Well, it is really a Modesto station, because most of their advertisers are mostly from the Modesto/Turlock area. But the signal is pretty good.
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Fresno Radio --- Why it's so ??? "Fresno".
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You nailed it. Not all markets are made equal and Fresno is not the only victim of radio consolidation.
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KYRV 93.7 Sacramento is not Jack-FM anymore, It's The River, and is Classic Rock from The 70s to the OOs, and I do stream it, the only time I listen to Fresno Radio for music is when I have to, like my delivery vehicle, other than that it's streaming The Tune-in, I-heart and the Radio.com(CBS) Apps and other independent streams, or I run my own playlist, Fresno music Radio for me sucks. Case Closed
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Oh, I was listening one day, but didn't listen long enough for a station ID.
Bob retired two years ago!
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When I said Fresno music radio sucks, it's the music rotations and not the "local" Talent like Skippy, Koyote, Carter, and many many more.
Today in most markets the Classic Rock stations evolved to play 90s like The Grunge Groups, Metallica, Green Day and Etc.Etc.Etc, in other words a Gen X Classic Rock that still plays Fleetwood Mac and Boston, but not so much CCR, and plays a lot more 80s, but not have to listen to mostly currents on The Blaze and New Rock 104.1 to hear "Metallica" from 1990 for example, BTW I not Gen X, but a very late baby boomer.
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I"m done talking about music played in Fresno, unless there's a change, I going back to radio signals and DXing, btw, good tropo conditions when it was 110 on deliveries, not many spots left due to blocking, but heard 98.5 The Fox and 98.1 KKJG K-Jug San Luis Obispo very clear with no interference from Mega 97.9.
I'm not a millennial, but a very late Gen X. I don't like having to hear the currents on New Rock or the Blaze to hear 90's music, and who the heck is playing "Bare Naked Ladies" these days?
Speaking of tropo, I took a drive through Verne's "metro Fresno" 75 seconds of silence, well 75 seconds is all it took to drive through it. On the other side (west of "Verne's metro Fresno", which is southwest of "Fresno") KIOO was loud and clear just starting Freebird. Needless to say, that rocked.
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That's what I been saying, KIOO rocks , and especially during tropo conditions when driving, but does comes in at home, better Classic Rock than well the..., that 75 seconds station is an apt complex that "Verne" owns I think, I drove through there on a delivery.
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where is this Ken? Firebaugh??
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No, It's not Verne's I reponded on a beer night, I think it's Art's, I did drive through there once on deliveries on Jensen driving west at Fruit it's KIOO, at West this station, at Marks and back to KIOO, must been a tropo condition to bring KIOO that strong to keep it with-in a Half Mile, this was 2 months ago btw.
Another reason is that the older guys are dying off. The market/demographics is changing because of that reason. Our culture is changing, and I don't like it either, but we have to go with it. You don't hear hardly ANY big band music from the 40's and 50's anywhere (except Kings Radio 103.3, and the 920 The Vine in Modesto maybe) and that's about it.
It appears that Gary Cocola is moving the translator to Van Ness and Belmont with 125 watts ERP at 75 feet elevation. He bought the translator from Art Laboe for $10 K
Station Callsign: K259CF
Station Type: FM Translator, 99.7 MHz
Facility ID: 144742
Community: SOUTH FRESNO, CA
Distance: 48km (30mi) File Number: BALFT-20170125AGR
App ID: 1749632
App Type: Assignment of License
App Status: GRANTED
Assignor: BIG BROADCASTING, INC.
Assignee: GARY M. COCOLA
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101749632&qnum=5030©num=1&exhcnum=1
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...t=25&appn=101758956&formid=349&fac_num=144742
Station Callsign: K259CF
Station Type: FM Translator, 99.7 MHz
Facility ID: 144742
Community: SOUTH FRESNO, CA
Distance: 48km (30mi) File Number: BALFT-20170125AGR
App ID: 1749632
App Type: Assignment of License
App Status: GRANTED
Assignor: BIG BROADCASTING, INC.
Assignee: GARY M. COCOLA
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS...?appn=101749632&qnum=5030©num=1&exhcnum=1
https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/w...t=25&appn=101758956&formid=349&fac_num=144742
radiotwit - Thanks or posting this 
I love this stuff ! I eat this stuff up like it was ice cream on a 110* day !
Though this says Cocola will be putting KJOI on this signal., I wonder if that still holds true. (?) Or will KYAF end up there on 99.7? I hope its KJOI- if I were Gary I'd have nothing to do with Verne. Ha but what do I know? - I'm not in the biz and never have been,. except for just a small bit of non-comm play many years ago.
I love this stuff ! I eat this stuff up like it was ice cream on a 110* day !Though this says Cocola will be putting KJOI on this signal., I wonder if that still holds true. (?) Or will KYAF end up there on 99.7? I hope its KJOI- if I were Gary I'd have nothing to do with Verne. Ha but what do I know? - I'm not in the biz and never have been,. except for just a small bit of non-comm play many years ago.
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Gary Cocola used to have a seasonal station during the Holidays on Van Ness through Christmas Tree Lane on 100.7.
I just don't understand why 99.7 and not say 102.3, the Station in Corcoran is not nearly as strong as KIOO, to cause co-channel interference, and adjacent KCIV 99.9, even 98.5 would be better. 99.7 is going to still be limited to a small area.
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radiotwit - Thanks or posting this
Though this says Cocola will be putting KJOI on this signal., I wonder if that still holds true. (?) Or will KYAF end up there on 99.7? I hope its KJOI- if I were Gary I'd have nothing to do with Verne. Ha but what do I know? - I'm not in the biz and never have been,. except for just a small bit of non-comm play many years ago.
If they go with KJOI-LP, it will fill in the gap between 104.3 and 100.5 when they are at Van Ness and Belmont, at 75 Ft. 125 watts, I think the extra 65 watts will keep KIOO further away, and the fact that it will in a populated area will help as well, even today 104.3 was good as far North/East as Herndon and Ingram, I think they tweaked their transmitter or Antenna to go east more without bleed from KFRR.
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I just saw "the fine print" on the second fcc link, in section 3-A Engineering is says the parent station is KYAF 94.7 Firebaugh, is KYAF on the air?
I wish he would move the translator somewhere else................to Siberia!!!
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