Dr Dre etc) that they'd been playing several times an hour has disappeared, mostly. They haven't brought back the white dance-pop stuff, but I heard more of the upbeat R&B hits they've been known for the past couple years ("Somebody's Watching Me", for one example). They've also added ballads that they never used to bother with: Whitney, Mariah, even Stevie Wonder's dreaded "I Just Called to Say I Love You". I'm guessing they got an earful from their (older, rap-hating) core listeners about the makeover.
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Nice BFT piece on KCSM, which I've been listening to a lot lately.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/San-Mateo-s-KCSM-still-plays-all-that-jazz-6445669.php
noted in the same article: I was unaware that Nikki Blakk left The Bone.
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Nice BFT piece on KCSM, which I've been listening to a lot lately.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/San-Mateo-s-KCSM-still-plays-all-that-jazz-6445669.php
noted in the same article: I was unaware that Nikki Blakk left The Bone.
We listen a lot to KCSM on the Comcast channel 962. It's been educational.
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noted in the same article: I was unaware that Nikki Blakk left The Bone.
Sounds like she exited the radio rat race of her own accord. Good for her.
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Nice BFT piece on KCSM, which I've been listening to a lot lately.
http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/radiowaves/article/San-Mateo-s-KCSM-still-plays-all-that-jazz-6445669.php
noted in the same article: I was unaware that Nikki Blakk left The Bone.
We listen a lot to KCSM on the Comcast channel 962. It's been educational.
I've found that my ears crave anything they haven't heard 3 billion times, and since commercial radio is pretty much ONLY songs you've heard 3 billion times, I'm discovering jazz/Great American Songbook and classical.
When I was in DC this month, I tuned all around looking for something to wake up to in the morning. DC radio is awful -- they no longer have an oldies station or a classic rocker that plays anything from before, say, 1979. Not even a soul oldies station (amazing, considering how African-American DC is). But they have, like, 6 hip-hop stations. I stumbled across their classical station, WETA and found it quite pleasant.
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I stumbled across their classical station, WETA and found it quite pleasant.
Not Beethoven's 9LNTh again!
Arrrgh!
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I stumbled across their classical station, WETA and found it quite pleasant.
Not Beethoven's 9LNTh again!
Arrrgh!
LOL. That one's pretty LN at this point. They love them some Vivaldi's "4 Seasons" on WETA.
Which reminds, On my trip to Sac'to last week I tuned past a classic rocker (The Eagle, I think) and they were actually playing "Stairway to Heaven" which put quite a bustle in my hedgerow.
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I stumbled across their classical station, WETA and found it quite pleasant.
Not Beethoven's 9LNTh again!
I recall reading some letters in the pink section a few years back with this very complaint
about a Bay Area classical station (I don't recall which) that had changed its programming
with an eye towards attracting more listeners. They had the same complaints about the
"same old same old" "hits" that are echoed here.
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I stumbled across their classical station, WETA and found it quite pleasant.
Not Beethoven's 9LNTh again!
Arrrgh!
TANC: WETA is actually playing Beethoven's 9th (the whole thing) right now. A song of joy indeed. Where's Miguel Rios when you need him?
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Outkast's "Hey Ya" is undoubtedly the only song currently in regular rotation at KOFG *and* Kiss-FM
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Finallygot around to checking out KPOO's new Monday afternoon soul show -- "Soul Explosion", which is on from 1 to 3. Lots of great rarities/obscurities.
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Listening to KFOG's DJs hawking pillows, dining services, et. al. brings to mind the early
days of television when celebrities like Milton Berle and Ernie Kovacs would pitch sponsors'
products right in the middle of their shows. I know DJs have always read ad copy, but
these testimonial bits ring so phony that I switch off the radio almost as fast as hearing
some song by the Luminmums & Sons.
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Listening to KFOG's DJs hawking pillows, dining services, et. al. brings to mind the early
days of television when celebrities like Milton Berle and Ernie Kovacs would pitch sponsors' products right in the middle of their shows. I know DJs have always read ad copy, but these testimonial bits ring so phony that I switch off the radio almost as fast as hearing some song by the Luminmums & Sons.
True, and it seems to have made a big comeback the last couple of years. Sponsors pay extra bucks for "I tried it and I loved it"-style spots.
I will say that I find the Renee-voiced testimonials for Kitchit.com believeable, since I'm sure she's a lousy cook. :)
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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103.7 is now “Big 103.7: The Biggest Hits of the 80s and More”.
http://big1037.iheart.com
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man... do I have an open slot? Suggestions? I'm in South Bay, so reception may vary.
92.3 Bollywood FM? ;)
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Rumor has it Live 105 has started playing the Sublime cover of "Smoke 2 Joints" at 5pm on Fridays...
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HA, I forgot I flipped to 99.7 because my son and his friend wanted to listen to it. I liked some of it (that Beiber song is by Sheeran - that's my excuse!) And so that's my other preset. Oy!
I need to switch from The Bone to KFOX, thanks for that tip.
I dig jazz in moderate dosages. I'll try to remember to hit up KSCM from time to time.
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Just heard on BIG 103.7 during Friday Night Flashbacks: Bronski Beat "Why?"
BIG just earned a disgruntled KFOG ex-listener.
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Just heard on BIG 103.7 during Friday Night Flashbacks: Bronski Beat "Why?"
BIG just earned a disgruntled KFOG ex-listener.
They do a decent job of covering all the '80s bases, ever since they inherited all the '80s New Wave hits that Kiss-FM used to feature. Knowing that they played Bronski Beat certainly ups them a notch in my esteem.
In other local radio headlines, "The Breeze" just hired onetime KOIT deejay Jack Kulp to be their morning guy. That's the good news; the bad news is they're carrying the syndicated Delilah in evenings.
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The April ratings came out today; KFOG down a tick (from 1.9 to 1.8 ), so not the major dip I was hoping for. Guess most folks haven't even noticed the change.
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In the car this morning, punching around the dial...
Hit up KFOG and they were playing Len's "Steal My Sunshine", a mild surprise but it turned out to be a set-up: Pinfield talked about the sample (Andrea True) and then segued to "and you're doing something similar, right Greg?" -- yeah they trying for a sequel to the Boob Project song and it's for Animal Rescue, so they're planning to sample "Rescue Me" by Fontella Bass (who Greg thought was a group; Pinfield corrected him. Oy.).
Then over to the Breeze. They were teasing their gossip segment (gossip being de rigeur for any morning show aimed at women). And the woman teamed with Jack Kulp says "There was a BIG marriage proposal in Hollywood and it was REJECTED! You'll never guess who it was!" Now, honestly... I knew immediately it was the Gwen Stefani/Blake Shelton thing; it's a TWO WEEK OLD STORY that was all over the tabloids and everyplace else. So, it was a gossip segment for shut-ins who aren't on social media and who never watch TV?
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May ratings just out: KFOG down another tick (from 1.8 to 1.7). So while they haven't plummeted, they don't seem to be drawing in new listeners either... unless the number of older folks lost is equal to the number of younger ones joining the fold.
But the big news is that The Breeze jumped from a 2.2 to a 3.6 -- a somewhat unheard-of thing in the space of one month.
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103.7, which had been mostly '80s is now ALL '80s, with Martha Quinn (!) in mornings. The format is basically the iHeartRadio '80s stream, with deejays added. So I guess we won't be hearing Bronski Beat again anytime soon. :(
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103.7, which had been mostly '80s is now ALL '80s, with Martha Quinn (!) in mornings. The format is basically the iHeartRadio '80s stream, with deejays added. So I guess we won't be hearing Bronski Beat again anytime soon. :(
I hope they keep the Friday Night Flashbacks. I guess we’ll find out tonight.
Edit: It's gone. :'(
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And the switch finally happened at San Jose's KLIV, which ended decades of all-news and became classic country today. Songs from the '80s/'90s/'00s.
http://www.kliv.com/
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And the switch finally happened at San Jose's KLIV, which ended decades of all-news and became classic country today. Songs from the '80s/'90s/'00s.
http://www.kliv.com/
"'80s/'90s/'00s" qualifies as classic country? Spare me please.
