Why Continue to Care About KFRC and any CBS - all dead horse issues

[Bowler Bob in Brisbane]

Wild card format:  All Sports.  Just like some news/talk stations are migrating to FM, I guarantee we will see more & more sports stations migrate to FM over the coming years.  If CBS could land a couple major broadcast contracts (the Oakland A's aren't enough), an All Sports format on FM might be able to give KNBR a run for its money.

Now we're talkin'!

This is what I've been trying to push since 1997 when I started out as a rookie caller to Sportsphone 680 on KNBR.

And here it is 11 years later, it's now time for an all sports station on the FM dial, but with a twist.

I'm actually working on a progarm that mixes music with sports equally.

To my knowledge this has never been attempted on radio, and certainly not in the Bay Area.

It's time, and I would love nothing better than to be the voice, & the spearhead of a new innovative approach to sports and music on the radio.

Let's do it!

[BossJock1947]

Sad RKO and Drake will never come back and fix KFRC - it's history.

All the CBS stations all losers except KCBS.  Sad  but true.

I loved KRFC but its dead.

Drake was losing it anyway.  The glory years of KFRC and KHJ were the post-Drake years.  Charlie Van Dyke was running KHJ and KFRC was run by several, including Michael Spears.  At the time Spears was PD at KFRC (1973 to 1977) they saw their biggest ratings in the best demos.  By then KFRC still had some Drake formatics, but what made them special was that they were (1) live, (2) local, (3) intensely involved in the local community, (4) relevant, and (5) putting some local hits into the mix. 

By the time KFRC was big it didn't sound at all like a Drake station (certainly not like KHJ) except for the jingles.  And, remember that they weren't even using the Drake jingles much anymore. 

Aaugh yes the glory years...i remember many talks with Michael Spears on the phone then one day i met him. Hit it off immidiatley. Smoked a big fat one and went in to talk more programming high as a kite!!!! I remember us talking about a screaming dj who was in atlanta telling everybody he was going to be the next programming guru and eventually GM...his name was Little Dan Mason

Those were the days!!!!

[BossJock1947]

The music sounds fairly balanced for being consulted from out of town.

I'll try one more time: consultants don't pick the music. They do help interpret local research conducted with station listeners or potential listeners...

That's funny...i was a consultant and i picked the music. What planet are you on my friend? Some do some don't