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KFOX To HD

davideduardo said:
Simple. Don't listen. Alternative rock "makes me barf" so I just ignore stations that play that music. There are still an infinite number of stations that play everything else.
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You crack me up sometimes. In our area, we only have 10 stations and over half of them belonging to EMF garbage doesn't give much choice here. And I don't list on phones, etc due I don't have a phone (My choice).

But for the last couple years I simply listen to tunes off my music server.
 
K108 Sacramento said:
Why would Cumulus or Audacy want to put country on any of their signals?
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Cumulus really doesn't have a signal (other than AM) that's available. KSAN will benefit from the loss of KUFX.

Audacy doesn't have a national strategy. The only other company that might want country here is iHeart.

Any company that does country in San Francisco knows it won't get a big share or big local sales.
 
Negin said:
You crack me up sometimes. In our area, we only have 10 stations and over half of them belonging to EMF garbage doesn't give much choice here. And I don't list on phones, etc due I don't have a phone (My choice).

But for the last couple years I simply listen to tunes off my music server.
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I only have, at most, three music stations I like where I live. It’s a small market with not many more stations than you have. What it comes down to is most of the stations don’t target me. Nobody is entitled to have local stations targeting them.

I usually stream out of market stations, and you've found a way to enjoy what you like without local radio, too.
 
Kent said:
I only have, at most, three music stations I like where I live. It’s a small market with not many more stations than you have. What it comes down to is most of the stations don’t target me. Nobody is entitled to have local stations targeting them.

I usually stream out of market stations, and you've found a way to enjoy what you like without local radio, too.
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When KFOG bit the dust in 2019, I sought out AAA stations with streams. There were plenty: WXRT from Chicago, which I knew about from having lived in Chicago, but also WTTS from Indiana, KBAC from Santa Fe, "Eclectic24" from KCRW, and others. I also started buying more MP3s, and CDs occasionally, of AAA-genre artists. I needed those media for at-work listening and for listening during my BART commute where there was no Wi-Fi.

Thirty or so years earlier, I became enamored of Manchester-style indie rock and some of the trance music that was adjacent to it. I was living in Kansas City then, a place on the cutting edge of nothing, and the best source of that genre for the few years was a non-commercial Pacifica-style station. The result in the era before streaming: boxes and boxes full of early 90s alternative and early and mid 90s trance. That's a combination for which it's unlikely there will ever be a radio format. But, calling all radio stations, if you want someone to do that, here I am! Anyway...KSJO-HD4 has come closest; I haven't tried to see in the last few weeks whether it's still around. Earlier this year, it was. But the point remains: if you have tastes outside the narrowly-defined mainstream of radio formats, your best bet is to buy (or rent, in the case of Spotify and its ilk) audio files and/or CDs of what you like.
 
Mark Roberts said:
Thirty or so years earlier, I became enamored of Manchester-style indie rock and some of the trance music that was adjacent to it. I was living in Kansas City then, a place on the cutting edge of nothing, and the best source of that genre for the few years was a non-commercial Pacifica-style station.
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Which station was that? KKFI?
 
Mark Roberts said:
"Max" was rushed to air on 95.7 because the rumor was afloat that CBS was going to put a "Jack" format on 106.9, which it had just traded with Family Radio. Reportedly, a disk drive was rushed from Phoenix to San Francisco with all the songs of the new format on 95.7.
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That is correct. Similar moves happened in many markets with Variety Hits around that time. "95.7 Ben-FM" in Philadelphia and "93.7 Mike-FM" in Boston were both done the day before a supposed CBS Jack-FM launch was supposed to happen as well.
 
By the way, I noticed KKFX is inserting promos that the switch is happening at 12 Noon today (Wed 7/22).

I presume they'll be simulcast the country music on 94.5 and 98.5 for awhile before 94.5 gets "Borg'ed" by K-Love.
 
Moxxie is Awesome said:
Is there a chance KFOX will ever return to regular radio?
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TheBigA said:
All you have to do is get an HD radio.
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This touches on something that a lot of us have been pointing out for years now.

The average listener doesn't see HD as "regular" radio despite all the promotion. Telling them to get a new receiver is met with the mindset "but my current radio works just fine" and telling them their favorite station is now on HD gets about the same reaction as telling them the programming has a subscription fee (even though we know that isn't the case).
 


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