Stacy Taylor, a San Diego-area talker, (KLSD) that's been subbing at KGO the past year and a half, returns to the albatross this Sunday night, (10 PM -1 AM).
Taylor's return follows one of the most historically awful radio shows in Bay Area broadcasting history. Presumably, common sense will prevail, (even by the boy wonder who was responsible for that train wreck) and Taylor and/or Christine Craft will broadcast in that time slot on a permanent basis, (don't hold your breath).
Taylor is a mutil-year talk veteran and has worked the circuit. As I began listening to him when he first started here, I wasn't impressed. But on future shows, Taylor often drew me on offering pithy takes on both serious and non-serious issues of the day.
I would have liked to hear more of his rants, but even the mish-mash dreck that occupies KGOne on the weekend trumped that option. Here's hoping he'll be able to hold down the fort over there. Interesting talker and worth a listen.
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Stacy is cool! I'll be listening.
ReplyDeleteI really like him and am glad he's back. His shows are quite interesting... but really... KGO just let him go and he had his goodbye show... and now he's back. Things are chaotic ... to say the least!
ReplyDelete....and I also wish Christine Craft had a long term slot as well. She's good and we need more female voices.
DeleteI'm totally happy that he's back. At least he's a reasonable voice amongst the right wingers that seem to dominate the airwaves.
DeleteCumulus never ceases to amaze me. It's as if they bought the Golden Gate Bridge, painted it purple, then turned it into a storage facility. The Dick(ey) Brothers must have some random sequences in their DNA.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand why people enjoy Stacy. He just comes off as a grumpy old man to me. Not to mention his obvious and unwarranted dislike of Israel.
ReplyDeletegee..I don't think he has an unwarranted dislike of Israel. We should all have major questions about the influence of a foreign lobby on our congress(AIPAC). We should all have a lively discussion of when we do and when we don't sacrifice American lives and resources to do Israel's dirty work. Sometimes Israel's best interests are the same as ours. Sometimes not. Attacking Persia would destroy this country's economy beyond repair, not to mention what shred of morality is left in AMerican foreign policy. If you dare to discuss this, like Stacy has and will likely continue, you are called an Israel hater. That is sheer, unadulterated nonsense and needs to be called out.
DeleteWhat an utterly hyperbole-loaded comment.
DeleteYou're totally wrong about him being a grumpy old man. He's way cool.
DeleteSo glad to have Stacy back on the air. The NYC woman/comic was awful, beyond compare. Stacy is intelligent, and he is good at engaging his callers.
ReplyDeleteNow if KGOne would just get rid of Red-Eye Radio...
I thought the NYC comic woman was entertaining.
DeleteSeriously? It was embarrassing, to me, to hear that chick. I almost felt bad for her, the show was so awful. Christine and Stacy are the way to go, for sure!
DeleteAMEN!
DeleteGlad to see Stacy back but the time slot sucks.
ReplyDeleteWhy not replace the idiot who did the show about the rapture last weekend????
I wish KGO would give him a long running spot (I resist saying permanent because that doesn't seem likely these days.)
ReplyDeletePerhaps some of the comments us former KGO fans send to them sunk in. We can only hope so, in any case I will continue to voice my opinion, good and bad, to manangement. Since 910 week-end programming is very weak (too many informcials) we can only hope KGO will try to get some decent hosts. From many of the comments I read on this blog, people are quick to totally turn away from a station if there is a host or subject they don't like. As for me I listen to the radio to be entertained and informed, and I will turn to whatever station who has the host I enjoy most. I even listen to KSFO at times, so I'm not a purist, and I doubt many people are when it comes to their own interest and entertainment. I will write KGO to let them know that I'm glad Stacy Taylor is back, I think he is very interesting and like his take on politics.
