What stations deserve a second chance?

[LKellerIII]

How about KLOK 103.7 fm?

"Yes/No Radio?" No - that one can stay dead and buried, thank you.

I don't think anybody has mentioned 99.7/KYUU. It was a good station in its later years. Good news department, with anchors Peter Laufer and Gil Haar ("And that's the news, so now ya know..."). Jeff McNeal - one of the better afternoon drive DJs, in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EajzFWzwWBs

It was Don Bleu's first gig in the Bay Area - I've never been a huge fan, but he's certainly had staying power, so what do I know? Bobby Ocean also worked there for awhile, and some others I'm blanking on at the moment...

 

[kenrayc]

KSJO 92.3 The Original Active/AOR , but that will not happened, even the current Alternative format is history.

 

[BnRinBayArea]

I second the vote for KYUU with Rick middays, Jeff afternoons and Jacque (did I spell her name correctly?) evenings. As mentioned earlier, Jeff WAS one of the most entertaining afternoon "personalities" in the market. Jacque also had warm n'friendly radio-vibe.

Being a southbay guy, I gotta give credit to KWSS, too. K&K were in their element mornings, and of course John Mac could always talk-up those intro's all the way to the vocal, with zero effort, sounding great!

...honorable mention to KPEN, just because nobody else mentioned it!

 

[LKellerIII]

I second the vote for KYUU with Rick middays, Jeff afternoons and Jacque (did I spell her name correctly?) evenings. As mentioned earlier, Jeff WAS one of the most entertaining afternoon "personalities" in the market. Jacque also had warm n'friendly radio-vibe.

Being a southbay guy, I gotta give credit to KWSS, too. K&K were in their element mornings, and of course John Mac could always talk-up those intro's all the way to the vocal, with zero effort, sounding great!

...honorable mention to KPEN, just because nobody else mentioned it!

Don't know her spelling, but her on-air name was (phonetically) Jackie Skarr (scar?) - not one of the better radio names, but you're right - she was warm and friendly, and always easy to listen to.

I'm not a South Bay guy, and I don't think I ever listened to KWSS - my loss. But any station with Kelly and Kline (I know them from later on X-100) and John Mack Flanagan - must have been cool.

 

[rricci]

"Yes/No Radio?" No - that one can stay dead and buried, thank you.

Why do you say that? I think yes/no would reflect what real people wanted. Am I missing something here?

This may unpoular, but I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I used to listen to the games shows that KFRC 610 AM had in the mid 80's. I thought those were fun to listen (and participate) to. If they brought those back, I would listen, even if it was once a week

 

[Goldilocks94941]

I also thought that the short-lived games shows back in, what was it, the late 1980s?, were cool - just that having them all day and night was a bit of overkill.

Not to sound "trivial" here, but I think it might have worked better to run one every couple of hours, maybe even once an hour, or daypart them for evenings to compete against TV, or something like that, and play music the rest of the time.

I think this could still work to generate some excitement, when you include an internet component in there (and to help prevent having a few of the same people trying to play as contestants all of the time - kinda like we sometimes get on web boards and comment sections today!!).

 

[Fastphilly]

I guess now that I'm older KYUU would be nice to have back. As a young teen, No keep it History. Their playlist always leaned on the Adult Contemporary side of TOP 40. They did'nt start kicking it into high gear until 1988 with their Bobby Ocean Voice tracked "Continuous Hits 99.7FM which was nothing more than a pre-cursor to X-100...Anybody remember short lived 98.9 KHIT?

 

[Fastphilly]

I second the vote for KYUU with Rick middays, Jeff afternoons and Jacque (did I spell her name correctly?) evenings. As mentioned earlier, Jeff WAS one of the most entertaining afternoon "personalities" in the market. Jacque also had warm n'friendly radio-vibe.

Being a southbay guy, I gotta give credit to KWSS, too. K&K were in their element mornings, and of course John Mac could always talk-up those intro's all the way to the vocal, with zero effort, sounding great!

...honorable mention to KPEN, just because nobody else mentioned it!

Jacque Scarr (spellcheck) from what I heard was one of the most difficult people to work with. I loved the NBC tones at the top of the hour.

As for what station I would like to see back. Hot Hits 105 KITS. Loved those Mike Josephs Fusion jingle package.

 

[LKellerIII]

I second the vote for KYUU with Rick middays, Jeff afternoons and Jacque (did I spell her name correctly?) evenings. As mentioned earlier, Jeff WAS one of the most entertaining afternoon "personalities" in the market. Jacque also had warm n'friendly radio-vibe.

Being a southbay guy, I gotta give credit to KWSS, too. K&K were in their element mornings, and of course John Mac could always talk-up those intro's all the way to the vocal, with zero effort, sounding great!

...honorable mention to KPEN, just because nobody else mentioned it!

Jacque Scarr (spellcheck) from what I heard was one of the most difficult people to work with. I loved the NBC tones at the top of the hour.


