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Patty Winter wrote:

Amid this discussion of how broad station playlists are, I was in
a cafe yesterday picking up a sandwich for lunch when I heard the
Eagles' "I Can't Tell You Why." I immediately recognized it as one
of the songs that KYUU (KNBR's FM sister station in San Francisco)
was playing when I worked there in the summer of 1980. I counted
the carts once and figured there were about 400 songs in rotation.
Even in those few months, I heard each of them so many times that
they now jump out at me 30 years later as being "KYUU songs." :-)

When ARS took over the original KBAY, they gutted the format. It turned
into ARS' version of a KOIT sound-alike. The playlist was tightened to
less than a couple hundred songs, which of course were played over and
over.

That was in the mid-nineties. To this day, when I hear ANY of those
songs, I cringe inside, recalling the corporate destruction of the
station where I had worked for twenty-three years.

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