Zona and Sageza Interviews and Commentaries
Zona Research and The Sageza Group
From 1995 until 2011 I was involved with two market research firms that followed the high tech sector. In a time when the Internet was just beginning to appear on everyone's radar, Zona Research was the first to publish extensively about this burgeoning phenomenon. As a result, I spent a lot of time in front of cameras explaining it all. After the dot com bust, Harry Fenik and I formed The Sageza Group to pick up the pieces of Zona's demise and continue on for a few more years.
These recordings are from the final few months in 1987 while I was the Jazz Music Director at KCHO. The station at the time had NPR News during the drive time day parts, classical music during day and early evening, and jazz from 9pm until 5am weekdays. The weekends had more of a block format but maintained NPR News during drive times. Jazz and/or Blues ruled the evenings and overnight, and I managed those day parts.
This a collection of many hour-long segments recorded at random from KJAZ during its final few weeks on air in June and July 1994. The Summer of 1994 was a sad time when it became apparent that KJAZ was going to be sold and its classic jazz sound lost from the FM dial. I never worked at KJAZ, but it was the standard bearer of great locally produced jazz radio. Although I worked in non-commercial radio, I always liked the fact that KJAZ was commercially supported, and until its imminent demise had no fund drives, and was able to stand on its own as jazz radio. KJAZ defined hip, cool, and class all at once.
This collection of radio and television spans multiple decades and various points along the way in my professional life. While initially there may not be much more information that the files themselves, overtime I will add supporting information as possible.
There are two eras of my works represented here along with a collection of the last few weeks of the San Francisco radio institution, KJAZ-FM. There may also be other interesting radio tributes available as well.
The radio content is in .mp3 format (stereo) typically with encoding at either 80kbps, 128kbps, or 192kbps. Due to the limitations of the surviving source material, some of the audio may exhibit print-through or other degradation inherent in magnetic media.
The Video content is available either in .mp4 or .wmv depending upon the original source. Being of more recent vintage, most of this material survived at a higher level of fidelity.