In those days I did not distinguish between news and talk radio. I never listened to KEWB again after they flipped from Top-40. Got a couple of air checks of them around here somewhere though.
Joe Pyne, Gary Dee (Gilbert) and Morton Downey, Jr. immediately come to mind as abrasive right-leaning talk hosts that were big in the 1970s. Dee was in the top five at WHK for years, which was impressive as the station was AM in a market quickly turning into a predominantly FM one. Downey toiled at KFBK before Rush replaced him in 1984.
I have been assured my political choices are limited to worship of TFG (or maybe DeSantis) or being a radical leftist socialist, so anything KGO aired that was not hard right, was Communism.
Leykis handled the liberal side of the argument pretty well when he was doing politics.
Nor ever checking up on any of the four newspapers I worked for!
You're right...only folks from out of the market who have never listened to KGO would have called it a "left wing" station. As I have said on another thread, KGO was probably the most balanced news talk station ever: All news and traffic with Jim Dunbar & Co from 5am to 9am, Ronn Owens (lib) from 9am to 12N. Dr Dean Edell Noon to 1pm, Jim Eason (con) 1pm to 4pm. All News and traffic with Van Amburg & Co. from 4pm to 7pm, Lee Rogers (con) 7pm to 10pm, Dr Michael Krasny (lib) 10pm to 1 am, and Ray Taliaferrow (lib) 1am to 5am. This was KGOs hayday and a truly great station.
I don’t recall Van Amburg ever being on KGO radio. He went from KFRC to KNEW to KGO-TV. And I don’t believe KGO radio regularly simulcast channel 7.
Mr. Hagerty, you're probably right, come to think it. I must have had ch 7 on the brain, I don't think I remember the afternoon news anchor, maybe someone can refresh my memory.
Found this:
My line-up was several years after this one. I do remember that Rosie Allen was part of the afternoon news team.
Yeah, no kidding. They're driving out everyone else around here!
Right. Of course whatever my hypothetical idea would be, it would have an internet presence in the form of a live stream of the FM signal (plus of course social media presence and all of that). Anything that strictly stays with old technology (which, sadly, analog radio is) tends to get mercilessly destroyed, particularly around here.
If he spent 1% of his Twitter budget money on humanitarian concerns, he could completely end poverty for every living person! Will he?
Probably not. To be honest (and quite blunt), I think he's a jerk who only cares about himself and his grandiose visions of whatever it is he wants to accomplish (not all of his ideas are bad (EVs), it's the execution of said ideas (EVs with faulty and errorprone driver assist features named "Autopilot" or "Full Self Driving") I disagree with. He won't spend money on anything unless it directly benefits him somehow (radio likely wouldn't, nor would ending poverty, it seems). How else does he end up with so much of it?
If he hadn't of punched his wife in the face [Liz Richards] who knows how long he would have been on the air in Cleveland. Never really cared for him, liked Lanigan more.
With the lower dial position 560 might actually be better locally. It doesn't show up on any coverage maps but I personally always had a tough time with KGO in the east bay and near by valley towns like Tracy at night.
John Lanigan’s another great example although his humor was always more ribaldry-centered. Dee tried a comeback on 3WE in 1988 but got swept up in indecency allegations filed against that station.
5kw at 560 vs 50kw at 810. KGO’s stronger. What you’re experiencing are different nighttime patterns, though I don’t understand East Bay reception issues for KGO. I’ve driven to Reno with KGO on.
KGO actually uses the same DA pattern day and night with 50 kW.
Right. But it’s different from KSFO’s nighttime pattern.
