Curious, do people think the change back to the pre-Dennis Constantine playlist is going to revive the ratings at KFOG? I actually liked the changes Dennis made to freshen up the sound and make it lean to current Artists. Now, that KFOG has reverted back to playing primarily playing older material, in my view the station is no longer listenable, and is hard to distinguish from KFOX. In the crowded market of playing older rock music, I can't see how this would be a ratings boon for the station. Feels like it will be the same or worse than under Dennis C.....which would question the need to change the sound.
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- Thread starter KCPR_Sound of SLO
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KCPR_Sound of SLO said:
Maybe my definition of "older" is different from yours, but they are playing mostly late '80-to-early '00s "classics" (DMB, Sting, etc) and most are on the mellower side. One or two '70s cuts an hour, if that. I agree they are rather boring, but they sound nothing like KFOX or The Bone. How many times a week can you hear "You Get What You Give"? (which is from '98 iirc) At the height of the Dennis C era, they were sharing so many songs with Live 105 that it had gotten kinda silly IMHO.
The good news is that 10@10 has vastly improved. Constantine really screwed that show up with his insistence on overplayed over-researched "hits" and very few of the deep tracks and "oh wow!" songs that Morey and Annalisa used to play when they did 10@10. I'd been blaming it all on Renee but clearly she was playing what Dennis told her to. In the last few weeks the show has been much better and they're doing far more '60s and early '70s years and very few '90s sets -- the latter have always been problematical because they rely heavily on songs that KFOG has in rotation anyway. If that's the trade-off: Better 10@10s but a more boring station overall... I'll take it.
I'll have to check out 10 at 10 again....agree it had gotten awful, basically playing a lot of stuff already in their rotation. Re. the KFOX reference...more about playing old music vs. contemporary stuff. Realize KFOX has a harder sound. Re. Live 105, funny recently my kids were commenting how only KFOG was playing current stuff. I guess 'Indie rock' as the contemporary stuff is now called just doesn't have an audience (outside of the small liberal East coast colleges). I was hoping it would work commercially here, but apparently not....sigh.
KCPR_Sound of SLO said:
if you didn't hear today's stellar set (it was 1969) check out the PM replay. It was as if Dave Morey never left.
I don't think it sounds like KFOX or the Bone, but it does sound a lot more boring. I liked DC's emphasis on fresh, new experimental cutting-edge music, and what I really loved was that his strategy of trying to "out-alternative Live 105" not only made KFOG more listenable but actually kicked Live 105's @$$ into gear and started making them sound like a real alternative station again. But now that KFOG is no longer doing that...Live 105 has started to revert back too. :-\
I agree with Mike that DC screwed up 10@10. That was the major thing I didn't like about him (that, and putting Renee in charge of everything.) But I'm the opposite of Mike; I'll take 2 hours/day of screwed up 10@10's if it means the other 22 hours of KFOG is vastly more listenable.
Ratings-wise, I'm not really sure DC made much of a difference. During his first few months (which is when it sounded the best, IMO) ratings went up to low 3's...then started bouncing around between low and high 2's. The year or two before DC, it was also mostly low to mid 2's. I don't have data for specific day parts, though.
I agree with Mike that DC screwed up 10@10. That was the major thing I didn't like about him (that, and putting Renee in charge of everything.) But I'm the opposite of Mike; I'll take 2 hours/day of screwed up 10@10's if it means the other 22 hours of KFOG is vastly more listenable.
Ratings-wise, I'm not really sure DC made much of a difference. During his first few months (which is when it sounded the best, IMO) ratings went up to low 3's...then started bouncing around between low and high 2's. The year or two before DC, it was also mostly low to mid 2's. I don't have data for specific day parts, though.
They made it official this morning: Tim Jeffries is leaving at the end of the week "to pursue an opportunity within the building". Mr Pugh is sitting in for the vacationing Greg Gory this week and will take over for Tim next Monday.
Also "someone from KFOG's past" is returning. No, it's not Dave Morey.
Also "someone from KFOG's past" is returning. No, it's not Dave Morey.
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Radical348 said:
Indeed. Tim and Bill will be chatting with him in the 8:00 hour today. Meanwhile, Mr Pugh sounds quite underwhelming. This ridiculous Cumulus rule that PDs must do an air-shift is just plain nuts. If they had the money to buy out Webster's Entercom contract they shoulda sprung for Annalisa too while they were at it.
KFOG spent a half-hour this morning interviewing Harry Connick Jr (he's at Davies tonite) and playing tracks from his new LP. I happen to like Connick and it was a very entertaining interview -- for me. But why he was on KFOG ("the only radio interview he's doing while he's in town" we were told) was kinda baffling. I've no doubt the two songs they played had your typical Foghead scrambling to change the station.
Oh, and it was clear that Greg Gory found Connick hella sexy and it was amusing to hear him trying not to drool. (It appears the new regime has asked him to not talk about being gay too much, if at all; can anyone tell me if he's "out" when he's on KGO?)
Oh, and it was clear that Greg Gory found Connick hella sexy and it was amusing to hear him trying not to drool. (It appears the new regime has asked him to not talk about being gay too much, if at all; can anyone tell me if he's "out" when he's on KGO?)
I can't answer your question about him on KGO as I've never listened to him on there, but after all these years of listening to Greg Gory - starting on Live 105 when he did the traffic/weather for the Howard Stern show, I had no idea he was gay (and I'm gay myself). Did it ever come up when he was on the Woody show, or when KFOG had that short lived shock-jock (what was his name?)?Mike said:
If they really have told him to keep it on the DL, that would be disappointing, but not surprising.
1069_KIFR said:
Ugh. I wish the moderator was a little more active.
notinradio said:
I was surprised when he mentioned it a few times last year -- I think it first came up when he was interviewing Teegan & Sarah. There are (or were) pictures of him with his partner on his Facebook page, I was told. As to KGO: You'd think the "I'm gay but I'm conservative" thing would be a good hook for him doing talk radio in this market.
KFOG is apparently jockless for Labor Day Weekend. Meaning not even their regular jocks in voice-tracked form, just music. And promos voiced by Bill Pugh saying things like "we're taking the weekend off -- see you Tuesday!" and "We've put the master computer in charge so we could take some time off". Seems odd to me; I usually associate jocklessness with a format change. The music hasn't changed and I've heard a couple of interesting old nuggets this morning like the Stones' "Salt of the Earth".
I just did a random check of Live 105's songs played during the last hour (5:30am to 6:30am PDT 9/3/13), and 9 out of 15 songs were either current or recent recurrent indie rockers. The other 6 songs were generally pre-2000 alt hits. They seem to be doing a good job of featuring current music, although their 12+ ratings are obviously not too good.
Bumping this up because Mr Pugh has not been on the KFOG Morning show this week and no mention has been made of him being sick or on vacay as has happened in the past. Odd. And 10@10 has been runnung repeats the last few days even tho' Renee (we were told) is in the building. Hrm.
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