KKSF 103.7 FM

I listen to all kinds of music… Alternative rock, Classic rock, R&B, rap, 80’s, pop, new wave, lounge music… you name it. But when I want to chill — read a book, study, have some wine — I would prefer KKSF 103.7 some Anita Baker, Sade, Earl Klugh on guitar, Jim Brickman on Piano, Michael Franks on vocals. Unfortunately, KKSF doesn’t exist on FM radio no more. So with that said, I play old CD’s or some tunes stored in ipod.

This station sucks. I have been listening to 45 minutes of commercials straight. When they do play music it is the same song every day. Bring back Smooth Jazz.

Dear Whichever «Asshole with an iPod» runs the playlist for this station,
Classic Rock encapsulates some of the best musicians and song writers of all time. Clapton. Dylan. Hendrix. Joplin. Jefferson Airplane. Led Zepplin. The Doors. Etc. All you ever seem to play is the %$#@ing Steve Miller Band. Really? Enough is enough. If I hear «Already Gone» or «Keep on Rocking Me, Baby» one more time, bad things will happen.
With Bleeding Ears,
Michelle S.

BOO, KKSF. Everything is about $$ these days, trying to survive and somehow by dumping smooth jazz and switching to a new format will save you. We’ll see, betcha didn’t think all those smooth jazz listeners have started to desert you and move over to other stations. I’ve moved on. When you come to your senses and reinstate jazz, I’ll think about coming back.

I’m sooo upset that they got rid of Smooth Jazz!!! Okay… so the last few years some of the music got a little less varied and repetitive… so revamp the programming, don’t get rid of it. Talk about «throwing the baby out with the bath water»! Duh!!!
The music they’re playing now is horrible, not to mention the fact that there are a whole lot of other stations playing the same thing.
I listen to different kinds of music, depending on my mood… country, pop, latin… But now, thanks to the idiotic decision made by some executive bozo at KKSF, smooth jazz music is not one of them.
One thing for sure… I won’t be listening to KKSF anymore or patronizing their advertisers.
Hopefully, some competitor will take advantage of this huge mistake and start another smooth jazz station… soon.

Last night, my husband and I were watching a DVD. He goes to work at night, and wakes up at 8:45PM. Last night, he didn’t go to work, so we were just watching along when the clock alarm went off.
(Our clock alarm has programming for six radio stations, and you know where we had Alarm One-​Station One
set on. :)
He was wondering why the clock was playing rock. He thought that I had reprogrammed the alarm. I went to go turn the clock off myself, and thought,“Ok…that’s weird…”. Then I found out the bad news!: (
This is terrible!!! Don’t tell me that I’m going to have to go back to KBLX now! But, honestly, there is nothing bad about KBLX. It’s just that I’d like to think that I had graduated from KBLX onto more eclectic tunes that really does wonders for your spirit! And, I’ve listened to KKSF for so long!
What do we all tune to now out here on the radio for our Smooth Jazz? It would be great if KCSM had this type of format. But, KCSM is in it’s own beautiful realm, which I hope no one touches.

KKSF does not even deserve any star, their new changes does not even compare to other radio station. BAD decision from theri top idiot people!!!
I listen to JAZZ, when I have enough of the dance music. They need to bring JAZZ back, fire the excutives and get fresh people to run the JAZZ station again!

I liked KKSF and I like the new station, The Band, as well. If I want smooth jazz on the radio, there’s still KBLX, which I listen to often. Long live radio!

KKSF used to be a great smooth jazz radio station, but now they have changed their format to old rock and roll music. This was such a bad decision of Clear Channel, and it should be no surprise why terrestrial radio’s ratings are way down. Luckily, I am a Sirius satellite subscriber, and I can listen to Smooth Jazz on Channel 71 without commercial interruptions. When the Sirius/​XM iphone app comes out, I am sure they will have many new subscribers to try out all the great music and talk on satellite radio.

KKSF
I am so upset! KKSF a new format! I am a LONG time listener. Now I hear this trendy mainstream garbage! I would always ask my 8 yr old daughter whats dads station? she would answer KKSF 103.7 it was our thing. Now its gone. You had something that worked, why change? I am not alone. Alot of my co workers would have KKSF on thier radios. We all agree, you have lost a big listining base for what? Koz, Rick Kenny KK not to fear, we will find another station tht knows the value of qulity smooth jazz.
Steve

