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KGO Cuts Talk Shows, Angers Many San Francisco Listeners
KGO Loses Talk Shows A big programming shake-up took place at San Francisco radio station KGO this week. The commercial AM radio station launched an all news format yesterday, much to the chagrin of...
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Monterey Bay area talk radio station harvesting bitter KGO listeners
More fallout from Bay Area talk radio signal KGO 810 AM’s move to cancel some of the station’s most popular on air talent. A demonstration against the purge is planned for Thursday. And Santa Cruz...
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Occupy KGO! Scenes from a San Francisco demonstration
I took a break from a holiday bike ride around San Francisco on Thursday to check in with the Occupy KGO and Former KGO Listeners crowd, who picketed the Cumulus owned station at its 900 Front Street...
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Bereft KGO talk radio fans gear up for second demo
It is once more into the breach for Former Listeners of KGO, still furious over the Cumulus owned AM station dumping a slew of popular talk show hosts on December 1. The group has announced its second...
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Radio Survivor’s 2011 Year in Review
Radio Sound Only Sign at KZSC (Photo: J. Waits) Happy 2012. Over the past few weeks, Matthew, Paul and I have written up our obligatory “year-end” pieces, summarizing some of the big radio trends from...
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KFOG: a “challenging week” since morning show changes
Another San Francisco Bay Area listener upheaval over morning show changes. This one at Cumulus owned KFOG 104.5 FM, where Bill Webster and “Irish Greg” McQuaid have been replaced by a new “KFOG in...
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The five stages of commercial radio format change grief
I am reviewing the furious responses of our readers to Eric Klein’s story on the format change at KPOJ in Portland. Only ten days ago it was Progressive Talk Radio. Now it is a sports channel. Protest...
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Should KGO 810’s coat-of-arms be a turnstile?
The San Francisco Chronicle‘s Andrew Ross is scratching his head at the latest changes at endlessly changing KGO AM 810 in that city. “If you’ve enjoyed listening to my Chronicle colleague C.W. Nevius...
View ArticleAnger follows Cumulus closure of KGO’s South Bay wing
Cumulus media has closed the South Bay bureau for KGO news-talk radio. Just like that, according to the San Jose Mercury News blog Internal Affairs: “Here at IA, we’re told it was done in a...
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Podcast #42 – Hug Your Local Radio Journalist Today
Cumulus Media’s long-standing San Francisco radio news station KGO recently laid off its news staff, at the same time the company’s rock station KFOG also fired most of its on-air staff. We discuss...
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