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Classic Hits 103.7

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Len Bias

103.7 seems to have scrapped 80s Friday Night and Disco Saturday Night and has reduced Casey Kasem's Top 40 the 80s from twice a day to once a day on Sunday. Guessing this is to move further into the 90s and 00s. Wonder if they'll have new specialized programming to replace the previous ones.
 
It sounds like they got rid of the jingles as well. But at least the new VO guy is good, that last one sounded like AI.
 
I very much remember 103.7 from when it was KLOK-FM way back in the 1980's! They programmed an interactive radio format called Yes/No Radio. Maybe iHeart should bring back the KLOK-FM brand, only this time, they should play the music that KLOK-AM played in the 1970's and early 80's.
 
MarioMania said:
A few days ago, 103.7 played Hey Ya by OutKast

Didn't really mind it
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Very unusual for a Classic Hits station to play this! I personally think they should add titles from the 1960's through the early 1980's!
 
HenryOchs said:
Very unusual for a Classic Hits station to play this!
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Agreed.

It feels like if they're starting to play that stuff, maybe they're trying to move toward a format flip to maybe, what, adult hits?

Regardless, traditional classic hits still seems to have some life in it, as the core playlist is centered on the 80s, which to my (limited) knowledge still has a pretty decent audience, but maybe they want to include newer records to appeal more to younger listeners without outright flipping to CHR?

Given that, it's unlikely they'll be adding more records from the 60s and 70s, though it would be nice.

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Len Bias said:
103.7 seems to have scrapped 80s Friday Night and Disco Saturday Night and has reduced Casey Kasem's Top 40 the 80s from twice a day to once a day on Sunday. Guessing this is to move further into the 90s and 00s. Wonder if they'll have new specialized programming to replace the previous ones.
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Recently I was in the Bay Area and listened on the Saturday night when they had the Disco Saturday night - reminded me of the old KSFX back in the late 70s.
 
Losing the Friday and Saturday night specialty shows and AT40 the 80s on Sunday morning is a loss. When I was in the Bay Area last summer those were the three times I made a point to have the station on in the rental car.
 
Yeah, the SF radio market is pretty much uniformly mediocre in my opinion.

To that end, I don't really even bother to listen to anything other than KCBS anymore.

However, after dark when the skywaves get warmed up, I'll sometimes listen to DX stations, such as KYNO, while driving home. Trying to listen to music on an AM in a noisy car whose stereo has a hard cutoff at somewhere around 4 kHz is not particularly fun, but it's better than the slop that's on FM.

Granted, there are many FMs that are doing decently well, if the ratings are any indication – stations such as KOIT, KQED, KLLC, KISQ and KCBS/KFRC-FM are regularly in the top ten – so maybe I'm being harsh?

It's just that even if the overall content is fairly decent, the quality of most stations' processing leaves much to be desired, though exceptions do of course exist; for example, KDFC and its numerous translators have decently good processing.

All that said, doing away with the specialty shows and going harder and newer is turning 103.7 into even more of a boring, voice tracked shell that offers nothing that can't be found on any of the many thousands of online streams.

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cc333 said:
Yeah, the SF radio market is pretty much uniformly mediocre in my opinion.

To that end, I don't really even bother to listen to anything other than KCBS anymore.

However, after dark when the skywaves get warmed up, I'll sometimes listen to DX stations, such as KYNO, while driving home. Trying to listen to music on an AM in a noisy car whose stereo has a hard cutoff at somewhere around 4 kHz is not particularly fun, but it's better than the slop that's on FM.

Granted, there are many FMs that are doing decently well, if the ratings are any indication – stations such as KOIT, KQED, KLLC, KISQ and KCBS/KFRC-FM are regularly in the top ten – so maybe I'm being harsh?

It's just that even if the overall content is fairly decent, the quality of most stations' processing leaves much to be desired, though exceptions do of course exist; for example, KDFC and its numerous translators have decently good processing.

All that said, doing away with the specialty shows and going harder and newer is turning 103.7 into even more of a boring, voice tracked shell that offers nothing that can't be found on any of the many thousands of online streams.

c
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Isnt KYNO just an automated jukebox with a LARGE playlist and prerecorded liners?
 
Steve Scott said:
Thank you for listening to KCBS. We do appreciate it!
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Of course! KCBS is "The Bay Area's Number One News Station" for a reason! (you can tell I listen a lot, yes? 🤣 )

I don't listen to you as much since you switched to doing mornings (I think that happened when Eric Thomas retired last September?), but I still still enjoy listening to the various features, promos and interviews you do that get replayed throughout the day (lately, I've been hearing your "Wedgewood Homes" promo, and your delivery is perfect :) ).

I don't know if you are involved much in the CHRS museum in Alameda, but I would like to try attending this year's Radio by the Bay event (is that what it's called?), which I've been meaning to do for the past couple years but couldn't for one reason or another.

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