How the hell do you listen to the football game on ksfo? I can't access it!

HateRed said:

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How the hell do you listen to the football game on ksfo? I can't access it!

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810 AM

You can also watch "Inside the Booth" on YouTube

I have the sfo app but cannot access the game. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

HateRed said:

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How the hell do you listen to the football game on ksfo? I can't access it!

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Probably too late, but Cal does a live cam in the booth on REGULAR YouTube with Pawlawski and other guy. Still can't see the live action but it is kinda cool to them interact when some cool happens.

CAL RADIO. LIVE CAM




ALSO: you can go to Calbears DOT com and click on the Cal Virgina game day article. Look at the top there are links to all forms of media for the game. There you can mouse over or touch the link for 810 Radio or Varsity Network on the web which works great. Or the YouTube live cam of Pawlawski which I like

https://calbears.com/news/2025/10/28/football-bears-cavaliers-meet-for-first-time-ever.aspx

Got it! Thanks!!

There are several services offering a stream of KSFO. If you DuckDuckGo search you'll find options ranging from their own stream, to Heart Radio, and a number of others. With the exception of the week they moved the game to KNBR, I've had no trouble finding a decent stream.

If you need, continue the thread and I'll try to list a few. I'm getting ready to get some sleep now and am too tired to look them up right this moment.

XBears2th said:

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If you were a local in the 1960s and 1970s, we would listen to SF Giants games on KSFO 560 AM. announced by Lon Simmons and Bill Hodges.
Go ahead.....
Google "KSFO"
Wikipedia will have no mention that KSFO 560 ever existed.
Frickin' wild.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal Ban Great!!!

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Russ Hodges, please. (He called Bobby Thomson's "shot heard 'round the world' in 1951 -- "the Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!" Don't forget that Al Michaels came here in 1974.

If I am not mistaken, Cal games were on KSFO as well.

XBears2th said:

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If you were a local in the 1960s and 1970s, we would listen to SF Giants games on KSFO 560 AM. announced by Lon Simmons and Bill Hodges.
Go ahead.....
Google "KSFO"
Wikipedia will have no mention that KSFO 560 ever existed.
Frickin' wild.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal Ban Great!!!

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Yes, my family iived in Orinda up until 1960 and my dad, a Cal grad, would have KSFO on in the garage listening to the Giants and "Bye Bye Baby" Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons! The home run call would most generally be for Willie Mays, Willie McCovey or Orlando Cepeda.

72CalBear said:

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XBears2th said:

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If you were a local in the 1960s and 1970s, we would listen to SF Giants games on KSFO 560 AM. announced by Lon Simmons and Bill Hodges.
Go ahead.....
Google "KSFO"
Wikipedia will have no mention that KSFO 560 ever existed.
Frickin' wild.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal Ban Great!!!

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Yes, my family iived in Orinda up until 1960 and my dad, a Cal grad, would have KSFO on in the garage listening to the Giants and "Bye Bye Baby" Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons! The home run call would most generally be for Willie Mays, Willie McCovey or Orlando Cepeda.

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Russ Hodges would say that he was the only person who had seen all of Willie Mays' homers. (Mays said that even he didn't see all of them). But Hodges died suddenly before Mays completed his time with the Giants)

72CalBear said:

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XBears2th said:

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If you were a local in the 1960s and 1970s, we would listen to SF Giants games on KSFO 560 AM. announced by Lon Simmons and Bill Hodges.
Go ahead.....
Google "KSFO"
Wikipedia will have no mention that KSFO 560 ever existed.
Frickin' wild.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal Ban Great!!!

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Yes, my family iived in Orinda up until 1960 and my dad, a Cal grad, would have KSFO on in the garage listening to the Giants and "Bye Bye Baby" Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons! The home run call would most generally be for Willie Mays, Willie McCovey or Orlando Cepeda.

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Just FYI, Hodges and Simmons used their homerun call for all Giants' homers. Lon continued to do so when he worked with Bill King (the greatest sports broadcaster of all time) with the A's.

RedlessWardrobe said:

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72CalBear said:

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XBears2th said:

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If you were a local in the 1960s and 1970s, we would listen to SF Giants games on KSFO 560 AM. announced by Lon Simmons and Bill Hodges.
Go ahead.....
Google "KSFO"
Wikipedia will have no mention that KSFO 560 ever existed.
Frickin' wild.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!
Cal Ban Great!!!

