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Gene Burns let go in S.F., so...
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And weren't 680 and 93.7* sister stations long ago? Re-united
(WLAW, WLAW-FM...WRKO, WEEI-FM)
*--Ironic: "WEEI" used to be the call letters for CBS-owned properties in town. These days
sports station WEEI has competition from an FM entity owned by...CBS!
(WLAW, WLAW-FM...WRKO, WEEI-FM)
*--Ironic: "WEEI" used to be the call letters for CBS-owned properties in town. These days
sports station WEEI has competition from an FM entity owned by...CBS!
recto101 said:
The KNBR calls didn't arrive at the San Francisco 680 until many years after NBC divested itself of KGO. Back when 680 and 810 were co-owned (prior to ~1943), the 680 calls were KPO. Until this minute, I had never given any thought to the fact that San Francisco had both KPO and KGO. KPO was a Class IA until WPTF appeared on the scene (followed soon afterward by WLAW, but I'm pretty sure that both WPTF and WLAW began life on 680 as daytimers). On 810, I believe the IA station was WGY. I suspect that KGO was on 810 (actually, 810's pre-NARBA embodiment, which was 790, IIRC) before NARBA.
update: Burns to KKSF 910 on 1/3
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/12/19/gene-burns-finds-a-new-home-right-up-the-dial/
>>Executive producer Joel Riddell says that they’ve inked a deal to move a notch up the dial, to 910 AM. It’s currently Fox News Radio, but the station is owned by Clear Channel and will receive a big overhaul in the new year. The changes will reportedly involve format, name and scheduling. More news to follow.
http://insidescoopsf.sfgate.com/blog/2011/12/19/gene-burns-finds-a-new-home-right-up-the-dial/
>>Executive producer Joel Riddell says that they’ve inked a deal to move a notch up the dial, to 910 AM. It’s currently Fox News Radio, but the station is owned by Clear Channel and will receive a big overhaul in the new year. The changes will reportedly involve format, name and scheduling. More news to follow.
raccoonradio said:
Shouldn't that be TWO notches up the dial? Or is KTRB 860 off the air again or operating daytime only yet again? KTRB has a killer daytime signal--50-kW ND diplexed from one of the towers of KFAX 1100. KTRB is licensed for 50 kW-N also but with a highly directional signal from a remote location in an area of poor soil conductivity. For complex reasons, it was not practical to bring AC power to the night site, so KTRB was generating power for its night operation by trucking propane to the night site to fire a gas-powered generator. Zoning limited the amount of propane that could be stored on-site, so deliveries had to be made daily. When KTRB's owner ran into financial troubles, the trucking firm cut off the propane deliveries. Since then, the word was that KTRB was on and off, operating at reduced power on an irregular schedule at night. I have heard nothing for several months about continued efforts to sell the station. So much for adding a major new mid-dial powerhouse AM signal in Market #4.
Burns has been at KGO 810 and will move to what will become KKSF (AM) 910, which currently (acc. to
radio-locator) has the calls KNEW. Clear Channel is moving the KNEW calls to 960, currently KKGN,
and the AM 910 will become KKSF (currently there is a KKSF running oldies on 103.7, and they're
adding the KKSF calls to the 910 now as well).
KTRB 860, meanwhile, switched to ESPN Deportes earlier in the year:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...of-ktrb-san-francisco-to-espn-deportes-radio-
The AM 910 that will run Burns (late afternoon I think) is directional, day and night patterns with 20kW days
and 5kw nights acc to radio-locator with the antenna NW of Berkeley
(I believe KRTB may have been the Oakland A's flagship but last year Entercom flipped 95.7 "The Wolf"
from country to sports.)
radio-locator) has the calls KNEW. Clear Channel is moving the KNEW calls to 960, currently KKGN,
and the AM 910 will become KKSF (currently there is a KKSF running oldies on 103.7, and they're
adding the KKSF calls to the 910 now as well).
KTRB 860, meanwhile, switched to ESPN Deportes earlier in the year:
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...of-ktrb-san-francisco-to-espn-deportes-radio-
The AM 910 that will run Burns (late afternoon I think) is directional, day and night patterns with 20kW days
and 5kw nights acc to radio-locator with the antenna NW of Berkeley
(I believe KRTB may have been the Oakland A's flagship but last year Entercom flipped 95.7 "The Wolf"
from country to sports.)
You should add WAAF to Entercom's local "reunited" mix, as WAAF is the former WAAB-FM; WAAB was originally WNAC's former sister station when both were owned by John Shepard III.
And while we're on the subject of KGO, KGO was originally owned by General Electric and was the West Coast counterpart of WGY. They were (and are) on the same frequency. GE leased the station to NBC back around 1930 and subsequently sold it. Interesting that when GE bought back NBC, it didn't want the radio stations and sold them all along with the radio network (a huge mistake which the company later came to regret, but that's another story).
And while we're on the subject of KGO, KGO was originally owned by General Electric and was the West Coast counterpart of WGY. They were (and are) on the same frequency. GE leased the station to NBC back around 1930 and subsequently sold it. Interesting that when GE bought back NBC, it didn't want the radio stations and sold them all along with the radio network (a huge mistake which the company later came to regret, but that's another story).
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