9.2.23 KTSF 26 booth…read morewas at the Hong Kong Carnival today in Milpitas, CA. I explained that I like the station and my father watches nightly. It was around 1230pm and k asked the older shoulder length hair lady if I could have a blue ktsf giveaway tote bag. She said come back at 1. I also asked if I could have a anson lo mini poster on the table and she gave me like the smallest one. Not really a big deal. But the vibe I get from this booth team was not good. If you aren't enthusiastic about ktsf or connecting with people who enjoy your programming, then why bother setting up a tent. Mabye I am not their target audience. I heard them complaining that things get snatched up so fast. Well it's a free event. The least you can do is fake it and.act professional. Don't complain about people taking freebies (I didn't take any, I think they were saying in general about not having a lot of promos left). So disappointed today in ktsf. I didn't actually take a photo of their booth but I have a photo of the carnival to prove I was there. The ktsf booth was towards the back, near the drop off area of parking and across from bouncy castle kids section.

no more money.almost become a taiwan local station.DJ. often changes.same tv drama shows again and…read moreagain.

We had THE BEST TIME! This photo was many years ago and we…read morewent two different times. Bring some morning beverages and dance your face off!

Two and a half years after my first taping experience, this FREE dance party is still a must-do…read morefor Bay Area residents and visitors. My boyfriend's niece had a choice between visiting the Golden Gate Bridge or being on Dance Party back in December and chose to come down to KOFY Studios with me. It's Season 5 and the formula is the same: rock the 80s gear, dance to about 10 80s hits, cheer for game show challenge contestants, take lots of photos. Basic info: Tapings are held at noon, 2pm, and 4pm on Saturdays every 4 to 6 weeks during the typically five month long taping schedule. One taping is usually themed(yesterday featured the 90s. So bummed to have missed it!) Check Facebook for event details. What has changed in two years? You can no longer park in the studio lot, across the street(though some of us do) or on Chavez. Studio staff has gotten better at sending the stumbling drunks home(very important considering somebody left last taping in an ambulance.) What else to know? With four seasons under its belt, the show has its core group of regulars that stand in line for each taping. So if you really want to be part of an episode, arrive at least an hour before a taping to make sure you get a coveted taping pass. Yesterday, my friend brought along chairs to make our stay in line more comfy.

I'm disappointed that the last number of episodes have not included a guest/restaurant that is…read morevegetarian. Its too bad that the show is not more inclusive. The show has been very animal-meat driven of late. I've liked the show when there has been a vegetarian guest, so that I can see what is there for me, and family to eat. Will stop watching if the venue doesn't offer more.

"Check Please! Bay Area" is like Yelp, real people giving their opinions on real restaurants. You…read morecan't please everyone. Leslie, the lively host, must keep the show moving and interesting, or people will stop tuning in. I like this show, it taught me how to write restaurant reviews. It helped me develop a style. It showed me how to convey feelings and emotions about food. I'm still learning, and I'm still watching old "Check please!" shows on the PBS app on streaming TV. Also, the food photography is absolutely beautiful.

Once a year, there's a KQED Fest outside of their headquarters, where there's music, food, booths,…read moreand a painting wall for all to enjoy. It's nice to support a local nonprofit, being part of the community, and celebrating public broadcasting. Mark your calendar for their next one!

I love KQED with a passion. I follow a few of their hosts/writers on social media, and I'm not…read moregoing to hide that it'd be a dream to be connected to KQED in any capacity, so I'm excited to leave this review. I got to attend the KQED FEST of 2026. It was my first time visiting the headquarters, and the space was just dopamine inducing: open space, walls of windows, areas that just scream community cultivation. There is so much to do at KQED Fest, and this is a FREE event! There was a variety of spaces designed especially for creative kids: painting, playing, looking under microscopes. There were also a good offering for the adults: panels, presentations by NPR, and auditions for Check Please, Bay Area! And if none of that sounds interesting than feel free to take your pick of tours, a stage with local live music (by such greats as: Tiny Desk Concert winner Ruby Ibarra or the 2024 KQED Bay Area Showcase winner Misa James), bingo, and lots of great food and drinks. Of course, I grabbed a little KQED swag as a physical souvenir of the day. I'm hoping (make that manifesting) I'll attend a live taping of any of the wonderful shows filmed right there at the headquarters. Thank you for opening up this incredible space for the public to visit. Attending KQED Fest fulfilled a dream long in the making for me.

