97.3 FM.....this is the station that plays when I'm doing Yelp. Easy listening music, even the ads…read moreare easy to listen to. I don't listen to morning shows. I just want easy to listen to music, while I write reviews, do research, or just read yelp talk. Usually it just plays over an Echo device. So....."Alexa, play Alice at 97.3 FM."

Not sure why everyone's reviewing the morning talk show only. This is a music radio station and my…read moreone star is because in the early 2000s this station used to play Rock and alternative music and now all they play is pop and r&B. They play NSYNC, Britney spears, Alicia keys, a bunch of crappy r&B and old cumbersome rap. They don't play any Rock whatsoever anymore.

I think it would be positively received by your audience as well as your reputation if you gave…read more10-15 seconds to care of pets in this extreme heat. You warn about sneaker waves when a fraction of listeners will ever see one compared to those with pets. Water, shade, keeping off asphalt, etc. Mention it a lot. Thank you. P Ward Sausalito

KCBS News..... At 12…read moreNoon on a Saturday, how come there's no national news? I tuned into 740AM on the Odyssey App via an Echo Ball, and got ads for 2 mins. I thought it was just Odyssey, so I turned on my REAL AM/FM radio. Same thing....more nonstop ads, Total of 4-mins. Guess I have to find another news station

I have been listening KCBS for many years. There are only so much "mindless" talk radio that one…read morecould listen , ... Whenever they emphasized on the facts, not on drama, sound bites and "mindless" opinions. Their news broadcasting is superb. KCBS's idealistic pursuit of the precise execution is pretty good. One can set their schedule on their various timely news reports. While being predictable, they are not perfect at all. But their broadcasting of the news is superior than the other Bay Area news sources. When their game is on, their "signal over noise" is greater than the basic "noise over signal.". Four stars for their quality news. One extra star for being a positive mainstay in the SF Bay Area for many years..

KCBS-740 is doing a late night simulcast with KNX in LA. When I heard Los Angeles traffic reports…read moreat 1am, I thought it was a mistake. Maybe the signal was bouncing off the atmosphere late at night? A little research said KCBS runs one statewide traffic report. Who came up with this useless idea? Listening to traffic on the 8's isn't a reliable source of info if I have to wade from LA traffic reports.

I put 5 stars because, while Yelp enables it, people abuse it. I am talking about the 5000 friends…read moreYelp members. They find you and befriend you. And that is where the interaction stops. You will never get a like from them. They will never read one of your reviews; who has time with 5000 friends? I am an old-school guy. I like your reviews, and I will take the time to read them and comment on them. Another thing I do is cull out "friends" who haven't posted in a year. Three people don't post anymore. I keep them because they have passed away. Out of respect for our past friendship, I will never delete them. I turn down friend requests almost weekly. I am 77 years old, and a smoking-hot woman with no reviews does not want my friendship. I will also look at friend requests, and if you have more one-star reviews than 5-star reviews, you will not make my friends list. Thus, there are only 287 friends; I don't need to collect friends to stroke my ego. I want friends who will laugh and interact with me.

Yelp advertising: more spam calls than customers…read more I run a mobile video game party business in the DFW area and signed up for Yelp advertising to reach more local families. The results so far: zero measurable bookings from Yelp, and a nonstop barrage of sales calls from overseas call centers offering to "get me listed on Google" and other platforms. The calls started almost immediately after the listing went live, which tells me where they got my number. When I raised the issue with my Yelp account executive, Raymond, he stopped answering the phone. My emails get a one-line reply telling me to contact customer support, which is the opposite of what an account executive is for. If you're a small business considering Yelp ads, budget for the phone spam, not the customers. Not worth it in my experience.

Vapid, socialite slick consumerist fodder…read more Content is Not for the typical Yelper. I canceled my subscription 2 months ago, but they're still sending it to me. Like I'm going to buy a $1million SOMA condo or a $50,000 diamond for my wife. Yeah right!

I'll never forget my first San Francisco magazine. I had just moved to the Bay Area, only to be…read moreheaded on a trip to New Zealand, and I was browsing the airport bookstore for reading materials when I saw it: the extra-large mag with a pic of Gavin Newsom on the front. I was glued to the pages the whole flight and subscribed the second I got back. Those were the heady days of my budding love affair with San Francisco, when the city could do no wrong and waves of discovery were washing over me at an almost unbearable rate. So the magazine was quite helpful for marinating my brain in the local flavor and gaining some semblance of orientation. But now, I've got a lot more personal experience with SF (and, let's face it, I've got Yelp), and the magazine isn't quite the eye-opener it once was. More importantly, though, the city (and, let's face it, Yelp's uber-populist medium/message) has turned me into something of an anti-consumerist eco-hippie, and the dream of high-society hobnobbing and owning that killer loft has palled considerably since I realized I was just being subjected to the incredibly paradoxical mass-marketing of luxury "lifestyles". Unfortunately, though, there are still a lot of Boomers (ok, and some young folks) in this city who subscribe to that dream, and SF Magazine is catering to them more than ever these days. So aside from the excellent "Reporter's Notebook" articles, there really isn't much to interest me anymore, and I find myself on the lookout for a Bay Area lifestyle magazine that caters to my *actual* lifestyle. Sorry SF Mag--to quote one of your ads, you may have overlooked nothing, but I don't actually want to overlook everything.