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And the switch finally happened at San Jose's KLIV, which ended decades of all-news and became classic country today. Songs from the '80s/'90s/'00s.
http://www.kliv.com/
"'80s/'90s/'00s" qualifies as classic country? Spare me please.
Sadly, no station is gonna play '60s & '70s country. For me, late '80s/early '90s stuff -- the "new trad" movement, from Randy Travis to the unfortunate moment when Shania Twain showed up -- was quite a renaissance. A golden age, even, esp compared to what's on country top 40 these days.
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Weekend DJ Jaeger just announced his resignation from 107.7 The Bone (classic rock), a Cumulus station. He mentioned something about how the times are changing , the industry is changing, etc., how "a guy can't work part-time forever" and that "the new PD, Brian, is a good guy, a rocker through and through."
His sign-off song was "Freebird" (studio version) by Lynyrd Skynyrd. He said he WANTED to play some David Lee Roth song as his final send-off, but since The Bone is doing "rock blocks" this weekend, he couldn't... the presumed reasoning being that DLR doesn't have enough playlist power to justify a whole ROCK BLOCK. Maybe a two-fer, double-shot or twin-spin, but def not a rock-block (or lunch block, either, of course).
Corporate bastids!
Too bad, liked him... Bon voyage.
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Weekend DJ Jaeger just announced his resignation from 107.7 The Bone (classic rock), a Cumulus station. He mentioned something about how the times are changing , the industry is changing, etc., how "a guy can't work part-time forever" and that "the new PD, Brian, is a good guy, a rocker through and through."
His sign-off song was "Freebird" (studio version) by Lynyrd Skynyrd. He said he WANTED to play some David Lee Roth song as his final send-off, but since The Bone is doing "rock blocks" this weekend, he couldn't... the presumed reasoning being that DLR doesn't have enough playlist power to justify a whole ROCK BLOCK. Maybe a two-fer, double-shot or twin-spin, but def not a rock-block (or lunch block, either, of course).
Corporate bastids!
Too bad, liked him... Bon voyage.
"You get Chicken McNuggets for your last meal."
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My sister has long listened to (mostly progressive) talk radio, and the KGO bloodletting
a couple years back was particularly distressing for her. She has since largely settled
on KKSF-AM (Talk 910). This morning she reported that without warning (which seems to
be the normal modus operandi in the broadcasting biz), they changed their format to
Mexican music. I have not verified this.
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My sister has long listened to (mostly progressive) talk radio, and the KGO bloodletting
a couple years back was particularly distressing for her. She has since largely settled
on KKSF-AM (Talk 910). This morning she reported that without warning (which seems to
be the normal modus operandi in the broadcasting biz), they changed their format to
Mexican music. I have not verified this.
Yes, it's true. They're now carrying Spanish Sports (ESPN Deportes, to be exact). I'm friends with Gil Gross on FB (I worked with him in the '80) and my feed was filled with "Gil! Where are you??" posts. And Rich Lieberman later confirmed (which means he was actually right about something for a change).
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Rich Lieberman is right about a lot of things...but after they already happen.
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Never mind "not your father's KFOG" -- how about "not your mother's KOIT"? At the dentist this morning (and they always play KOIT); within 10 minutes of each other I heard "My Humps" and "Uptown Funk". No wonder the older demos have flocked to "The Breeze"
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A longtime friend of mine, Nancy Newcomer, recently landed the drive time (3 to 7) gig on KFOX. Haven't listened in yet (just saw the facebook post). But anyway, give her a bump and check it out.
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A longtime friend of mine, Nancy Newcomer, recently landed the drive time (3 to 7) gig on KFOX. Haven't listened in yet (just saw the facebook post). But anyway, give her a bump and check it out.
apparently they hired THREE female jocks, including longtime SF radio staple Celeste Perry!
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Big news, sports-wise is that the Warriors are moving their games from KNBR to 95.7 The Game.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2016/08/25/warriors-jump-knbr-95-7-fm-game-means-whats-next-tom-tolbert/
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Big news, sports-wise is that the Warriors are moving their games from KNBR to 95.7 The Game.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2016/08/25/warriors-jump-knbr-95-7-fm-game-means-whats-next-tom-tolbert/
That is big news. And it will mean that the Giants are going to be the only local team to not have their games broadcast on FM.
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Big news, sports-wise is that the Warriors are moving their games from KNBR to 95.7 The Game.
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2016/08/25/warriors-jump-knbr-95-7-fm-game-means-whats-next-tom-tolbert/
That is big news. And it will mean that the Giants are going to be the only local team to not have their games broadcast on FM.
well, if the "evolution" fails...
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A couple months after the KFOG blowout...Bay Area radio is mostly dead to me.
KFOG and Live 105 used to complement each other fairly well. Now Live 105 is the only station still fighting the good fight, in my opinion, and even they are not they once used to be. They are not meant for binge-listening. But through all the on-air disc jockey changes (which have been more frequent than KFOG) though they have kept the same attitude, and Aaron Axelsen’s Sunday night new music program Soundcheck, which has been around for awhile, is still always worth going out of the way to tune into.
BIG 103.7 (or whatever it was called the couple weeks before it switched to the iHeart80s stream) used to be tolerable. It felt like they put some care into their programming, they used to throw a couple of interesting songs into the mix every hour and I had started to get attached to their Friday Night Flashbacks. Now there’s no more FNF and everything else is generic 80s for the LCD.
Alice, Star, and Mix are brief stops when flipping through the dial, but that’s about it. Mix used to be slightly better than the other two after 9 PM. Now I can’t really tell a difference. Alice is sometimes worth tuning into after 6 PM.
If all goes well tomorrow, I will be driving back with a car with XM Satellite Radio.
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Through all the personnel reductions and format changes, one constant remains -- frequently
in the afternoons, all of the stations on my car radio presets are running commercials at the
same time.
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So I found out my new ride also has HD Radio! I looked into getting one for home a few years ago but was turned off because well...almost all of them had a very ugly design. I ended up getting a HD walkman but don’t listen to it much because it requires batteries or a computer cord and had no external speakers. I shelved the idea after that.
I was flipping through the stations and found the following still active on HD2:
Alice @ 97.3: Chill Radio (I remember this one from years back) and, on HD3: Radio Disney
97.7: Air One Christian Radio (Nothing on 104.5, however)
98.1 The Breeze: Classic R&B
Star 101.3: Pride Radio (This one has also been around awhile)
103.7 iHeart80s: Bloomberg
Live 105: Indie Radio (The HD Channel used to be Classic Alternative; I think they switched over last year)
Looking at Amazon, there’s a new one that has speakers, an AC Adaptor, and doesn’t look too bad. I may have to get one for the home now that pretty much everything on HD-1 is unlistenable: https://www.amazon.com/SPARC-SHD-TX2-Portable-Speaker-Emergency/dp/B00VIVD7ZU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1472587598&sr=1-1&keywords=HD+Radio
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So I found out my new ride also has HD Radio! I looked into getting one for home a few years ago but was turned off because well...almost all of them had a very ugly design. I ended up getting a HD walkman but don’t listen to it much because it requires batteries or a computer cord and had no external speakers. I shelved the idea after that.
I was flipping through the stations and found the following still active on HD2:
Alice @ 97.3: Chill Radio (I remember this one from years back) and, on HD3: Radio Disney
97.7: Air One Christian Radio (Nothing on 104.5, however)
98.1 The Breeze: Classic R&B
Star 101.3: Pride Radio (This one has also been around awhile)
103.7 iHeart80s: Bloomberg
Live 105: Indie Radio (The HD Channel used to be Classic Alternative; I think they switched over last year)
Looking at Amazon, there’s a new one that has speakers, an AC Adaptor, and doesn’t look too bad. I may have to get one for the home now that pretty much everything on HD-1 is unlistenable: https://www.amazon.com/SPARC-SHD-TX2-Portable-Speaker-Emergency/dp/B00VIVD7ZU/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1472587598&sr=1-1&keywords=HD+Radio
I have iHeart60s on HD2 in the car. The playlist at first was completely predictable, but now it's not. Other HD2 stations I like are The Delta, which has a mix of blues from all eras, including very early acoustic, and the music option of our local public/NPR station (Portland, OR).
