"Haight Ashbury, this is not a flashback..." O so clever
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There are not many cases involving broadcasting where I feel like I could do a better job, but this is an example of when I think I would indeed do a better job lol. “San Rawful”
Someone should have said “No way San Jose” to that
Essentially the same principle as this:
I wish Armstrong and Getty were more like Harpo
They're raising the dead in Colma.
There was a Cal men's basketball game against Duke yesterday; next one is at Georgia Tech on Saturday at 1 pm...not clear whether that's Atlanta time or Berkeley time...and the Learfield site says it will be on "810 AM". We'll see where it ends up and/or whether the loop is interrupted on KZAC. Five more games after that, including one with Stanford on February 22 and the last one of the regular season on March 8.
The loop runs 2m10s, which means it runs 27 times an hour.
The loop runs 2m10s, which means it runs 27 times an hour.
That's 28 times too many.
I'll point out that the simulcast lasted 86 days*...starting 43 days before the end of 2024 and ending 43 days after the start of 2025...so this has gone at a very leisurely pace so far. If the same pace were to continue, the next change would be May 9. It's probably wise not to assume that.
* = not counting breaking the simulcast for Cal men's basketball.
I need to correct myself slightly: the loop ran 2m06s, which makes the arithmetic a lot easier, giving a result of 28 and a half airings per hour. There is a legal ID at the top of the hour.
I bet that transmitter wants to scream.
Well, KSFO technically is still alive, just a different frequency. However, they could have paid homage to KGO, instead of abruptly killing it. Considering the ownership( Cumulus), it doesn't surprise me.
The last good homage, in my opinion, was done by KTRB when it moved to San Francisco; I believe that was around 2007. David Jackson provided KTRB with some historic airchecks which the station aired for at least a couple of weeks, possibly more. I'm fuzzy on the details but can recall that it was fun to listen to. But KTRB had lots of other challenges, starting with a remote transmitter site that didn't have electric service.
That said, Cumulus likely has little or no historical material available.
They only barely cared the last time they played it---1983, when Gene Autry sold it to King Broadcasting.
At that time, the jingle was at most 25 years old. That was 42 years ago.
I'm picturing the engineering team running that loop in repeat with winamp on an old HP laptop plugged right into the transmitter. The last act before the power button is flipped.
Engineering Team???? Ha, that's funny. (In the voice of Elmer Fudd: "This... is ***-ul-us, Duh-duh-duh.")
(I see I accidentally stumbled upon one of Lance's seven prohibited words; oops.)
When we signed on an LPFM in the UK years ago, that's literally what we did. The studio wasn't ready, but for some dull bureaucratic reason the transmitter had to be signed on before a certain date, so it was Winamp on a dreadful old laptop plugged right into the transmitter playing tunes'n'jingles with "coming soon, this is a test" imaging. It sounded awful, but it signed the transmitter on.
1 pm Pacific time today: 810 went to Cal basketball. Legal ID is now for KSFO and KSAN-HD2. Still doing the loop-de-loop on 560.