This was told to me by a current KGO Radio staffer:
Shortly after buying KGO, Cumulus' honchos, the Dickey brothers rounded up a majority of the station's noted on-air talent including nearly all the talk hosts, reporters and producers.
It was a rally-the-troops gathering, or so they all thought.
Lou Dickey, in particular, looked weekend talkie, Bill Wattenburg, in the eye and said, (I'm paraphrasing), "Dr Wattenburg, I have listened to you almost every night since my Stanford days. I 'love your show! You're not going anywhere."
Wattenburg was one of the talk hosts fired last Thursday.
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