KFOG - KFOG Programming and Promotions

KFOG Programming and Promotions

KFOG has a reputation for being devoted to their listeners, whom they call "Fogheads." The weekday morning show from 6 to 10 Pacific Standard time often features prize giveaways (usually concert tickets), and guests candidly field questions from callers and e-mails. The station gives registered Fogheads first crack at tickets to private concerts and exclusive events.

Ten At 10 is a daily program the begins at 10 a.m. and also rebroadcast at 10 p.m. On Saturday morning at 7 a.m. the entire weeks show are rebroadcast back to back. Each weekday a random year is selected followed by “ten great songs from one great year” in addition to classic commercials, news broadcasts and clips from popular TV programs. Listeners would call in with their favorite songs with the winner being named “Best Of Set”, (B.O.S.). In later years the “Best Of Set” votes would also be tabulated from the KFOG Facebook fan site.

The show was hosted by Dave Morey with Don Pardo serving as announcer beginning on September 1982. Don Pardo would “spin the big wheel” which would land on the year of the day. Dave Morey retired from KFOG on Friday, December 19, 2008 ] to his home on Lake Huron.

In addition to the regular programs, there are occasional special shows, such as “Ten Turkeys” on Thanksgiving, “Hits From Hell” on any Friday the Thirteenth. During Dave Morey's tenure, he was fond of occasional all Beatles play lists.

Following Dave Morey's retirement, on air personality AnnaLisa took over the program until 2012 when Annalisa moved to KFOX radio and Renee Richardson took over Ten At 10. ]

The station holds a popular outdoor concert, KFOG KaBoom, at San Francisco's Piers 30 and 32 each May. This is followed by a nighttime fireworks show synchronized to a soundtrack. The extravagant fireworks display draws over 350,000 people. The lineup for the 2009 edition included Los Lonely Boys, Susan Tedeschi, and Chuck Prophet. In 2010 KaBoom was moved to the parking lot outside of Candlestick Park due to erosion of the support pylons at Piers 30/32. The 2010 KaBoom featured headliner Melissa Ethridge and opening act The John Butler Trio and Grace Potter and The Nocturnals and was the last KaBoom concert.

Many of the concerts KFOG sponsors are recorded for KFOG's "Live from the Archives", a massive library of live performances that drawn on once a year for a limited-edition CD called KFOG Live From the Archives. No more than 35,000 copies of each volume are pressed, and all of the proceeds are donated to Bay Area Food Banks. Volume 16 was released in November 2009.

KFOG has a tradition of playing various songs at the same time each week. On Friday afternoons at 5 p.m., the station always broadcasts the song "Smoke Two Joints", playing a version by either The Toyes or Sublime. Thursdays have been dubbed “New Releases Thursday” and KFOG plays music from new bands, often including indie rock groups. On Sunday mornings and evenings feature “Acoustic Sunrise” 7 a.m. To 11 a.m. and Acoustic Sunset” from 7 p.m. To 9 p.m. ] hosted by long time DJ Rosalie Howarth with a mellower slant to the playlist and tone to the set.

In 2002 KFOG was the first in the nation to put its music on iTunes and on HD Radio. KFOG streams its programming live over the Internet worldwide. There is a foghorn sound effect heard from time to time.