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KFOG stays AAA with new PD Bryan Schock

Cumulus AAA 104.5 KFOG San Francisco/97.7 KFFG Los Altos CA completed its three week jockless stretch promoting the station’s “evolution” this morning.

Now positioning itself as “Music Matters”, the new KFOG retains the AAA format with music focusing completely on the 1990s through today. Currently only new morning host Matt Pinfield and afternoon host Mike Nelson (formerly ‘No Name’) are filling airshifts.

The first hour of the new KFOG consisted of:
Foo Fighters – Times Like These
M83 – Midnight City
Lukas Graham – Seven Years Old
Sarah McLachlan – Building A Mystery
Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know?
Dave Matthews Band – Satellite
Nathaniel Ratliff – S.O.B.
Sugar Ray – Every Morning
Leon Bridges – Smooth Sailin’
Weezer – Undone (The Sweater Song)
O.A.R. – Shattered (Turn The Car Around)
Paula Cole – Where Have All The Cowboys Gone

https://radioinsight.com/blog/headlines/105902/kfog-completes-relaunch/
 
I'm not impressed so far music wise. I miss 70's and 80's rock/pop in the mix, that's my favorite AAA format. It's too safe for AAA for now.
 
Judging from the Facebook outcry, the format tweak is doing what Cumulus probably hopes it will do, drive those ad agency-poison 55+ folks who've been listening to the station for decades to the comfort of their CD/mp3 collections or to Internet streaming or satellite radio. "I'm done with you!" coming from a guy whose profile pick is all gray hair and Grateful Dead T-shirt is good news for Cumulus, not bad.
 
erwin33 said:
I'm not impressed so far music wise. I miss 70's and 80's rock/pop in the mix, that's my favorite AAA format. It's too safe for AAA for now.
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I suggest The Peak (WXPK) in suburban NYC and WEHM on Eastern L.I. -- both are like the KFOG of 10 or 12 years ago and play a wide range of decades. The Peak even does a version of 10@10.
 
CTListener said:
Judging from the Facebook outcry, the format tweak is doing what Cumulus probably hopes it will do, drive those ad agency-poison 55+ folks who've been listening to the station for decades to the comfort of their CD/mp3 collections or to Internet streaming or satellite radio. "I'm done with you!" coming from a guy whose profile pick is all gray hair and Grateful Dead T-shirt is good news for Cumulus, not bad.
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From a sales/demos standpoint that is certainly true. But they could have changed the music without firing most of the jocks and that's what most of the listener outcry is about. And not all those upset listeners are over 50.
 
RadioJunkieMike said:
I suggest The Peak (WXPK) in suburban NYC and WEHM on Eastern L.I. -- both are like the KFOG of 10 or 12 years ago and play a wide range of decades. The Peak even does a version of 10@10.
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I know. And I'm also remembering 101.9 RXP where Matt Pinfield came from. I hoped that Brian Shock, also from RXP, put the same format on KFOG. It was a good format in the early days of that NY station.
 
Maybe a good idea the old crew start their own internetstation with the good KFOG format; name it Foghead Radio...just my 2 cents :).
 
erwin33 said:
Maybe a good idea the old crew start their own internetstation with the good KFOG format; name it Foghead Radio...just my 2 cents :).
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They'd better have deep pockets or a sugar daddy with same. It's become very difficult for anyone but the major corporate players to afford to play music on the Internet, and will likely become even harder in coming years.
 
This morning, Pinfield really acted like he knew how to throw it to the traffic guy! Seamless. Kudos! Then when it came to interview time, I didn't know who he was interviewing or why I should care. And I really wanted to hear some music, so I was gone.

I know, it was day one. I should just be happy that he knew how to throw it to the traffic guy. But there was this three-week build up to something GREAT! and I missed the payoff, I guess.

And this is wrong on so many levels: http://www.kgoradio.com/2016/04/19/ronn-owens-with-kfogs-matt-pinfield/
 
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CTListener said:
They'd better have deep pockets or a sugar daddy with same. It's become very difficult for anyone but the major corporate players to afford to play music on the Internet, and will likely become even harder in coming years.
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Thats True since Live365 went out of business and Radionomy went into lawsuits over contracts with the recording companies.

https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-sue-winamp-owner-over-pirate-internet-radio-160301/
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/sony-music-sues-universal-sister-company-radionomy/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thomas-gladysz/live365-is-dead-long-live_b_9081668.html

http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/live365-to-close-because-of-soundexchange-rate-changes/
 
erwin33 said:
Again: Where there's a will, there's a way. Simple.
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When you get a cease & desist order from SoundExchange, along with a bill for $10,000, it will take more than a will.

If it was so simple, lots of people would be doing it. At one time they were, and most have shut down.
 
 
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Format change aside, is it me, or is the sound quality also much worse? It sounds muffled and dull to me. Before, even when I lived in San Jose, I tuned into 104.5 (instead of 97.7) in my car because it had a much sharper sound. Now, I lived in Redwood City, and when I tune it to 104.5, I have to turn up the sound because I have trouble hearing it.
 
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