QUESTION ABOUT 910-AM

[OldChicago]

I listen (via mp3 download) to a tech/computer show that is hosted by someone named LEO LAPORTE out of Petluma (sp) California. He mentioned recently that he is on a new station the Bay area at 910-AM.
I looked up 910-AM on radio-locator.com and I am very confused as to what is going on there. TWO stations are listed on that frequency. THREE
different XMTR sites are listed, and even a change of frequency for one of them. STRANGE. Can someone explain this?


Old Chicago

 

[SFStatic]

There is only one in the Bay Area. It's licensed to Oakland, and has been KNEW for decades...until a week or 2 ago when Clear Channel changed the calls to KKSF-AM. It is 20Kw daytime with a two tower array, and 5Kw nights. The FCC AM database might give you better info than radio-locator.

Leo was on KGO for many years until they dropped his weekend show in all the changes to mostly news. 910 picked him up when KGO dropped him, as they did with Len Tillem the lawyer and Gene Burns.

 

[OldChicago]

There is only one in the Bay Area. It's licensed to Oakland, and has been KNEW for decades...until a week or 2 ago when Clear Channel changed the calls to KKSF-AM. It is 20Kw daytime with a two tower array, and 5Kw nights. The FCC AM database might give you better info than radio-locator.

Leo was on KGO for many years until they dropped his weekend show in all the changes to mostly news. 910 picked him up when KGO dropped him, as they did with Len Tillem the lawyer and Gene Burns.

Thanks for the info. However, why is there a listing for KNEW at 960-AM? Do they plan to move?

Old Chicago

 

[DavidKaye]

Thanks for the info. However, why is there a listing for KNEW at 960-AM? Do they plan to move?

Old Chicago

I think it's been mentioned here already. Until a few weeks ago, 103.7 was KKSF, 910 was KNEW and 960 was KKGN. Now, 103.7 is KOSF, 910 is KKSF, and 960 is KNEW.

Goodness knows why they did this. Usually when a callsign is moved, the format is moved, too. This didn't happen. KNEW 910 had been positioned as a rightwing talk station and KKGN 960 as a lefty station. But, with the callsign shift, 960 kept 5 of its hosts (all lefties) and shifted over a couple rightists from 910. And I'm not sure why they moved the KKSF callsign to 910 but don't use it except for hourly ID.

 

[Questor]

Thanks for the info. However, why is there a listing for KNEW at 960-AM? Do they plan to move?

Old Chicago

I think it's been mentioned here already. Until a few weeks ago, 103.7 was KKSF, 910 was KNEW and 960 was KKGN. Now, 103.7 is KOSF, 910 is KKSF, and 960 is KNEW.

Goodness knows why they did this. Usually when a callsign is moved, the format is moved, too. This didn't happen. KNEW 910 had been

At this rate, K-NEW will one day become K-OLD.

Wow, has that set of call letters taken so many turns throughout its history.

 

[LKellerIII]

Thanks for the info. However, why is there a listing for KNEW at 960-AM? Do they plan to move?

Old Chicago

I think it's been mentioned here already. Until a few weeks ago, 103.7 was KKSF, 910 was KNEW and 960 was KKGN. Now, 103.7 is KOSF, 910 is KKSF, and 960 is KNEW.

Goodness knows why they did this. Usually when a callsign is moved, the format is moved, too. This didn't happen. KNEW 910 had been

At this rate, K-NEW will one day become K-OLD.

Wow, has that set of call letters taken so many turns throughout its history.

Well - not really. Maybe you were speaking rhetorically. I'm sure others will fill in the details I'm unaware of, but I do know that Metromedia bought 910 (then KEWB) in the mid-late 60s, and brought in the call letters to echo their famous and much storied WNEW, New York. MM had also purchased radio and TV stations in Los Angeles, but I guess they figured they didn't want to mess with the existing calls there (KLAC, KTTV), so they parked KNEW on 910 in San Francisco. Until a few weeks ago, that's where they have remained for about 45 years, though various formats - talk, MOR (I think), oldies, country music for a LONG time, business news, a simulcast of K-101, then back to talk.

I believe the KNEW call letters were also used for MM's short-lived UHF TV station in San Francisco, as well. Metromedia is long gone now, of course, and probably most famous because their TV stations became the O&O anchor stations for the Fox TV network.

 

[FightingIrish]

Thanks for the info. However, why is there a listing for KNEW at 960-AM? Do they plan to move?

Old Chicago

I think it's been mentioned here already. Until a few weeks ago, 103.7 was KKSF, 910 was KNEW and 960 was KKGN. Now, 103.7 is KOSF, 910 is KKSF, and 960 is KNEW.

Goodness knows why they did this. Usually when a callsign is moved, the format is moved, too. This didn't happen. KNEW 910 had been

At this rate, K-NEW will one day become K-OLD.

Wow, has that set of call letters taken so many turns throughout its history.

Well - not really. Maybe you were speaking rhetorically. I'm sure others will fill in the details I'm unaware of, but I do know that Metromedia bought 910 (then KEWB) in the mid-late 60s, and brought in the call letters to echo their famous and much storied WNEW, New York. MM had also purchased radio and TV stations in Los Angeles, but I guess they figured they didn't want to mess with the existing calls there (KLAC, KTTV), so they parked KNEW on 910 in San Francisco. Until a few weeks ago, that's where they have remained for about 45 years, though various formats - talk, MOR (I think), oldies, country music for a LONG time, business news, a simulcast of K-101, then back to talk.

I believe the KNEW call letters were also used for MM's short-lived UHF TV station in San Francisco, as well. Metromedia is long gone now, of course, and probably most famous because their TV stations became the O&O anchor stations for the Fox TV network.

Not to mention that Metromedia essentially grew out of the old DuMont Television network.

 

[DavidKaye]

Well - not really. Maybe you were speaking rhetorically.

I think the post was more about the different formats KNEW has had over the life of its callsign here. It was MOR, then MOR/talk, then talk, then oldies, then country, then talk again, and I've probably forgotten a format or tweak or two...