That's because you were driving home in San Jose, and it was getting dark by 7 pm. So KIQI/1010 was probably on their night pattern by then, when San Jose is in the fringe area (~0.5 mv/m), and KNWN/1000 came in cleanly on skywave. By 7 pm, Seattle's dark at this time of year. If you were 30 miles up the peninsula (where I am), KNWN would be getting clobbered by KIQI's sideband splatter. (I've tried a number of times to tune in the former KOMO, but up here it's just a mess.)
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Interesting...Bloomberg could be leasing some hours now on KNWN. The All News format will probably be back at 5 am, but then you never know.
I could receive KOMO/KNWN fairly consistently in Oakland at night, even with KIQI being nearby.
KDOW runs a whopping 145 watts at night. The only thing that makes that signal even partially viable is the fact that it sits right on The Bay.
Dave B.
I hear it up here at night occasionally, not too well though
It was going to get upgraded to 50KW, but after Salem bought it they decided against that.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
A lot of proposed 50kw stations didn't happen because of AM's noticeable decline.
The station I program in ABQ was originally intended to be a 50kw daytimer on 1120 when applied for in 2004. However, due to three other companies having filed mutually exclusive applications -- which for some reason took over a decade to dismiss* -- the CP was not issued until 2018. Two years later, the original permittee sold it to Don Davis, who filed to move it to 1100, still a daytimer, but at 1kw. Those are the facilities he put on the air in early 2022 and then paired with the K229CL translator in order to resurrect the call letters and format we had experimented with in 2014-15.
*-For some reason, the supporting documents of the competing applications did not survive the transition at the FCC from CDBS to LMS. However, the objections are referenced in this document from Don's filing to downgrade it shortly after he acquired the CP.
Maybe you can ask Don sometime about KRZY's application to go to 50 kw days and, if I recall, 1 kw nights at 1090 kHz. This was around 1980, if memory serves. It's my understanding that opposition from the Four Hills Country Club area in southeast Albuquerque sank it. There's probably more to that story.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I'll try to remember to ask him. Honestly, he is so busy with various projects that it sometimes takes me a day or two to reach him just for our own business, and then he is usually short of time to talk about anything else.
Maybe I will shoot him an e-mail about KRZY. I have about a 75% track record of getting him to reply to those if it's not an urgent matter.
Last month, I said this link appeared to be a fake. I just clicked on it, and the site has been removed.
Their official site is still active at iHeart Sports Bay Area - The Bay Area's iHeart Sports Talk + More
960 now has a full week's schedule online: Find iHeart Sports Bay Area's Saturday Live On-Air Schedule | iHeart Sports Bay Area
The Saturday schedule has all syndicated talk shows found on many iHeart talk stations (At Home with Gary Sullivan, Clay & Buck, Our American Stories) but nothing during 6-10pm.
Sunday shows a gap at 6-6:30am (presumably some public affairs show?) The rest of the schedule is all syndicated other than 3-3:30pm infomercial.
Also, on Friday night during Fox Sports, I heard two local advertisers during a break: John Buys Bay Area Houses and Video Only, in between national spots and an iHeart podcast promo.
The Saturday schedule has all syndicated talk shows found on many iHeart talk stations (At Home with Gary Sullivan, Clay & Buck, Our American Stories) but nothing during 6-10pm.
Sunday shows a gap at 6-6:30am (presumably some public affairs show?) The rest of the schedule is all syndicated other than 3-3:30pm infomercial.
Also, on Friday night during Fox Sports, I heard two local advertisers during a break: John Buys Bay Area Houses and Video Only, in between national spots and an iHeart podcast promo.
id wager anything that was a bonus in some from.. buy X Amount on these stations and get this one FREE or buy this much on these stations and get 960 for 75 percent off rate card rates
Or a combo buy depending on the advertisers intended audience. for x amount they got XX spots on 2 FM's and the AM.. and the AM included a massive amount of spots.
(I cant imagine anyones listneing much to 960 is what im trying to get at)
John Buys Bay Area Houses would advertise on just about anything, including a station broadcasting in Old Church Slavonic, if one existed. (Give it time.)
Video Only is also a pretty common advertiser on the talkies. Any S&G Carpet ads?
I know I've said this elsewhere, but the state of SF radio right now is depressing.
FM is somewhat better, but that's not saying much.
Nowadays, the only SF station I find is worth listening to at all is KCBS, and even that's a shell of its old self. I remember when it still called itself "All News 74" and it had the feel of a slightly quirky but well run local station (I also remember a time, somewhere between 2004-2006 or 2007, when I was listening to the late morning traffic report and there was a snafu as to who the sponsor was, so the traffic guy at the time (I don't remember his name) sponsored himself. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen anymore, and it seems like it was rare even then). Audacy's cost cutting over the past 5-ish years, necessary though it may be, hasn't done it any favors.
And I, being the outlier that I am, will once again say that I remember when 960 was KABL, and it had an excellent, well produced sound. Nothing else compares in my opinion, for what little it's worth.
I wish it could've just stayed the way it was forever, but I know times change, ratings decline, and audiences move on, age out, die, etc., so I must also move on, hard as it is.
c
FM is somewhat better, but that's not saying much.
Nowadays, the only SF station I find is worth listening to at all is KCBS, and even that's a shell of its old self. I remember when it still called itself "All News 74" and it had the feel of a slightly quirky but well run local station (I also remember a time, somewhere between 2004-2006 or 2007, when I was listening to the late morning traffic report and there was a snafu as to who the sponsor was, so the traffic guy at the time (I don't remember his name) sponsored himself. I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen anymore, and it seems like it was rare even then). Audacy's cost cutting over the past 5-ish years, necessary though it may be, hasn't done it any favors.
And I, being the outlier that I am, will once again say that I remember when 960 was KABL, and it had an excellent, well produced sound. Nothing else compares in my opinion, for what little it's worth.
I wish it could've just stayed the way it was forever, but I know times change, ratings decline, and audiences move on, age out, die, etc., so I must also move on, hard as it is.
c
Driving back from a meeting in Marin County on Thursday evening, alone, I did another dial scan, AM and FM. Honestly, I heard three things that I thought were good quality, interesting radio...KCBS, KNX and Kitty O'Neal on KFBK.
Reasonable people can argue about my choices, but being honest, everything else sounded either low-rent, small-market or something pretty much anyone could do with a laptop and a transmitter.
You included LA's KNX, would you not include KFI?
Interference from KSTE 650 in the Sacramento market, most likely.
He was comparing news programming. KCBS and KNX are all news. Kitty is the afternoon anchor for KFBK afternoon news block.
KFI is a talk station that has news breaks.
KFI is a talk station that has news breaks.
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