I would just like to point out that older people pretty much always feel younger people are (choose one or more) lazy, slackers, immoral, have no taste, have no sense of fashion, have no useful skills, have no musical taste, have no artistic ability. Unless it's your own kids, in which case they're amazing.
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San Francisco Radio in 2022
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I’m 66. I marvel at the talent and skill of a lot of younger people, not just my kids.
When I graduated from high school at 17 I had another six months until I had to register for the draft but I wanted to get it over with so joined the Navy five days after graduation. I should have taken a few months off to have some summer fun. Big mistake.
I was referring to performers in general, not just singers. I have no idea if Doda could sing or not but then her clientele may not have cared that much anyway. It was amazing she could even stand up without help!C'mon, Tuna. Carol Doda was a stripper, not a pop star. The closest she came to pop music was a cameo in the Monkees' movie, HEAD (which virtually no one saw).
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(l-r: Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Carol Doda)
For the younger folks on the board who are asking "WHO?":
Legendary S.F. stripper Carol Doda dies at 78
Carol Doda, who helped take stripping out of the shadowy margins of American society and...www.sfgate.com
As for the Monkees, you're on your own.
When I came home from Vietnam in April of '66 all the public buses in the Bay Area had big ads on their sides advertising the Monkees. I liked some of their stuff and even have a copy of Heads. And it also amazed me how big the Beatles had become.
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As I said before please bear in mind I made a very generalized statement not directed at individuals.
This example shows how each of us had different experiences so we have different tastes, reactions and interests. I suppose that the lesson is that we can't judge other people's experiences based on our own.
At 17 I quit High School and interned full time at a radios station in Mexico City, quite a distance from my Ohio hometown. At 18, while trying to do my last year of High School I used my savings, which I had invested, to build a radio station in a market of over a million people. I never considered having "summer fun" as my kind of fun was hitting the "plate on" button the first time at my own radio station.
And I just had back surgery last week to try, again, to remedy the condition that kept the Draft Board from sending me an invitation.
Oh man, I really feel for you. I've got spinal stenosis but would rather put up with that pain than risk back surgery.
MacBeth? Hamlet? Lear? Romeo? Juliet?
“Hi, I’m Landtuna Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
If it works, let me know who did it. I'm probably looking at more back surgery in the future myself. The first one was supposed to be 3 days and out, instead 10 days in the hospital and having to earn to walk again and then it didn't heal right in the first place. And when the orthopedic surgeon said I'd need more back surgery, I said OK....when can you do this? And he said "On you? I'm never operating on you again!" I was think "What the hell went wrong the first time?"
Wanted to attempt to bring this a bit more into the realm of the original topic, haha.
I think the following are at risk of an eventual shift. The market seems mostly stable right now but KGMZ-FM is the only one I think that’s likely.
KGMZ-FM (95.7) - Audacy
KSOL-FM (98.9/99.1) - Univision (sale? do they operate anything outside the Spanish formats? The CUME & ratings here are worsening and it competes with too much of their own properties) or a sale from KRZZ-FM.
Unsure if we have the data to see if Cumulus is pulling anything from their 104.5 FM signal instead of the AM one, I doubt they flip they though. I’d like to see them buy either KSOL and KRZZ to help the market be more competitive even if they’re covering much less of the market, we see good numbers from similar weak signals.
I think the following are at risk of an eventual shift. The market seems mostly stable right now but KGMZ-FM is the only one I think that’s likely.
KGMZ-FM (95.7) - Audacy
KSOL-FM (98.9/99.1) - Univision (sale? do they operate anything outside the Spanish formats? The CUME & ratings here are worsening and it competes with too much of their own properties) or a sale from KRZZ-FM.
Unsure if we have the data to see if Cumulus is pulling anything from their 104.5 FM signal instead of the AM one, I doubt they flip they though. I’d like to see them buy either KSOL and KRZZ to help the market be more competitive even if they’re covering much less of the market, we see good numbers from similar weak signals.
To keep this on radio, they used targeted microwave with a macroscopic "wand" that was inserted between each vertebra to burn the pressured nerve. It reminds me of the several stories I have heard of people working on TV microwave antennas who got seriously burned. In both cases, the transmitters were labeled with "do not turn on" yet some idiot thought that it was a mistake and turned the units back on. One engineer died withing a month, the other had considerable damage but went on to live another 40-some years.
And that's why OSHA requires lockout devices so people CAN'T turn stuff like that back on. I've been zapped enough times by idiots that do that. One employee did it to me twice, thinking it was funny. High voltage stuff. I could have been killed. First time he was warned there would be consequences if it happened again. Didn't think it was so funny when he got punched in the face and fired the second time.
95.7 the game just signed a multi-year contract extension with the Warriors. So they are not going anywhere.
OMG. I can't believe that there are such idiots out there who disrespect the health and safety of others while thinking it to be amusing.
I guess if you look at the bell curve, you realize that for every smart and responsive person, there is one that has the IQ of a dumber fish. For them, we get plastic packaging that says "do not eat the package" and similar "are there really people that dumb?" warnings.
Of course, back in the vacuum tube days, I had to label (1) Filament on FIRST and (2) Plate on SECOND after 30 seconds. With numbers and sequence. And still some would do it backwards. That's why I lived no more than 10 minutes away from any station I owned or managed.
No radio station has ever refrained from a format change because of time remaining on a contract. That’s what lawyers are for. If Audacy’s are any good, the contract provides an out in the event of a change in format, either with a pre-set penalty or permission to run out the contract on another Audacy SF frequency.
I'm familiar with the radio and ma bell microwaves of the 60's and 70's but not so much with TV. The ones I worked on were usually highly directional and less than 1 watt. TV that much more powerful?
I am pretty calm most of the time but there's a phrase "Never piss off an Irishman". He learned that lesson that day.
My favorites are "Not actual size" for cereal-box depictions of sugar-frosted nuggets the size of Plymouth Rock floating in a bowl the size of the Mayflower, and "Contains peanuts" on labels clearly showing peanuts on jars clearly labeled "peanut butter."
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