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So I found out my new ride also has HD Radio...
I was flipping through the stations and found the following still active on HD2:
97.7: Air One Christian Radio (Nothing on 104.5, however)
Interesting -- remember when KFOG's HD-2 was all-10@10-all-the-time? I wonder when that ended.
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So I found out my new ride also has HD Radio...
I was flipping through the stations and found the following still active on HD2:
97.7: Air One Christian Radio (Nothing on 104.5, however)
Interesting -- remember when KFOG's HD-2 was all-10@10-all-the-time? I wonder when that ended.
Guessing it was some time after Dave retired. Wasn't there some conflict over the station replaying 10@10s with his voice without compensation?
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So I found out my new ride also has HD Radio...
I was flipping through the stations and found the following still active on HD2:
97.7: Air One Christian Radio (Nothing on 104.5, however)
Interesting -- remember when KFOG's HD-2 was all-10@10-all-the-time? I wonder when that ended.
At some point during the DC era it disappeared, but ended up coming back (still with Dave). I’m not sure when it got axed for good though.
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I'm good with all of those, plus They're Coming To Take Me Away, just 'cause it's so weird. How did songs like that get on the radio?
More generally, the '60s were perhaps not only a golden age of pop/rock, but of radio as well. There was such an explosion
of new music, and even on a Top 40 station one could hear songs heavily influenced by blues, classical, folk, gospel, etc. And
radio was not the top-down, corporate-dictated, nationally-homogenized industry of today. There were wide variations in
local markets across the country, and many stations' playlists were strongly influenced by listener requests. A DJ on one
station might introduce a song, people started requesting it more often, word would spread to other stations in other areas,
and it would literally sweep across the country. They're Coming To Take Me Away, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde,
and Gimme Dat Ding are just some of the novelty songs that made it into the top ten on the charts.
When people tell me that music sucks these days, I tell them that music is just as good if not better than ever. It's radio
that sucks.
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103.7 is now running Classic Casey Kasem (the '80s version) Sunday mornings from 8 to noon.
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I don't tend to listen to The Peak outside of 10@10, but with my 2 main standbys (WLNG and CKWW) both down today, I've been listening the past hour. They're playing the new Bob Weir, which I kinda liked,. Ditto Trigger Hippy (it's "New Releases Wednesday". Older gems included "Substitute", Nick Lowe "So it Goes" and now here's Zevon's "A Certain Girl". OTOH: Pearl Jam and GooGoo Dolls songs that I never need to hear again.
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So in the wake of WTF's extended hiatus, I have been checking out the Peak and the Coast among others over the last couple of weeks. I like the Peak, but its playlist seems to cleave a little too close to standard classic-rock fare. But I have been very much enjoying KOZT -- it too draws from a lot of the core classic rock artists, but it seems to be digging a bit deeper, and it mixes in some more current songs too. They do seem to have an affinity for Clapton and Knopfler, to name just two, but they're hitting deeper cuts far more frequently than they are Layla and Sultans of Swing. And as a number of their staff are alumni from bay area stations of yore, there's an unspoken feeling of continuity from KFOG, KSAN, KKSF and other long gone SF stations.
Also, they allow their airstaff to stretch out and talk about the music and the artists, and it doesn't seem forced or scripted. And their ads seem to be mostly local, not the national stuff you get on the bay area stations. Good station, and I like their small-town yet professional vibe.
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So in the wake of WTF's extended hiatus, I have been checking out the Peak and the Coast among others over the last couple of weeks. I like the Peak, but its playlist seems to cleave a little too close to standard classic-rock fare. But I have been very much enjoying KOZT -- it too draws from a lot of the core classic rock artists, but it seems to be digging a bit deeper, and it mixes in some more current songs too. They do seem to have an affinity for Clapton and Knopfler, to name just two, but they're hitting deeper cuts far more frequently than they are Layla and Sultans of Swing. And as a number of their staff are alumni from bay area stations of yore, there's an unspoken feeling of continuity from KFOG, KSAN, KKSF and other long gone SF stations.
Also, they allow their airstaff to stretch out and talk about the music and the artists, and it doesn't seem forced or scripted. And their ads seem to be mostly local, not the national stuff you get on the bay area stations. Good station, and I like their small-town yet professional vibe.
They also have a smartphone app that makes it real easy. Ditto for what Jim said.
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Live 105's Not So Silent Night is back to 2 nights this year, December 9-10. (Friday/Saturday.) That means there will probably be about 12 bands (although with the rotating stage they introduced last year, they may have room for a couple more.)
The lineup will officially be revealed next Monday but you can usually figure out some of the lineup by seeing who other stations have at their Holiday concerts around the same time (usually the stations in Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Sacramento, and Denver announce their lineup before SF), seeing who's currently unusually high on Live 105's playlist (this would include, say, the Head and the Heart who they bumped back up to high rotation last week, but wouldn't work for bands like the Red Hot Chili Peppers because they always play them in high rotation) and going to the artists' websites and seeing if there are available tour dates, in particular ones surrounded by other west coast dates.
So far, my predictions include (I'm not going to try to guess whether they'll be on night 1 or 2 :P ): Empire of the Sun, Jimmy Eat World, Phantogram, Glass Animals, The Head and the Heart, Kaleo, Grouplove, Bishop, Beck, Capital Cities, K-Flay (the last one could be part of their pre-party, although I suspect they actually may put her on one of the real nights since she's local, they've been playing her on Soundcheck forever, and she finally got signed to a label.)
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For those who care (or wish to avoid), KOIT flipped the switch to all-Xmas yesterday.
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For their 30th anniversary, Live 105 is currently featuring a different year every hour. So far we've gotten 1996, 1988, 1998, and 2006. It's like nonstop 10@10s...almost.
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Somewhat astoundingly, KFOG was up again in the most recent ratings book -- giving them a 2.0 for the first time since before the "Evolution".
Elsewhere: The Bone was also up nicely, Live 105 continues to tread water, and The Breeze beat KOIT! (of course, that will change now that KOIT is all-Xmas
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Latest ratings: KFOG, amazingly, up another tick to 2.1. KNBR plunges from 5.0 to 3.5 -- losing the Warriors hurt them, plus the Niners suck. KOIT, of course jumped way up thanks to all-Xmas, but The Breeze wasn't hurt by that: they moved up from 4.0 to 4.3
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For you South Bay types, KBAY has flipped to a Classic Hits format --
http://news.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/headline_id=n33674
It's basically what 103.7 was before they switched to all-'80s. A typical hour:
8:24AM Brown Eyed Girl Van Morrison
8:20AM Another One Bites The Dust Queen
8:11AM Escapade Janet Jackson
8:08AM Jessie's Girl Rick Springfield
8:05AM You Make My Dreams Hall & Oates
8:01AM Part Time Lover Stevie Wonder
7:53AM Cat's In The Cradle Harry Chapin
7:48AM Billie Jean Michael Jackson
7:45AM Call Me Blondie
7:40AM In The Air Tonight Phil Collins
7:37AM Tainted Love Soft Cell
7:29AM Careless Whisper Wham!
quite predictable and consultant-approved. A lot more '80s than '70s and I assume a smattering of only the most obvious '60s (as evidenced by "Brown-Eyed Girl" -- sheesh)
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Latest radio ratings out today. KOIT is King, naturally, thanks to the all-Xmas stuff being part of the ratings period. KFOG dipped from a 2.1 to a 1.8 -- their first drop after 4 or 5 months of doing a slow, steady climb.
