{"id":409088,"date":"2026-07-23T05:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409088\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:46:25","slug":"san-joses-bay-country-kbay-officially-launches-on-98-5-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/409088\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose\u2019s \u2018Bay Country\u2019 KBAY Officially Launches On 98.5 FM. |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Connoisseur Media &#8220;Bay Country&#8221; KBAY San Jose, CA, launched on 98.5 FM Wednesday, taking over the signal from classic rock sister station KUFX. KBAY will continue simulcasting on 94.5 until the pending $2 million sale of that frequency to K-Love, Inc. closes this fall.<\/p>\n<p>KUFX&#8217;s &#8220;K-Fox&#8221; classic rock programming moves to HD2 and online streaming through Super Hi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expanding Bay Country to 98.5 is an investment in both our listeners and our advertising partners,&#8221; Regional Operations Manager Brian &#8220;Fig&#8221; Figula said in a release. &#8220;This gives KBAY the stronger signal and broader reach the brand deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All current on-air personalities \u2014 including Danny Miller, Tony Michaels and Emily Harlan \u2014 remain in place. Additional programming leadership changes across Connoisseur&#8217;s West Coast markets are expected soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Connoisseur Media &#8220;Bay Country&#8221; KBAY San Jose, CA, launched on 98.5 FM Wednesday, taking over the signal from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-409088","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\/409088","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=409088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}