When I'm on the Coastside or in the western part of SF I always make it a habit to listen to 89.3 KARC, the tiny non-comm in Pacifica that runs 43 watts but covers a bunch of territory.
They run what I (and others) call "**** rock", basically hard-driving male rock bands of the 70s and 80s and sometimes 90s. It's actually a really good mix to listen to.
Well, Sunday I noticed that there was a DJ on there at 4:07pm who mentioned that the station was "live and local" and he gave the time as 4:07. Didn't hear much of him after that time, so I didn't have enough to go on to figure out whether the DJ was indeed live or tracked.
They used to operate with 57 minutes of music and bumpers and 3 minutes of underwriting messages toward the end of the hour. Now they seem to run about 10 or 15 minutes of music and then put in an underwriter annoucement. ("Brought to you by Coastside Hardware", etc.)
They do have a phone number posted on their website, so maybe one of these days I'll phone them and see if I can get any more info about them. Oh, and according to the website they are looking for someone to do sales.
Their marketing statistics page will show their bizarre coverage map as well: http://qfmrocks.com/market_stats.php
Actually, I heard them reliably along Portola in Twin Peaks, then when I started driving down the hill to Glen Park, KARC slipped out and immediately KOHL in Fremont slipped in. No picket fencing, just one popped out and the other popped in.
They run what I (and others) call "**** rock", basically hard-driving male rock bands of the 70s and 80s and sometimes 90s. It's actually a really good mix to listen to.
Well, Sunday I noticed that there was a DJ on there at 4:07pm who mentioned that the station was "live and local" and he gave the time as 4:07. Didn't hear much of him after that time, so I didn't have enough to go on to figure out whether the DJ was indeed live or tracked.
They used to operate with 57 minutes of music and bumpers and 3 minutes of underwriting messages toward the end of the hour. Now they seem to run about 10 or 15 minutes of music and then put in an underwriter annoucement. ("Brought to you by Coastside Hardware", etc.)
They do have a phone number posted on their website, so maybe one of these days I'll phone them and see if I can get any more info about them. Oh, and according to the website they are looking for someone to do sales.
Their marketing statistics page will show their bizarre coverage map as well: http://qfmrocks.com/market_stats.php
Actually, I heard them reliably along Portola in Twin Peaks, then when I started driving down the hill to Glen Park, KARC slipped out and immediately KOHL in Fremont slipped in. No picket fencing, just one popped out and the other popped in.
