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Interview with KGO's Stacy Taylor

Stacy Taylor was based here in San Diego off an on. I used to listen to him as the morning guy on the old KLSD 1360 (Air America). Is he in the Bay Area now?
 
jprg said:
Stacy Taylor was based here in San Diego off an on. I used to listen to him as the morning guy on the old KLSD 1360 (Air America). Is he in the Bay Area now?
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I doubt it; he's probably phoning it in from SD.
 
He does it over ISDN from there. He doesn't come up here. Karel has done this from LA too. Tons of talk shows are done remotely over ISDN. With Asst. Producer software, you can see the calls and callers, etc. With a good local producer/screener, no regular humans can actually tell.
 
SFStatic said:
He does it over ISDN from there. He doesn't come up here. Karel has done this from LA too. Tons of talk shows are done remotely over ISDN. With Asst. Producer software, you can see the calls and callers, etc. With a good local producer/screener, no regular humans can actually tell.
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Jim Eason did his show from his home in North Carolina for the last few years, and I believe Lee Rodgers did the same from Phoenix. One of the big LA duo on KROQ of Kevin and the Bean (not sure which one) does his half from Seattle, with the other in the LA studio.
 
Keller is correct on both Jim and Lee. In Lee's case, Tom (Officer Vic) Benner was in studio to hold down the fort, as it were.
 
Rodgers was/is in the area around Tuscon not Phoenix. White Mountains.? I always thought it was funny when the line went down, they would do commercials then news, more commercials, then the best of. If someone does not live in the area of the station, I do not listen to them as much. Karel claims to go back and forth to the Bay Area when not broadcaasting from his long beach tough shed.
 
MC said:
Rodgers was/is in the area around Tuscon not Phoenix. White Mountains.? I always thought it was funny when the line went down, they would do commercials then news, more commercials, then the best of. If someone does not live in the area of the station, I do not listen to them as much. Karel claims to go back and forth to the Bay Area when not broadcaasting from his long beach tough shed.
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Lots of people phone it in. Stan Burford, the guy who coordinates the traffic reports during KGO's morning and afternoon news blocks, calls it in from home on the afternoons. Len Tillem does his show from Sonoma. Leo Laporte does his show from Petaluma. Dean Edell used to do his show from a rural Mendocino area not even near a town. If I'm not mistaken, Ray Taliaferro can do his show from home but usually doesn't. Christine Craft does her KGO show from her Sacramento home.

For years it has not been necessary to have talkshow hosts or DJs present at stations. Nearly all the fill-in hosts you hear on various local stations across the nation operate from their homes or studios in the towns where they live. Peter B. Collins fills in nationally, as do Bill Press, Stacy Taylor, and many more. None of them travel to do their shows.

Does this work from a content standpoint? Well, if the host is locally versed it can be fine. Gil Gross, though he's lived in NYC, LA, and Chicago, educated himself very very fast when he came here to do the afternoon shift. He immediately knew the correct pronunciations of town and streets, history of various areas, the political climate in those areas, etc. He's such a pro that he could have done this and remained in LA.

Still others don't seem to grasp the local aspect. Karel is one example. He comes up here often, but aside from staying in hotels and eating at Taco Bell, he's remarkably unlearned about the Bay Area. So, why do I think he'd make a good KGO morning host? He's a magnet for listeners.
 
DavidKaye said:
... So, why do I think he'd make a good KGO morning host? He's a magnet for listeners.
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Ya know he might, at that. Hmm, that might make me tune in to KGO in the mornings. Let him go head-to-head with Fernando & Greg.... no, on second thought not.

But Ronn Owens would probably have to decease first...
 
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