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brad

I'll be on KKUP (91.5) Saturday 3-6 p.m.

DJ JC Smith just asked me to bring in my favorite blues albums and he's going to play them along with some selected by other people, including the new owner of JJ's Blues, Johnny Perkins.

Give it a shot

Americana radio from one of the guys who invented it

Bleetstein is a guy who loves music as much as I do....You can't go wrong checking out his new station::


Country and alt.country fans can tune in to the new stream that Rob Bleetstein is now programming.
Bleetstein, a San Jose State alumnus, began his radio career at KSJS and was
also music director at KHIP in Hollister in the mid-80s (when the station
was run by former KFAT djs) and coined the term 'Americana' when he was an
editor at the radio trade magazine Gavin.
RadioioCountry embraces country old and new, traditional and neo, twangin'
and rockin', alternative and bluegrass, strange and stranger. A KFAT for the
21st Century? Tune in.

check it here radioiocountry

great great blues marathon

KKUP-FM (91.5), with studios in Santa Clara and a transmitter in Cupertino, is really a people's station It's everything great radio should be.

This weekend the station does its blues marathon, which includes all kinds of local performances, including a long-awaited duet between Gary Smith and Andy Just to be broadcast Sunday at 5 p.m. The marathon starts Friday at 3 p.m. and runs through Sunday night.

The marathon will show the range of the blues, including segments on female singers, piano blues, New Orleans blues, Chicago blues, rocking blues and gospel, to name a few.

You can bet plenty of people will be stopping by to jam. If you haven't tuned in this station, try it this weekend to get a real feel for the San Jose blues community.

Check the calendar, for updates here: http://www.kkup.com/marathons/2005/blues/marathonsched.htm

raise an ear to KSJS-FM

The San Jose State University station was nominated for "Station of
the Year - Medium Markets 26 - 75" by JazzWeek, the nation's premier jazz radio Web magazine.
The station's Music Director for jazz programming, Dr. Brad Stone, was also nominated this year for "Programmer of the Year -
Medium Markets 26 -75.''

When you are a volunteer on a college station, you need all the kudos you can get. And you deserve them.

Talk about a selfless job: it's something you do for love of music and love of listeners.

Thanks Brad and the KSJS staff for keeping jazz alive.

KSJS-FM is at 90.5 and you can check the schedules at KSJS

country station pangs and twangs

The most asked question I've had this week: Where can I hear country now that the Bear is gone?

Answer: South Bay is easy: KRTY-FM (95.3), which was just a hop across the dial from the Bear.

For those up north, you have to turn to the Internet, I'm afraid.

For great classic country, try www.everybodysmusic.com

For eclectic country mixed with inspired classic rock: www.kpig.com

Anyone up North have other suggestions????? Can you pick up Sacto stations?

the real jack

One of my favorite ways to start the day is with a call to Jack Swanson, manager of the Bay Area's top two talk stations, KGO-AM and KSFO-AM.

The guy is a character, something all media needs but is too often erased in this great corporate takeover of the airwaves.

Swanson is the liberal in wolf's clothing, who puts on the conservative station we used to call KKKSFO. Who knew it would become mainstream, even in the bluest of the blue cities?

He did. Or he was lucky.

I still picture him dressed in leather, as he was for the station's Halloween party, with his wife, S&M soccer mom, Melanie Morgan, co-host of KSFO's morning show.

What's up Jack?

"You're calling about KYCY, right? (The new Pod station at 1550-AM) You probably like it. No one is going to listen. There's too much out there. We just got blogs. Now Pods. It's all too much. No one can keep track of it all. I need someone like the President has, to weed through the media and tell me what I need to know.''

Swanson is bummed out about the change of Top 40 and Oldies KFRC-AM to a religious format.
"It's terrible. i don't mean to be anti Christian. I'm Christian, but please. How can this happen in a big city?"

Does it mean AM radio is finally dying and people are switching to new technologies?

"No. There are one billion radios in this country AM and FM. That is a very big number, a thousand million. There are only ive or six million satellite subscribers.

"I just listened to Howard Stern this morning in my kitchen, bathroom and car. If he goes to satellite, I don't know.

"I love new technologies, but AM didn't go away when FM came. Almost 25 percent of San Francisco listening is talk radio.Some on FM, NPR, but most on AM. I think there's room for everyone."

His KGO just had its 107th quarterly rating book on top of the Bay Area ratings. KSFO is in the Top 10 for the nine county area and the Top 5 in San Jose.

What do you think it all bodes for the future?

I'm not going bald; all this talk radio has me pulling out my hair

It must be all the time we spend in cars, or maybe it's how boring the music stations have become, but South Bay listeners spend a lot of time with talk radio. KGO and KSFO are in the Top Five here; KQED has big local ratings.

So why does so much of it drive me crazy?

The worst I've heard this week:

Bill O'Reilly complaining that the print media attacks him because he criticizes them. Please. Maybe they attack him because his "no spin" zone whirls faster than Linda Blair's head in the Exorcist or Rush Limbaugh hunting for pain pill prescriptions. This guy has been teflon though. He settles a lawsuit with a woman who accused him of harrassment and kinky phone calls and it all just disappears.

Michael Savage, the former purse-carrying hippie, calling for the jailing of Newsweek's editor for sedition and praising Joseph McCarthy campaign to rid the country of communists.

Ronn Owens, whose spread is spread in San Jose Magazine this month, telling another female guest she's hot. In his revealing interview, Owens says he'd rather be able to be invisible than to fly. Maybe he should just try the salads.

All this talk about flushing the Koran, and not a word about the New Yorker's story about the U.S. using private planes to fly accused terrorists to Egypt for outsourced torture. You get the feeling all the media is getting spun?

So, what has your neck doing 180s????