As for what station I would like to see back. Hot Hits 105 KITS. Loved those Mike Josephs Fusion jingle package.

Yes - still stuck in my brain after 30 years - the NBC chimes followed by a musical bed the DJ talked over (I think), then a jingle for "Hit Music - Free Money, K-Y-U-U, San Francisco." The "Y-U-U" part of their jingle were the same notes as N-B-C. Very clever. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any air checks from this era of KYUU. Most out there are from the earlier lighter-rock era, or the very end when they dropped the call letters and IDed only as "99.7 FM" - just prior to X-100.

Hot Hits KITS was fun for a few minutes a day, but the play list was pretty mind-numbing. Maybe 10 or 15 songs over and over? Speaking of BARM:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kits/index.shtml

 

[1069_KIFR]

I remember 98.9 KHIT. When it first came on the air, I was surprised that those call letters were still available.

I also remember when KYUU started to call themselves The Q, they simply pronounced the call letters and it sounded like Q. Didn't catch on though.

 

[Fastphilly]

I second the vote for KYUU with Rick middays, Jeff afternoons and Jacque (did I spell her name correctly?) evenings. As mentioned earlier, Jeff WAS one of the most entertaining afternoon "personalities" in the market. Jacque also had warm n'friendly radio-vibe.

Being a southbay guy, I gotta give credit to KWSS, too. K&K were in their element mornings, and of course John Mac could always talk-up those intro's all the way to the vocal, with zero effort, sounding great!

...honorable mention to KPEN, just because nobody else mentioned it!

Jacque Scarr (spellcheck) from what I heard was one of the most difficult people to work with. I loved the NBC tones at the top of the hour.


As for what station I would like to see back. Hot Hits 105 KITS. Loved those Mike Josephs Fusion jingle package.

Yes - still stuck in my brain after 30 years - the NBC chimes followed by a musical bed the DJ talked over (I think), then a jingle for "Hit Music - Free Money, K-Y-U-U, San Francisco." The "Y-U-U" part of their jingle were the same notes as N-B-C. Very clever. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any air checks from this era of KYUU. Most out there are from the earlier lighter-rock era, or the very end when they dropped the call letters and IDed only as "99.7 FM" - just prior to X-100.

Hot Hits KITS was fun for a few minutes a day, but the play list was pretty mind-numbing. Maybe 10 or 15 songs over and over? Speaking of BARM:

http://www.bayarearadio.org/audio/kits/index.shtml

Lkeller, I would love to hear a mid 80's KYUU aircheck myself. I have a Don Bleu from 1981 but thats it. The music they played was alot of early 70's.KITS was very repetitive, but since I loved the music so much, I could listen to Taco "Puttin' On The Ritz" once an hour.LOL

 

[RadioStarOne]

This past March would have been the twentith anniversary of KFRC on 99.7 had not management so easily fouled it up.

 

[DavidKaye]

I also thought that the short-lived games shows back in, what was it, the late 1980s?, were cool - just that having them all day and night was a bit of overkill.

You must not have been listening attentively. The shows were in the "Game Zone" block from 9am to 3pm.

 

[BossRadioDJ]

How about a second chance for KNRY (1240 AM) on Cannery Row over in Monterey? The plug may be pulled on it at any minute now if a hefty ransom isn't paid to Joe Rosa...

http://www.montereyradiopartners.com/

 

[rricci]

I also thought that the short-lived games shows back in, what was it, the late 1980s?, were cool - just that having them all day and night was a bit of overkill.

Not to sound "trivial" here, but I think it might have worked better to run one every couple of hours, maybe even once an hour, or daypart them for evenings to compete against TV, or something like that, and play music the rest of the time.

If I recall correctly, the game show were on from 1985 until '86 or 87. They weren't on that long. And they weren't on all day and all night. They were on from 9 AM until 3 PM weekdays which IMO was stupid becuase most people are at work at that time and couldn't really pay atention. I agree that they should be on evenings. Maybe Sunday nights from 8-10?

 

[LKellerIII]

"Yes/No Radio?" No - that one can stay dead and buried, thank you.

Why do you say that? I think yes/no would reflect what real people wanted. Am I missing something here?

This may unpoular, but I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I used to listen to the games shows that KFRC 610 AM had in the mid 80's. I thought those were fun to listen (and participate) to. If they brought those back, I would listen, even if it was once a week

RE: "Yes/No Radio" - you are missing something if you never heard the station. It was a more-or-less typical Lite Rock station - the Yes/No voting by listeners seemed like a gimmick. Even if they occasionally listened to the voting, and eliminated a song voted "No" by the majority - the station still chose the songs to be voted on from within the limits of the format and what was popular, so it was hardly democratic. Also, I remember that after awhile, the only thing left was the "Yes/No Radio" slogan - there was rarely any announcements of a vote - I assume because interest in the gimmick from listeners had faded away.