I was listening to this station when I was in high school (1987-1991). It was playing in our rental…read morecar. Gone are the days of The Ramones, Siouxie and the Banshees, The Smiths, Oingo Boingo, The The, INXS, The Divinals, UB40, Book Of Love, The Smashing Pumpkins, and so many more artists to mention. Steve Masters was the DJ, my favorite, nowadays he reviews Video Games or something related. There was a morning show. It was classified as "New Wave" but then it changed to "Modern Rock." I still have the logo keychain and I remember the bumper stickers that I slapped on my Toyota rubber bumper. I heard 1990s alternative and today's alternative music. There was no edge to it. It's disappointing.

After a four year yoga retreat Live 105 is back. One star for NoName and one for Aaron Axelsen…read more On my Jetta I've got 18 FM presets and so 105.3 got one years and years ago when I got my car. Engine runs so smooth. Even when it turned into this Bollywood station I would still listen to it from time to time. I got a kick out of the advertisements - always the same ones - I remember this realtor speaking highly of herself - shameless promotion in her heavy accent while speaking English. So one day I'm minding my own business shuffling through all the stations frantically and I recognize NoNames voice. I couldn't believe it. No more Bollywood for me. Turns out they were on a yoga retreat. He said so himself. Right when the station returned they had the 1800 number to call in with your opinions during every ad session. Listening to it again was almost like getting in a time machine and going back ten years. I even felt ten years younger again in an instant. Who knew? Potions and lotions and botox had nothing on listening to this station. They recycled the same 15 songs and played them on a loop just like they always had. It was so familiar - very soothing. At the same time it was very very terrible - not like a train derailment - but maybe like a child scribbling some ugly piece of art. Bad but in a good way. One star for NoName. Love the guy. I remember when I met him. He looks just as you would imagine him to look from knowing his voice only. I got some concert tickets from him for knowing some band trivia questions on air. One star for Aaron Axelsen. Sound check is probably one of the only good reasons to listen. Sunday evenings from 8 - 10. New stuff. Interesting stuff. Local stuff. Its not better than Barbara Streissand but its different. All these years had passed. My Jetta now officially slowly slipped into heapdoom status. Saggy headliner, engine light, a knock here and there in the suspension and a big dent on the drivers door from when I had to take Mr Moose to the emergency room and time was of the essence. Engine still runs so smooth but the interior stinks. I'm not sure if Mr Moose did something in there or maybe the a/c evaporator core drain is clogged. It stinks and I don't think I'm going to fix it for it to pass its next smog check. I'm either going to spritz some freshner in it and dump it on CL or donate it to my favorite Cantonese radio station in San Jose. They gave me a shen yun calendar last time. I enjoyed that all year. Nothing can be depended on anymore in life except for Coupe Deville's and that 1053 button in my Jetta.

07/12/2026…read more Sunnyvale to San Jose skyline view looking eastward last night. As sun was setting horizon, it was very brown PH in reference to our last continental fire. But dissapated in about an hour/60min. It started purple to blue, in about an hr. FYI.!! Around 10pm. FYI, there are a lot of fires going on-Continental Stat-W.W.W. Resourced.

Funny enough, I've only been on Battery Street twice but this 2nd time, I was fortunate enough to…read morewin tickets from Live 105 for the 33 International Beer Festival at Fort Mason this weekend. As a person who doesn't really win contests, I'm super pumped that I won the tickets and could pick it up from the CBS station.

I probably went for 10 years not watching or reading the news. This guy got stabbed - that lady had…read moreher kitty saved by firefighters. IDK there is a lot of stuff I don't want to know. You can watch Vice or Democracy Now... CNN. Drama TV. I suppose its most important that you realize its mostly for entertainment purposes. Too much bad news out there. I would recommend to read the good news.

