Just how moribund is Bay Area talk radio? After the recent bloodletting at KGO-AM, followed by the ushering in of the usual crop of right-wing chest pounders, former president and GM Mickey Luckoff has thrown in the towel trying to find a new radio home for the ousted old KGO crew. It’s quite a surrender letter he sent to those working with him on the effort. You can read it at the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club blog. A couple of excerpts:
I have exhausted every conceivable opportunity to package and relocate our incredible newstalk team in its entirety. Much to my dismay there is not a single facility with a market wide signal available to purchase, lease (LMA) or to be made available by one of the multiple owners to adopt the format at this time.
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…it ultimately is the total lack of courage and imagination among current day owners and operators which prevents us from returning as a (profitable) format which would also have dominated Bay Area newstalk audiences for the foreseeable future.