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I didn't get around to posting about the KCSM situation last week. It was suddenly announced last Sunday nite that they would be eliminating all their live evening programming -- in addition to the 10pm "Evening Jazz" shows disappearing (replaced by pre-recorded voicetracked stuff), they were also cancelling Harry Duncan's Sunday nite "In the Soul Kitchen" as well as the Thursday "In the Moment", which features music recorded live at local venues.
This was happening because the Community College Board of San Mateo (CCBSM), which owns the station's license, had, out of the blue (and one month after the station's latest pledge drive), ordered KCSM to drastically slash their budget. The Chron wrote about it midweek:
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/KCSM-jazz-station-cuts-programming-10966603.php
It didn't seem to make sense: KCSM is a listener-supported station that not only consistently meets its pledge goals, but has a MILLION DOLLAR "rainy day fund" in the bank -- money that has accumulated over the years from all the times they exceeded their pledge goals. Meanwhile the CCBSM is about to sell KCSM-TV for which they will net TEN MILLION. So neither side is anywhere near broke.
The outcry over the cuts, particularly about the loss of "Soul Kitchen" (arguably the station's most-popular program) was loud, and by the end of the week, Duncan's show had been reinstated, at least temporarily. The conspiracy-theorist in me wonders if that cancellation/reinstatement thing was pre-planned as a way of attracting attention. But the question remains what the CCBSM is really up to. The part-time jocks at KCSM are unionized and the CCBSM would love to replace them with unpaid students, apparently.
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As if KCSM wasn't having enuf troubles, Thurs nite they played the wrong "Jazz Profiles" show (after having promoted a different one all day) and the Sat nite they apparently forgot to set their clocks ahead and everything was off by an hour this morning. Oopsies.
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Posted this in the "Regional 10@10s" area, but there is now a blog, written by a couple of (presumably) Local-NY listeners to The Peak, which rates each day's 10@10...
https://howmanyfinks.wordpress.com/
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Posted this in the "Regional 10@10s" area, but there is now a blog, written by a couple of (presumably) Local-NY listeners to The Peak, which rates each day's 10@10...
https://howmanyfinks.wordpress.com/
BTW, emailed the blog guy and he responded -- He actually googled and found this board and has been exploring the comments. He's also named Mike -- welcome Finksters!
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We almost lost Toe-naily:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/category/spoken-word-kpixtv/3687414-bay-area-dj-survives-heart-attack-with-strangers-help/
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We almost lost Toe-naily:
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/category/spoken-word-kpixtv/3687414-bay-area-dj-survives-heart-attack-with-strangers-help/
That woman used to be our head of HR.
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Worth a mention: the Peak has added a weekend 10@10 marathon to their sked. Sunday afternoons at 4 Eastern/1 Pacific, all 5 shows in Mon-thru-Fri order.
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in the car earlier, punching around the dial... Live 105 and The Bone were both playing Green Day's "When I Come around" at the same time.
But then I switched to JJ on KPOO and he played "Pusherman" and all was well again.
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Meant to mention that The Sound (KSWD) in L.A., A Classic Rocker and home of one of the many 10@10s we keep track of here, will be going off the air by the end of October. The station was sold as part of the CBS Radio/Entercom merger; Entercom has to divest itself of a bunch of stations. KSWD was bought by a Christian media company which will turn it into yet another affiliate of their "K-LOVE" format. Sad.
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Latest ratings: KFOG holding steady with a 1.8; KOIT and The Breeze tied; The Bone doing pretty well with a 2.6; KNBR had their worst summer in ages thanks to the cellar-dwelling Giants.
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Mix 106 just dumped their long running morning show, Bill and Marla/Pope and Marla (after Bill died.) Unsurprisingly, listeners on their Facebook page are not happy. (Sound familiar?)
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Punched up KFOG earlier and they were playing PG's "Solsbury Hill". That's the first pre-1984 song I've heard on the station in 18 months. Of course, after that it was right back to Snooze Babbler etc but still.
I looked at the Mediabase KFOG playlist page to see if there is a trend emerging... not really. I counted 2 or 3 pre-'84 songs on their "oldies" list ("Train in Vain", "Brass in Pocket"). That's 2 or 3 out of several hundred, not counting Petty's "American Girl", played when he died.
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I don't think they're going to go back to skewing older, but IMO their current selection (and recent recurrents) has become significantly more interesting under the new PD. Their 90s selection still needs help.
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Meant to mention that The Sound (KSWD) in L.A., A Classic Rocker and home of one of the many 10@10s we keep track of here, will be going off the air by the end of October. The station was sold as part of the CBS Radio/Entercom merger; Entercom has to divest itself of a bunch of stations. KSWD was bought by a Christian media company which will turn it into yet another affiliate of their "K-LOVE" format. Sad.
So we've now found out what CBS/Entercom is getting rid of (and keeping) in the SF market
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/120286/entercom-narrows-16-stations-divested-complete-cbs-radio-merger/
Oddly, they're getting rid of 4 of their most successful stations (“99.7 Now” KMVQ, 96.5 KOIT (!), San Jose's “98.5 K-Fox”, and 102.9 KBLX) while keeping such ratings also-rans as “95.7 The Game” and “Live 105”. Of course they're also keeping KCBS and Alice 97.3.
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The FCC today approved removal of the rule requiring radio stations to maintain a "main studio" in the community in which they're licensed. This will allow radio conglomerates to manage and program stations in multiple markets without having to actually have a physical presence there beyond a phone number.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/170824/fcc-votes-to-eliminate-main-studio-rule
If the community service part of their license requirements weren't eliminated before this, they certainly are now.
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The FCC today approved removal of the rule requiring radio stations to maintain a "main studio" in the community in which they're licensed. This will allow radio conglomerates to manage and program stations in multiple markets without having to actually have a physical presence there beyond a phone number.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/170824/fcc-votes-to-eliminate-main-studio-rule
If the community service part of their license requirements weren't eliminated before this, they certainly are now.
While I don't necessarily support this ruling, I can foresee the possibility of a day when there
are no radio or television stations as we know them. Instead, all of the broadcast frequencies
would be used for wireless networking.
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"Live 105" has gotten a slight rebrand, "The New Alt 105.3" but still has the tag "The Bay Area's Alternative." Happened about 10 minutes ago...but so far, the first three songs would suggest that this station leans newer/more indie than before.
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"Live 105" has gotten a slight rebrand, "The New Alt 105.3" but still has the tag "The Bay Area's Alternative." Happened about 10 minutes ago...but so far, the first three songs would suggest that this station leans newer/more indie than before.
"Alt-(fill in frequency)" is Entercom's alt brand, they flipped several stations (NYC, Houston) to that format when they took ownership of the CBS group.
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"Live 105" has gotten a slight rebrand, "The New Alt 105.3" but still has the tag "The Bay Area's Alternative." Happened about 10 minutes ago...but so far, the first three songs would suggest that this station leans newer/more indie than before.
"Alt-(fill in frequency)" is Entercom's alt brand, they flipped several stations (NYC, Houston) to that format when they took ownership of the CBS group.
https://radioinsight.com/headlines/121960/live-105-san-francisco-relaunches-alt-105-3/
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KPFA might (emphasis on "might") be off the air in as little as 2 weeks tho' I suspect it won't come to that.
https://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2017/12/28/berkeleys-kpfa-radio-facing-ruin-as-new-york-real-estate-corporation-considers-seizing-stations-assets-to-settle-lawsuit
They were talking about it on the air this afternoon. As an ex-NY'er/radio geek, I've followed WBAI's troubles; that station has been a mess for some time. The in-fighting there makes KPFA's look like child's play. But if WBAI's debtors really want to seize KPFA, it could happen. Per what was said today, the Pacifica board still hasn't decided whether to declare bankruptcy.
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"Classic Live 105" is back on 105.3 HD2. It used to be on HD2 years back but got replaced with "Indie 105". Now Indie is out and Classic is back (presumably since "Alt 105" leans more indie.) I've been listening to it the past few days. Mostly 80 through mid 90s Live 105, with a couple tracks from the 00s. I've heard a couple less common tracks...The Jam - "Eton Rifles," Electronic - "Get the Message," Pixies - "Head On" (Jesus & Mary Chain cover) & The Killing Joke - "Love Like Blood." It makes a good complement to Sirius XM First Wave.
