DiabloWags said:
On October 6, 2022, an approximately 10 minute looped promo featuring music about money, betting, and winning and announcing "the new 810 KGO is coming Monday" (and similarly worded messages) started airing, strongly hinting a switch to a format based on the world of investing and finance.
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They should wait for the election.BearGoggles said:DiabloWags said:
On October 6, 2022, an approximately 10 minute looped promo featuring music about money, betting, and winning and announcing "the new 810 KGO is coming Monday" (and similarly worded messages) started airing, strongly hinting a switch to a format based on the world of investing and finance.
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Reportedly sports betting.
Satellite radio has replaced local talk radio. For example ESPNU is wall-to-wall college sports talk.Big C said:
Just had KGO on in the car for a bit yesterday. If the "personalities" (such as they were) knew, they did a good job concealing it. It probably came down suddenly. Probably some good "fly on the wall" anecdotes.
I think there could still be a market for live, local, good-quality (better than KGO was) talk radio. For you "latest technology" folks, what has replaced it?
Dgoldnbaer said:
Back in the spring of 1976 I drove down to San Diego & when I was near Del Mar & Oceanside I p/u KGO! Was caught totally by surprise. Thinking, "Holy sh_ _ ... I never realized how strong their signal was!"
Larno said:
Dr. Don, KFRC! Totally unrelated but I know many of you out there listened daily to the good doctor!
RJABear said:Satellite radio has replaced local talk radio. For example ESPNU is wall-to-wall college sports talk.Big C said:
Just had KGO on in the car for a bit yesterday. If the "personalities" (such as they were) knew, they did a good job concealing it. It probably came down suddenly. Probably some good "fly on the wall" anecdotes.
I think there could still be a market for live, local, good-quality (better than KGO was) talk radio. For you "latest technology" folks, what has replaced it?
My mom was addicted to KGO talk radio for years. I'd get home from high school and she'd start rattling on about what she heard as I feigned interest.Larno said:
Dr. Don, KFRC! Totally unrelated but I know many of you out there listened daily to the good doctor!
Larno said:
Dr. Don, KFRC! Totally unrelated but I know many of you out there listened daily to the good doctor!
Big C said:
Just had KGO on in the car for a bit yesterday. If the "personalities" (such as they were) knew, they did a good job concealing it. It probably came down suddenly. Probably some good "fly on the wall" anecdotes.
I think there could still be a market for live, local, good-quality (better than KGO was) talk radio. For you "latest technology" folks, what has replaced it?
yupBearGoggles said:DiabloWags said:
On October 6, 2022, an approximately 10 minute looped promo featuring music about money, betting, and winning and announcing "the new 810 KGO is coming Monday" (and similarly worded messages) started airing, strongly hinting a switch to a format based on the world of investing and finance.
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Reportedly sports betting.
KCBS already had the lions share of the audience. That's why KGO is gone now. Their listenership will probably go up 20% of so so they'll be a small bump in ratesDiabloWags said:Big C said:
Just had KGO on in the car for a bit yesterday. If the "personalities" (such as they were) knew, they did a good job concealing it. It probably came down suddenly. Probably some good "fly on the wall" anecdotes.
I think there could still be a market for live, local, good-quality (better than KGO was) talk radio. For you "latest technology" folks, what has replaced it?
KCBS 740 must be licking their chops.
Their ad rates just skyrocketed.
When Cal has not been televised (often in Southern California before P!2 network) and when there was no internet or streaming radio stations, I would actually get KGO on both my transistor and car radio - a bit fuzzy and in-and-out, but I was able to listen to Joe here in Long Beach!HoopDreams said:
Sad
KGO has a strong signal over the entire bay area
My mom thought Patrick McGoohan was the coolest...but that was also in his Secret Agent Man days...bearister said:
In the summer of 1968, I was 13. In addition to going to sleep listening to Ira Blue, I listened to Russ Coughlan's phone in talk show on KGO.
That same summer, a replacement show for The Jackie Gleason show was Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner.
"The Prisoner was a British television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors designate him as Number Six and try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job."
One night Russ' guest was a retired CIA agent. I called the show and told the guest I was watching The Prisoner and I asked him if the CIA maintained any "villages" like depicted in the TV show to park former intelligence officers that knew too much secret information to be set free into the world at large.
The retired CIA agent's response to my question:
"I wouldn't know anything about something like that."
Russ then promptly disconnected my call.
The Prisoner (TV Series 1967-1968; aired in U.S. June1, 1968) - IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061287/
Dgoldnbaer said:
Secret Agent Man's theme was one of the best! Tied for 2nd best w/Mission Impossible's. My favorite was Hawaii 5-0's!!
Oski87 said:They should wait for the election.BearGoggles said:DiabloWags said:
On October 6, 2022, an approximately 10 minute looped promo featuring music about money, betting, and winning and announcing "the new 810 KGO is coming Monday" (and similarly worded messages) started airing, strongly hinting a switch to a format based on the world of investing and finance.
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Reportedly sports betting.