Per his Facebook page, let go after 14 years of producing/co-starring on the Morning Show. Wow.
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KFOG fires "Irish" Greg McQuaid
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and Webster's out too -- per Mr Constantine a "new" KFOG Morning show debuting later this month. WTF indeed.
What is that we hear? It's the sound a bomb makes before it goes Kaboom.
Next week is A-Z; I predict KFOG goes Alternative after that.
I don't think Dennis Constantine will bagg the AAA format on KFOG...The guy basicly invented the format, that's his baby!
weav said:
Yes, but you're not taking into account that Live 105 sounds awful. A good alternative station could do extremely well in the Bay Area. Besides, have you listened to them lately? KFOG, as it currently sounds, is close enough. They already have bunch of alternative tracks in high rotation (M83 - Midnight City, Grouplove - Tongue Tied, Neon Trees - Everybody Talks) as well as all the ones that are AAA/alt shared (Gotye, Fun, Shins, etc.) It's not that they'd compete with Live 105, it's that they'd completely knock them out.
throckmorton said:
I agree that AAA is DC's baby, but flipping formats would be up to Cumulus, not DC. If it went Alternative it'd still keep an AAA sensibility. I'm thinking along the lines of also-Cumulus owned former AAA now Alt. KENZ/Salt Lake City.
From kfog.com:
"We hope that you will enjoy the new KFOG Morning After featuring Tony, Greg and Melanie."
Anyone know where they are coming from? Is Greg, Greg Gory that was just hired for news a month or so ago? Let's hope Melanie isn't Melanie Morgan, formerly of KSFO.
"We hope that you will enjoy the new KFOG Morning After featuring Tony, Greg and Melanie."
Anyone know where they are coming from? Is Greg, Greg Gory that was just hired for news a month or so ago? Let's hope Melanie isn't Melanie Morgan, formerly of KSFO.
notinradio said:
You are kidding, right? Just what a rock station needs for a morning show - a shrill, bitter, 56 year old right-winger. That would bring in those younger listeners for sure!
Lkeller said:
Greg is indeed Greg Gory; there was a Melanie Walker who (along with Gory) was one of the 4 rotating news peeps who auditioned to be Peter Finch's replacement back in December. So it might be her (she said then she'd just moved back to the Bay Area from Minneapolis). Personally, I thought she was theweakest of the 4 who auditioned back then, but whatever.
Wasn't there a Tony who was part of Live 105's Morning team a few years back?
Mike said:
Greg Gory is the king of surviving in the morning. Didn't he last through 3 shows at Live 105 (Stern, Woody, No Name)?
And, yes, there was a Tony in the Woody, Tony and Ravey morning show on Live 105. I can't really see him being an anchor, though.
I was kidding about Melanie Morgan. That would be funny, though.
Mike said:
As much as I do not want it to be the case, I'm thinking you're right about Melanie. They seem to want to keep her around. They brought her in to sub for Greg a couple of weeks ago when he was out. She was just as annoying then as she was when she auditioned.
Folks:
I really enjoyed the Tony/Woody/Ravey show at Live 105. One they were dropped, I pretty much stopped listining to the station.
I was also dissapointed when the alt station "Channel" dissappeared.
I look forward to a more alt oriented format at KFOG (if this is really the case) and the return of Tony.
Mike
I really enjoyed the Tony/Woody/Ravey show at Live 105. One they were dropped, I pretty much stopped listining to the station.
I was also dissapointed when the alt station "Channel" dissappeared.
I look forward to a more alt oriented format at KFOG (if this is really the case) and the return of Tony.
Mike
If it's Tony from the Woody Show, his twitter feed doesn't give any clues as to it happening (@tttstl) and he seems to be in St. Louis, which I think is where they started before going to Chicago then SF. Woody (@thewoodyshow), on the other hand is still lamenting losing his Live 105 gig 3 years after.
I'm guessing KFOG's Tony is someone else.
I'm guessing KFOG's Tony is someone else.
I'd imagine this is just a cost-savings measure. KFOG has the best ratings in the SF Cumulus stable with desirable demographics using their alt-lean. I wouldn't count on them to flip to anything, much less alternative.
There's a comment from Dave Morey on Rich Leiberman's blog. I can't quite figure out how to get the hyperlink to work, so here's the whole thing:
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot...howComment=1336948466619#c6525733371539696778
http://richliebermanreport.blogspot...howComment=1336948466619#c6525733371539696778
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