Maybe you're right and KSFO only gets to keep 10% of what his show birngs in, I don't know the business and don't really care. As long as he's heard in SF eventually is all I care about. I'll take Mike at his word on this until I hear different.
I don't pretend to understand the syndication deals - I just know that I don't know anything about them. :-)
As for me, his credibility has been lowered every time I hear him read something that a Freeper has posted and passes it off as his own, or read a post from a Freeper, saying that he just read something that Freeper wrote.
Were you able to call the station and ask them yourself? I would imagine their lines have been jammed this week.