KCBS radio question. (Sacramento, Concord, Carson: home, moving, bill)

[bostonguy1960]

I sometimes listen on the TuneIn app.

I thought it is based in the Bay area. Now it seems it's more in the Sacramento area?

It's just that they were talking about temps in the 90s recently which the Bay area wasn't expecting but Sacramento was.

Just curious.

It's a major station, available on the AM dial throughout all of the Bay area? At night, does it penetrate hundreds of miles?

I can't get KGO AM on that app but maybe try iHeartRadio or radio.com? Is that a more influential or respected station locally? Maybe higher ratings?

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by bostonguy1960

I sometimes listen on the TuneIn app.

I thought it is based in the Bay area. Now it seems it's more in the Sacramento area?

It's just that they were talking about temps in the 90s recently which the Bay area wasn't expecting but Sacramento was.

Just curious.

It's a major station, available on the AM dial throughout all of the Bay area? At night, does it penetrate hundreds of miles?

I can't get KGO AM on that app but maybe try iHeartRadio or radio.com? Is that a more influential or respected station locally? Maybe higher ratings?

We have microclimates. It's very common to have temps in the 60's at the bay,and 30 miles inland you're seeing 90's.

As to whether or not KCBS can go miles? I don't know, because there are lots of things that have to come together for that to happen. I can remember just once out here, the universe aligned just right, and I managed to tune in a very faint KDKA from Pittsburgh PA. Just for a few minutes...I had a slice of home...

KGO sucks so hard it isn't even funny. KCBS is all news.

[BayAreaHillbilly]

KCBS is SF based but its area of signal coverage includes a large chunk of NorCal (including Sacto). Same deal for KGO and a few others.

[neutrino78x]

AM radio reflects off the ionosphere, especially at night when the atmosphere is colder; this is known as "the skip signal". It works better along the same longitude; you can pick up KGO in Washington State quite easily (I did it in the Navy), but picking up an AM signal on the East Coast that originated on the West Coast would be rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave


KGO used to be a legendary station. They were #1 OVERALL -- not just talk radio -- in the Bay Area from 1978 until 2011 or so. That's when the new owners of the station decided young people wanted to listen to all news, so they laid off all the weekday talk show hosts except Ronn Owens. Recently, they decided that young people don't want local news, either, so they laid off the award winning KGO Radio News team.

Now they are slowly moving back to the newstalk format, but the coolest people from KGO are now 910 AM, which is trying to become the new KGO. With the exception of Ronn Owens; he is the last of the old KGO who is still on there.

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by neutrino78x

AM radio reflects off the ionosphere, especially at night when the atmosphere is colder; this is known as "the skip signal". It works better along the same longitude; you can pick up KGO in Washington State quite easily (I did it in the Navy), but picking up an AM signal on the East Coast that originated on the West Coast would be rare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywave


KGO used to be a legendary station. They were #1 OVERALL -- not just talk radio -- in the Bay Area from 1978 until 2011 or so. That's when the new owners of the station decided young people wanted to listen to all news, so they laid off all the weekday talk show hosts except Ronn Owens. Recently, they decided that young people don't want local news, either, so they laid off the award winning KGO Radio News team.

Now they are slowly moving back to the newstalk format, but the coolest people from KGO are now 910 AM, which is trying to become the new KGO. With the exception of Ronn Owens; he is the last of the old KGO who is still on there.

I like Gil Gross...but after that I go to either Bloomberg on 960, or KDOW 1220.


Regarding KDKA, interesting that this is a thing. One of the cats knocked the radio off the station, and my old radio (a bank giveaway freebie still in use today) doesn't have a lighted band, so at night, you either turn on the light and wake up the husband, or slowly roll the dial till you hit something, my choice. I rolled the dial slowly, and caught the familiar voice of Perry Marshall...then the caller had the Pittsburgh accent, and then it faded away...maybe 30 seconds, if that.

I tried every night after that for a few months, never happened again...

[mileena]

I get KGO over the air in Carson City, NV.

Whatver happened to Karel, btw?

Multimedia Home of Charles Karel Bouley Progressive GLBT Entertainer

[neutrino78x]

He's one of the people that got booted because new management claimed that young listeners don't want to listen to local news or newstalk. He still does a radio show, though, over the internet. Oh I see you already had his web site.

[drewjube]

F(orget) Karel -- what happened to Dr. Bill Wattenburg?

[DMenscha]

KCBS also covers the east bay, like Concord, Walnut Creek and the Tri-Valley area where the temps can easily get that high in the summer.