KSFO is a commercial AM radio station in San Francisco, California.
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35 Facts About KSFO
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KSFO's schedule is almost made up of nationally-syndicated conservative talk shows.
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KSFO had been the flagship station for The Savage Nation with Michael Savage.
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KSFO began broadcasting in 1925 as KTAB, based in Oakland, California as a religious radio station.
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In 1956, KSFO was purchased by Golden West Broadcasters, an enterprise co-owned by Gene Autry and Bob Reynolds.
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On January 1,1937, KSFO replaced KFRC as San Francisco's CBS Radio Network affiliate.
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KSFO's studios moved from the Russ Building to the Palace Hotel on August 12,1938.
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Effective December 31,1941, KSFO was no longer affiliated with CBS Radio, after the network moved to KQW in San Jose.
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KSFO again moved its studios in August 1943, this time to the Mark Hopkins Hotel, with which The Associated Broadcasters signed a long-term lease in 1942.
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KSFO's licensee was renamed San Francisco Broadcasters on May 25,1954, in advance of the Dumm–Lasky ownership group selling KPIX to Westinghouse Broadcasting.
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Additionally, KSFO faced additional competition for its target 25-to-49 age group from FM progressive rock stations KMPX and KSAN.
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From 1957 to 1980, KSFO was the radio home of the San Francisco 49ers football team, with Lon Simmons on play-by-play beginning in 1960.
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In November 1960, KSFO hired Al "Jazzbo" Collins, former host of NBC's Tonight.
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KSFO continued playing Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Peggy Lee, whose music had been phased out of many MOR stations.
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KSFO's studios were now at 300 Broadway along with King Broadcasting's renamed KYA-FM.
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KSFO played oldies from 1956 to 1973, while KYA-FM had a broader playlist with hits extending as late as 1980.
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KSFO signed a three-year contract in May 1992 to broadcast University of California, Berkeley men's basketball games.
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On September 28,1992, KSFO dropped its simulcast with KYA-FM and began a new format with oldies during the day and sports talk at night.
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The following month, KSFO began phasing out all sports talk programming and added Wolfman Jack in evenings.
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KSFO dropped the oldies format on September 20,1993, for a talk format, with Gene Nelson and Peter B Collins hosting drive time shows and nationally syndicated hosts in other times including G Gordon Liddy, Larry King, and Bruce Williams.
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KSFO launched its new conservative talk format on January 1,1995.
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However, KSFO broke into the top 10 of the San Francisco Arbitron ratings by summer 1997 with a 3.
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KSFO continued to be in the top 10 in the spring of 1999 as the impeachment of President Bill Clinton took place.
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KSFO added two new syndicated shows to its lineup in 2000, starting with Brian Wilson's nationally syndicated show.
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KSFO Radio has been described in tones of hysteria as a cauldron of racism and homophobia, a wacko gun-nut unit, a nest of conspiracy theorists spouting political paranoia.
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Also in 2003, KSFO dropped The Savage Nation on June 2 after being unable to renegotiate a contract with Savage and replaced it with The Sean Hannity Show.
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KSFO was influential in the 2003 California gubernatorial recall election against Governor Gray Davis, with Morgan helping launch a fundraiser for a recall petition and interviewing recall advocates on the morning show.
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On January 12,2007, KSFO preempted the Laura Schlessinger show for a special three-hour program where Morgan, Rodgers, and Sussman responded to Spocko and other critics.
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KSFO made several sports and talk programming changes starting in 2008.
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In early 2009, with Rodgers hosting the morning show only four days a week, Sussman became the morning show host on Mondays while keeping his evening show from Tuesdays through Fridays; KSFO added The John Batchelor Show to Sussman's former Monday night time slot.
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KSFO began carrying the Hannity and Levin shows live in afternoons.
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KSFO changed ownership in 2011 after Cumulus Media bought Citadel for $2.
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On January 3,2012, KSFO replaced The Rush Limbaugh Show with a local show hosted by JD Hayworth, a former US Representative from Arizona.
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