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Now I know the users of Radio-Info.com Discussion Boards love some KFRC. So I'm giving you a chance to come up with some ideas for the KFRC website.. Please leave comment below if you have anything. (I'm not here to talk about the radio station just the site.) Also I have made a facebook page.


facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/KFRC-Classic-Hits-KFRCcom#!/pages/KFRC-Classic-Hits-KFRCcom/130965850257349



Thank You..
 
Well, for starters, updating it on a regular basis would be nice. ::)

the "weekends on KFRC" page, for example, hasn't changed since September.

When the station (for one example) moved Casey Kasem from Sunday at 8 to Saturday at 10 because of Raiders football, no mention was made on the site; I posted a question there about it that no one ever answered. (I eventually stumbled upon AT40 on Sat morning by accident)

To my eyes, it's just another clueless corporate CBS station site full of celebrity gossip and the like.
 
I didnt even know KFRC was still on the air....

Well this goes for all the CBS sites, not just KFRC--too much clutter!!!

I dont want to read wordpress blogs of celebrity gossip and miscallaneous crap that jocks post because they are bored and are required to post.

I only want the fine details of the station and events, in an organized, NON cluttered fashion.
 
I'm with Airwavez. It's just another cookie-cutter, management-mandated CBS website. One looks like the other that looks like the other that looks like the other.

Is corporate going to let you do anything with it? (Ooh, let me answer my own question: "Oh, hell no.")

(I'm not here to talk about the radio station just the site.)
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Of course not. Why would we want to talk in the present tense about a once-great radio station that is reduced to being no better than any other robot-controlled True Oldies Channel spigot in Duluth, Topeka, Medford, Boise or Provo?

Los Angeles has K-Earth 101. New York gets WCBS-FM. What does CBS/San Francisco give us? Canned, homogenized oldies on a tinny AM frequency. But let's not talk about that ... let's talk about what we want on the website!
 
BossRadioDJ said:
michael hagerty said:
Hideous.

And the link to the Facebook page is dead.
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Actually, the link was so long and convoluted that it "broke." Try clicking here instead.

And you're so very welcome.
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Thanks!

Hey, 15 people "Like" that page.

If they can get them all to listen to KFRC (1550 AM, don't ya know), the ratings will triple.

But seriously folks....

Okay, so I was serious.....

"whitemenace" (dude...new screenname might be a good idea) asked for suggestions and all I've done is knock it. So:

1) Get CBS to sign off on abandoning the cookie-cutter template for the website.

2) If they won't pony up serious bucks for a real re-design then get with WordPress or TypePad or even Blogger and do your own...with some sense of aesthetics and balance.

3) Find things that can involve your listeners and make people who see the website want to listen. Endlessly recycle the sampling from one to the other (a tall order given the product).

4) Given the product, actively lobby CBS to swap out the KFRC call letters for something more relevant to "True Oldies" (KEWB? KOBY?) and make them promise to never....ever....ever again use the KFRC calls for a station. I'd even advise petitioning the FCC to retire the call letters like a legendary jersey.

Good luck. Seriously.
 
I wouldn't even waste my time on a better web site until you have something worth promoting.
(sorry I left out a word on my previous post)
 
michael hagerty said:
BossRadioDJ said:
michael hagerty said:
Hideous.

And the link to the Facebook page is dead.
Click to expand...

Actually, the link was so long and convoluted that it "broke." Try clicking here instead.

And you're so very welcome.
Click to expand...

Thanks!

Hey, 15 people "Like" that page.

If they can get them all to listen to KFRC (1550 AM, don't ya know), the ratings will triple.

But seriously folks....

Okay, so I was serious.....

"whitemenace" (dude...new screenname might be a good idea) asked for suggestions and all I've done is knock it. So:

1) Get CBS to sign off on abandoning the cookie-cutter template for the website.

2) If they won't pony up serious bucks for a real re-design then get with WordPress or TypePad or even Blogger and do your own...with some sense of aesthetics and balance.

3) Find things that can involve your listeners and make people who see the website want to listen. Endlessly recycle the sampling from one to the other (a tall order given the product).

4) Given the product, actively lobby CBS to swap out the KFRC call letters for something more relevant to "True Oldies" (KEWB? KOBY?) and make them promise to never....ever....ever again use the KFRC calls for a station. I'd even advise petitioning the FCC to retire the call letters like a legendary jersey.

Good luck. Seriously.
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If you remember back in the mid-80s, RKO General finally realized the writing was on the wall regarding the death of AM Top 40, and flipped 610/KFRC to "Magic 61," playing standards. The KFRC call letters were only being used at the top-of-the-hour ID.

Perhaps this is an apocryphal story, but I remember hearing or reading it somewhere: James Gabbert (who had owned K-101) and has an appreciation for the value and heritage of calls - had recently purchased KEMO TV20 (talk about your horrible calls!), and was using the call letters KTZO (not unlike KIOI). When he realized the KFRC calls were languishing, he offered to buy them from RKO, but was turned down. He later bought KOFY-AM and KKCY-FM (98.9),and slapped the KOFY calls on TV20 and the FM.

