KFOG, the legendary San Francisco alternative rock music station, plans to mark its last 24 hours at 104.5 FM with a daylong tribute to its glory years going back to its launch in 1982 on Thursday, Sept. 5. The special radio show comes after the announcement last week that Cumulus Media, owner of 104.5 FM, would switch programming to KNBR sports talk, ending KFOG’s run on Friday, Sept.6.

Every hour on the hour on Thursday, from 6 a.m. through midnight, will be a rebroadcast from morning-drive host Dave Morey’s famed feature “10@10,” in which he selects 10 songs from one year between the mid-1960s and 1990s and plays them commercial free, interspersed with news clips and other cultural trivia. Depending on the year and how long pop songs were in that year, the segment can last up to 45 minutes, said KFOG program director Jacent Jackson.

Each set is introduced by “10@10” emcee Don Pardo and the 10@10 Orchestra, and concludes with a reading of each title by Morey and his “Best of Set” award. And while Pardo will say, “Let’s do it all again, tomorrow, Dave,” listeners will only have to wait half an hour for the next segment. In between each, the station plans to play selections from “Live From the Archives,” its annual CD, along with rare unreleased tracks from its promotional concerts in the KFOG “Play Space.”

Back when radio still ruled, every artist who came to town stopped into the KFOG studio, including the Allman Brothers, Indigo Girls, John Hiatt, Elvis Costello and Counting Crows. These shows were attended by KFOG devotees, known as “Fogheads,” and some of the best performances made it onto the annual CDs.

“Thursday is for the Fogheads. That’s why we are doing it,” said Jackson, in reference to the estimated 80,000 registered Fogheads during the peak of the radio station’s tenure. “We’re going to take KFOG’s best elements and play them all the way till midnight.”

At 8 a.m., the station will also play an hour-long broadcast of morning drive host Morey’s farewell show from Dec. 19, 2008. In the minds of many Fogheads, this is known as “the Day the Music died” because Morey retired to seclusion in the Midwest. Though “10@10” and other features continued without him, fans contend the station was never the same.

In addition to Morey reruns, throughout the day there will be segments and memories from other popular on-air hosts, including Rosalie Howarth, Big Rick Stuart, Irish Greg and Dave Benson, a longtime KFOG program director.

At 5 p.m,. there will be a second hour-long tribute show, this time to the late M.Dung and his popular Sunday night “Idiot Show,” offering a chance to recall Dung’s Wolfman Jack-like slang and well-worn slogans like “Aaaaway, baby.”

During the last hour, starting at 11 p.m., the station will play Morey’s original sign-on when the station went live in 1982.

The entire tribute is previously recorded. The current on-air staff, including No Name and Dayna Keyes, and Danica Lopez, said their farewells on Wednesday, Sept. 4.

An all-day tribute to a station that is going away is very rare in radio, Jackson said. Most of them just flip the switch, but in KFOG’s case it will be to KNBR sports radio, a simulcast of its ongoing AM programming at 680 AM.

“We have an opportunity to say goodbye, and we wanted to do it in a way that gave a legendary rock brand some dignity,” said Jackson.

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