ReplyDeleteCan't KGOne find anyone truly local? Karel out of Long Beach, Maureen out of NY, Stacy out of San Diego. With all the out of work broadcasters, isn't there someone local and seasoned who actually knows the Bay Area and could do an intelligent program? Monty may be local now, but he's youngish and hasn't lived here all that long, so he doesn't have any history of the area. Just finding someone to talk and bring up issues doesn't interest me. That's the same as syndication. Generic topics, although they may be in the local news of the day, don't usually have a lot of perspective. The "allstars" all had extensive careers and therefore connections to local and national personalities who could add some depth to the talk. Most of what's on now I can take or leave. Not much more than background noise.
ReplyDeleteStacy Taylor is an articulate, intelligent, and well informed humorist. He recognizes life's absurdities without giving in to despair. I live in Lemon Grove, near San Diego where he used to be on local radio. Now I seek out his archived shows on KGO. After the loss of Peter Bergman(Radio Free Oz)last week, it's good news that Stacy is back on the air!
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to Jon and Ray and Gene quite a lot. They seldom if ever talked about local stuff, unless it was something big like the Mirkarimi scandal. It was mostly national politics and world affairs. Everybody has to come from somewhere. The majority of Gene's career was spent in Orlando and Boston. He became a San Francisco icon because he moved here. Who would move here for a 3 hour weekend shift? That's the problem.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear Stacy is back...that woman on Sunday was the worst broadcaster I've heard on KGO in 50 + years as a listener... absolutely awful. I cannot believe, ownership aside, that a major market station would put such an amateur on the air.
ReplyDeleteYou haven't given up on them? Most people have, and have moved to 910. The ratings show it.
DeleteCraft? No thanks.
ReplyDeleteStacy is great. I enjoyed his early afternoon slot before the idiots at KGONE decided to do more damage and add MORE news on Saturdays. That whole operation is such an f-ing joke it is not even funny anymore. Btw Rich did you hear the disingenuous black man on Forum this morning? Krasny rushed through two half hour segments about contaminated water and rising home rentals but gave the "comedian" a full hour to talk about depression. I was depressed afterwards.
ReplyDeleteAlthough we hate to lose our former KLSD Morning Man, I'm glad that you are putting him to work up in the Bay area on KGO. He is fun to listen to, up on a lot of stuff, and likes to engage his listeners. I think you made a good choice.
ReplyDeleteStacy is as good a radio host as I've heard anywhere. He knows the issues and how to articulate them with a sense of humor. He needs a full-time gig and watch his audience grow.
ReplyDeleteTo think that this oppurtunity, to follow the worst talk show in the history of S.F. talk radio, presents itself to me on a probationary basis, warms my heart in way's that words can't describe.
ReplyDeleteI figured at some point KGO would try and determine what they wanted to do with the station. I like Taylor as a host, also really like Peter B. Collins and Craft, you know what you're going to get from them instead of having to figure out where a "host of the week" is coming from.
ReplyDeleteLet's see: Stacy Taylor, Christine Craft, Pat Thurston, Karel, Ron Owens, Peter B Collins: A bunch of leftist hacks and the "voice of reason." And you lib nut jobs think KGO leans right?? Only in San Fran Sicko. KGO sucked before with crazy Ray, washed up Gene, John "I am going to say delighted every chance I get" Rothman, Rosie the news gal who practically swooned over every Obama speech that dropped his apporval rating shortly after, the "comic" on sundays, and all the others. It just sucks a little more now.
ReplyDeleteObviously I can't tolerate another opinion, Gene washed up hardly, how shallow can you get, and I don't know where people get the idea Gene was liberal, he was a true independent, left on some issues, right on others. I guess you prefer name calling (Rush and Michael Savage)and screaming (Mark Levin and Michael Savage) to someone like John Rothman that has enough class and intelligence to argue with someone of an opposite opinion withhout sinking as low as above mentioned hosts. In the immediate Bay Area, we now have the following conservative hosts Rush, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Tom Sullivan (who I actually like, because he, like John Rothman tends to be polite to everyone, plus Michael Savage if you can get a Sacramento station. Also Armstrong and Getty in the morning (who I also like, since the are often funny) plus whatever new hosts that Kgone has added i.e. Red Eye, why are you worried about a few hosts who lean more or less to the left. Shouldn't there be a diversity of opinions, so we can all be informed, entertained, or are you afraid of another point of view. How sad and insecure. Oh and I forget J.D. Hayworth, Brian Sussman, Melanie Morgan and Barbara Simpson on the week-end. Honestly you are being more than greedy if you think KGO should add another conservative hosts.
