98.5 KOME – Fan Blog

Caught this post in the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle – SF Gate ~ Radio Waves written by Ben Fong-Torres:

Congrats to Laurie Roberts, observing her 30th anniversary on the air in the South Bay, on KOME, KSJO and, since 1985, on KUFX (KFOX at 98.5 FM), where she’s also PD. See? Not everybody gets fired after a year or two .

Now I can honestly say I have been listening to Laurie on the air now since 1979…. I prefer to think of these last 29 years as a blip on my mental radar but if you see Laurie she does not look like she could possibly have been on air that long. Laurie Roberts is a special on air personality, at least to me because she has a mind like a steel trap. She has limitless knowledge about bands, not just some bands or specific bands but it seems like she knows all bands! Case in point, after she did the shout out and played the ACDC Song Thunderstruck for the Jericho Rangers DVD for the Troops program
( thank you again Laurie!) she added that the band had been on a plane and that the plane was struck by lightening, hence the song THUNDERSTRUCK!

I also love that she is exactly the type of smart business woman a girl can emulate, she is strong, and witty but also personally easy to talk to. She has made the last 30 years of rock in the Bay Area a joy to listen to.

Thanks Laurie for all the great tunes and may you have thirty more!