Madmansam said:
You are correct, sir.
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Bay Area Radio Predictions for 2011
- Thread starter HenryOchs
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You are correct, sir.
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musicman3355
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Isn't "The City" taken by NYC?
What about "The Bay"? Is that appropriate?
What about "The Bay"? Is that appropriate?
sfradio said:
Well, she grew up in San Francisco city property, but *kanye shrug*...
kilamanjero said:
I have absolutely no idea what a *kanye shrug* is, but if it's anything like a *jackson middle finger* then right back at ya.
Couldn't find my turban, so I'll have to make this prediction wearing a Shriner's fez. Cue the spooky music...
Sirius/XM, with all its local repeaters (about a dozen in the Bay Area at various points, plus giant metal boxes orbiting above us) decides to add a Local Tier, and strikes deals with Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel, CBS and several other groups owners that don't start with a C to include KGO, KSFO, KCBS, KNBR and a dozen or so (hey, I'm making it up as I go) music stations currently on FM here.
Rather than "needing an FM," KGO, KNBR and the other AMs begin promoting this swell new option for picking up their signals.
If the prediction doesn't come true, I'll try wearing Bwana Johnny's pith helmet -- a really thwell pith helmet, at that -- next time.
Sirius/XM, with all its local repeaters (about a dozen in the Bay Area at various points, plus giant metal boxes orbiting above us) decides to add a Local Tier, and strikes deals with Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel, CBS and several other groups owners that don't start with a C to include KGO, KSFO, KCBS, KNBR and a dozen or so (hey, I'm making it up as I go) music stations currently on FM here.
Rather than "needing an FM," KGO, KNBR and the other AMs begin promoting this swell new option for picking up their signals.
If the prediction doesn't come true, I'll try wearing Bwana Johnny's pith helmet -- a really thwell pith helmet, at that -- next time.
BossRadioDJ said:
It's means, "whatever".
kilamanjero said:
Exactly.
BossRadioDJ said:
You could be right, DJ, so I'm not dissing your prediction...but (isn't there always a 'but'? In this case I'm the but(t)...I can see that this move could bring the AMs some new customers - those being the listeners who already pay for XM/Sirius.
But for listeners like me who have so far resisted the charms of satellite radio? In other words...making a decision to pay a monthly fee so I can hear commercial AM stations in hi-fi stereo? I'm not feeling it.
I've rented cars with XM/Sirius a few times on vacation, and I liked it, but these days, frankly - I'd just as soon listen to music on my i-pod (after all, who can program my music station better than me?), or listen to news and info from NPR. I recently bought a car that's XM/Sirius capable, but it also has an "Aux" input that's harder to resist...and free, at that.
What might work better would be for the AMs to convince Comcast, DirecTV, Dish, etc - to offer their stations on their Music Choice (or whatever brand) tier. Music Choice on Comcast already offers all the commercial Bay Area FM music stations, along with their own non-commercial channels. That move would allow KGO (for instance) to tap into a much bigger potential audience that already pays for cable or (TV) satellite...though it wouldn't help in cars, obviously.
Do you know something we don't? If so please speak up
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musicfan101
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That makes NO sense! Why would Live 105 flip, when their only competition is going to flip at any minute??weav said:
What station are you talking about?
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kenrayc
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Live 105 will be the only station that has current Alternative Rock(Harder that Alice) and will not flip, maybe they should add some Active rock to the format, and the only competition would be KSJO 92.3 and with the sale to Principle it will most likely flip to some Ethnic Format.
Oh, I thought SJ and SF were different markets. KSJO is weak in SF and Oakland, and going up 680 you lose it after Fremont. Here in Concord Live isn't too much better, since their booster is over in Antioch
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kenrayc
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travisl5678 said:
Sort of, kind of, but not really.
I can say the the same for the Fresno Market and the Visalia/ Tulare/ Hanford Market.
musicfan101 said:
I believe the rationale is that alt-rock is no longer a force. Even if Entercom hadn't traded 105 to CBS so the latter could put Stern on in SF, the format still may have had no oomph left in it. Not saying I agree with this, but I'm reasonably sure that's what the suits are thinking.
weav said:
Entercom traded Live 105 to CBS (in exchange for KPIX-FM) specifically so that CBS could put Howard on in San Francisco?
BossRadioDJ said:
Pardon my sloppy phrasing. That was CBS's motivation for the deal (remember Sterno was running on south-bay alt-rocker KOME 98.5 at the time). Entercom's was (IIRC) a station in Seattle or Portland. Bonneville traded something too, it was a triangular exchange. Entercom bought (or traded) 95.7 from Bonneville much more recently.
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