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Cumulus strikes again: the near-dead KGO is even near-deader, as they have relieved both Ronn Owens and Brian Copeland of their daily gabfests. (Owens segues to doing a 10-minute daily commentary -- he thinks he's Paul Harvey -- and Copeland will be "available" for weekends and fill-ins. The syndicated "Dr Drew" will take over the midday slot.
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Cumulus strikes again: the near-dead KGO is even near-deader, as they have relieved both Ronn Owens and Brian Copeland of their daily gabfests. (Owens segues to doing a 10-minute daily commentary -- he thinks he's Paul Harvey -- and Copeland will be "available" for weekends and fill-ins. The syndicated "Dr Drew" will take over the midday slot.
follow-up: Rich Lieberman is reporting a leaked Cumulus memo that basically says anyone working for a Cumulus station who is making more than six figures is in serious danger of getting canned unless there's a really good reason for them to be making that much. I'm guessing nobody at KFOG makes that much these days :)
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Happened to punch up The Bone in the car today; they were playing "Under My Thumb", which surprised me -- I didn't think they went back as far as the mid-'60s.
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Happened to punch up The Bone in the car today; they were playing "Under My Thumb", which surprised me -- I didn't think they went back as far as the mid-'60s.
Small world. I was also listening in the car on Saturday, punched up The Bone and heard "Under My Thumb."
Yes, they occasionally play a '60s evergreen. That doesn't register as unusual to me, as it's just regular music.
What strikes me as strange is when I listen to KFOG, since a lot of what they play is unfamiliar to me. I'll make
note of them in the future. I'm reasonably certain I've heard UMT before.
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Happened to punch up The Bone in the car today; they were playing "Under My Thumb", which surprised me -- I didn't think they went back as far as the mid-'60s.
Small world. I was also listening in the car on Saturday, punched up The Bone and heard "Under My Thumb."
Yes, they occasionally play a '60s evergreen. That doesn't register as unusual to me, as it's just regular music.
What strikes me as strange is when I listen to KFOG, since a lot of what they play is unfamiliar to me. I'll make
note of them in the future. I'm reasonably certain I've heard UMT before.
The Doors' Break On Through (To the Other Side), if that isn't drifting too far into the late '60s for you.
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Happened to punch up The Bone in the car today; they were playing "Under My Thumb", which surprised me -- I didn't think they went back as far as the mid-'60s.
Small world. I was also listening in the car on Saturday, punched up The Bone and heard "Under My Thumb."
Yes, they occasionally play a '60s evergreen. That doesn't register as unusual to me, as it's just regular music.
What strikes me as strange is when I listen to KFOG, since a lot of what they play is unfamiliar to me. I'll make
note of them in the future. I'm reasonably certain I've heard UMT before.
The Doors' Break On Through (To the Other Side), if that isn't drifting too far into the late '60s for you.
Running an errand today, turned on the radio and pushed the button for The Bone...
they were in the middle of the Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash, but 1968 is definitely
late, not middle '60s.
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
I've had that happen with a couple of the classic rock stations here - although it's usually AC/DC or Zeppelin.
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch,"
I'll have to start that with the River.
Since I moved up to Santa Rosa, I mostly listen to The River (KVRV, I guess KRVR was taken), when I'm in the car. Pretty standard classic rock, though a lot less bone-headed than the Bone. They use some syndicated shows, Alice Cooper is the evening show. On Sundays they "let the Lobster loose" for Lobster Brunch, which is a pretty good show most of the time, and good to hear a local dj from the way-back machine. On Sunday night, they have a 2 hour show from the "Deep End" of the River, which is also syndicated, and usually pretty good.
There's also the Wolf (KWVF), more of an oldies station that also leaks into the 70's. Listening to that, it would be fun to see how far into the 70's (or maybe even 80's) they go. Their evening show features ... Wolfman Jack!
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
I've had that happen with a couple of the classic rock stations here - although it's usually AC/DC or Zeppelin.
I noted 4 or 5 months ago that I was in the car one day and Live 105 and The Bone were simultaneously playing "When I Come Around" by Green Day.
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There's also the Wolf (KWVF), more of an oldies station that also leaks into the 70's. Listening to that, it would be fun to see how far into the 70's (or maybe even 80's) they go. Their evening show features ... Wolfman Jack!
I listen to the Wolf on Sat morning for Casey Kasem, and they're one of the better Classic Hits stations I've heard. Impressive that they still slip in a '50s track once an hour. (Lots of retirees in Sonoma?) And whoever had the foresight to save old Wolfman Jack airchecks (and The Real Don Steele and a few others) must be raking in the dough now. Bet people laughed at the idea 40 years ago.
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
I've had that happen with a couple of the classic rock stations here - although it's usually AC/DC or Zeppelin.
I noted 4 or 5 months ago that I was in the car one day and Live 105 and The Bone were simultaneously playing "When I Come Around" by Green Day.
In a similar vein, in about a thirty minute span today between the gym and Trader Joe's, I heard Hall-n-Oates' "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" twice.
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January ratings are out today -- KFOG dipped to a 1.4 (from a 1.7). That's the lowest they've been since the aftermath of the "purge" in 2016.
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I was on a fairly long road trip yesterday (you can't get anywhere fast from Santa Rosa) and listened to the Bone for much of it. Playing the 60's game...
At one point (I was on Highway 37), the dj talks about how "Ruby Tuesday" was a number one hit on this day back in '67 for the Stones. But then he plays Shattered from '78. I don't know, maybe '67 is too far back.
Anyway, a bit later, he plays "Dazed and Confused", so that's one. And then, after a ballad from LA Guns (!), he plays Cream, "White Room". So there's two.
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So I've been playing my new game, "60s watch," checking in more frequently (but not necessarily
staying) with K-Fox (KUFX) and The Bone (KSAN) just to see if they're playing a '60s song. More
so in the car, when I might otherwise have left the radio off. (I have a short list that I anticipate
hearing.)
I guess you could say I did a double take today when both stations were playing Queen's
Another One Bites the Dust at the same time. Thought I screwed up the radio presets
at first. Amusing and sad.
Another simultaneous play on KUFX & KSAN this afternoon -- U2's New Year's Day.
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Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
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Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
Well, there's TuneGenie -- here's the link for The Bone: http://ksan.tunegenie.com/
There's also the Mediabase page for KFOG, which shows the songs they played in the past week (but not how many times each one aired): http://www.mediabase.com/mmrweb/7/stationplaylistrequest.asp?c_let=KFOG-FM I couldn't generate a Mediabase page for the Bone, possibly because they don't play currents.
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Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
Well, there's TuneGenie -- here's the link for The Bone: http://ksan.tunegenie.com/
Ah yes, that works. It does take a little of the fun out of playing '60s Watch, but it
makes it easier to compile a more comprehensive report. Both KSAN and KUFX
appear to play at least a half dozen '60s songs every day. Under My Thumb (1966)
is still the earliest so far, but there are several from 1967. Conspicuously absent
despite their '60s stature: the Beatles. The Beatles could certainly rock, but I'd say
their best-known hits are more pop than rock. I have heard Revolution on KUFX.
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iHeartMedia (aka ClearChannel) files for Chapter 11:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/iheartmedia-files-for-bankruptcy.html
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Are there sources/web sites that list the songs spun on a particular station,
either in downloadable or easy-to-screen-scrape format? It's amusing to
play '60s Watch, but if there's a way to get the last 24 hours (or more) in
one swell foop... Or do stations consider that information their competitive
advantage?
