KFRC Big 610 Celebration (June 14)

[michael hagerty]

I simply think as of today KFRC are just great sounding call letters. If some new format were to come along, not necessarily OLDIES, but the call letters of KFRC would do a station good. Oh sure I miss the Big 610, BUt to brand a station as KFRC and call it nothing but (Frequency) KFRC would be terrific.

Good point. How about this - we make all the call letter nerds happy, and transfer K-C-B-S to 1070 AM in LA. Then we go with "All News 740 and 106.9, KFRC." ;D

Thank God for the grinning face at the end so I know you're kidding Llew! I can just see the uproar if anybody touched the KNX calls in L.A.: "First they change Sav-On to CVS...and now they do this? Heartless bastards!"

 

[michael hagerty]

And the other thing...for the time being, anyway, call letters are largely irrelevant for music stations, unless you've got a set that you can use as a name without stretching..."KOIT" for example. "KYLD" is fine for "Wild", "KMEL" works for "Camel", but "KFRC"....well, you could go Iranian and call it "K-Farsi", I suppose... ;D

Besides, CBS has moved on and done well...the May PPMs show 99.7 #5. It's called "Now 99.7", so I suppose you could change the calls from KMVQ back to KFRC without hurting anything...but it wouldn't help anything, either.

 

[LKellerIII]

And the other thing...for the time being, anyway, call letters are largely irrelevant for music stations, unless you've got a set that you can use as a name without stretching..."KOIT" for example. "KYLD" is fine for "Wild", "KMEL" works for "Camel", but "KFRC"....well, you could go Iranian and call it "K-Farsi", I suppose... ;D

Besides, CBS has moved on and done well...the May PPMs show 99.7 #5. It's called "Now 99.7", so I suppose you could change the calls from KMVQ back to KFRC without hurting anything...but it wouldn't help anything, either.

Your statement is true for the most part, Michael, but since we nit-pick each other from time to time (in a friendly way, of course), I feel obligated to point out that 106.1 has not been "Camel" for almost 27 years. Since August 1984, it has been call-letter friendly K-M-E-L.

 

[michael hagerty]

And the other thing...for the time being, anyway, call letters are largely irrelevant for music stations, unless you've got a set that you can use as a name without stretching..."KOIT" for example. "KYLD" is fine for "Wild", "KMEL" works for "Camel", but "KFRC"....well, you could go Iranian and call it "K-Farsi", I suppose... ;D

Your statement is true for the most part, Michael, but since we nit-pick each other from time to time (in a friendly way, of course), I feel obligated to point out that 106.1 has not been "Camel" for almost 27 years. Since August 1984, it has been call-letter friendly K-M-E-L.

I really have to get to San Francisco more often.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

By the way, the Big 610 Celebration was fantastic. Huge, enthusiastic crowd -- one person described it as more of a family reunion than anything else. KFRC alums included Dave Sholin, Tom Parker, John Mack Flanagan, Bob McCormick, Sue Hall, Bob Safford, John Catchings, Mike Colgan, Vicki Liviakis, Ken Bastida, John Evans, Phil Lerza, George Zema, Paul Black, Kent Hedberg and Steve Rood (to name just a few), plus Celeste Perry, Don Bleu, Ed Baxter, Chris Edwards, Jay Rose (Dr. Don's son, who, when presented with DDR's Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame plaque, made one of the greatest speeches I've ever heard), Steve Garland, Clark Reid ... and Ben Fong-Torres did a fantastic job hosting a lively discussion on this amazing station and the incredible people who worked there.

I'm probably leaving off three dozen others whose names will come back to me the moment I post this. Lots of just plain friends and fans of KFRC, too.

Anyway, it was a tremendous event.

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