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760 KFMB has started their 70th anniversary
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Only 9 years til the KDKA 100th, I wonder what will be done to mark the event. In 7th grade I had an English teacher who had worked at KDKA as a young woman, her stories were always interesting. A few years ago I visited the Marconi museum at Welfleet, Mass, where he had built his transmitter that he used to introduce radio to the public by communicating with the king of England. The towers were all gone, much of the cliff site had eroded away, but it still kind of thrilled me to see this place where the world had changed, where a whole giant industry had been born, thinking about what a miracle radio must have seemed back then, voices coming out of the air and all. Now of course radio is so common place, just part of the landscape people take for granted all over the whole world. Its appropriate to mark these anniversaries, to appreciate the history and the efforts of the people who made it all happen.
600kogo said:
Oldsmobile... 107 years and gone.
Age, today, generally means "old." What's good is what came out at this year's CES, not something your grandparents used.
KFMB... 70 years and really old. If all they have to their credit is age, they must be really bad.
If I were programming an AM station to listeners in their 40's and 50's, I would not mention that the station is a generation older than my target audience. In fact, while programming an LA FM that was going to be 30 years "in format" and planning a huge concert bash, I nixed "30's Anniversary" and just went with "Birthday" with no mention of age.
Oldsmobile was the first marque to have an assembly line (it wasn't Ford)... and, hey, so what?
600kogo said:
760 KFMB has nothing to celebrate. You have its subpar local talent and right wing syndicated talk shows, canned local newsbriefs, and colon blow infomercials.
The station is sounding VERY unremarkable these days under Dave Sniff's helm, in my opinion. 20 years for a guy to be a program director is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too long. It needs to be freshened up considerably.
sdwulfdawg said:
I agree wulfdawg, KFMB needs a major revamp. 70 years is a long time. You should celebrate, that is if you can find something to celebrate. There hasn't been much since Mac and Joe.
600, maybe you should walk down the hall and help Dave out.
600, maybe you should walk down the hall and help Dave out.
There was a time not that long ago when KFMB was what a local station should be. It was highly community oriented with locally originated programs, I could literally listen to it hour after hour. I am a Lefty, I think its the only realistic political position, I appreciated the balance of the afternoon host Ted Leitner very much. There actually are Lefties, there are Democrats, pro Social Security, pro Medicare Democrats out there in the listening audience and to be constantly reviled, insulted, called unpatriotic, etc, by hosts such as KFMB now employs is obviously quite alienating. Why bother listening to something that is invariably biased, stupid, and insulting? And destructive to America as well. KFMB now is the kind of station that could only be improved by taking on a streaming Iglesia from LA, that would be a big improvement. It simply makes no sense to make your station repellant and repugnant to a large segment of potential listeners, and it does hurt the ship of state on which we are all passengers. One reason AM is dying is because it has deliberately alienated about half the population with right wing BS.
The show I miss from 760 is Bill Holland he was as "A" political as they came. Plus he didnt push himself off to make money like Lucia did.
And as for KFMB having problems programming wise, name a station in this market (or any other) that couldnt be better ratings wise?? Not all stations can be Q106, B-100, KCBQ, or Boss Radio 136 KGB with double digit ratings. Midwest Television must be happy with 760 or they wouldn't have the same program director for the last 15 years??
And it is not about celebrating being old, it's about showing what the station has done in the community, and what impact it has had on this city. KOGO, 1360 KGB, KCBQ, and KFMB AM/FM have had major impacts on this city.
And as for KFMB having problems programming wise, name a station in this market (or any other) that couldnt be better ratings wise?? Not all stations can be Q106, B-100, KCBQ, or Boss Radio 136 KGB with double digit ratings. Midwest Television must be happy with 760 or they wouldn't have the same program director for the last 15 years??
And it is not about celebrating being old, it's about showing what the station has done in the community, and what impact it has had on this city. KOGO, 1360 KGB, KCBQ, and KFMB AM/FM have had major impacts on this city.
600kogo said:
I still remember how good of a station it was when I moved to San Diego.
Dave Sniff is a good brown-noser. The station could/should be doing way better. Now it is a ghost of its former great past. It is no longer "appointment radio," and hasn't been for a long time...and that's really sad.
Clearly it could be going after KOGO so hard, but instead, they are lulling away in the same boat. KOGO could be a way better station as KFMB could be a way better station if they were actually competing with one another and truly serve San Diego.
Without knowing anyone in the building, I'm hesitant to throw people under the bus.
