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1069_KIFR said:
Contemporary Polka. Program Director - David Kaye.
Steve Harvey dumped for another syndicated morning show - Dick Sinclair's Polka Party.
On 102.9? Sports.
On 95.7? The new home of KBLX...
On 95.7? The new home of KBLX...
Mac Daddy said:
I don't think so - not yet anyway. Their website calls it "The New R&B 102.9 KBLX" so perhaps they've been tinkering with the music, but it hardly qualifies as a format flip, and I don't think they'd make these changes if he real "flip" was planned.
This news really saddens me. I was born in the Bay Area and lived in Hayward for most of my early childhood and loved KBLX and KOIT.
Last time I had a peak it was still The Quiet Storm, which is how I'll always remember it until my deathbed (which is hopefully many decades from now!).
There's not too big of a difference tuning in today looking at the song list. But what is this thread getting at? A double flip from Quiet Storm to R&B to something else? If that's the case how many more R&B type of stations are still in the Oakland/SF market?
I hope they keep their format and salvage what's left of the station I grew up with, it beats every station I've listened to in the 11 years since I last was in that region.
Last time I had a peak it was still The Quiet Storm, which is how I'll always remember it until my deathbed (which is hopefully many decades from now!).
There's not too big of a difference tuning in today looking at the song list. But what is this thread getting at? A double flip from Quiet Storm to R&B to something else? If that's the case how many more R&B type of stations are still in the Oakland/SF market?
I hope they keep their format and salvage what's left of the station I grew up with, it beats every station I've listened to in the 11 years since I last was in that region.
They call it New R&B 102.9 out of a combination of arrogance and hubris. 'It was awful before but we are so smart that we fixed it." Nothing was good before Entercom. Entercom knows everything and is the only company that really knows what they are doing. Just look at The Wolf, The Game, KFOX and the way they have dismantled KOIT until it sounds like STAR. And how the chipped away at one of America's top Classical station, KDFC until they could kick it to the curb.
They just don't understand that San Franciso is different. Whatever format they switch to after they finish (intentionally?) destroying KBLX with do as well as their other disasters.
As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
They just don't understand that San Franciso is different. Whatever format they switch to after they finish (intentionally?) destroying KBLX with do as well as their other disasters.
As Forrest Gump said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
Lkeller said:
Don't laugh. My ex made a career for 10 years as part of a traveling comedy gay singer/songwriter duo, Romanovsky & Phillips. This was a duo that would easily sell out 1,000 seat venues consistently for over a decade. He dumped that to play polka music. Well, he still sells the R&P back catalog, but he traded in his guitar for an accordion and never looked back.
Truth be told, while I like polkas and obereks, my heart is still with avant-garde jazz and bebop/Western swing fusion.
Excluding Don Bleu because he recently changed stations, who is the longest running Morning DJ at one station? Jack Kulp at KOIT?
geek-orama said:
Are you counting only current jocks? If not, the record is probably held by Dave Morey who served 26 years on air at KFOG. And he retired in 2008, so he left on his own terms - unusual in radio.
I can't recall when Don Bleu came to KYUU, but between that station, K-101/Star and 103.7, Bleu probably has well over 30 years of almost continuous employment on the air, but that's not on one station, of course.
geek-orama said:
I was asking about current DJs at their current stations.
I am a fan of Dave Morey as well as Don Bleu and Kevin Brown though.
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