Pete Wilson (broadcaster)

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Pete Wilson is a veteran broadcaster, and has been on the air in the San Francisco Bay Area for the last 30 years. He is not related to the Former California Governor of the same name.

He is a talk radio host, broadcasting on KGO (AM) weekdays 2-4 p.m. He is the winner of an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award. Wilson also currently co-anchors the 6 p.m weekday editions of KGO-TV's ABC 7 News.

Wilson previously served as news anchor at KGO-TV in the 1980s before moving to KRON-TV in 1990. In October 2001, he became one of the first high-profile employees to leave KRON after it was announced that the station would be losing its affiliation with the NBC television network.^[1]^[2]

Wilson raised controversy with comments he made on KGO radio on October 10, 2006 criticizing San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, who is gay, for his nonromantic co-parenting relationship with a lesbian friend, sparking calls for Wilson's resignation from four members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. He later issued an apology for the harshness of his criticism, while standing by his opinion on such nontraditional relationships. [1][2]