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YoshidaYui

(44,298 posts) Fri Aug 18, 2023, 10:14 AM Aug 2023

HEY norCalers.. who remembers this??

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HEY norCalers.. who remembers this?? (Original Post) YoshidaYui Aug 2023 OP

I do Auggie Aug 2023 #1

absolutely YoshidaYui Aug 2023 #2

I liked watching the independent TV stations. Doc_Technical Aug 2023 #3

Someone posted somewhere how they got the pets to turn and face the TV. usonian Aug 2023 #4

Even as seldom as I turned on the idiot box... I do remember that... now! lambchopp59 Aug 2023 #5

I do! Unwind Your Mind Aug 2023 #6

dont remember this at all.. .I dont remember a channel 20 BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 #7

KOFY owned by James Gabbert in San Francisco YoshidaYui Aug 2023 #8

Auggie

(32,506 posts)

1. I do

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 10:41 AM

Aug 2023

Back when James Gabbert owned KOFY. Good, fun local programming. In January 1995 it became a Warner affiliate, and the independent vibe changed.

YoshidaYui

(44,298 posts)

2. absolutely

Reply to Auggie (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 10:47 AM

Aug 2023

Doc_Technical

(3,695 posts)

3. I liked watching the independent TV stations.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 11:00 AM

Aug 2023

Ch.20, Ch.44, Ch.2 before it became a Fox affiliate and Ch,36
home of "The Old Sourdough and Wachikanoka".
brought to you by MMM Carpets.

This brings to mind "The all night movie movie-go-round"
with host Jay Brown of Spartan Dodge and the Price Slasher, on Ch.11

usonian

(19,891 posts)

4. Someone posted somewhere how they got the pets to turn and face the TV.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 11:13 AM

Aug 2023

Maybe someone remembers. Quick web search turned this up:

https://tvstations.fandom.com/wiki/KOFY

Most memorable were the station identification breaks featuring pets, usually dogs, of Bay Area viewers that would look on cue at a television screen showing the station's logo. In fact, these proved to be immensely popular—so much so that KTZO/KOFY would often work together with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals by displaying pets that could be adopted, along with a phone number to call with the pet's name on screen.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)

5. Even as seldom as I turned on the idiot box... I do remember that... now!

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 06:00 PM

Aug 2023

Usually my apartment had KBLX ever plinking Sade, DeBarge, Al Green tunes in the background, in it's "soft and warm, the quiet storm" days. Sigh, old, creaky steps apartment buildings now long gone in Hayes Valley. My 4th floor walkup had one of the only functional fireplaces. I used it a lot, too.

Unwind Your Mind

(2,287 posts)

6. I do!

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Fri Aug 18, 2023, 06:11 PM

Aug 2023

It reminds me of being home with chicken pox when I was 11

My best friend had it at the same time and we watched together over our corded rotary wall phones

BlueWaveNeverEnd

(10,899 posts)

7. dont remember this at all.. .I dont remember a channel 20

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 10:38 PM

Aug 2023

YoshidaYui

(44,298 posts)

8. KOFY owned by James Gabbert in San Francisco

Reply to BlueWaveNeverEnd (Reply #7)

Sat Aug 19, 2023, 10:59 PM

Aug 2023

https://tvstations.fandom.com/wiki/KOFY

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