However, there was a big difference between what KFMB was when I arrived in San Diego and when I left. Here's what I remember and used to listen to:
- Most of the shows were local, and I found them interesting enough to tune in when I was sick of the same songs over and over on FM.
- If the station had an ideological slant, I couldn't tell.
- Sports coverage was pretty decent.
Before I left, here's what I remember:
- Everything on the station became canned. The same pre-recorded newscasts from the TV people would run for hours. Automation was sloppy.
- Fewer local shows, and they all slanted to the right. I don't vote that way. I don't like listening to people tell me I'm stupid.
- Sports coverage was pretty much gone.
- The station sounded like it was programmed for old men. I was 29 when I left town.
I chalked it up to Midwest running the station on the cheap. The station sounded like it was being literally run by one or two people. The FM sounded the same way. It was cheap, boring radio.
I just turned 40, but I still don't like most talk radio outside of sports because it's a bunch of angry old men complaining about the country going to hell. It sounds like neither KFMB nor KOGO would interest me today.
However, there was a big difference between what KFMB was when I arrived in San Diego and when I left. Here's what I remember and used to listen to:
- Most of the shows were local, and I found them interesting enough to tune in when I was sick of the same songs over and over on FM.
- If the station had an ideological slant, I couldn't tell.
- Sports coverage was pretty decent.
Before I left, here's what I remember:
- Everything on the station became canned. The same pre-recorded newscasts from the TV people would run for hours. Automation was sloppy.
- Fewer local shows, and they all slanted to the right. I don't vote that way. I don't like listening to people tell me I'm stupid.
- Sports coverage was pretty much gone.
- The station sounded like it was programmed for old men. I was 29 when I left town.
I chalked it up to Midwest running the station on the cheap. The station sounded like it was being literally run by one or two people. The FM sounded the same way. It was cheap, boring radio.
I just turned 40, but I still don't like most talk radio outside of sports because it's a bunch of angry old men complaining about the country going to hell. It sounds like neither KFMB nor KOGO would interest me today.
When I moved here in 19 and 93, 760 KFMB had live and local much of the day. Mac and Joe, Stacy Taylor, Mike Cook (Hooked on Trivia), a real radio news department with Cliff Albert, Marilyn Hyder, and GOLDEN MIC awards. Syndication included: Dr. Laura, Art Bell's Coast To Coast AM. Padres baseball was the favorite for over 20-years.
Some guy name Mark Larson was at the helm as well in '92, I believe. I miss Mac and Joe; knowing Mac left before his time. His legendary laugh still breaks Joe up. Joe was viable after Mac's departure with Jack Woods.
KFMB remains a rare station that it increases from 5kw days to 50kw nights. There has been much speculated on how the state paid for the construction of the three tower array across the 52 highway near Santee/San Diego city limits.
Yes, today, the station is on autopilot with two local shows during the weekdays. When it went from a family business to a bidness, the entire station group changed drastically.
Some guy name Mark Larson was at the helm as well in '92, I believe. I miss Mac and Joe; knowing Mac left before his time. His legendary laugh still breaks Joe up. Joe was viable after Mac's departure with Jack Woods.
KFMB remains a rare station that it increases from 5kw days to 50kw nights. There has been much speculated on how the state paid for the construction of the three tower array across the 52 highway near Santee/San Diego city limits.
Yes, today, the station is on autopilot with two local shows during the weekdays. When it went from a family business to a bidness, the entire station group changed drastically.
johndavis said:
You hit the nail on the head.
Only a small time radio station would still be carrying the hate-filled diatribe of Michael Savage and all of the colon-blow, invest in gold, prostate magic pills informercials.
Sorry but there are many major market stations carrying Savage. Just because you personally dont like him doesnt mean hes not popular.
KFMB and KOGO both may be shadows of what they once were, but at least they are not KCBQ or KDEO/KECR. Those 2 are not anywhere close. With the 20+ ratings points KCBQ once had to its mind blowing 0.3. And at least KOGO and KFMB arent owned by an 89 year old nut that trys to scare people into believing its the end of the world every few years. Of course with a name like Harold Egbert Camping you know thats a radio voice EGADS!
KFMB and KOGO both may be shadows of what they once were, but at least they are not KCBQ or KDEO/KECR. Those 2 are not anywhere close. With the 20+ ratings points KCBQ once had to its mind blowing 0.3. And at least KOGO and KFMB arent owned by an 89 year old nut that trys to scare people into believing its the end of the world every few years. Of course with a name like Harold Egbert Camping you know thats a radio voice EGADS!
600kogo said:
You're right on this...
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