Country in San Francisco?

[travisl5678]

As far as differences between LA and SF, the differences I notice surround spoken word formats. In SF, news stations like KCBS and KQED are very successful. Sports talk is also a winner, unless your a station other than heritage KNBR. Talk stations like KKSF and KSFO are a little lower down the ratings chain.

In LA, talk is very successful. Well...KFI is successful anyway. News station KNX is a little further down, and non comm KPCC struggles compared to KQED. Sports Talk also has a tough time. However, LA still has both a Spanish Talker and a Progressive Talker.

News, especially in depth coverage, dominates San Francisco

Talk, of the more interesting, local, and entertaining variety dominates Los Angeles

Now back to our regularly scheduled topic, already in progress

 

[brettbutlerisok]

No mention of hamburgers and make "e i e i o" a part of the imaging.

 

[michael hagerty]

No mention of hamburgers and make "e i e i o" a part of the imaging.

Then you're playing off old MacDonald, not McDonald's, and you're out of the woods to begin with based on spelling alone.

 

[DavidKaye]

No mention of hamburgers and make "e i e i o" a part of the imaging.

Then you're playing off old MacDonald, not McDonald's, and you're out of the woods to begin with based on spelling alone.

Although, in an interesting trademark Apple originally licensed the name "Macintosh" from the audio company, "McIntosh". McIntosh had no legal standing to license a spelling that didn't belong to them, except possibly confusion, but I think the reasoning was that "McIntosh" had existed for several decades and had not been challenged, so the word was fairly bulletproof.

 

[geek-orama]

Don Johnson will most likely pull a Spike Lee. He'll want Nash to change its name, as people
will think it refers to Nash Bridges.

If he wins, then Steve Nash will file a lawsuit, too

I would guess the air staff would be called The NASH Ramblers. Station vehicles too.
(Old guy comment)

 

[HenryOchs]

Trying to get back to the original topic..what could Cumulus do differently with Country in San Francisco that hasn't already been tried? The Bear lasted less than 2 years. The Wolf had a relatively long run of 4 years. Maybe because the original PD was a successful country programmer and they did lots of marketing. But it still wasn't good enough. Will Country ever work in market #4 again?

I doubt it. My guess is that another radio station will flip to a CHR/Rhythmic format before we get another country music station here.

 

[Marv-L.A.]

95.7 The Wolf was decimated by changes made to the station after Scott Mahalick left for KUPL/Portland in August of 2009.

As he told Lon Helton in the April 18th 2011 edition of Country Aircheck, 'The station was on a roll; we were at a 3.8 in 25-54, 8th in AM drive, and had the #1 Anglo morning show in SF. Cume was pushing 600,000'. He also went on to say 'The station was absolutely on fire and was growing month after month'.

Replacing a popular morning show with a syndicated show 'Fitz In The Morning' from KKWF/Seattle very abruptly killed the momentum.

Longtime consultant Jaye Albright was quoted later in the article in saying they they needed a signal to cover all nine of the counties in the SF metro, and that there were only 2 or 3 stations capable of doing so; she also pointed out that KATM/Modesto and Froggy in Santa Rosa (KFGY) are 'doing really well'.