michael hagerty said:
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...Antiquated Terrestrial Facility.
I resent that remark about naming it (1550 -that tinny sounding frequency) KEWB... K-E-W-B Channel 91 was one of my favorite memories growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before there was a Big 610, you had a great rivalry between KEWB and KYA -- Sort of like San Francisco 49ers and L.A. Raidersor the S.F. Giants & Dodgers.I remember listening to KFRC and all the great jocks and contests that followed in 1966. Yes, they wiped out the competition eliminating KEWB forcing it eventually out-of-the-race and the call letter change to KNEW which was a shame...
KEWB had great Djs and the legendary Robert W. Morgan & the Real Don Steele around 1964 before they headed to Southern California and the big time... Take it back!!!
KEWB had great Djs and the legendary Robert W. Morgan & the Real Don Steele around 1964 before they headed to Southern California and the big time... Take it back!!!
kenb said:
As fond as we get of call letters, both of those you mention were examples of owners copying their call letter "default" if you will, in other markets. Crowell-Collier picked KEWB to echo the success of their popular "Color Radio" station KFWB in Los Angeles, which had originally been owned by the Warner Brothers.
When Metromedia bought the station, it was natural for them to echo their WNEW in New York. I assume they didn't want to apply the "new" call letters to their new AM station in Los Angeles (KLAC), because those calls were already good - though they changed their FM station to KMET, of course.
kenb said:
KenB: Wasn't meant as a slam...KEWB was a great station. It's just that the audience that will listen to oldies on AM is in a demographic more likely to relate to the KOBY or KEWB calls than to KFRC, which really had its peak in the mid-late 70s. There's really no point to having those calls.
Best of all would be to come up with a new set of call letters.
michael hagerty said:
I suggest KNBL, which would stand for NoBody's Listening.
weav said:
On Christmas there were substitute hosts, one of them going by the name "Beaver Cleaver", which of course was a name Ken Levine used during his days as a DJ. Unfortunately I no longer remember what he sounds like so I can't verify that it was in fact Ken. But it was quite a shocker to hear someone other than Scott Shannon.
kenb said:
That kind of radio ain't coming back. Period. But you can play hundreds (thousands?) of hours of top 40 airchecks including those of KYA, KFRC, KFWB (not sure of KEWB), etc. at Reel Radio: http://www.reelradio.com/
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JEREMIAH
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I remember the great Don Mckinnon on KEWB rediting the jingle to become
KEWBB.
Very funny guy and a wonderful person. He was a big influence on me.
Jerry Gordon KNUU Las Vegas
KEWBB.
Very funny guy and a wonderful person. He was a big influence on me.
Jerry Gordon KNUU Las Vegas
A bit of serendipity - I couldn't help when I saw your sig noting KNUU - The jingle that became 'KEWBB' reminded me of an April Fools parody done on KKDJ in the early 80's here in the Central Valley. The big "beautiful music" station here at the time was a duopoly/simulcast consisting of KKNU and KNNU. Yes, count 'em, two "K/NEW"s. The spoof featured a few shortened Montovani-esqe selections and a very sleepy sounding announcer doing liners for "newnew"... I guess, because there were two of them and way too many Ks, Ns and Us..... "You're listening to newnew..."JEREMIAH said:
The entire day consisted of parodies of all the major stations in the area. An hour or so devoted to each of them with hilarious spoofs of each respective format and personalities. But, the one I remember was the one for newnew.
DavidKaye said:
Ken spent Christmas week in Maui. Of course, he could have voicetracked...but then, so could Shannon, so why bother with substitutes? And Ken hasn't mentioned it in his blog.
The KCBS-FM Calls should be on 106.9 in SF & Jack FM should get New Calls
and bring KFRC-FM to simulcast with 1550
and bring KFRC-FM to simulcast with 1550
99.7 Now! Right where KFRC-FM belongs no matter the format. Use them right up front, use them 100 times an hour or more every hour 24/7. The way it should be, the way it should have been! The way it should be all the time standing tall standing proud! Go KFRC-FM Now! Go! Ya think? Duh!
RadioStarOne said:
Yeah, well...I don't disagree, I guess. The famous Big 610 all us fogeys wax nostalgic about was a Top 40 station - so I guess it makes sense that the current Top 40 counterpart would carry the KFRC call letters. Not to mention the fact that the calls would return to 99.7, where they spent about 12-14 years.
But if we think that anybody but a few radio nerds would care that "Now" would legally ID as "KFRC-FM, San Francisco..." at the top of the hour, we're kidding ourselves.
But it certainly makes as much sense as KMVQ at this point.
I said: 99.7 Now! Right where KFRC-FM belongs no matter the format.
Use them right up front, use them 100 times an hour or more every hour 24/7.
The way it should be, the way it should have been! The way it should be all the time standing tall standing proud!
Not just at the top of the hour! All the time!
Use them right up front, use them 100 times an hour or more every hour 24/7.
The way it should be, the way it should have been! The way it should be all the time standing tall standing proud!
Not just at the top of the hour! All the time!
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