DeleteAgreed. The people who say the Cumulus massacre at KGO was about shifting the station politically are insane -- if anything, the station is now *more* liberal than it was before the massacre.
DeleteWe love out leftist hacks. Tune into Fox stations and the other thousand on the dial and stop bothering the few liberal talkers that are given airtime.
DeleteThanks, Rich, for keeping us informed about the revolving door host-fest at KGOne! My husband and I just quit the station for keeps, after Cumulus had the audacity to toss Stacy. We'll now be listening again, but only for as long as they keep Stacy on.
ReplyDelete@Anon--11:46pm: hey right-wing whacko, why don't you pleasure yourself fron 9-12 today while listening to old Rushbo? You CONS make me sick, you're so repulsive. You've gone so far off the deep end lately, Obama's guaranteed another term.. lmao!!!
ReplyDeleteYes, that is a brilliant retort. I "pleasure myself" listening to Rush. Of course I do. Unfortunately only on the days I am not working my high paying corporate job. Which is only about 10 days a year. And I am usually somewhere where I can't hear a a radio on those days. Otherwise, you nailed it. I am delighted, as Rothman would say, that I make you sick. I wouldn't have it any other way. If Obama wins or loses (of course I want and think he is going to) it doesn't really affect me. I got mine. Its the poor suckers whose prospects are being hurt by his policies that I feel more. And most of those idiots will vote for him. A viscious circle to be sure.
DeleteHe's not a good replacement and neither is Craft. Although I'm not in favor of the "young-is-good" mantra, I want fresh thoughts, not Stacy Taylor's decades'-old rants that offer nothing new to dialogues. Craft is not much better. There are alternatives on Sirius and other news stations, especially if you have a Kindle Fire or Ipad. I haven't turned on my radio in months, and I was just about to buy a new one from C. Crane. But when communicable disease Jared became viral at KGO, I stopped listening, except for Karel, which I get on podcasts.
ReplyDeleteRight on! I'm sooooo tired of hearing rightwing, religious fanatics who seem to think that they speak for the majority of Americans.
ReplyDeleteThey have somehow become this large and considerable voting block..and believe me...they're dangerous! These right wing christian bible belting, anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-women,
anti gay, rednecks would take this country's military (if they could) and turn it's considerable weight against Syria and Iran. The resulting spiral of violence would create something akin to a
World War....nothing quite as potentially incendiary as a deadly missile-battle between the US and Russia back in the 1960s, but a
very costly and damaging conflict that would only worsen the plight of an already war-weary middle east.
I agree with my friend John Falchi -- we miss Stacy and KLSD/Air America in San Diego (KLSD switched to sports talk back in 2007) but glad Stacy's back on the air at KGO. And for San Diegans and others on the west coast, we can get the KGO signal at night! For several years now, San Diego has had zero progressive talk - whether local or nationally syndicated. And of course, we have plenty of right-wing talk radio -- blowhard Rush and the rest. So much for the FCC mandate to hold broadcasters accountable for serving the public interest by ensuring competition, diversity of content and localism. -Jennifer Douglas, film co-producer "Save KLSD: Media Consolidation and Local Radio" (http://saveklsd.com)
ReplyDeleteThank God, that Stacy is coming back eveb in a late night spot. He and Peter B. Collins are the only reasons I tuned in during the day on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. Now the daytime is dreadful and not worth listening to.
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