{"id":12284,"date":"2022-10-06T16:43:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12284"},"modified":"2022-12-02T16:46:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T23:46:35","slug":"kgo-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/10\/06\/kgo-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"KGO Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/SF-KGO-taken-off-air-17491656.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from SFGate<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">KGO host talks about Bay Area radio station&#8217;s abrupt signoff<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/amy-graff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Graff<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.hdnux.com\/photos\/01\/27\/63\/32\/23017108\/3\/1200x0.jpg\" alt=\"In this 2005 file photo, KGO radio personality Ronn Owens takes a five-minute break during the three-hour show on Oct. 24, 2005, in San Francisco.\" style=\"width: 480px;\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In this 2005 file photo, KGO radio personality Ronn Owens takes a five-minute break during the three-hour show on Oct. 24, 2005, in San Francisco. Liz Hafalia\/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>American broadcasting company Cumulus Media abruptly announced Thursday during a morning talk show that it\u2019s ending the KGO (810 AM) news-talk format as listeners know it, and company officials told SFGATE in an email that it will be revealing a new brand on the channel on Monday.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/amy-graff\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Mark Thompson Show,\u201d which aired Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to noon,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kentphotos\/status\/1578073622102495232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was interrupted<\/a>\u00a0just after 10 a.m. with a pretaped announcement about the format change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KGO talk show host Mark Thompson said he was told just before going on air that the format was changing and his show was being canceled along with all the other regular programming.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/SF-KGO-taken-off-air-17491656.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at SF Gate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from SFGate KGO host talks about Bay Area radio station&#8217;s abrupt signoff by Amy Graff In this 2005 file photo, KGO radio personality Ronn Owens takes a five-minute break during the three-hour show on Oct. 24, 2005, in San Francisco. Liz Hafalia\/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images American broadcasting company Cumulus Media abruptly announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}