Radio Host Gets the Hook for Joe-the-Plumber Comments

WSJ ^ | 11/11/2008 | Sarah McBride

[AndyTheBear]

I think there are more than two conservative stations now. We got 560, 860, and 910. And I’m thinking there was another one but I can’t recall the dial number or call letters.

[truthguy]

What was obscene was the vast amount of Hate this liberal packed into so few words.

Doctor, I thought you were an East Coast guy. How did you hear about Karel? Do I have you confused with another Freeper?

[eyedigress]

I recall a couple of those frequencies from Maricopa County. 860 was the only one we could pick-up 20 years ago out on the ranges.

[sarasmom]

Do you ever listen to talk radio stations on nights and weekends?
I know I discovered that the channels I tune into during the week during transit times to and from work, and occasional lunch hours,do not have the same “caliber” of personalities/programs that I would normally bother to listen too.
(I do like Tampa Bay's “Cigar Dave”. But I met him casually once, many years ago, before he became “big”. Class act and true gentleman, IMHO. Enough to make me not immediately switch to music if I happen to hear his program on the radio)
Other than re-runs of Rush, and Cigar Dave (and I detest the stench of cigars) I have never found any talk-radio-station on nights and weekends worth listening too.

[RhoTheta]

I believe that KGO and KSFO are both owned by Disney. Jack Swanson (husband of Melanie Morgan) was the program director for KSFO. My impression of KGO has been that it was packed with liberals, while KSFO (”Hot Talk 560”) covers the conservative market. The studio space for the two stations share a building, and Lee Rodgers - part of the morning team on KSFO - used to refer to “the call-letter-deficient station down the hall.”

[BurbankKarl]

KGO is no longer owned by Disney

[BurbankKarl]

Below is the entire November 11, 2008 blog entry from Karel’s website: [3]

And with a two minute phone call and one paragraph letter I have been fired from KGO. I’m told the engineer that made the mistake has been as well. So, we’ll need to start doing podcasting and such until a new station is found. So check back for details. Yes, this is wrong. It is my responsibility but not my fault. I do my show remotely and have no on/off for my microphone. The engineer had two ways of stopping this, and had he not been in the bathroom he may have. Should I have gone off like this in my home studio? No, in a perfect world we realize all microphones are live, even if for 15 years they haven’t been. But as Joe Scarborough drops the Fbomb (sic) and lives, as many other KGO host have and survived on air...one wonders if there’s more. Who can say. But whatever the case, the final word is in and I’m out.

[truthguy]

I believe that KGO and KSFO are both owned by Disney. Jack Swanson (husband of Melanie Morgan) was the program director for KSFO. My impression of KGO has been that it was packed with liberals, while KSFO (”Hot Talk 560”) covers the conservative market. The studio space for the two stations share a building, and Lee Rodgers - part of the morning team on KSFO - used to refer to “the call-letter-deficient station down the hall.”

When I first moved to the SF Bay area Lee Rodgers was on KGO in the 7-10PM slot if you can believe that. It was a great radio station then. After Disney bought KSFO and turned it into a conservative station Lee Rodgers, Jim Eason, Michael Savage and some others went over to KSFO and then KGO began to lurch to the left and it has terrible for the past few years. Bill Wattenburg is the only good guy left on KGO.

[Doctor Raoul]

Somebody on FR posted about the incident real time.

FR had it first!

[Doctor Raoul]

Checkout the Rolleye James Show. She streams it from her website.

[Doctor Raoul]

Of course it’s not his fault.

Karel and Scarborough’s incidents are not equal.

Karel is a hater that did something to encourage people to kill Joe The Plumber. Scarborough didn’t.

KGO was right to drop this hate filled cancer.