{"id":401705,"date":"2026-07-17T02:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401705\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:59:22","slug":"kbay-announces-move-to-98-5-kufx-to-move-to-hd2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401705\/","title":{"rendered":"KBAY Announces Move To 98.5; KUFX To Move To HD2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/kufx.png\" alt=\"98.5 KFox KUFX San Jose\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-139199\"  \/>Updated: Following the $2 million <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/364038\/k-love-to-acquire-kbay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sale of the license<\/a> of 94.5 KBAY Gilroy\/San Jose CA to K-Love Inc. last week, Connoisseur Media has begun promoting the move of Classic Rock \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kfox.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">98.5 K-FOX<\/a>\u201d KUFX San Jose to a pair of HD subchannels and the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbaycountry.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Country 94.5<\/a>\u201d programming moving to 98.5.<\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, July 22 at 12pm, the Classic Rock programming will be heard on 98.5 KUFX-HD2 and 99.7 KMVQ-HD3 San Francisco while KBAY takes over on the primary 98.5 signal. <\/p>\n<p>In its base San Jose market, KUFX currently held a <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/ratings\/san-jose\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5.3 share<\/a> in the June 2026 Nielsen Audio ratings. It also had a <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/ratings\/san-francisco\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1.9 share<\/a> in San Francisco. In both markets, the station competes with Cumulus Media\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1077thebone.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">107.7 The Bone<\/a>\u201d KSAN San Mateo.<\/p>\n<p>KBAY, which simulcasts on 92.1 KKDV Walnut Creek in the East Bay, dropped from a 4.2 to 3.4 last month in San Jose while registering a 1.4 share in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>INSTANT INSIGHT: Is another Bay Area operator planning to go Country in the market, which may have adjusted the timeframe for this switch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated: Following the $2 million sale of the license of 94.5 KBAY Gilroy\/San Jose CA to K-Love Inc.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-401705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}