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."

I've been a loyal listener for over 20 years, but I was shocked and deeply disappointed to hear the…read morehateful, one-sided anti-immigration ad you aired. Highlighting horrendous acts to demonize entire communities is not only irresponsible but also cruel. As someone who has trusted and enjoyed your station for so long, I'm ashamed to hear such an atrocity broadcast on your airwaves. This kind of messaging fuels division and harm, and it has no place on a station that claims to serve and reflect the Bay Area community. If this is the kind of content you choose to air, I cannot continue to support Alice @97.3. I will also share my disappointment with others so they can make informed choices about what they listen to. I urge you to reconsider the standards and values you uphold in your advertising choices.

i agree with some of the…read more1 and 2 star reviews regarding commercials .. there are often too many of them .. and the quality Bad and Dumb .. how about just saying ".. brought to you by .." but Overall i like this station .. i first listened to it in 1968 when i was in high school and Dave McElhatton was at the station .. then pretty much didn't listen again until the 1989 Quake .. since then i have it on throughout the day .. and go to sleep with it at night, as i did in 1989 .. it's an easy way to stay informed .. especially with all the Schmoozy, Visual Filler with TV News now .. as far as some complaints about it being Left leaning, what do you expect, after 40 years of "Trickle Down" ( tinkle on ) Corporate "economics" masquerading as "Conservatism" ..

So much nonsense that is considered news to them that is not news. Count how many times they say "…read morenon profit " and "crisis " in a 1 hour drive. Sport is not sports. Almost no scores even for local teams but can a least give playoff scores. Instead they come up with obscure , meaningless stories. An example is just a day ago a WNBA team signed the girlfriend of a player. Really? Thats sports news? I am as middle of the road as you can get it the decline of and real / relevant stories glaring. I will also never forget the snake expert a few weeks ago. KCBS lady rebuking the expert about rattlesnakes " you dont always SEE the rattle " . Really? We trust her to objectively report news???

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.

Delicious pizza. Perfect crust. We'd love margaritas with /x mozzarella and artichoke. Great staffread more

I've given my blood, sweat and tears to win 3 consecutive Yelpies, so it's with a heavy heart that…read moreI must announce my retirement from competitive Yelp reviewing. I know. This is more shocking than Jordan going to play baseball or Barry Sanders retiring in the midst of his prime. Streets are already calling me Johnny "What If" Novo, but I know it's time. I had to look in the mirror and have that God-honest conversation with myself that elite athletes seemingly always put off until it's too late. "Do you still love it enough to compete at the highest level? Is the hunger still there to wake up at 5am to write 3 reviews before the workday?" The answer, my dear reader, is no. I've always told myself I would leave the game before I cheat the game. Sticking around just to feel the love from the fans, shake hands, kiss babies, and rack up sponsorship deals would be cheating the game that I fell so deeply in love with as a little kid. While I feel my pen is better than ever, I don't have the time, bandwidth, or energy to keep up with the generational greats like Marianne W and Phil H, or the young hungry lions coming up looking to make a name for themselves. The blessing of being well fed has cursed me to not be hungry. I'd love to sit here and thank Yelp, but they've done next to nothing for me even though I promoted their platform relentlessly for the past 3 years. So why did I do it? For pure love of the dying genre that is the written word. I will be focusing more on short stories and a novel. I have a few ideas that light a fire in me that I can no longer ignore. IG @johnny.novo Tiktok @jnov__ Substack @johnnynovo

Wow. I was just trying to contact yelp to make a suggestion and was unable to find any "contact…read moreus" avenues, and then decided to yelp "Yelp". I had no idea what these business owners have been dealing with and hearing their frustrations, and then to see how yelp does not even respond to their reviews. Disappointing. It seems like there is frustration with the "Elites" which I have been invited to join on numerous occasions - I decline and usually skip their reviews as it defeats the purpose of leaving a review because you are inclined to do so. Just them being incentivized is wrong. Anyhow, yelp is on the decline - the older reviews and photos need to be archived - menus and food change constantly. To be looking at reviews and photos over a year old are irrelevant and unhelpful- put in a sort option in the photos (as you do for reviews) where we can look at "newest" photos first. Or just have them populate by newest first, please! And take care of all those negate reviews of your company.

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.

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.

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.

I am done with our "local" news station KVAL, i.e. CBS. Other than overly long weather reporting…read morethey are just an ad for what's coming up on national CBS. And CBS, you and Ms. King can say all you want about Big O now running for POTUS but they ever increasing "specials" with Big O says another thing. We all know Ms. King and Big O are buddies. And really, does any reporter need to get in the face of a grieving child who's obviously devastated (Duck Boat accident) to get the interview. CBS needs to get a heart or at least a piece of it. I am sick, sick, sick of the Media today.

whats up with the weather girl still wearing white shoes? It's Novemberread more

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.

KRON TV 4 am could improve if they referred to Good Morning America on how to look professional…read more Not everyone on the am is on the wrong track. This morning Michael Thomas jumped into a bunch of children's sponges? And indicated he was going for a glass of wine. So inappropriate and unprofessional. He appeared to be high or ? And then there is Reyna Harvey who never wears anything that complements her! Her hair and big earrings are so distracting. She is a pretty young lady but someone should help guide her on her appearance. Both these newscasters are distracting to what their job should be about. I advise them to check out GMA and check out the professionalism they have going. Their am show is great and the ppl are professional.

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