Jim Dunbar

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Jim Dunbar is a renowned KGO Radio program director, talk show host and news anchor who helped raise KGO's ratings from non-existent to the top five with its unique news/talk format. KGO has consistently scored in the top five since 1963 and has been #1 since 1978.

In addition to his radio work, he also hosted the popular A.M. San Francisco program on KGO-TV (Channel 7) for many years, beginning in 1965. Dunbar is portrayed in the 2007 film Zodiac in a scene where the Zodiac killer calls in to Dunbar's broadcast (with Dunbar hosting guest Melvin Belli).

Dunbar previously worked as a rock DJ at WXYZ Detroit, Michigan, WDSU New Orleans, Louisiana and WLS Chicago before coming west to KGO in 1963.^[1] He was elected to the National Radio Hall of Fame in 1999, and to the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame in 2006 as a member of the first class to be inducted.