Well, there's TuneGenie -- here's the link for The Bone: http://ksan.tunegenie.com/
Ah yes, that works. It does take a little of the fun out of playing '60s Watch, but it
makes it easier to compile a more comprehensive report. Both KSAN and KUFX
appear to play at least a half dozen '60s songs every day. Under My Thumb (1966)
is still the earliest so far, but there are several from 1967. Conspicuously absent
despite their '60s stature: the Beatles. The Beatles could certainly rock, but I'd say
their best-known hits are more pop than rock. I have heard Revolution on KUFX.
IIRC, KFOG went thru a period a number of years ago when the Beatles were rarely heard on its playlist. No idea why.
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60's Watch - The Bone played "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Sunday afternoon. They probably don't go back to '65 too often, but it does happen.
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January ratings are out today -- KFOG dipped to a 1.4 (from a 1.7). That's the lowest they've been since the aftermath of the "purge" in 2016.
another month, another ratings book: for Feb KFOG remains at a 1.4.
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I didn't get around to posting about the KCSM situation last week. It was suddenly announced last Sunday nite that they would be eliminating all their live evening programming -- in addition to the 10pm "Evening Jazz" shows disappearing (replaced by pre-recorded voicetracked stuff), they were also cancelling Harry Duncan's Sunday nite "In the Soul Kitchen" as well as the Thursday "In the Moment", which features music recorded live at local venues.
This was happening because the Community College Board of San Mateo (CCBSM), which owns the station's license, had, out of the blue (and one month after the station's latest pledge drive), ordered KCSM to drastically slash their budget. The Chron wrote about it midweek:
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/KCSM-jazz-station-cuts-programming-10966603.php
It didn't seem to make sense: KCSM is a listener-supported station that not only consistently meets its pledge goals, but has a MILLION DOLLAR "rainy day fund" in the bank -- money that has accumulated over the years from all the times they exceeded their pledge goals. Meanwhile the CCBSM is about to sell KCSM-TV for which they will net TEN MILLION. So neither side is anywhere near broke.
The outcry over the cuts, particularly about the loss of "Soul Kitchen" (arguably the station's most-popular program) was loud, and by the end of the week, Duncan's show had been reinstated, at least temporarily. The conspiracy-theorist in me wonders if that cancellation/reinstatement thing was pre-planned as a way of attracting attention. But the question remains what the CCBSM is really up to. The part-time jocks at KCSM are unionized and the CCBSM would love to replace them with unpaid students, apparently.
It occurs to me I didn't really write any follow-up posts about KCSM since this one last year, but I meant to mention that their winter Pledge Drive in Feb came up 40K short of their goal of 300K. That's an unheard-of amount, as they almost always meet their target or come fairly close. Was this an outlier, or had the problems of last year finally caught up with them (in other words, did their more casual listeners finally realize that a bunch of live DJs had been replaced by canned programming from Chicago? and that what had been presented as an "emergency" budget deficit was really the College of San Mateo trying to get rid of some folks who belonged to a union?).
Well, they are now at Day 18 of a 20-day Spring Pledge Drive and they are 100K shy of another 300K goal. Whether they can raise that much money in the next 48 hours seems doubtful, and they're acting rather blase about it. Curious.
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In her farewell "Acoustic Sunrise" this morning, Rosalie did shout-outs to her former KFOG colleagues. She said Dave Morey is on a station in Palm Springs ( KWIR/Palm Springs http://bit.ly/KWIRFM ) which was news to me. Per Dred Scott on FB, Dave's on that station "whenever he feels like it."
Also news to me: on Dave's Michigan station ( Wxtf-Lp 97.9 Harrisville www.979 harrisville ), there's a show called "Barry's Dynamite Show" and it turns out Barry is Rosalie's husband. Also, John Grappone is still doing weekends on KINK in Portland.
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I didn't get around to posting about the KCSM situation last week. It was suddenly announced last Sunday nite that they would be eliminating all their live evening programming -- in addition to the 10pm "Evening Jazz" shows disappearing (replaced by pre-recorded voicetracked stuff), they were also cancelling Harry Duncan's Sunday nite "In the Soul Kitchen" as well as the Thursday "In the Moment", which features music recorded live at local venues.
This was happening because the Community College Board of San Mateo (CCBSM), which owns the station's license, had, out of the blue (and one month after the station's latest pledge drive), ordered KCSM to drastically slash their budget. The Chron wrote about it midweek:
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/KCSM-jazz-station-cuts-programming-10966603.php
It didn't seem to make sense: KCSM is a listener-supported station that not only consistently meets its pledge goals, but has a MILLION DOLLAR "rainy day fund" in the bank -- money that has accumulated over the years from all the times they exceeded their pledge goals. Meanwhile the CCBSM is about to sell KCSM-TV for which they will net TEN MILLION. So neither side is anywhere near broke.
The outcry over the cuts, particularly about the loss of "Soul Kitchen" (arguably the station's most-popular program) was loud, and by the end of the week, Duncan's show had been reinstated, at least temporarily. The conspiracy-theorist in me wonders if that cancellation/reinstatement thing was pre-planned as a way of attracting attention. But the question remains what the CCBSM is really up to. The part-time jocks at KCSM are unionized and the CCBSM would love to replace them with unpaid students, apparently.
It occurs to me I didn't really write any follow-up posts about KCSM since this one last year, but I meant to mention that their winter Pledge Drive in Feb came up 40K short of their goal of 300K. That's an unheard-of amount, as they almost always meet their target or come fairly close. Was this an outlier, or had the problems of last year finally caught up with them (in other words, did their more casual listeners finally realize that a bunch of live DJs had been replaced by canned programming from Chicago? and that what had been presented as an "emergency" budget deficit was really the College of San Mateo trying to get rid of some folks who belonged to a union?).
Well, they are now at Day 18 of a 20-day Spring Pledge Drive and they are 100K shy of another 300K goal. Whether they can raise that much money in the next 48 hours seems doubtful, and they're acting rather blase about it. Curious.
Amazingly, they managed to make 85K in 3 days, so they finished $15,000 short of the goal. Which ain't great but is much better than the 40K shortfall they had in their Winter Drive. Of course, if they can raise 85K in 3 days, why have a 20 day Drive, with 2/3 of that being "quiet pledge" days on which they hardly make anything? Time to rethink that concept, it seems.
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new ratings are out: KFOG stuck at a 1.3; Woody Show hasn't had much effect so far, it would seem. Alt 105.3 up a bit from 1.6 to 1.9, and that was without a morning show, which they now have. Next book will be interesting as KFOG is now full-blown Alternative (which I still see as a dumb idea but whatevs).
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Just saw via AllAccess that KFOG PD Mat Bates has "exited the station" bu offers no further details.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/177549/kfog-san-francisco-pd-mat-bates-exits?ref=mail_bulletin
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Just saw via AllAccess that KFOG PD Mat Bates has "exited the station" bu offers no further details.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/177549/kfog-san-francisco-pd-mat-bates-exits?ref=mail_bulletin
That's funny: Ben Fong-Torres reported that Master Bates was fired a couple days after Rosalie's last show.
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In her farewell "Acoustic Sunrise" this morning, Rosalie did shout-outs to her former KFOG colleagues. She said Dave Morey is on a station in Palm Springs ( KWIR/Palm Springs http://bit.ly/KWIRFM ) which was news to me. Per Dred Scott on FB, Dave's on that station "whenever he feels like it."
Also news to me: on Dave's Michigan station ( Wxtf-Lp 97.9 Harrisville www.979 harrisville ), there's a show called "Barry's Dynamite Show" and it turns out Barry is Rosalie's husband. Also, John Grappone is still doing weekends on KINK in Portland.
I've listened to Dave's new station a few times, but his broadcast schedule is pretty much nonexistent. I check in to see if he's on once or twice a week, and might get lucky once a month. As on WTF, he rarely (never) opens the mic, and sticks more to old jazz and r&b with a healthy helping of vintage commercials and soundbites. It's definitely not 10@10 redux.
(Btw, Dave departed Michigan nearly two years ago for the warmer climes of Palm Springs; I guess nearly 30 years in CA (even the Bay area's moderate climate) had taken away his resistance to Michigan winters. The station was able to relocate to the basement of another of its regular volunteers and continues broadcasting on a pretty steady 7-day schedule, although a number of volunteer jocks left at the time the station moved.)
