Applies to politicians too. Michael Jackson, during his run on KHJ, KNX and KABC in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s, would frequently call them out. “Sir, you don’t believe that, and if you wish, I’ll quote you taking the exact opposite position.”
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10 yrs later, another set of firings at KGO
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Is there a requirement that they do? I always think of Houdini. He knew what he was doing was a trick. He still did it, and got paid for it.
Plus PBS and CNN, right?
50kw KLOK AM 1170 was much stronger than those Orange County signals. It had (and still has) pretty good coverage in San Francisco. I once lived about 10 miles north of S.F. (more than 50 miles from San Jose), and it came in just as well as San Francisco stations.
True. On the east side of the Sierra, in Bishop, I could get KCBQ, San Diego for about half an hour before sundown and pattern change in the 70s.
As soon as that happened, KLOK came blasting in.
We could receive it in San Rafael (but not all of Marin County) but it wasn't nearly as clear/strong as the SF stations.
Their "tick-tock" background was somewhat irritating. Wonder how the DJ's felt (or perhaps they had it blocked out)?
Given that KLOK’s transmitter was 50 miles further away, that makes sense.
San Jose is an "embedded" market like Long Island and several other NYC suburban areas. An embedded market is a portion of a larger market that is tabulated separately and issued as a discreet report. It is still part of the larger market.
Santa Rosa used to be another embedded market for San Francisco, but it lost its subscribers and was cancelled a few years ago.
OC continued into the 90's to be an embedded market, with a separate report "extraction" even though Orange County is part of the Los Angeles MSA.
Yet the book continued to be issued for more than a decade more.
Interesting...back in the 60s,and 70s when most of the handful of OC FM stations were still playing instrumental elevator music (like LA's KJOI, KBIG, KOST and others) one OC station stands out: KYMS 106.3. This FM station was unique in that they played Top 40 music with live DJ's. Don't know if KYMS had any significant ratings back then, but I do remember that people all over the LA Basin, and even the SFV taking pains to try pick up this station.
Yes I remember Yuba and Sutter are more conservative than Sacramento County proper and Yolo County which is moderate democrat. In the case of KFBK Iheart started getting an FM Signal initially on 92.5 FM and later on 93.1 FM signal a decade ago in response to changing demographics in the Sacramento area and respond to PPM.
But in recent years Capital Public Radio has beefed up operations for their News/Talk format though and has been the number 2 News/talk station in the Sacramento area. Capital Public Radio does better in Sacramento, Yolo and Solano Counties (Note parts of Solano is in the Bay Area Media Market where KCBS Radio and NPR News/talk affiliate KQED-FM are the top stations in that market.)
And now I work for Capital Public Radio (or as we call it now, CapRadio). And we’re just getting started.
This is the time of the year for a couple of days each month you might hear mid-day skywave from both of those stations! In the SFV where I live, I've heard KLOK's skywave clearly at mid-day (11am-1pm) overpowering KCBQ's very weak groundwave.
KCBQ lost a lot of their range when they relocated the towers from Mission Gorge Road in Santee more than ten years ago. It’s now a Lowe’s home improvement store.
When KCBQ lost their lease on Mission Gorge Road, several months later they were able to di-plex off off KECR 910 which is also in Santee. KECR's (5 kW directional) ground wave null goes right through Oceanside across the ocean to KOXR's site in Saticoy. KCBQ's (50 kW directional) null is farther to the north (aimed at San Jose) but puts less than .25 mV/m where I live in the SFV.
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Also Armstrong and Getty is KSTE's only local show in Sacramento. But they had a simulcast at one point on KGO-AM as part of the revamp back in 2016-2017. Armstrong and Getty started out as Sacramento only before Iheart/Clear channel Radio syndicated the show to select markets
Also Armstrong and Getty is KSTE's only local show in Sacramento. But they had a simulcast at one point on KGO-AM as part of the revamp back in 2016-2017. Armstrong and Getty started out as Sacramento only before Iheart/Clear channel radio syndicated the show to select markets.
At one point KKSF-AM and KNEW-AM the iHeartRadio owned stations in San Francisco aired Armstrong and Getty but it didn't do well due to the San Francisco media market has all news and news/talk on the FM side.
It had less to do with news and newstalk being on FM than with 910 being a weak AM that hasn’t had a good book in 30 years.
During the time they were on KGO, they were the station’s highest-rated show.
I forgot one thing El Dorado and Placer counties in the Sacramento area are supposed to be some of fastest growing areas in California. At one point El Dorado and Placer Counties were battleground counties in California due to some of the congressional districts being competitive. This may be a factor why Rush did well in Sacramento before he went to WABC-AM and national for three decades.
I remember Dr. Dean Edell also syndicated his radio show at one point on KFBK even though his show was originating from KGO-AM San Francisco and was doing TV Segments for KGO-TV ABC7 News. He was big from the 80's and 90's
Dr. Dean Edell retiring as KGO-AM radio show host
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Dr. Dean Edell retiring as KGO-AM radio show host
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Slight correction: the di-plexed KCBQ/KECR towers are actually in Lakeside, a few miles northeast of the old Santee site.
Is that KGB-AM now? The Santee transmitter site, where highway 52 runs thru the middle of it.
I stand corrected, this probably explains why KCBQ is now even weaker (just barely audible) in my location than it was from their original site! I must mention that in the interim when KCBQ was operating daytime with about 5 kW off of a loaded wire antenna attached to the KLSD 1360 tower, they were actually strong enough (although still very weak) to be heard on almost any radio from my location.
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