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San Francisco radio in 1998?

In my opinion and only my opinion, KWSS was the best station I worked in my 36 year 2 month career. You have to understand, I had just come out of KRQR and 6 years of physcial and mental harrassment. To hit middays and debut Miami Sound Machine, Expose and all the rest was a total 100 % thrill! Get an air check of KWSS and hear what I mean. I was flying everyday. I was back from the dead (4 1/2 years in the graveyard ...). KWSS gave me my life back. Oh sure, K-BIG 98.1 was something (my wife swears it was the best station I worked) but KWSS was alive. And to work with Mike Preston, someone who just dug me; I could feel it when I was around him, once he said in front of a room full of people, "KFRC started going downhill the day this guy left", well it brought tears to my eyes. Respect was not something I got much of from August 1964 to Oct. 2000. KWSS is #1 with me, I don't see any way to change it. -John-
 
I tend to trend towards the rock formats of the era and the announcers that best captured the essence of the music and lifestyle. Stephen Capen, Mercy Hawkes, Dave Moray. Hawkes signature on afternoon drive at KRQR for better than 10 years was unique in the marketplace. No one has come along since that comes close to these guys...
 
I agree with John Mack's wife...Big 98.1 was a blast. Never would have let them know, but it was almost a crime to take a paycheck to work there. Remember the liner the production guy did? "Is your company run by a bald-headed little tyrant? HEY, ours too!" I think that GM sued them over that one after he was canned.
 
I never listened to KWSS,,,, For me,,, The Big610 days were John Mack Flanagans best days, and the longest run,, I thought when he arrived at KYA93.3 in 1990,, it would be a long run,,, got fooled,, Jan 27th 1992 it was over.. sad day for alot of fans of JMF!!!! One thing for sure on KFRC they sure let John Mack run his show the way he wanted.. I for one being a radio buff looked forward to each and every one of his shows, they were all spectacular in my book... In 1974 when he did the 9 to noon shift,, and then about 11:55 john would say Ocean @ noon.. you knew you were getting the best radio around! Now with no terrestrial radio in the bay area,, Ive found JJ Walker,,,,,on the 70s channel,,,, Im still holding out hope before i turn 60, that someday some station will come about, and get some of these Bay Area legends back on the Air!!! For me with the disc jockeys Ive mentioned, i would like to hear more talk and less music,,,, Some disc jockeys really connect with listeners, some dont, i wont mention those. I dont want to get blasted by Andreajesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kenny in Concord
 
Is JJ Walker (on xm 7) and Spider Harrison (xm 1) the same person? they sound the same and they both (or one of the same) gets on my nerves!
 
I remember listening to 94.5 K-W-S-S and I thought John Mac sounded better on KFRC
I think it was part of First Nationwide Broadcasting that owned KWSS at the time maybe it was a "kick back" good place for a "jock" to work.

I hear RKO/General was a high roll'in never ending life in the fast lane kind of place to work for but carried a lot of clout and was
the place to be back in the day if you could handle it!
 
radio dx said:
Is JJ Walker (on xm 7) and Spider Harrison (xm 1) the same person? they sound the same and they both (or one of the same) gets on my nerves!
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i heard they're twins.... :)
 
andreajesus said:
radio dx said:
Is JJ Walker (on xm 7) and Spider Harrison (xm 1) the same person? they sound the same and they both (or one of the same) gets on my nerves!
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i heard they're twins.... :)
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I thought J.J. Walker was that weird skinny African-American comedian whose catch phase was "dynomite!"
 
FIRST of all, the dude YOU'RE thinking of is Jimmie Walker, who played a CHARACTER named J.J;
SECONDLY, even if his FIRST name was J.J.....somehow, i would have difficulty with any kinda resemblance.... :)
 
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