KGO-AM, located in San Francisco, is one of the major market AM stations that were acquired by Citadel from ABC radio and then purchased by Cumulus.<\/p>\n
True to their reputation of focusing on cost cutting, the Dickey family from Atlanta (who now run Citadel after it was acquired by their company)\u00a0 is firing all of the talk show hosts except Ronn Owens.<\/p>\n
KGO is a liberal talk station in a very liberal city that is known for political activism – and a city council that thinks everything in the world is within their jurisdictio to dictate how things should work. They have been involved in the past trying to tell radio stations who their hosts can or can’t be (See: Michael Savage).<\/p>\n
Mr. Dickey is about to learn that major market stations and their listeners are much different than in small town USA.<\/p>\n
Cumulus also owns KSFO-AM<\/span>, the Conservative station carrying mostly the Premiere lineup – Limbaugh, Hannity, Coast to Coast along with TRN’s Laura Ingrahan and Citadel’s Mark Levin and John Batchelor (now called Cumulus Media)<\/p>\n On the heels of Clear Channel’s announcement flipping Green960 to Glenn Beck, I have a very strong suspicion that KSFO’s lineup is leaving Cumulus to go to Clear Channel – and may not end in San Francisco.<\/p>\n Clear Channel’s problem is it doesn’t have a viable AM station in Detroit (WJR), Chicago (WLS) and New York (WABC)<\/p>\n KGO-AM’s remaining non-fired host Ron Owne\u00a0 is spending today playing random obscure music.<\/p>\n KGO about two years ago announced it was “going green” by installing solar panels at its transmitter site.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Right about now, I suspect an “Occupy KGO” moveent is descending on the KGO parking lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KGO-AM, located in San Francisco, is one of the major market AM stations that were acquired by Citadel from ABC radio and then purchased by Cumulus. True to their reputation of focusing on cost cutting, the Dickey family from Atlanta … Continue reading