KOGO

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KOGO or AM 600 KOGO is, as of April 2008, the number one rated talk radio station in San Diego, California, according to Arbitron. One of seven San Diego owned and operated Clear Channel Communications radio stations, KOGO's main focus is local and syndicated talk shows. At 5,000 watts day and night, the AM signal is one of the strongest in the region. The signal pattern generally follows the coast from the transmitter site in San Diego, with reception good to Santa Barbara and beyond. Because of the power of the station, KOGO is one of the primary Emergency Broadcast System stations for the San Diego radio market. The station is the first, and the only AM radio station, in the market to broadcast in HD Radio.

The station dropped San Diego's First News on September 1. Former Baltimore talker Chip Franklin brought his program starting on September 4. He leads off the broadcast day from 5 to 9 a.m. News anchor Dave Mason indicated that he parted ways with the radio station on September 1.

In February 2008, two field reporters and one anchor were trimmed from the news department as part of a realignment by Clear Channel Communications. Marilyn Hyder, Wade Douglas, and Sally Hixson were fired on Friday, February 8, 2008.

KOGO was the previous home of the broadcasts for the San Diego Padres baseball team. KOGO is the broadcast home for San Diego State University basketball and football games [1].

[edit] California wildfires

During the California wildfires of October 2007, news, information and talk from KOGO was simulcast on every other station in the San Diego area owned by Clear Channel from the night of October 21 to the evening of October 24. KOGO dropped all commercial breaks during this period. KOGO was also simulcast on channel 247 of XM Satellite Radio, which the service uses for emergency information.

Non-fire programming returned on the night of October 24 at 11 p.m. with the syndicated Coast to Coast with George Noory.

[edit] External links

• Official KOGO website
• KOGO streaming broadcast
• Query the FCC's AM station database for KOGO
• Radio Locator Information on KOGO
• Query Arbitron's AM station database for KOGO

[edit] References

• KOGO Website
• SDRadio.net
• Clear Channel Communications