98.5 KOME In The News
Will try to collect all the mentions of KOME in the news that I can find, its part of the history and needs to be collected in one place ( unless the many DJ’s have done this, in that case there will be two places now. 
Brad Kava’s write up in the 33 1/3 Reunion in A+E Blog at the San Jose Mercury – January 23rd, 2006
Metro Active – Silicon Alleys ~Erectus: Another Monument by Gary Singh – December 6-12, 2006
The most important mention ( and saddest) that I have found……… now, if I had known, been there in San Jose at the time, I would have mounted a campaign to save my station ( and look how successful we were with Jericho!) but sadly I was not in CA at the time……. damn it. So check this out:
Less than two weeks remain until the letters fade away
By Michael Learmonth
KOME is gone, for good. The call letters that have defined innovative music radio in the South Bay for 28 years have vanished into the ether, perhaps to reappear in some other CBS/Infinity radio station in a market far, far away.
KOME’s owner, CBS/Infinity, bought its strongest competitor, KITS (Live 105), and then performed a transplant, sending many of KOME’s vital organs to Live 105, including Howard Stern, the Loveline and much of KOME’s management. It was as if CBS/Infinity had Siamese twin stations and opted to sacrifice one to assure the health of the other.
To read the rest of this story, click here.
And notice who the mortal enemy is for me here! Yep, CBS again damn it!
August 26 * 2008
Goodbye, KOME
By Corinne Asturias
From the June 4-10, 1998 issue of Metro.
