On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:19:56 -0800, running dogg wrote:

John S. wrote:

Well, here in Northern California the three formats I mentioned are the
preponderance of AM. There is one all news station, KCBS in San
Francisco, which only covers the Bay Area (of course, but useless if
you're in Sacramento). There are no oldies stations left on AM. There
used to be a big band station in Sacramento (KCTC, 1320) but they dumped
their format after determining that their listeners were all dead. (They
went to Air America, which probably caused some heart attacks among the
remaining members of the greatest generation.) Most stations that
advertise as being "oldies" in fact play a lot of hippie rock and 70s
stuff, not Elvis era stuff. AM simply isn't commercially viable outside
of a narrow range of listeners. Preachers like AM because it's cheap,
for the same reason that most domestic SW in the US is religious (and a
lot in Latin America too). Minority communities like AM because they can
serve their communities easily and cheaply. The rest of the stations
fight to survive by loading up on ranting Rushes.


KCBS covers the Western third of North America at night.