My parents moved to SF in 95' when I was a little kid. Nothing screams nostalgia like listening to KFOG in the morning with my Dad or getting picked up by my parents after school and hearing Dave Morey, Peter Finch, and Annalisa. You will be missed. Thank you for the memories
Remembering when 100.5 FM in Sacramento was sold in 1988 and went from a religious format to more conventional music, they played a few days' worth of ocean sounds. They had some weird electronic and machinery sound effects a few years later when changing formats again.
I remember K Fog and KABL they were two great radio stations in the Bay Area....I remember when I was there in the 1970s and 1982.....and close to there in 2010...I listened to K Fog on 104.5 and 97.7...when going to Santa Cruz....but did not hear KABL on 98.1...it is not the same...even in L A.. all radio stations sound all the same....no more beautiful music 🎵🎶 and real oldies...it is all junk now .... California will never be the same place.... especially on the AM and FM bands
I recorded the final 3 hours off the air. A tragic day but commercial radio is dying a slow death. I’m grateful to public radio more and more, as my local AAA station is on public radio
I was never a foghead and didn't listen (do remember when it was beautiful music format) but hate it when any station dumps its format, whatever it is, just to simulcast something that is already available.
Seems like this is recorded from the internet stream, which was simply taken off-line at midnight. Would like to hear what it sounded like over the air with the first minute of the sports format. I can't pick it up here but heard they re-played a baseball game from earlier in the day starting at midnight.
I'm a bit closer (Sacramento) but this station rarely comes in here, and the FM reception in my apartment is unusually bad (TV is much better, I even get bay area stations periodically). I think another station closer by has been on that same frequency for a while. Don't care about sports but just listened to a bit of their internet stream, they're playing a game in mono but commercials are in stereo. 93.1 FM here flipped from oldies to news-talk (simulcasting an AM station) and their stereo signal went off when that happened! The commercials at least would have been more tolerable in stereo and the theme music and what-not would sound better also, they kind of ruined the point of FM when they did that.
The Media Hoarder Judging by the Wikipedia article, KFOG was running fake white noise (starting at the end of this loop) until the audio from KNBR was pulled up. I can't believe they'd really do a carrier cut to switch an STL link when both stations originated from the same Cumulus Battery Park complex.
I was going to record the final day of KFOG this morning, and it’s gone. Yesterday was the final day of KFOG which was aired on my birthday. It ended at 3 AM eastern, and 12 AM pacific. I should’ve record it yesterday since I was staying home and went to lunch on my birthday. Thanks for putting this up. In addition, KFOG had a annual fireworks show at the time called “Kaboom”. It ran from 1994 through 2010. There were many videos of KFOG’s “Kaboom” which is on RUclips, and two videos from 2004 and 2005 which was from Internet Archive if you want to check them out and relived the memories of KFOG’s “Kaboom”. BTW, The sounds you hear at 3:00 to 13:47 is the sounds of the harbor, or shall I say, the sound of the New York harbor from Battery Park to Brooklyn.
The last few minutes of KFOG were as underwhelming as the last few years of KFOG. Two minutes of that closing would have been cool, but ten minutes reeks of laziness.
Brian O'Neill I was going to say that it felt like they didn't cue enough songs into the computer after the last 10@10 ended, but the fake carrier cut right at the very end kinda disproved that. (I assume they faked that carrier cut until they brought up the audio from KNBR, both stations shared the same studio location.)
Ellis Feaster Unfortunately emblematic of how the station slowly faded into memory thanks to bad programming moves and previous demos that aged out completely.
Ellis Feaster It was a throwback to the last day of WCFL in. Chicago back on 3/15/76 when “Superjock” Larry Lujack was still at the “Super CFL” where he stunted ocean waves and says “Get your clothes and get in the tub!” That’s what he says at the very end.
At least WCCC Rock Station ended with a bang with Pantera Walk!!!!! before playing Newsboys on K-LOVE in Hartford CT. K-Fog could of switched to CHR with Nikki Minaj. But no it is quiet.
Mark Salo WCCC and KFOG had totally different histories, heritage and listener bases. Moreover, the decision in 2016 to cut out most of the AAA format in favor of a typical harder-leaning alternative format not unlike WCCC wound up stripping KFOG of it's heritage to begin with.
@@RustyMuck not necessarily because there was some AAA stations flipped to ARS. But never ARS flipping to CHR. It was ARS flipping to CWM and CCM. WAAF was close of flipping to CHR in 2016 before CBS mergered with Entercon.
This was a throwback to the good old WCFL in Chicago back in 1976 where Larry Lujack was still at the station during its final sign-off and stunted as ocean waves where he belts out. “Get Your clothes off and get in the tub!”
PIX Promos & More Foghorns and ambient sounds of the San Francisco Bay were an audio signature of KFOG from the beginning. It had everything to do with that and nothing to do with a format change in Chicago from 1976 (6 years before KFOG flipped to AOR, no less) that virtually no one would have cared to reference anyway.
My parents moved to SF in 95' when I was a little kid. Nothing screams nostalgia like listening to KFOG in the morning with my Dad or getting picked up by my parents after school and hearing Dave Morey, Peter Finch, and Annalisa. You will be missed. Thank you for the memories
Man, saddest day ever. Miss KFOG so much.
It's a sad day for all the fogheads
Cumulus really screwed up a great station......
The Bay Area only has one rock station left... 1077 The Bone. This was a sad day. Long Live KFOG.
Remembering when 100.5 FM in Sacramento was sold in 1988 and went from a religious format to more conventional music, they played a few days' worth of ocean sounds. They had some weird electronic and machinery sound effects a few years later when changing formats again.
