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KFOG is an FM radio station in San Francisco, California, broadcasting on 104.5 MHz KFOG's transmitter is at Mount Sutro, and studios are located on Hawthorne Street in San Francisco's South of Market (SoMa) district. It operates a full-time satellite for San Jose and the South Bay, KFFG at 97.7 FM MHz. The station plays an adult album alternative format, an eclectic variety of blues, reggae, folk, pop, and rock music from the mid-1960s to the present, which the station calls "World Class Rock." It is owned by Cumulus Media. KFOG broadcasts in the HD Radio format.〔http://www.hdradio.com/station_guides/widget.php?id=3 HD Radio Guide for San Francisco〕 ==History== The station signed on on February 4, 1960 as KBAY and was owned by Kaiser Broadcasting, a company started by local industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The KFOG call letters have been around for decades, and were used when 104.5 played beautiful music. On September 16, 1982, they dropped the easy listening format for a blend of album-oriented rock which they called "Timeless Rock". The station featured a wide range of music, from the psychedelic sounds of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane to newer artists such as Prince, the Eurythmics, and the Thompson Twins. They avoided more commercial bands such as Loverboy, which were widely played on many other AOR stations at the time. KFOG's specialty programming included "10 At 10", ten songs from a particular year interspersed with old newscasts, commercials and film clip, hosted by Dave Morey. A nightly "Psychedelic Psupper" showcased music from the psychedelic era and the "Sunday Night Idiot Show" featured an eclectic collection of oldies hosted by M. Dung. KFOG was inspired by San Francisco's freeform rock radio heritage, dating back to KSAN. When KFOG went on the air, the Bay Area was deluged with AOR stations. KMEL was the established, tightly-formatted album-oriented rock station that had been playing rock music since 1977. KRQR was the hard rock station and KQAK was a new station with a friendly, loosely programmed, personality-driven alternative rock/new wave format. There were two other rock stations in the South Bay - KSJO and KOME. One San Francisco rock station, KSFX, switched to talk radio in May of that year. Of the six Bay Area rock stations that were on the air in late 1982, KFOG is the only one that remains. The station has evolved over the years, but has now been airing an eclectic rock format for more than twenty-five years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KFOG」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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