So I guess KOFY TV20 could have been KFRC TV20. It would have been a better use for those heritage calls than the current one.
 
I've seen a video from the mid 80's that looks like the KOFY Dance Party, but was apperently the KFRC Dance Party, had anybody ever heard of this show? My uncle played on it with his band in high school
 
On the original poster:

Whitemanace.........as in Menace from Live 105???


On the thread:

Why waste any time promoting such a "nothing" radio station? You can gloss the station any way you want and it's still the "True Oldies Bullshit".

Mike
 
travisl5678 said:
I've seen a video from the mid 80's that looks like the KOFY Dance Party, but was apperently the KFRC Dance Party, had anybody ever heard of this show? My uncle played on it with his band in high school
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I only remember it as the KOFY Dance Party. You can sort of figure out the history of the TV20 call letters by watching the famous TV20 dog station IDs on You Tube:

in 82, it was KTZO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHLRblQK9yo

By this time, it was KOFY, but there's no year attached:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZShMPu7BqA&feature=related

And another, with the whispered "Stereo" tag
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRC2Qwt3m8s&feature=related

Here's the Dance Party, but the announcer doesn't call it the KOFY Dance Party. TV20 was the first San Francisco TV station to broadcast in stereo, and Gabbert pushed it relentlessly. If Gabbert had still owned TV20 during the HD era, you can bet he would have been first by a year or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5cyBpADfKg&feature=related
 
Lkeller said:
michael hagerty said:
BossRadioDJ said:
michael hagerty said:
Hideous.

And the link to the Facebook page is dead.
Click to expand...

Actually, the link was so long and convoluted that it "broke." Try clicking here instead.

And you're so very welcome.
Click to expand...

Thanks!

Hey, 15 people "Like" that page.

If they can get them all to listen to KFRC (1550 AM, don't ya know), the ratings will triple.

But seriously folks....

Okay, so I was serious.....

"whitemenace" (dude...new screenname might be a good idea) asked for suggestions and all I've done is knock it. So:

1) Get CBS to sign off on abandoning the cookie-cutter template for the website.

2) If they won't pony up serious bucks for a real re-design then get with WordPress or TypePad or even Blogger and do your own...with some sense of aesthetics and balance.

3) Find things that can involve your listeners and make people who see the website want to listen. Endlessly recycle the sampling from one to the other (a tall order given the product).

4) Given the product, actively lobby CBS to swap out the KFRC call letters for something more relevant to "True Oldies" (KEWB? KOBY?) and make them promise to never....ever....ever again use the KFRC calls for a station. I'd even advise petitioning the FCC to retire the call letters like a legendary jersey.

Good luck. Seriously.
Click to expand...

If you remember back in the mid-80s, RKO General finally realized the writing was on the wall regarding the death of AM Top 40, and flipped 610/KFRC to "Magic 61," playing standards. The KFRC call letters were only being used at the top-of-the-hour ID.

Perhaps this is an apocryphal story, but I remember hearing or reading it somewhere: James Gabbert (who had owned K-101) and has an appreciation for the value and heritage of calls - had recently purchased KEMO TV20 (talk about your horrible calls!), and was using the call letters KTZO (not unlike KIOI). When he realized the KFRC calls were languishing, he offered to buy them from RKO, but was turned down. He later bought KOFY-AM and KKCY-FM (98.9),and slapped the KOFY calls on TV20 and the FM.

So I guess KOFY TV20 could have been KFRC TV20. It would have been a better use for those heritage calls than the current one.
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And KOFY-1050 would have become KFRC-1050. When KOFY switched to Oldies in 1986, Jim Gabbert used to call KOFY, "The Little 1050", playing off "The Big 610" of KFRC.
 
OK, as I consider Menace a pal and colleague let me come in with some specific suggestions.

To the person who suggested WordPress, well, it IS WordPress. That's one of their standard 3-column layouts.

1. Lose most of the stuff in the center column and keep it to stuff relevant to oldies listeners. The Dusty Springfield album is fine. The Paul Simon download, yeah probably. The Chuck Berry bit works. The rest of the stuff, kinda don't see how it relates especially the "twitter picks" - if the oldies-listening crowd even know what twitter is, I doubt they'd depend on it for movie picks.

2. The right column, similar deal. Avoid duplication of articles with the other columns. Check with some real-live P1's but I think they'd be more into nostalgia content than "10 Scariest Vegetables".

I'd say a program guide should be prominently linked, but it's all just All Scott All the Time except for ATF so not sure what the point would be.
 
Found this automatic suggestion on the 1550 Radio.com streaming page interesting:

You may also like...
KFRC.com Classic Hits
K-EARTH 101
WCBS Newsradio 880
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Yes, WCBS, not KCBS, which is in their own building. Maybe Scott Shannon fans want to hear NYC all-news radio?
 
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