Here's a Facebook post from the station's morning man:
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KBAY Flips to Country
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Here's a Facebook post from the station's morning man:
And it will be especially unlikely for KRTY to do so since it will not be providing a unique format to any of its former FM listeners, even those for whom its signal was less than optimal due to geography and signal pattern. After all, anyone listening to streaming has access to many of this nation's 2,000-plus country stations, not to mention other online broadcasters and streaming services playing mainstream country music.
My sense is that some of the $3 million from the sale is going to some of the employees to continue the mission of the station's founder.
They feel they have a local brand and a fan base. The online audience won't be as large as on-air, but it may surprise people.
An exclusively online station will cost more in royalties unless they can get an HD simulcast.
Danny Miller
Alpha Media’s “Bay Country,” which airs on KBAY San Jose (94.5) and KKDV Walnut Creek (92.1) names Danny Miller evening host. Miller previously hosted afternoons on KBAY when it was
Danny Miller named as evening host at KBAY and KKDV.
Great news for Danny, who is a good guy. However, I highly doubt he is going to be "live" like the PD said earlier. Danny has a full-time job as well as doing the Sharks and 49ers games. His afternoon shift on KBAY was always tracked, and almost certainly the evening shift will be tracked as well. We're seeing this a lot lately when a station announces that someone has been "hired" to do a shift, and then you find out that it's really somebody voicetracking a shift, often from a different market. It's a whole different thing than having live, local jocks on the station. In fact, I doubt any of KBAY's new air staff will be actually live and local.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
And KBAY's former midday host, displaced in the flip to Country, has landed in the Visalia market in the same daypart:
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KIOO (99.7 Classic Rock)/Visalia, CA Adds Jona Denz-Hamilton For Middays
MOMENTUM BROADCASTING Classic Rock KIOO (99.7 CLASSIC ROCK)/VISALIA-TULARE, CA. has named longtime SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA personality JONA DENZ-HAMILTON their new midday host, replacing DAYNA KEYES who passed away in MARCH (NET NEWS 3/31/22). JONA spent the last 26 years doing middays on ALPHA...
Tony Micheals
Veteran Bay Area on-air personality Tony Michaels, who most recently hosted afternoons at former country KRTY San Jose (95.3) until its recent sale to EMF, joins Alpha Media’s “Bay Country”
Tony Michaels Joins Bay Country.
KBAY Gilroy, had been a Class A 3kw station when Jeremy Lansman (KDNA, KBOO, KPOO, KBDI, KYES, KRAB, etc) saw that he could move it one channel over and turn it into a Class B. While he was working on the frequency change plan he programmed it as KFAT. Jeremy I'm told had considered the eclectic format a throwaway that nobody would object to losing once he changed the freq and sold it. Previously there had been lots of community objection when activists had tried to wrest KJAZ away from Pat Henry. Jeremy didn't want that so KFAT was born. But after operating it for awhile he discovered that the audience was hugely upscale. So he kept the format after the freq change and later sold it. Today's KBAY (ex-KFAT, and orginally KPER I think)
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