A comeback possible for live local personalities?

[DavidKaye]

Bob, you can listen to KKSF 910 AM via the internet. That's what I do between 4 and 10 p.m. sometimes during the week. The 3 to 7 slot are live: 3 to 4 with Len Tillem the lawyer and 4 to 7 with another KGO All Star, either John Rothmann, Gil Gross or Ed Baxter and Rosie Allen. They're fill-in hosts for Gene Burns, also formerly of KGO. 7 to 10 with Alan Colmes is also live but broadcast from NYC.

The John & Jeff Show, believe it or not, is also live (unless they're on vacation as they have been lately) from 10pm to 2am.  I emailed them to remind them that they should mention "live" as much as they could because we Coasties are so used to getting delayed broadcasts here.  They've increased the number of times they say "live" and they actually do get calls from the Bay Area. 

I happen to think the Alan Colmes and John & Jeff are the best things to happen to Bay Area radio lately, even though both come from other places (J&J from LA).  I much prefer listening to them than I did either Gene Burns or John Rothmann during those time periods when they were on KGO. 

[lolbrat]

Can't stand the John & Jeff Show, as they seem to repeat whatever the de jour conservative talking point is instead of coming up with their own POV.

Love Gene Burns and John Rothmann for their abilities to give fair and balanced political perspectives. True, Rothmann's near Pollyanne-ish attitude comes off as a bit much. But his niceness and thoughtfulness sound genuine. Plus he is a native San Franciscan -- a rarity for SF radio these days.

Sometimes Brian Copeland is fun to listen to but his new time slot I cannot fit in. Enjoy Christine Craft when she's on KGO, even if that means she on from midnight to 4 or 5 a.m. Tim Montemayor is like Karel -- just another idiot on the radio (albeit with a conservative bent) who tends to talk about himself, his wife, his kids, yada-yada-yada, too much and too often, or to rant about some topic, without being neither funny nor insightful. Definitely miss hearing Peter B. Collins and Stacy Taylor too, even though Peter B., to me anyway, came off as too intellectual for the radio and Taylor merely disgruntled.

[DavidKaye]

Can't stand the John & Jeff Show, as they seem to repeat whatever the de jour conservative talking point is instead of coming up with their own POV.

People keep saying they're conservative and I haven't found that, at least not politically.  Are you sure you're not thinking of "John & Ken", a totally different talkshow team?  I don't like them at all. 

John & Jeff tend not to get into political issues, but favor human interest issues, such as what to do when your wife cheats on you and then tells you she wants another kid, or whether the government should ban hand-free cell phone use.  They've asked how many truckers have taken speed to stay awake, and stuff like that.  They also have little human interest quizzes. 

Plus he is a native San Franciscan -- a rarity for SF radio these days.

Oh?  Let's see...Brian Copeland, Jon Miller, Jon Bristow, Peter Finch, Pat Thurston -- okay, maybe not SF itself, but Bay Area.  Actually there are a boatload of local folks in radio here, but those are just the ones that come to mind at the moment. 

[lolbrat]

You been reading the recent Chron features about who is a real San Franciscan?

Rothmann not only graduated from Washington High, he taught there. How many SF natives can lay claim to those two feats?

Miller (Hayward?), Copie (San Leandro by way of Ohio?), Thurston (Berkeley?), and Finch (Richmond?) are from the East Bay. Bristow from the North Bay. But yeah, they're SF Bay Areans. 

[lolbrat]

John & Jeff are the guys who follow Colmes.

[DavidKaye]

John & Jeff are the guys who follow Colmes.

Yeah, and tonight it wasn't any rightwing talk, either.  Tonight they were talking about excuses people use to miss work.  Yeah, I think the complaining poster has John & Jeff mixed up with the rightwingers John & Ken from KFI.  Both teams are in LA, though.

[lolbrat]

John & Jeff tend to lead in with some conservative political crapola. I'll listen to them again for a few more nights to see if that's their usual preamble.

And complaining poster? Like you don't have a habit of digging at people? 

[Steven Roy]

John & Jeff tend to lead in with some conservative political crapola. I'll listen to them again for a few more nights to see if that's their usual preamble.

There is so much crapola being flung by both left and right, I find myself being buried in the brown stuff. Like many, I have taken a slight step back from political talk radio. I only listen to John and Ken when I can actually receive KFI on the way home from work. They are "unlistenable" at times. It is usually because they get redundant, saying the same stuff over and over again.

John and Jeff are not my cup-O-tea. I agree with David that they're not really conservative. I think they just try too hard to be entertaining.

I find it interesting you feel it's important that one must be born and raised in the Bay Area. That sounds much like views in the South. When living in South Carolina, I was told being from Georgia makes you a "yankee".

I guess that makes me 1/2 Southern, yet still a yankee, since my Dad was born outside Atlanta. My Mom was born in SoCal. I was born in Pasadena. So am I one half Californian? Or just a native Californian?

[DavidKaye]

John & Jeff tend to lead in with some conservative political crapola. I'll listen to them again for a few more nights to see if that's their usual preamble.

I still think you have John & Jeff (formerly of KPWR and KLSX in LA) and a totally different team, John & Ken (from rightwinging KFI, also in LA).  These are two different teams.  John & Jeff seldom get into politics.  They talk mainly about human relations stuff -- marriages, kids, etc., and quirky topics such as excuses to take the day off from work that didn't work.  Stuff like that.

John & Jeff's Website:  http://www.johnjeff.com/

John & Ken's Website:  the rightwingnuts and hatemongers:  http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2012/02/have-kfis-john-and-ken-lost-their-ktla-jobs.html

It's JOHN & JEFF who are on KKSF 910.  It is John & Jeff I like hearing.  As for John & Ken, I wouldn't walk across the street to throw a bucket of water on them if they were in a flaming car wreck.  Those guys are hate-mongers of the first order, just like their mentor, Rush Limbaugh. 

JOHN & JEFF -- YES
John & Ken -- NO