I know less of Barry's Dynamite Show, simply because it airs on Saturdays when I'm usually not in front of a computer. But Barry's a good guy and has exemplary taste in music (i.e. as guys of a certain age who worked in the music biz often do) so I expect it's quite entertaining.
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60's Watch - The Bone played "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" Sunday afternoon. They probably don't go back to '65 too often, but it does happen.
KUFX played The Animal's House of the Rising Sun (1964) this morning.
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KCSM is already running promos for their Autumn Pledge Drive -- which is 3 weeks away (begins Labor Day wknd). Guess they were spooked by the shortfalls they had during the last 2 drives.
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August ratings out today. The now officially "alternative" KFOG up a tick (from 1.2 to 1.4), but Live, er I mean Alt 105.3, makes a bigger jump, from 1.5 to 2.1
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KCSM is already running promos for their Autumn Pledge Drive -- which is 3 weeks away (begins Labor Day wknd). Guess they were spooked by the shortfalls they had during the last 2 drives.
Isn't there a change in ownership/license?
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KCSM is already running promos for their Autumn Pledge Drive -- which is 3 weeks away (begins Labor Day wknd). Guess they were spooked by the shortfalls they had during the last 2 drives.
Isn't there a change in ownership/license?
You're thinking of the TV station. I'm talking about KCSM-FM, aka "Jazz 91"
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KCSM is already running promos for their Autumn Pledge Drive -- which is 3 weeks away (begins Labor Day wknd). Guess they were spooked by the shortfalls they had during the last 2 drives.
Isn't there a change in ownership/license?
You're thinking of the TV station. I'm talking about KCSM-FM, aka "Jazz 91"
The TV station (KPJK) is interesting, with a lot of Native American programming. I recently read "There, There", a debut novel by Native American author Tommy Orange. It's set in Oakland and relates stories of "urban" Natives. Not a happy novel, but very good. It's well worth checking out.
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Although this is a minor move, it's one I never saw coming. 96.5 KOIT's HD-2 station flipped to AAA, and is calling itself "Different." I've been listening to it. It's a pretty standard AAA that skews more recent. Lots of 90s, 00s, and 10s (but not stuck in the 90s), occasionally something from the 80s. Nothing too adventurous yet, though maybe they will be later.
https://koit.com/96-5-hd2/
I was genuinely surprised because nobody seems to care about HD2 or AAA anymore. Most AAA stations just ended up getting pushed to their HD2 frequency when they flipped formats, so if KFOG didn't end up on either 97.7 HD2 or 104.5 HD2 then I thought that market #4 was officially done with AAA.
Then again, Bonneville isn't exactly a Clear Channel, Cumulus, Entercom, or even Alpha. The sale of the four stations from CBS/Entercom just completed and even though branding for "Different" is at this point minimal, it's clear that they're paying attention. They seem to like AAA (hence KSWD, which didn't last but they put up a good fight. LA is also a difficult market for AAA; it's much easier in SF, and should have worked here for any company that puts minimal effort.) I wonder if they're just using this as something to have fun with, or if they have bigger plans (i.e. flipping one of their other stations to AAA.) If they flipped, not sure which one it would be...all four of them are doing fairly well.
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Newest ratings are out. KOIT plummets from a 10.7 to a 4.8 now that "all-Xmas" season is behind us. KFOG and Alt 105.3 both stagnant at 1.2 and 1.4, respectively. Now does that mean that if there were only one "Alternative" station, it would have a 2.6? Probably not. But I have to ask KFOG, "Is a 1.2 with a demo of primarily young males, better than, say, a 2.0 with a broader mix of listeners?"
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Latest ratings out this week, and interestingly, The Bone has landed in the Top Ten for the first time in a dog's age with a 3.3 -- its highest rating in many a moon.
KFOG (1.3) continues to lag behind Alt 105.3 (1.7), tho' not by much.
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Latest ratings out this week, and interestingly, The Bone has landed in the Top Ten for the first time in a dog's age with a 3.3 -- its highest rating in many a moon.
KFOG (1.3) continues to lag behind Alt 105.3 (1.7), tho' not by much.
Newest ratings just out show The Bone still moving up -- they're at a 3.7, which is kinda amazing. Have they significantly changed their music mix lately?
KFOG down to a 1.2 again; Alt 105.3 up to a 1.9
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Its new Christian ownership is shuttering WPLJ at the end of the month.
https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/186245/wplj-new-york-will-say-goodbye-on-may-31st
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Latest ratings out this week, and interestingly, The Bone has landed in the Top Ten for the first time in a dog's age with a 3.3 -- its highest rating in many a moon.
KFOG (1.3) continues to lag behind Alt 105.3 (1.7), tho' not by much.
Newest ratings just out show The Bone still moving up -- they're at a 3.7, which is kinda amazing. Have they significantly changed their music mix lately?
KFOG down to a 1.2 again; Alt 105.3 up to a 1.9
Latest ratings, out last week, show The Bone with a 4.0 (!) -- their highest share ever.
KFOG has a 1.6 and Alt 105.3 has a 1.9
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New ratings out: granted, a lot of fluctuations this month... the Bone drops back to a 3.3 from last month's highest-ever 4.0, and Alt 103.5 is up to a 2.2, their highest in some time. But man: KFOG falls from a 1.6 to a 1.0 -- their lowest-ever. Not even after the purge of April 2016 did they fall THAT low.
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KRBQ (Q-102) has given up on the "throwback hip-hop" format it's been doing for the last 4 years and is now "The Bay Area's Old School", using the same logo that the late, lamented Kiss was using before they became The Breeze. It's not exactly the second coming of Kiss; I'm not seeing any of the danceable New Wave titles or deep cuts that Kiss often played. OTOH, they're going back to the early '70s for Spinners/J-5 type stuff, and Kiss didn't go back that far. Worth a pre-set in the car, at least for now.
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New ratings out: granted, a lot of fluctuations this month... the Bone drops back to a 3.3 from last month's highest-ever 4.0, and Alt 103.5 is up to a 2.2, their highest in some time. But man: KFOG falls from a 1.6 to a 1.0 -- their lowest-ever. Not even after the purge of April 2016 did they fall THAT low.
Could KFOG dumping their South Bay transmitter have something to do with that? Regardless, it looks like Live/Alt 105 is winning the battle that nobody asked for.
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New ratings out: granted, a lot of fluctuations this month... the Bone drops back to a 3.3 from last month's highest-ever 4.0, and Alt 103.5 is up to a 2.2, their highest in some time. But man: KFOG falls from a 1.6 to a 1.0 -- their lowest-ever. Not even after the purge of April 2016 did they fall THAT low.
Could KFOG dumping their South Bay transmitter have something to do with that? Regardless, it looks like Live/Alt 105 is winning the battle that nobody asked for.
It's possible -- not clear to me where the dividing line is between the SF ratings area and the South Bay one. (KFOG has done better down there than up here in recent times)
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News to me, altho' it apparently has been going on since January (!): KPIG is back on 1510 AM. Supposed to be "temporary", but here we are in August and it's still there. Apparently the contract to air Chinese programming there ran out, and Mapleton (KPIG's longtime owner) is in the process of selling it and a bunch of other stations. Enjoy while you can. Nice to have another interesting preset choice in the car.
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For those who have HD receivers: Due to scant 1) listenership and 2) ad revenue iHeart has shut down the HD channels KYLD-HD2(Evolution)/HD3(Alt), KISQ-HD2(Jammin Oldies) and KMEL-HD2(American Top40). They've also turned off the transmission of certain HD channels in other markets, like NYC, too.
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So, earlier this week, channel 2 news reported that KFOG will be no more as of 9/6, and will be simulcasting KNBR from then on.
Probably somewhere else in the posts I'm way behind on...
