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Gene Burns (December 3, 1940 – May 25, 2013) was an American talk radio host. He hosted Dining Around with Gene Burns, a food wine and travel program, which aired Saturdays on NewsTalk 810 AM in San Francisco. He also hosted The Gene Burns Program, a political and social commentary show, that aired on NewsTalk 810.
But KGO's ratings were mired in the lower depths, ranked 20th overall in the market, though some hosts had higher ratings. The latest format change came as a shock to the station's hosts ...
This move followed programming changes throughout local radio at the end of 2011, starting with sister station KGO laying off many of its talk show hosts. Limbaugh and some former KGO hosts moved to the newly branded "News/Talk 910" at KKSF, formerly KNEW. [105] Morgan also returned to co-host the morning show with Sussman in 2012. [106]
LaLanne conducted his radio fitness show for many years on KGO, moving in the late 1950s to KGO-TV and a successful TV syndication career. On December 1, 1947, KGO's power was increased to 50,000 watts, as it switched to a directional antenna that limited its signal toward WGY in the west, while WGY continued to operate with a non-directional ...
[2] [5] [6] Subsequent to this, he returned to KGO-TV. Wilson hosted a talk radio show on the number-one rated 50,000-watt KGO (AM) weekdays 2–4 p.m. up until his death in 2007. He was the winner of five Emmy Awards and a Peabody. [7] Wilson also co-anchored the 6 p.m weekday editions of KGO-TV's ABC 7 News. [2]
In 1965, he took over from Gene Burns as the host of "Community Auditions," the amateur talent showcase that first began airing on WBZ-TV in 1950, [3] [4] [5] and ended after 36 years on June 18, 1986. [6] He did nighttime talk radio at WBZ (AM) for a year before being offered the morning position at WBZ radio in 1980. Maynard in the Morning ...
Bernard Vincent Ward (born April 5, 1951) is an American former radio personality whose career ran from 1985 to 2007. Formerly a radio talk show host with KGO 810 AM in San Francisco, California, [1] Ward, once billed by KGO as "The Lion of the Left" and "unabashedly liberal," [2] was the host of the daily news talk program, The Bernie Ward Show, and the three-hour program, GodTalk, on Sunday ...
Bill Wattenburg's syndicated show got a spot on Sunday nights. Tillem, Gross, Burns, and Wattenburg became available when KGO terminated many talk show hosts as part of a shift to a news and information format. KKSF also picked up the syndicated Tom Sullivan show during middays. Tillem and Burns were the only local hosts on the station.