Gotta disagree on the Game Zone, too. With all the fake excitement sound-FX bells and whistles, it was irritating to listen to - it would give an aspirin a headache. The questions were OK, but the prizes were lame - toaster ovens and the like. I realize it was low budget AM radio, but in the era of The $20,000 Pyramid and similar shows on TV, it seemed laughably low rent.

 

[Fastphilly]

"Yes/No Radio?" No - that one can stay dead and buried, thank you.

Why do you say that? I think yes/no would reflect what real people wanted. Am I missing something here?

This may unpoular, but I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I used to listen to the games shows that KFRC 610 AM had in the mid 80's. I thought those were fun to listen (and participate) to. If they brought those back, I would listen, even if it was once a week

Every once in a while a "trendy" record would slip by on "Yes / No" KLOK. I remember hearing Boys Don't Cry " I Wanna Be A Cowboy".

RE: "Yes/No Radio" - you are missing something if you never heard the station. It was a more-or-less typical Lite Rock station - the Yes/No voting by listeners seemed like a gimmick. Even if they occasionally listened to the voting, and eliminated a song voted "No" by the majority - the station still chose the songs to be voted on from within the limits of the format and what was popular, so it was hardly democratic. Also, I remember that after awhile, the only thing left was the "Yes/No Radio" slogan - there was rarely any announcements of a vote - I assume because interest in the gimmick from listeners had faded away.

Gotta disagree on the Game Zone, too. With all the fake excitement sound-FX bells and whistles, it was irritating to listen to - it would give an aspirin a headache. The questions were OK, but the prizes were lame - toaster ovens and the like. I realize it was low budget AM radio, but in the era of The $20,000 Pyramid and similar shows on TV, it seemed laughably low rent.

 

[michael hagerty]

If I recall correctly, the game show were on from 1985 until '86 or 87.

Nope.

KFRC's "Game Zone" experiment started in May, 1985 and ended in November of the same year.

It was a disaster, taking KFRC's 3.1 share in the Winter book down to a 1.7 in the Spring and 1.5 in the Summer.

PD Mike Phillips (who swore "Game Zone" was forced upon him by RKO and consultant Walt Sabo...and got Sabo to admit it on-air during the KFRC 20th Anniversary weekend in '86) left just before the end to program KOIT.

Dave Sholin took over the programming at KFRC and his first move was to re-hire Bobby Ocean and put him in middays in place of "Game Zone". That was November 12, 1985.

Too little, too late...the station never recovered and went to adult standards as "Magic 61" August 11, 1986.

 

[MarioMania]

KMPX-106.9 when they were underground as well as when they were big band.

As long as were pining away nostalgically for long lost stations, I'll put in a vote for KTIM-FM, 100.9 The North Bay Noise which ran an eclectic "underground rock" format from the early 70s (possibly earlier) into the early 80s. A number of the KSAN and KMPX DJs went through K-Tim, including Bobby Dale. For most of that era, it was owned by the Marin Independent-Journal, San Rafael's skimpy but very profitable daily newspaper, which left the station alone to program whatever they wanted.

KTIM survived more or less under the San Francisco radio radar and provided some great radio, depending primarily on local Marin advertisers. Unfortunately, the signal was weak in San Francisco anywhere east of the Richmond district - not sure about the East Bay.

Some idiot in charge finally flipped the station in the mid 80s to become the Bay Area's first "smooth jazz" station (before KKSF), and called it The Wave, copying 94.7 in LA. The owners of 94.7 (not sure if it was CBS by then, or not) sued them for copyright infringement, and they had to beat a hasty retreat, becoming "The Tide." Bankruptcy followed not long after.

What city was 100.9 KTIM in?? Is 100.9 it still on the air??

 

[michael hagerty]

KMPX-106.9 when they were underground as well as when they were big band.

As long as were pining away nostalgically for long lost stations, I'll put in a vote for KTIM-FM, 100.9 The North Bay Noise which ran an eclectic "underground rock" format from the early 70s (possibly earlier) into the early 80s. A number of the KSAN and KMPX DJs went through K-Tim, including Bobby Dale. For most of that era, it was owned by the Marin Independent-Journal, San Rafael's skimpy but very profitable daily newspaper, which left the station alone to program whatever they wanted.

KTIM survived more or less under the San Francisco radio radar and provided some great radio, depending primarily on local Marin advertisers. Unfortunately, the signal was weak in San Francisco anywhere east of the Richmond district - not sure about the East Bay.

Some idiot in charge finally flipped the station in the mid 80s to become the Bay Area's first "smooth jazz" station (before KKSF), and called it The Wave, copying 94.7 in LA. The owners of 94.7 (not sure if it was CBS by then, or not) sued them for copyright infringement, and they had to beat a hasty retreat, becoming "The Tide." Bankruptcy followed not long after.

What city was 100.9 KTIM in?? Is 100.9 it still on the air??

It was San Rafael. There was a frequency switch to 100.7. It's now Spanish KVVZ.

Neat history of KTIM with some great photos: http://www.sakrison/radio/KTIM.html