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The Band, The Drive, etc
- Thread starter 1069_KIFR
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Not that it matters much, but the v/o guy is Mike Hansen, who is one of the morning hosts and imaging guy at 94-9 in San Diego...an alternative station...he does quite v/o for quite a few rock stations across the country...
The lows and highs sound fine. The compression is a bit aggressive for the format and the bit reduction in the music is also pretty obnoxious too. Maybe a crappy sound card??? The excess compression makes this more apparent. 103.7 has major multi-path issues here in the East Bay area. Even in Oakland in the Lake Merritt area, the signal is touch and go.
Musically out of the box, they are off to a good start IMHO. Admittedly, I have them on for longer stretches of my commute than most Bay Area stations in one listening period. I presume with the spin off of the San Jose properties C.C. wanted to maintain a Classic Rock/Hits outlet in market #4.
Greg Kihn would be a natural fit for mornings at this operation if the suits so choose. I hope they bring P.D. Tim Jeffreys over for afternoons as well.
This station would do well to keep it local with in-house talent. A market the size of San Francisco does not need voice tracking imported...if anything exported to smaller markets. That's where "The Wolf's train went off the tracks in the evenings. Not to mention the lengths of the breaks. I would fire any jock that rambled on as long as that guy. I am pro-personality radio but six minutes in the evening...give me a break!
Musically out of the box, they are off to a good start IMHO. Admittedly, I have them on for longer stretches of my commute than most Bay Area stations in one listening period. I presume with the spin off of the San Jose properties C.C. wanted to maintain a Classic Rock/Hits outlet in market #4.
Greg Kihn would be a natural fit for mornings at this operation if the suits so choose. I hope they bring P.D. Tim Jeffreys over for afternoons as well.
This station would do well to keep it local with in-house talent. A market the size of San Francisco does not need voice tracking imported...if anything exported to smaller markets. That's where "The Wolf's train went off the tracks in the evenings. Not to mention the lengths of the breaks. I would fire any jock that rambled on as long as that guy. I am pro-personality radio but six minutes in the evening...give me a break!
sfradio said:
Mediaace said:
Except that voice-tracking is what Clear Channel does. I doubt they'll spend more for talent than they did for Smooth Jazz - or for Star 101.3, which makes a lot more money than The Band has the potential to make. Maybe Greg Kihn live in the morning, and VT the rest of the day?
1069_KIFR said:
Oh, that's funny, I like the song selection of The Band and had a sense of Deja Vu. I often wonder if The Band will play songs by the band known as The Band.
I do remember that 95.7 didn't play the same old tired hits from artists. As much as I like Pink Floyd (for instance), I really wish stations wouldn't always play cuts from Dark Side of the Moon so much. Play something like "See Emily Play." (I can't ever get tired of "Run Like Hell," though. Just don't play that before bedtime.)
I have noticed this, however, which really irritates me as a listener. Something new is tried, it's not quite known, and it just starts bringing in the numbers, chipping away at Big Hero station's market share. The growth rate, however, isn't high enough to please or impress certain people. Then it gets prematurely cut off. (I saw that Bay Area Radio Sucks thread, I'd say this is one reason why; I actually stream from other places, and frequently do the AT40 70's and 80's thing on weekends, e.g., from 102.1 Chico Oldies.)
It's ironic that the originator of this thread's handle is 1069_KIFR. I really liked that station in its short lifetime. I know there's a market for Guy Talk out there. Guy Talk is not Gay Talk (not that there's anything wrong with that.) Yet I remember when I first moved out here from Florida, I used to hear a show with Jerry Kaye on Sundays. It was something like Man Talk, or Man-To-Man Talk. It was simply the sort of things that guys face like guys, and didn't have many places to talk about because guys are supposed to be tough all the time. In my case it was timely, e.g., how to find an apartment.
I thought 106.9 FreeFM had potential to resurrect that again even though the numbers said otherwise. I really don't think it was marketed as well as it could have been (of course, what do you expect a Marketing guy to say?!)
Anyway, I really hope this stays for a while. It's interesting because sometimes we think the only thing young people want to listen to is rap and hip-hop. I've had some people in their 20's and 30's (more or less my age group) say they really like hearing songs with development in them. They're sick of loops and beats that are all pre-programmed repeating on and on and on. They really like a song with 2 distinct parts like Paul Mc Cartney's "Band on the Run."
Let's hope The Band lasts.
I give it until the end of the year! We have had enough "classic rock" stations (now and in the past) and if stations like the drive and KFRC coundn't make it what make CC think this is going to fly? This is the same old format that after a few weeks people will get tired of after they hear that it's just the same old.
I think it will stick around. I know that CC has researched this format in San Francisco for a long time and always found a large hole in the market for it, but were unwilling to blow up KISQ or KKSF. PPM changed that. I expect that once they finish stunting into the format it will settle into a more standard sounding Classic Rock station, and phase out many of the pop hit songs they now play. What seemed to be a big problem for KFRC and The Drive was an over reliance on pop hits over mainstream Classic Rock titles. Look for The Band to evolve into a lighter version on KUFX, who btw have really hardened up their music over the past few months.
create said:
KUFX (aka K-Fox) is going away as soon as CC unloads it (they have to sell it per FCC limits) and guaranteed The Band will resemble the Fox before long -- including Greg Kihn as morning guy.
There appeared to be some "announcers" in the mix today...in between songs, not over them...did not hear any names, but it sounded tracked...
I had the need to drive through their coverage area this morning & remembered to put it on. GAWD!! What terrible audio processing. Maybe it's just the radio in my truck, but it sounded to me like the old cassette days when you play back a tape recorded in Dolby B on a player that doesn't have Dolby. The highs were all clipped & compressed. I also noticed that they managed to gather all of the songs that I didn't like from that era onto one, comprehensive playlist. Well, since I think it's really bad - it'll probably succeed.
Dave B.
Dave B.
radio dx said:
You're right on. Same old tired format, same old worn out music, and in a word: Boring. Sure, some people like that format and that's cool, but it seems that they aready have options. This is now just another station doing the same old stuff- where's the hook?
I'll give them a little more time than the end of the year...but come next summer, they'll be flipping formats again or will just plain go away.
Ooooh, play Free Bird again! I just can't get enough of it.
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