Lee Rogers is out (again) at KSFO, the Citadel station in San Francisco. Melanie Morgan’s husband is a programming executive in San Francisco for Citadel, or at least was. With Citadel in bankruptcy, look for the banks to cut loose people with big paychecks (or those who are too vocal about the abuse of power by big banks)
I still think Sirius/XM and/or the Internet is where Conservative talk is headed. Left wing advertiser boycotts and FCC pressure are real forces, and if the Left feels its power fading, there are other examples in history of just how they will move to silence opposition.
Another related programming change – John Batchelor is now live on KSFO for the first 2 hours
KSFO’s management mentions that Rogers has actually being doing his show from Arizona for a number of years (he was off the air previously due to health problems)
Brian Sussman is on the air tonight (not Batchelor)… he’s said there will be “an announcement” at 6:35 (Pacitic)…. you heard it hear first – the KSFO web site already shows the update.
crud…i listen to both of those shows…had no idea Lee was doing the show from Arizona and it seems like a fraud by the station management to not even mention this….i think Jim Eason did the same thing before his retirement(was broadcasting from North Carolina?) but Eason didn’t have 2-3 other people on the show pretending he was there…
Very little radio is done any more inside a radio studio at a station. Lee Rogers has been having serious health problems, which is why he was off the air for several months. He probably will have the same issue regarding taxes that Rush had – since he has been doing the show from his home in Arizona, but the radio station is in California, is he “working in California”?
On many stations, that traffic reporter is reading the information from a screen and may be 1000 miles away and have never driven in the city where they are reporting the traffic. When there is a major problem, they of course won’t know the “back ways” to get around a problem.
yeah, but local non-syndicated radio? they pretended like he was there and he’d hand off to the local traffic person and chit chat with them…seems like a fraud on the listeners to me…its just dishonest to have someone sitting there in Arizona doing a local radio show maybe 1000 miles away and they never mention that….
Doug McIntyre was doing the “local” New York show from Los Angeles… I’ve read reports (not confirmed) that Don Wade and Roma in Chicago have done their show from a condo in Florida…. many local shows are being done remotely. Why does it really matter?
Even a lot of those where the host is “local”, the host is doing the show from a studio in their house, not at a station.
About the only syndicated person that I’m sure is doing his show from a radio station studio is Neal Boortz. He and Clark Howard do the show from WSB in Atlanta, and he mentions the management types poking their heads in from time to time.
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All of the locals on WBT are in the studio, because they’re always crashing each others’ shows.
I don’t think there is anything dishonest with doing a show remotely unless the host states during the show they are live from that radio station’s studio/city…
I have a good friend who does newscasts for several small town stations in a neighboring state from her home studio which allows her to be a stay at home home for all effective purposes but still have a job…
And of course that’s the purpose of radio, to create convenient jobs