[Political Junkie Too]

Interesting.

When Farid Suleman was running Citadel, he seemed to make it his mission to destroy AM conservative talk radio by ousting long-time local hosts and time-delaying national shows in order to break the live participatory experience of talk radio.

Suleman fired Melanie Morgan from KSFO, and a few years later he fired Lee Rodgers, even though KSFO was a money-maker station for his network.

Brian Sussman was elevated to morning host to replace Rodgers, but in my opinion he hasn't filled the big shoes he followed. Sussman brought back the call-in aspect which Rodgers detested, and Sussman has carved out a niche for himself with his prior meteorology experience to challenge global climate change fanatics.

However, I find him a bit weak and over the top when he fills in for Mark Levin in the evenings. I actually found KMJ's Inga Barks to be a more appealing afternoon host in Levin's absence.

I'm anxious to see what's next for KSFO in the post-Limbaugh era.

-PJ

[C. Edmund Wright]

The AM station in Raleigh Durham that lost Limbaugh is really in the dumper.
I suspect that is true of a lot of them.

[skeeter]

I was amazed to learn that Lee was 'phoning in' his morning show from Arizona for years. They let him go just a few months before he was due to retire - I never did hear a plausible reason why.

Personally, I'd like to see them bring Roger Hedgecock's show back up. He has alot on the ball, IMO.