Talk:KGO (AM)

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KGO is not owned by Clear Channel, it is owned by ABC/Disney

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Regarding the clear channel edit, please forgive me for deleting it. I didn't bother to follow through to the link. Thank you for restoring it.

Hey, no sweat, 24.219.226.24! :) Register, add, edit, and have fun! --NightMonkey 08:10, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] KGO

Thanks for this nice history of KGO. I began listening to KGO in 1999, three years after moving to San Francisco from Dallas TX. Of all the AM talk radio I listened to (and I listen to talk AM radio a lot), KGO is the best. I like the diversity of its program hosts, from liberal to conservative. I also like the local host concept which is very different from most talk radio in this country when 90% of the hosts are syndicated and have no local affiliation. KGO is different, it's hosts are 90% local, live and work in the Bay area. Last but not the least, the guests appearing on its programs is also not available in other talk AM channels. You have international/national figures as well as local personalities. So, five years after I left San Francisco and moved to Portland OR, I still listen to KGO regularly, sometimes at night on the AM dial, most times from the internet.

[edit] Why at KGO (AM) instead of KGO-AM?

KGO-AM seems to be the station's own designation for itself, so why isn't it under that name? Most of the links that aren't from the template seem to go there. Night Gyr 05:38, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

The article is filed under the FCC callsign, which is KGO, not KGO-AM. In the US, FM stations often carry the suffix "-FM", and some TV stations carry "-TV" or (now) "-DT", but it is rare for an AM station to actually have "AM" in their callsign. (Notwithstanding their branding, but you don't often see FM stations on Wikipedia listed under their prosigns or informal names, like 'The Bear' or 'The Eagle' or 'The Arrow' or 'The Bone'. Jack FM is an exception, but that article is about a radio format with that name.) hadley 06:01, 13 December 2005 (UTC)