It is. It's funny though. that if you look at the patterns side by side, in the absolute nulls, KGO's signal might theoretically be weaker that KSFO on night pattern. After the big earthquake which I think was in 1989, I read in one of the engineering publications that since at least one of the KGO towers was destroyed or damaged, KGO's engineers contacted the FCC to ask how much power that they could run in just one tower to get back on the air with a temporary non-directional signal and apparently they were told 20 kW!
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A Change Coming to KGO
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Mountain House Parkway until west of Livermore. Who knows, maybe my radio didn't like something in the area.
That’s the Altamont Pass. I think there are some electrical transmission towers nearby.
The "wasp waist" of KGO's figure-8 pattern runs pretty much right through the Livermore valley and Altamont Pass on one side, Redwood City and Mountain View on the other. The null is something like a couple of kilowatts. The salt water bay makes it useable to the west, but to the east KGO's 0.5 mv/m barely reaches Stockton and Modesto.
KGO AM Query coverage map
I was at my sister's house near Oakhurst when the changeover happened. KCBS was listenable on the rental Toyota's radio, KGO was nowhere to be found until I got out of the foothills near Fresno.
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I suggested they put KGO on one of the Cumulus Stockton/Modesto FMs HD2, or even 970 Modesto, to fill in the Central Valley.
Nope. Not interested.
Nope. Not interested.
That was never the point. People talk about odds in sports whether they can bet or not. If you listen to sports talk radio, if you watch ESPN, if you watch or listen to any live sports event, the entire conversation is about beating or covering the spread. This is simply a variation on KNBR. The only difference is they can't legally bet using the app. But they can talk about it.
I don't "bet" on games. Closest I come to gambling would be buying a Powerball/Mega Millions ticket when it gets in the almost billion dollar range. I'm "betting" that most listeners would be like me and the station is more interested in targeting the high risk rollers. I'll lay 10 to 1 odds I'm right. 
There is no economic benefit in adding a very much smaller market to a very big one. Agencies don't buy out of market audiences of stations from other locations.
Heck, many LA stations are in the top 10 in Riverside / San Bernardino. But they can't get a dollar more on their rates due to that added audience. So most of the LA stations don't even subscribe to that market's ratings.
It’s an easy and quick money stream with no overhead for what became a 50kW white elephant. So it isn’t going anywhere.
Back in the hayday of AM radio, I read somewhere that KGO even showed up in the Medford (OR) night time ratings...
And a giant wind farm IIRC.
You do RC. Been there since the 1980s....one of the largest, almost 5,000 turbines of various sizes.
Another station that came in like gangbusters in Medford was XEPRS!
Speaking of the Willamette Valley I occasionally visited relatives in Corvallis, and indeed, at night KGO was absolutely local.
And if you listened very carefully you could just make out KING underneath.
KGO is loud and clear up here.
XEPRS was loud and clear before a tower fell, now its them and KFNQ mixing equally
oops!
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