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New ratings out: granted, a lot of fluctuations this month... the Bone drops back to a 3.3 from last month's highest-ever 4.0, and Alt 103.5 is up to a 2.2, their highest in some time. But man: KFOG falls from a 1.6 to a 1.0 -- their lowest-ever. Not even after the purge of April 2016 did they fall THAT low.
Could KFOG dumping their South Bay transmitter have something to do with that? Regardless, it looks like Live/Alt 105 is winning the battle that nobody asked for.
It's possible -- not clear to me where the dividing line is between the SF ratings area and the South Bay one. (KFOG has done better down there than up here in recent times)
Per a couple of the KFOG post-mortems this week, losing the South Bay station (KFFG) was indeed a big reason why their ratings dropped drastically in June. So, either Cumulus didn't realize that would happen, or they expected it to and didn't care.
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So, earlier this week, channel 2 news reported that KFOG will be no more as of 9/6, and will be simulcasting KNBR from then on.
Probably somewhere else in the posts I'm way behind on...
Good to see you Rod!
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I've been listening to 96.5 HD-2 a lot the last week...but it's just not connecting for me. The first few weeks they played a lot of AAA standards from the past decade but recently they've been moving away from that and getting more and more vanilla, and their recurrents/golds -- while AAA friendly -- are mostly songs that were also gigantic on Pop/Hot AC and you could still probably hear on Alice...or even KOIT (i.e. Tonic - If You Could Only See.) Probably the most AAA-specific of anything they play older than two years old is Jack Johnson. Their current selection isn't huge, but it's slightly (though only slightly) better. I guess I can't complain about hearing new songs by the Raconteurs and Local Natives, though I think they still play too much Lumineers and Billie Eilish.
I'm still trying to figure out what they're doing, though. They have put a lot of effort into sweepers that are pandering to local-ness (i.e. a millenial-sounding girl's voice saying "I like to walk my dog at Golden Gate Park and see a show at the Balboa Theater!!" and using the tagline "uniquely San Francisco" even though there is really nothing unique about the playlist at all IMO) as well as a "this month in music history" sweeper which is kind of interesting. And once in awhile (usually in the evenings), I actually hear a live DJ. But their playlist is as generic as it gets and doesn't seem to lean towards any time period. So they have put effort into it, but I have no clue why someone would want to start a new milquetoast AAA format on a HD-2 frequency in 2019. Maybe they're trying to see if it's worth putting it on one of their other main frequencies, or maybe they're just throwing a bone to disenfranchised KFOG listeners.
Their website (which doesn't have much, but at least they have one) is www.96hd2.com
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I'm still trying to figure out what they're doing, though. They have put a lot of effort into sweepers that are pandering to local-ness (i.e. a millenial-sounding girl's voice saying "I like to walk my dog at Golden Gate Park and see a show at the Balboa Theater!!" and using the tagline "uniquely San Francisco"
ROTFL!!!
Seriously though, it never ceases to amaze me that there are people out there who, upon hearing what 96.5 HD-2 is all about, would get super-excited about it. I'm just not sure that they'd be listening to HD-2, unless they're led there by an acquaintance that is slightly more with it. So many questions!
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New ratings out: last month KNBR (still AM-only) had a 4.4. This month, KNBR-AM had a 3.7 and KNBR-FM had a .9 -- for a total of 4.6.
But the big mind-blower was The Bone, which shot up from a 3.1 to a 4.8 -- kinda unheard-of for any station to gain that much in one month. Wondering if that's some sort of typo. :)
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News to me, altho' it apparently has been going on since January (!): KPIG is back on 1510 AM. Supposed to be "temporary", but here we are in August and it's still there. Apparently the contract to air Chinese programming there ran out, and Mapleton (KPIG's longtime owner) is in the process of selling it and a bunch of other stations. Enjoy while you can. Nice to have another interesting preset choice in the car.
It appears they've pulled the plug on the AM simulcast. Noticed it today; this being the first of the month, I'm assuming it must have happened at midnight.
ETA: per a visitor post on their FB page, it happened late Sunday/Early Monday.
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KOIT 96.5 flipped to all Christmas a few weeks ago, as usual. However, they put their regular programming on HD-3 and kept "96.5 HD-2 Different" on HD2. It's pretty clear they want to keep their HD AAA around, for some reason.
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KOIT 96.5 flipped to all Christmas a few weeks ago, as usual. However, they put their regular programming on HD-3 and kept "96.5 HD-2 Different" on HD2. It's pretty clear they want to keep their HD AAA around, for some reason.
They've expanded to KUFX-HD2 (98.5-2) as well.
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96.5 HD-2 Different can now be heard online and has rebranded as...
Highway 1 Radio (https://highway1radio.com)
I listened for a few hours. A couple notes:
- They dropped everything pre-80s (not that there was much before) and are focusing a lot more on current music. Probably a good decision as IMO their new music was really the only thing worth tuning into for, their golds were pleasant but pointless
- New music hour at 1:00 called "Highway 1 Detour"
- Imaging always pandered to local-ness but they really have taken it up a notch in that regard, especially with the new name.
- Same can't be said about music selection though (at least at this point); BUT according to their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/highway1radio) they are setting up a submission email where musicians can submit their music to, and are talking about adding a local music show and soliciting names
- I'm still not sure what they're doing this for, most likely just a passion project
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Yesterday the "Highway 1 Detour" was billed as the new music hour, but it looks like they are actually going to do a different theme each today. Today's was live tracks.
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96.5 HD-2 Different can now be heard online and has rebranded as...
Highway 1 Radio (https://highway1radio.com)
I listened for a few hours. A couple notes:
- They dropped everything pre-80s (not that there was much before) and are focusing a lot more on current music. Probably a good decision as IMO their new music was really the only thing worth tuning into for, their golds were pleasant but pointless
- New music hour at 1:00 called "Highway 1 Detour"
- Imaging always pandered to local-ness but they really have taken it up a notch in that regard, especially with the new name.
- Same can't be said about music selection though (at least at this point); BUT according to their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/highway1radio) they are setting up a submission email where musicians can submit their music to, and are talking about adding a local music show and soliciting names
- I'm still not sure what they're doing this for, most likely just a passion project
SFGate did a piece on them yesterday. Looks like they're serious about making it work.
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/New-Bay-Area-radio-station-Highway-1-KFOG-SF-15540998.php
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Ohai all. Greg posted a set today on the Pop-Up Patreon: "10@10 from 1978, which includes "Running with the Devil," as a tribute to the late, great Eddie Van Halen who passed away Tuesday at age 65."
He prefaced it with: "Took us a while to dig this up (the cataloging of the archives is done almost entirely by memory)"
Would y'all be ok sharing the Shraydatabase with him? I told him I'd ask.
Thanks!
--Darryl
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Fine by me. And I doubt Mr. Shray would have a problem. He'd probably be chuffed.
Ohai all. Greg posted a set today on the Pop-Up Patreon: "10@10 from 1978, which includes "Running with the Devil," as a tribute to the late, great Eddie Van Halen who passed away Tuesday at age 65."
He prefaced it with: "Took us a while to dig this up (the cataloging of the archives is done almost entirely by memory)"
Would y'all be ok sharing the Shraydatabase with him? I told him I'd ask.
Thanks!
--Darryl
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Yesterday the "Highway 1 Detour" was billed as the new music hour, but it looks like they are actually going to do a different theme each today. Today's was live tracks.
Today’s theme was “New Order vs. Depeche Mode.” Their Depeche Mode picks were the usual LNs, but they actually played a couple of deeper New Order Tracks (Fine Time, Ruined in a Day)
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Much to my chagrin, 105.3-HD2 dropped their 80s and 90s based “Classic Live 105” and is now a mostly new alternative channel called “New Arrivals.” (Their HD station has gone back and forth between classic and modern/indie every few years.)
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RIP KGO Radio. Cumulus pulled the plug this morning. They are "stunting" with songs about money and a repeated tagline of "You Can Bet On It!". New Format starts Monday and word is it's a "sports betting" format. Oh joy.