10 February 2009

Energy Fail

KNGY-FM, the gay-friendly dance music station here in San Francisco, finished the month of January in the ratings shitter. Of 43 stations measured in the SF/Oakland/San Jose market, Energy 92.7 finished at an abysmal #38.

That's quite an anemic number for a market the size of San Francisco (the 4th largest in the nation). I'm no expert, but it seems to me that owner and proprietor Joe Bayliss (and his Flying Bear Media company) might want to consider a format change of some sort before one of the media giants scoops in and pulls the station out from under him. I can't see a company like Clear Channel going to the mat for the LGBT community the same way Bayliss and his staff have.