Dr. Dean Edell Announces He's Retiring

Dr. Dean Edell, whose show is based here in Northern California, announced on his show on Wednesday, December 1, that he is retiring.

"I am throwing in the towel," Edell told listeners, according to Ed Walsh at examiner.com.

"Doctor Dean" added, "There is part of me that is very sad and upset."

Edell's announcement (listen to it here) came in the wake of  San Francisco radio station KGO announcing last month that it would no longer air Edell's broadcast live but instead air reruns on the weekends. Early last month, after being asked by a listener about the decision by KGO radio to drop his live show, Edell hinted that he would fight the change and encouraged listeners to make their opinions known to management.

Dr. Edell recounted on Wednesday how he first got started in radio.   After he had left medicine in the 1970s, he accepted a $50 a day job in a drunk tank in Sacramento to pick up a few extra bucks.   A man he met there told him about a job Sunday nights on a radio station in Sacramento.   Soon after getting that job, the radio station went out of business but he soon landed a job at KGO radio in San Francisco on weekends.   The show proved so popular that he was given a show five days a week, a television job at KGO-TV, and was eventually syndicated on radio and television stations nationwide.

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