Simple:
Old KKSF Smooth Jazz: 5 stars, one of my favorite stations
New KKSF The Band: 1 star, one of my least favorite oldies/​rock stations
Yep, that says it all. I’m not really mad at the format change, it’s just that 103.7 was THE station for modern jazz, introduced me and my family to it about eight years ago and actually got me to buy the music. I mean, imagine 8 and 10 year olds liking a jazz radio station like my sons do! That’s what the old KKSF did for jazz in my family. Even my vietnamese wife who absolutely always listens to AM vietnamese stations was listening to 103.7 KKSF smooth jazz! That was a first in the 16 years we’ve been together.
OK, now the new format. First, the programming is so random with cliché’d selections. I mean, Hall and Oates Private Eyes, then Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze??? WTF? Half the time when I tune into 103.7, I just say OMG and switch to a real 80’s/70’s or classic rock station, and there are plenty of them. I think they don’t really know what their new format is, and whoever is doing their programming is either an intern or a computer (and even iTunes is better than this idiot).
Basically, they changed formats away from an obscure low-​ratings format for business reasons, and they changed it to a completely unknown format that I can’t imagine people listening to because it’s so random. Seems like they are trying to kill the station. Look around, there are several FM stations in the SF Bay Area alone doing Smooth Jazz, not to mention Internet-​only:

The «Smooth Jazz» catalog was wearing thin, so the answer: Play the bublegum rock hits of the 70’s over and over yet again… How about Elton’s «Bennie and the Jets»? FRESH!!! oh, Screw it. It would have been too much work to find some unique artists & sounds for what started out 20 years ago as a truly great format that’s been copied throughout the country. Bring me Hall & Oats, instead, and make it snappy!

Not sure how to rate this… I loved the smooth jazz of KKSF (4 stars), but I found out that it is now «obsolete» and has been replaced by classic rock (1 star).
I’ve been listening to KKSF for at least 15 years. Smooth Jazz was one form of music therapy for me. ;) The station was not only about the music they played, but they were also about getting out into the community and getting the listeners in touch with their favorite artists. At least I can still listen online… but I wonder how long that will last. RIP KKSF!
(Although I am a fan of classic rock — depending on my mood du jour — isn’t there already several stations with that format???)

Nobody has screwed radio more than Clearchannel! Call me jaded (okay, you’re jaded) but this decision to switch formats reeks of some consultant 2,000 miles away who only looks at charts and graphs. 70s Rock? I’m a fan of that era but this «what’s-old-is-now-new-again» format is so trite. Spare me! I’ll miss the Dave Koz afternoon show.
Definition of a Consultant: guy who knows 200 ways to make love but doesn’t know any women.

They say they play smooth jazz, but I’ve heard everything from hip-​hop to folk, and everything else in-​between. If you call them — if you TRY to call them — they simply don’t answer the phones as they obviously are pulling music for their radio shows. I can’t understand how they can be when they play the same songs over and over again — in fact, you can sometimes even hear the same songs at the same hour/​times in a day — sometimes there’ll be a gap of two days but that song will air at the same time you heard it yesterday, or a few days ago… you get the idea. The station manager called me to explain they tailor their music playlists to those who might listen to KKSF just for a few hours, thence if you listen all day as I do, then you’ll hear the same song played… once, twice, three and more times a DAY!!! grrrrr Weekeneds late at night they get some airing of really cool music but sometimes it changes to really NON-​smooth «jazz». As I stated before: they say they play smooth jazz but they actually air a LOT of different songs… I’ve even heard rap a few times!!! When they get off their «other than smoothies» playlist, I switch to Pandora online and listen to what I want.
I can’t really blast them too hard; after all if it weren’t for KKSF I wouldn’t have ever heard of Jesse Cook!!! Yes, they play his stuff (thank goodness!!!) at least 4 times an hour and the same darn music pieces… JC has more stuff out, why can’t they update their playlists or will they play the same music for decades to come? grrrrrr

I’m a fan of jazz and soft music as I like to play it throughout the house during the day.
Though I do like this station, their play list is the same. Every day I have to hear «Forget Me Nots» at least once, «The Way You Move» instrumental by Kenny G at least once, among others. They probably only play these songs once a day, but it seems like more prolly because they play them in the late afternoon and I’m so used to them it feels like more than once a day.
And I think SF radio stations’ commercials are longer. I’ve been wondering if it’s because they need more advertising dollars here. And some sound like it’s the DJ talking, but then at the end I find out it’s a commercial.
I like the music on this station, but I wish they could be daring and switch it up a little.

this is my jazz station. I like the smooth modern jazz sometimes and not the old school way out there jazz that everyone pretends to understand from the old guys like coltrane et al. But then Im an R and B baby! sing!

I love kksf. I love Sade and the hot smooth jazz they play on this station. Perfect for reminiscing and knockin’ boots.

Kenny G
Crappy wavform «make the music so unobjectionable you can barely hear it» end of time, an example of armageddon, my parents don’t even listen to this bullshit anymore AWFUL dentist’s office ridiculously bad zero talent worthless not-​really-​music music.

I used to love this station, but then stopped listening when I realized that they keep playing the same stuff over and over and over and over again. Once in a while I’ll go back when the other stations don’t have much playing, but if you’re a jazz lover (and I don’t mean hardcore jazz, but the trendy kind) then this station is for you. They love playing Chris Botti, Marc Antoine, Dave Koz and the like. On Sundays, they broadcast from the Nikko Hotel’s Anzu restaurant.