I remember K Fog and KABL they were two great radio stations in the Bay Area....I remember when I was there in the 1970s and 1982.....and close to there in 2010...I listened to K Fog on 104.5 and 97.7...when going to Santa Cruz....but did not hear KABL on 98.1...it is not the same...even in L A.. all radio stations sound all the same....no more beautiful music 🎵🎶 and real oldies...it is all junk now .... California will never be the same place.... especially on the AM and FM bands
I recorded the final 3 hours off the air. A tragic day but commercial radio is dying a slow death. I’m grateful to public radio more and more, as my local AAA station is on public radio
Did anyone say good by or discuss the change?
ginger elvira nope. Automated
The San Jose radio frequency sold to EMF, while the San Fran Bay Area is replaced by a KNBR AM simulcast.
I was never a foghead and didn't listen (do remember when it was beautiful music format) but hate it when any station dumps its format, whatever it is, just to simulcast something that is already available.
Spoken like someone who knows nothing about radio
Seems like this is recorded from the internet stream, which was simply taken off-line at midnight. Would like to hear what it sounded like over the air with the first minute of the sports format. I can't pick it up here but heard they re-played a baseball game from earlier in the day starting at midnight.
It is the internet stream. It's all I can receive here in Florida.
I'm a bit closer (Sacramento) but this station rarely comes in here, and the FM reception in my apartment is unusually bad (TV is much better, I even get bay area stations periodically). I think another station closer by has been on that same frequency for a while. Don't care about sports but just listened to a bit of their internet stream, they're playing a game in mono but commercials are in stereo. 93.1 FM here flipped from oldies to news-talk (simulcasting an AM station) and their stereo signal went off when that happened! The commercials at least would have been more tolerable in stereo and the theme music and what-not would sound better also, they kind of ruined the point of FM when they did that.
The Media Hoarder Judging by the Wikipedia article, KFOG was running fake white noise (starting at the end of this loop) until the audio from KNBR was pulled up. I can't believe they'd really do a carrier cut to switch an STL link when both stations originated from the same Cumulus Battery Park complex.
I was going to record the final day of KFOG this morning, and it’s gone. Yesterday was the final day of KFOG which was aired on my birthday. It ended at 3 AM eastern, and 12 AM pacific. I should’ve record it yesterday since I was staying home and went to lunch on my birthday. Thanks for putting this up.
In addition, KFOG had a annual fireworks show at the time called “Kaboom”. It ran from 1994 through 2010. There were many videos of KFOG’s “Kaboom” which is on RUclips, and two videos from 2004 and 2005 which was from Internet Archive if you want to check them out and relived the memories of KFOG’s “Kaboom”.
BTW, The sounds you hear at 3:00 to 13:47 is the sounds of the harbor, or shall I say, the sound of the New York harbor from Battery Park to Brooklyn.
I will continue to post some of the key hours of KFOGs last day over the next few days.
(0:00) to (2:58) Final Programing (2:59) to (13:47) Static with Birds Chirping
thanks! what is the foghorn track from?
Benny and the Jets, Elton john. . .
The last few minutes of KFOG were as underwhelming as the last few years of KFOG. Two minutes of that closing would have been cool, but ten minutes reeks of laziness.
I expected more. I kept thinking they would do something, but the sfx. Just went on & on.
@@EllisFeaster In other words...typical modern radio.
Brian O'Neill I was going to say that it felt like they didn't cue enough songs into the computer after the last 10@10 ended, but the fake carrier cut right at the very end kinda disproved that. (I assume they faked that carrier cut until they brought up the audio from KNBR, both stations shared the same studio location.)
Ellis Feaster Unfortunately emblematic of how the station slowly faded into memory thanks to bad programming moves and previous demos that aged out completely.
Ellis Feaster It was a throwback to the last day of WCFL in. Chicago back on 3/15/76 when “Superjock” Larry Lujack was still at the “Super CFL” where he stunted ocean waves and says “Get your clothes and get in the tub!” That’s what he says at the very end.
Pause after transmitter 104.5 is Now Sports
At least WCCC Rock Station ended with a bang with Pantera Walk!!!!! before playing Newsboys on K-LOVE in Hartford CT. K-Fog could of switched to CHR with Nikki Minaj. But no it is quiet.
Mark Salo WCCC and KFOG had totally different histories, heritage and listener bases. Moreover, the decision in 2016 to cut out most of the AAA format in favor of a typical harder-leaning alternative format not unlike WCCC wound up stripping KFOG of it's heritage to begin with.
@@RustyMuck not necessarily because there was some AAA stations flipped to ARS. But never ARS flipping to CHR. It was ARS flipping to CWM and CCM. WAAF was close of flipping to CHR in 2016 before CBS mergered with Entercon.
‘AAF was never going to flip to CHR, not with that rimshot signal.
NEXT YEAR SHOULD HAVE BEEN 62 YEARS LONG TIME
all this then Covid hit and there was no sports for a year LOL
Sounds like KFOG pulled a 'CFL for their ending
This was a throwback to the good old WCFL in Chicago back in 1976 where Larry Lujack was still at the station during its final sign-off and stunted as ocean waves where he belts out. “Get Your clothes off and get in the tub!”
PIX Promos & More Foghorns and ambient sounds of the San Francisco Bay were an audio signature of KFOG from the beginning. It had everything to do with that and nothing to do with a format change in Chicago from 1976 (6 years before KFOG flipped to AOR, no less) that virtually no one would have cared to reference anyway.