KOGO goes interactive

San Diego’s News and Talk Station Expands Drive Time Programming

(From Clear Channel Communications)
Starting Monday, AM 600 KOGO, San Diego’s News and Talk Station, expands its local drive-time programming and brings San Diego the live broadcast of one of the nation’s most successful syndicated radio talk shows.

The Dr. Laura Show will be heard live in San Diego from noon to 3 p.m. and will feature expanded local news and traffic updates. Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s highly popular radio advice show has been on KOGO for the last 10 years, most recently heard at 6 p.m. She has written more than a half a dozen New York Times best-sellers and she is the proud mother of a deployed American paratrooper.

Mark Larson, who has hosted a successful local midday talk show on KOGO since 2004, will host his show from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. as part of KOGO’s new expanded drive-time line-up. The new show will feature all the big news of the day and live interviews with top newsmakers along with local news, traffic and weather updates to help serve KOGO listeners on their drive home.

Mark Larson this month was named one of the nation’s top 12 “Local Talk All Stars” by Radio & Records. He is the only San Diego talk show host to receive the honor two years in a row. Mark will host the debut of his new show on Monday, March 26th, in front of a live studio audience in the KOGO Performance Studio.

In addition to the new expanded afternoon drive time schedule on KOGO, the local talk show websites go interactive Monday. The Roger Hedgecock Show will be available as a live stream, download and podcast. Listeners will also be able to chat, comment online, access show resources and conduct searches while listening to the live broadcast of his show every weekday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

The Mark Larson Show also will feature an interactive on-line home including the Mark Larson News Blog where his listeners can post comments and interact as they listen to his show. The interactive features of KOGO’s local talk shows are available on the station web site at KOGO.com

AM 600 KOGO also is the home of San Diego’s First News with Dave Mason and Ladona Harvey from 5 to 9 a.m., featuring expanded local news coverage. The nation’s top-rated syndicated talk show, The Rush Limbaugh Show is on from 9 a.m. to Noon and Coast to Coast with George Noory which will now be starting at 8 p.m. weeknights.

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