Ben Fong-Torres mentioned nada about the big radio drama that went down last week in his latest blog. Disappointing.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/21/PK6A1H7VKQ.DTL
I think Ben files way ahead of time, so this week's column probably was done before the KUDF/KDFC news broke. The Big Rick Stuart departure from KFOG either didn't register with him for some reason, or -- more likely -- he did know about it but kept silent b/c of embargo agreements and to protect his sources: Rick leaving KFOG might have been a messy situation and the details are sensitive. I'm sure several press people knew about the deal ahead of time (by a few days, maybe even?), but they could not reveal the info until the deal was announced.
Anyway, I think (hope?) he'll weigh in next time.
Yeah, it's rare that BF-T covers any story that's broken recently, the one exception being the firing of Mickey Luckoff at KGO, and that had some serious dish potential that would translate to readers/pageviews. I hope he covers the story next time, although if both Rick and KFOG aren't talking about the split now, I have to wonder if he'll have much more beyond the company line to tell us.
Btw, I don't think the Radio Waves column is considered a blog, strictly speaking, since it appears in print simultaneously with its online version. Aren't blogs exclusively a web-based forum?