Eugene Yee, the owner, is great to work with on all kinds of copy projects. His tiny office is a…read moremiracle of supply and production. He is prompt, flexible and the prices are reasonable. He is so knowledgeable about the print world, that he can suggest less expensive but equally appealing alternatives for your print projects. I have thrown several large, rush jobs at him and he has always come through beautifully. I have worked with Eugene for about 15 years and he has never disappointed. Last, but not least, he is a die-hard Giants fan to the core!

The guy, Eugene, that runs this copy/publishing shop is very friendly and helpful. Great, prompt…read moreservice, at a good price, and print jobs get done when promised.

Where to start off. I'll start how I got acquainted with KALW in the first place, followed by my…read moreexperience attending one of their events earlier this year, my experience with one of their staff post-event & lastly, my recent experience as of yesterday. So I'm part of a movement that's growing nationally & statewide. I was at a call late November last year where one of the staff was also in attendance, who also promoted more info about the Youth Empowerment Summit in January of this year. I was interested, so I signed up. Because the invite was sent mid-meeting, the person who sent the invite also said that people interested could reach out to them, so I did because I was interested in getting coverage from KALW about my work. However, the Zoom call was less than productive, as the person wasn't really providing helpful info, one of the reasons I didn't sign up for one of their radio podcasts interviews. I figure if they're going to be as rude as this person was, then why bother? Because I was still signed up for the event & I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, I still attended the youth summit. (Youth summit: https://www.kalw.org/show/your-call/2026-01-22/power-the-future-the-kalw-youth-empowerment-summit) The summit wasn't really all that helpful, because I knew most people from there from my work (one was even presenting who I've known from other previous events) while most of the new people I tried to connect with didn't really seem to want to follow up afterwards. There were a few cool people there though, like one of the Events & Community Engagement Coordinators and one of the senior producers, both of whom I thought were DJs. I even helped the former put away folding chairs used for the event to speak with them for a bit because they wore a really cool scarf, and talked a little to the producer guy also. However, that's the extent of anything useful from the event. Furthermore, I spoke to one of the staff there, who happened to used to be a journalist with the Guardian(the UK media outlet) & claimed to be interested in my work, and even asked me to exchange contacts with them, for the purpose of connecting right away after the event. I did not mishear that- they spoke in length to me at the event. Weeks went by without an email or call after the event ended, so I tried reaching out to them. This was hard because they didn't have a direct KALW email, and neither did they have a card on them, so I had to search the web to find an email address. Despite reading my emails, they continued to blatantly ignore me(see email pics). At that time, I was considering writing a review of KALW, but advocacy work has kept me busy, one of the reasons why I wanted to speak to that journalist I mentioned above. Now, it's June, which happens to be National DJ Month. I'm a hobby DJ, & I got one of their newsletter emails, I'm assuming, because I attended the summit in January. I DJ for some of the causes I support, so I was interested & bothered to read it. It was about a DJ, so I reached out to the DJ I recall from the event who had a cool name, because we've never communicated before. I would give them one last chance to shape up & maybe they'd be helpful during National DJ Month. I was wrong. Rather than deal with me directly, or refer me to some other staff that could help, that DJ forwarded me to same person who was on the call where I first learned of KALW, which gives me little confidence anything will get done because of their surly attitude when we spoke on Zoom(by the way, they haven't attended those monthly calls since). If the decisionmakers at KALW are going to be abrasive, unhelpful & pretend they want to help, why deal with anyone at KALW? Again, not all the people at KALW are bad. There are a few good ones. Unfortunately, the not so helpful ones are the ones that pretend they'll help, or promise that they'll help but never follow up with you, while the good ones are the ones with limited power to drive things around the organization. One of the things I hate the most is hypocrisy, & for an outlet or organization to say you want to help the youth but are just making those who want to help the youth run around in circles is totally inexcusable, no matter what month of the year it is. If this is how most youth-oriented radio organizations are, I can see how we got the results we got with the 2024 election, and we're likely going to see the same thing in 2028. Anyway, perhaps executive leadership will change their mind about wasting people's time after reading this. Or not. At any rate, if this is how they choose to run KALW, best to steer clear of them. There's probably better choices out there to help the youth. Definitely deserving zero stars, but since Yelp's minimum is one, that goes to the good people at KALW. But don't be fooled at this one-star review- the four lost stars should be placed on the leadership & last I checked, 1 out 5 stars isn't something worth bragging about.

