KSFO (AM)
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KSFO is a conservative talk radio station in San Francisco, USA broadcasting on 560 AM. Its tag line is "The News and Views You Won't Hear Anywhere Else." It is owned by Walt Disney Co.
Despite being located in a very liberal region, the content of the station's programs is solidly conservative with show hosts such as Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Dr. Laura Schlessinger. One of its few moderate talk shows is its night-time show, Coast to Coast AM. The station also broadcasts Oakland Raiders football games throughout the season.
It was not, however, always a talk station. In its heyday, starting in 1955, it played music, sports, and, particularly memorably, rebroadcast antique radio shows at particular times of the year. At the time, the station was owned by Gene Autry's Golden West Broadcasters. Without shame, and with some justification, it called itself "the world's greatest radio station." The station's news department earned national and international journalism awards for coverage of the Peoples Temple massacre in Jonestown, Guyana and the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk by former Supervisor Dan White. Newscasters, sportscasters, and DJs from KSFO played an annual softball game to benefit the Police Athletic League; the No-Stars' arch-rivals were Reno Barsocchini's VIPs.
Memorable broadcasters of KSFO's history include Lon Simmons, Don Sherwood, Jeff Skov, Aaron Edwards, Jim Lange, John Gilliland, and Dan Sorkin. The station's history included stints as the flagship station for both San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics baseball (although at different times) and Stanford University football. A history of KSFO in the heyday of Don Sherwood (1950s and 60s) can be found in Laurie Harper's biography "Don Sherwood -- The World's Greatest Disk Jockey" which is once again in print in a paperback format.
Its early morning schedule for ten years now has a trio of humorous, hardline, and vitriolic conservatives, Lee Rodgers, Melanie Morgan, and Officer Vic; the former two being the major contributors to the show, and the latter one always to be counted on for weather, traffic and often political sattire. The mix is unique in talk radio across the U.S. Rodgers consistently brings on various conservative guests to round out four hours of on air talk.