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Yes, my family iived in Orinda up until 1960 and my dad, a Cal grad, would have KSFO on in the garage listening to the Giants and "Bye Bye Baby" Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons! The home run call would most generally be for Willie Mays, Willie McCovey or Orlando Cepeda.

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Just FYI, Hodges and Simmons used their homerun call for all Giants' homers. Lon continued to do so when he worked with Bill King (the greatest sports broadcaster of all time) with the A's.

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For anyone who doesn't know or remember, Simmons' home run call was "you can tell it good-bye!"

Don sherwood was why i listened

Oakbear said:

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Don sherwood was why i listened

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Me, too. Then I was exposed to KMPX(later KSAN).

So long 1950's.

When Cal was on KSFO, the play by play guy was Dan Fout's father, who I also believe did PxP for the Oakland Oaks of the PCL. (Bob Fouts).

Later on, when Cal moved to KGO, play by play was done by Monty Stickles, who played at Notre Dame, and I believe was the sports director at KGO for a time.

For those who still have them, the "California Gridiron" (also known as "programs") used to have ads for KSFO within the pages of the magazine. Most notably (for me) was the picture of Don Sherwood with ""Just plain Rosita"

Those were the days when radio, and the city, both were great. Both have declined, but the memories are strong and very warm.

For those who wish to stream the games on KSFO, I strongly suggest you DuckDuckGo "KSFO live stream" and give it a try a day before the game to make sure it works for you. Some streaming services do NOT offer the post game show (Sirius XM, as an example, only gives the PxP). But I've been using https://player.listenlive.co and also https://radiostationsusa.fm and they've worked well for me. Tunein.com and radio.net have also worked for me in the past. But the first one I noted has worked the best for me.

Often times when you first start listening you have to go through a commercial or two before they connect you to the booth. But once you have the stream of the PxP going, they will not interrupt the broadcast.

TomBear said:

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When Cal was on KSFO, the play by play guy was Dan Fout's father, who I also believe did PxP for the Oakland Oaks of the PCL. (Bob Fouts).

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Bob Fouts also did the play-by-play for the 49ers.

Nice catch, Golden One (no play on words intended). You are right. He did 49ers broadcasts for a time.

~ KGO 810 has been the Cal Berkeley sports broadcaster for at least 4 decades, no? KSFO throwbacks are confusing folks . . .

-- anybody missing Starkey, yet? & how 'bout Laird, or Marshawn, on color, sometime

https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/kgo-am-810-403470/

Bobodeluxe said:

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Oakbear said:

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Don sherwood was why i listened

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Me, too. Then I was exposed to KMPX(later KSAN).

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KPMX didn't become KSAN, their staff moved to KSAN - "After a 1968 DJ strike, KPMX staff moved to KSFR (94.9 FM), which Metromedia renamed KSAN and flipped to the same format"

Could barely get KPMX, out of San Rafael, on my dad's hi-fi gear in Lafayette/Burton Valley in the Sennheiser heaphones. When I heard Tom and Rachel Donohue for the first time. Used to listen to KDIA on AM back then as well. Good radio days. Boomers will enjoy this: https://bayarearadio.org/ "You have KOME ooozing out of your speakers..."

/threadjack
Back to the Bears

prospeCt said:

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~ KGO 810 has been the Cal Berkeley sports broadcaster for at least 4 decades, no? KSFO throwbacks are confusing folks . . .

-- anybody missing Starkey, yet? & how 'bout Laird, or Marshawn, on color, sometime

https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/kgo-am-810-403470/

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You are correct -- thank you! In fact, KSFO broadcast Stanfurd's football and basketball games for many years.

prospeCt said:

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~ KGO 810 has been the Cal Berkeley sports broadcaster for at least 4 decades, no? KSFO throwbacks are confusing folks . . .

-- anybody missing Starkey, yet? & how 'bout Laird, or Marshawn, on color, sometime

https://mytuner-radio.com/radio/kgo-am-810-403470/

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No, not missing Starkey at all.

prospeCT:

KGO has been the radio voice of Cal football since the late '60s. Before that, it was KSFO 560. KCBS did stanford football broadcasts until Cal moved to KGO. Don Klein was the stanford PxP guy, I think (when they were on KCBS).