That was not a name, just a statement of "The exact time". It was followed by credit to the National Observatory which synchronized with them.
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A Change Coming to KGO
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But Mickey became arrogant and complacent. It became so extreme that at local ad agencies they did not like getting KGO visits. Ask any other manager or sales manager from San Francisco from the early 2000's about how much that attitude helped competitors make sales!
I wonder if there has ever been a situation in radio where the escorting someone out of the building would be accompanied by putting handcuffs on the terminated employee, with the handcuffs being removed once the terminated employee left the building.
That’s not the type of organization you want to work for, that’s for sure. If other employees saw that, they should immediately start looking at job listings online.
Yeah, but if you can't get better ratings than KGO has had in the last 11 years, is it really your best asset?
Look at it from a revenue perspective instead: Would moving ESPN from 1050 to 810 necessarily guarantee that it generates more revenue on the stronger signal? Probably not. But if you leave it in place, cut the costs of 810 and put in a format that doesn't rely on ratings for spot sales, your cluster bottom line improves.
My understanding is that he does his show from a location other than the KGO studio, so---no.
That would be unlawful restraint. The management could be charged with a crime and the terminated employee could and should file a civil suit for significant punitive damages.
The only exception to that would be if the employee were being arrested in addition to fired---and then the handcuffs would be put on by law enforcement officers.
I witnessed a case where an employee quit to go to another station in LA and the owner blocked her car and tried to have it towed and impounded for trespassing. A quick call to the police by the former employee got the car released.
Question: Where are all the “80 years” references coming from if KGO has been on the air since 1924? Or don’t they recognize the pre-NARBA operation on 790?
Thompson says he was told just before air time that it was happening and not to mention it on air:
KGO host talks about Bay Area radio station's abrupt signoff
American broadcasting company Cumulus Media is taking San Francisco's 80-year-old news...
If the owner had resisted that, the employee would have had grounds for charges. And frankly, she should have sued.
Here's the SF Chronicle's reporting on the change today:
www.sfchronicle.com
KGO radio says ‘goodbye’ ahead of format change
KGO, last of the old-time news talk call-in radio stations in San Francisco, announced a...
Took some digging, but I found the agreement between ABC and Citadel. Citadel got license to use the call letters in perpetuity, so there's no ticking clock as there is in the CBS-Entercom deal.
KGO was old time news talk? That makes me feel old.
I remember listening to Al Collins in his Purple Grotto on overnights. I remember hearing Ray Taliaferro play Count Basie's April in Paris right at midnight. I can remember driving over the Bay Bridge listing to Jim Dunbar give us the news. Driving past the transmitter site on the Dunbarton Bridge with those three huge towers.
Now it will be nothing but a high powered shill for sports betting operations. What a grand waste of 50,000 watts of clear channel public airwaves.
The future is here. And it sucks.
I remember listening to Al Collins in his Purple Grotto on overnights. I remember hearing Ray Taliaferro play Count Basie's April in Paris right at midnight. I can remember driving over the Bay Bridge listing to Jim Dunbar give us the news. Driving past the transmitter site on the Dunbarton Bridge with those three huge towers.
Now it will be nothing but a high powered shill for sports betting operations. What a grand waste of 50,000 watts of clear channel public airwaves.
The future is here. And it sucks.
Even in the case of CBS-Entercom, the 20 year part of the deal was for WCBS & KCBS stations. The rest of the stations were in perpetuity, like the ABC-Citadel deal.
Once the sacred sales demo forgets you exist, you're done. RIP, AM.
That still means that in 15 years, Audacy (the former Entercom) will have to change the call letters on four of its radio stations---including KCBS, San Francisco (which is a really great argument for keeping the KFRC calls on 106.9).
This really reminds me of the actor who hasn't made a movie in 40 years who dies at 100. Everybody's saying "He'll be missed!" Really? What have you been seeing that the rest of us haven't since 1982?
KGO was in trouble for the last 15 years at least---and really, if you consider the demos, 20 or 25.
How many 20 year olds are begging for a sports betting station?
Come to think of it, how many 20 year olds get off their phone long enough to listen to the radio? This isn't going attract a younger demographic. Go back to the drawing board.
That's really what this boils down to. Compounded by the fact that it's Cumulus which has possibly laid waste to more great stations than any other operator.
The company spent several years setting up KGO for failure with its constant cost cutting and lack of investment. And honestly, the kind of gutter replacement programming they're going with comes as no surprise from this group.
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