KRON4 Ignored a Documented Story About Discrimination, Gatekeeping, Retaliation, and California's…read moreMental-Health Workforce I am giving KRON4 one star based on my direct experience with the station and its newsroom. I contacted KRON4 reporter Dan Kerman with a documented public-interest story involving alleged disability discrimination, LGBTQ discrimination, institutional gatekeeping, retaliation, higher education, professional licensing, and California's mental-health workforce. I provided enough information and supporting material for KRON4 to understand why I believed the matter had significance beyond one individual. I am intentionally not repeating the confidential details of that submission here. Those materials were provided to KRON4 for journalistic consideration, not public disclosure. I did not expect Dan Kerman to automatically take the story or agree with me. I expected basic professional courtesy. A simple response saying, "I received your information, but we are not pursuing the story," would have been enough. Instead, I experienced silence. That was particularly disappointing because Dan was someone I had known years ago through San Francisco's gay community and whose work I respected. Sharing a community connection does not obligate anyone to cover a story, but it made the dismissiveness especially disappointing. I expected professionalism, not preferential treatment. When I received no meaningful acknowledgment, I elevated the matter to KRON4 newsroom leadership. Again, I did not demand coverage. I asked for confirmation that the information had reached the appropriate editorial level and had been considered. Nearly three weeks passed without even that basic acknowledgment. At that point, the phrase "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" seemed appropriate. When essentially the same dismissiveness continued after I moved from an individual reporter to newsroom leadership, my concern stopped being about one person and began looking, in my experience, like a broader newsroom culture. That is difficult to reconcile with KRON4 calling itself "The Bay Area's Local News Station." A local newsroom depends on the public. Tips, witnesses, sources, and viewers all come from the community. When someone submits documented information involving discrimination, disability rights, LGBTQ issues, retaliation, professional gatekeeping, education, licensing, and the mental-health workforce, I believe the minimum professional response should be acknowledgment--even if the answer is no. What makes this more frustrating is KRON4's editorial choices. KRON4 has devoted newsroom space to what I consider stupid, bizarre, and insignificant stories: kittens trapped in pipes, a baby fox traveling inside a construction pipe, a fur seal found in bushes, a giant marmot appearing in San Francisco, a bologna-inspired face mask, and other "Strange" or viral stories. Some viewers may enjoy those stories. Fine. But I have every right to question the priorities of a news organization that can find time and resources for those stories while a documented matter involving discrimination, retaliation, LGBTQ concerns, disability access, higher education, professional licensing, and California's mental-health workforce cannot apparently merit even a two-sentence acknowledgment. Although I now live in Los Angeles, this was not simply a private Los Angeles matter. The issues involved California institutions, California licensing, discrimination, disability access, and the statewide mental-health workforce. KRON4 also shares its parent company, Nexstar Media Group, with Los Angeles station KTLA 5. California stories cross television-market boundaries all the time. Again, I was not demanding coverage. I was asking a professional newsroom to review serious information and communicate whether it had any interest. A respectful "no" would have been professional. Silence was not. At the time I checked Yelp, KRON4 showed approximately 2.3 stars across roughly 150 reviews. My one-star rating, however, is based on my own direct experience. My criticism is not that KRON4 refused to broadcast my story. My criticism is that after submitting serious, documented information and then elevating the matter within the newsroom, I could not obtain the most basic professional acknowledgment. Two sentences could have prevented this entire review: "Thank you for sending the materials. We reviewed them and have decided not to pursue the story." That would have been professional. Silence was not.

So KOFY 20 TV is changing their format, again. I started watching Creature Features every Sat…read morenight during covid. But then you punted and changed to all westerns in 2022. Looks like this week, you're changing to Dr Phil, blah, blah, blah. I guess the all western format didn't work out well for you.

I am feeling terrible as of this review that KOFY TV is permanently going away and instead it is…read morefeaturing a channel with 24/7 westerns. That means no more Steve Wilkos or Jerry Springer. Or other variety programs that were on their station plus the replays of ABC7 news in the evenings. I think the programming management is doing a bad thing as they can easily broadcast this channel on a digital sub channel and still keep the main station. My husband also is already not happy with this change. What was a good thing is now a bad and I don't think I would watch Western's programming 24 hours a day. MeTV, Antenna TV and Movies TV are all broadcast on sub channels without an impact to the main channels. Hell, Kron 4 can be generic with their programming at times with shows at night and so forth but at least they are still there! So good bye Kofy TV. We will miss you and even the cute local commercials featuring the dogs. At least Chabot College is airing Creature Features now and it sucks no more Dance Party.

Bring back Dave totally random radio. That was the best music and excellent listening. Now we are…read moreback to the same old boring crap from live 105 and nonstop Green Day.

EPIC FAIL, this station blows…read more How does this radio station make it? It has such a small playlist and yet manages to replay the same songs over and over again?? Irritating is what it is. Thanks for playing a few good bands but running them to the ground-this includes songs that were great back in the day. Sheesh