Newer renovated public meeting space ...walked by and the radio station holds an open mic ..not…read moresure ..open mics are in so many cities ..this one is downtown ...many events and meetings ..radio station

For years I heard my parents had nine 8mm video reels stored away, but without an easy way to watch…read morethem. In the past few years I took a lot of old 35mm photo negatives they had in storage and embarked on a journey of organizing and digitizing them. In the past year, at the last mention of the 8mm videos, I decided it was time to take care of them as well, but having gone through the journey (and all the related research) with still photos, I knew I would be much better off just finding a professional business (with a professional scanning machine) than trying to do it myself. I explored a number of options in southern and Northern California, but eventually decided I'd reach out to Buck and Movette on the basis of their site and output options. I was so shocked to see that other vendors were still offering to master on 480p DVDs. Perhaps a good option for an elderly customer unlikely to buy better playback devices, but a shocking betrayal of the resolution and longevity of film, since 8mm can easily take advantage of full HD at a minimum. Initially, paranoid about losing the reels in the post, or the vendor misplacing them, I had hoped to see if they'd let me come a few times and stick around for the scanning but once I realized that wasn't possible and also that Movette was the best option I'd found locally, I made an appointment to drop off the reels and waited a few weeks. Upon pickup, one of the double reel containers which Buck flagged as a risk for off gassing and eventual vinegar syndrome had been moved to recycled tins, and the 2 TB SSDs I'd left with Buck were both fully loaded. He showed me a few snippets and explained what I was getting. In short, I received each of the nine reels (combined over 3 hours of footage) as: - cropped h264 compressions - cropped ProRes 422 (18 fps converted into 24 fps via duplicated third frames) - cropped ProRes 422 (18 fps retimed to 24 fps - meaning I could retime to 18 again in a video editor without issue) - ProRes 422 overscan masters (18 fps retimed to 24 fps) - ProRes 422 overscan one light safeties, basically straight out of the scanner, no touch ups (18 fps retimed to 24 fps) I was blown away at the quality of the scans, and the thoughtfulness with which the above package of files was decided on and organized. It means I could easily share the simple h264 compressions right out of the store, and I could also load the overscans into Resolve, retime to the original 18fps to play at the natural speed, stabilize (using the extra margins as a buffer), load those ProRes files into Topaz, use AI to interpolate frames up to 30, and if desired (though I've not opted to), upscale and enhance using AI. The scans are everything I'd hoped for, captured in a fidelity and with a thoroughness that ensures the contents of the reels are perfectly preserved forever, giving me peace of mind that the precious memories weren't going to be lost to entropy. I was especially happy to see how well colors had come through, but we've just generally the sharpness/focus and cleanliness of the scans is excellent. I paid a premium to bring them to Buck and not go to cheaper options, but if you're making this decision for yourself consider this: Movette uses the Lasergraphics Scanstation 5k, a scanner into the six figures. That resolution allows for the overscan at a quality that, even if you crop down to the video frame, you're well above full HD. Other local business seem to use the RetroScan, devices that can be had for a few thousands. Yes, there are laws of diminishing returns, but there are also some incontrovertible truths. Pay a bit more and have the job done on hardware unanimously considered the best for the work, or roll the dice and hope the film isn't damaged by whatever scanner is used. My thanks to Buck and Movette for their work and for staying in business in what I know is an expensive city to run one. If my parents unearth any more reels, or if any of my friends tell me they need something scanned, I know where I'll send them.

Buck is an incredibly knowledgeable, thoughtful, and kind owner. We found a reel of film after my…read morefather passed away and Movette treated it with care and produced a variety of files, basic to high quality, for us. A first class business!