To be absolutely honest, we’re not sure what “gay music” is, but San Francisco activists want it returned to the airwaves.
Yes, San Francisco activists are “encouraging” the new owner of KNGY-FM to bring back the gay-oriented programming it featured until recently.
The station’s new owners switched its call letters from KNGY to KREV and flipped its format from “gay” to Top 40.
You can’t blame the new owners for changing formats. Ratings for the gay format sucked so badly that it trailed even Air America’s San Francisco affiliate. They each had less than 10% of the audience of top-rated KGO.
Nevertheless, Bay Area gay activists and politicians consider the format flip an insult to the community and they’re encouraging the new owners to “rethink” the decision. County supervisor Bevan Dufty (another one of our favorite names) has even introduced a resolution to that effect.
The FM station can be found at 92.7, which, naturally, is on the extreme left side of the dial.
Source: The Radio Equalizer
This post was last modified on September 24, 2009
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Lemming's anybody?
"Ratings for the gay format sucked so badly that it trailed even Air America’s San Francisco affiliate. They each had less than 10% of the audience of top-rated KGO."
Is it possible that the gay population is only 10% in SF?
The gay population is about 10-15% in the entire country. The show may have not sucked, but it didn't pull in numbers that would quantify keeping it alive. However it could have still sucked EVEN if it pulled in all (yet still the minority) numbers of gays in SF. I bet those people that complained were pretty much a smaller number within the small number. Did the channel come back? If it didn't it means this activists were unimportant.
I am angry that channels like LOGO are on my cable list. No one asked me if I wanted to a gay channel, I had them remove it. Things like that should be chosen not imposed. If they don't make the numbers and they cannot survive then they don't survive. It is what it is.
I wonder if Yanni falls into the category of gay music????
We're not even sure it qualifies as music.
So it's just "gay"?
"we’re not sure what “gay music” is"
Anything by Moby.
In my opinion no one has commented on this article as we are just not quite sure what to say.