Bay Area Radio: KSRO News Anchor Melanie Morgan Retires

Melanie Morgan

Longtime Bay Area reporter and anchor Melanie Morgan did her farewell broadcast on KSRO 1350 AM / 103.5 FMon the day before Thanksgiving, according to the station's website.

After three decades at San Francisco’s KGO-TV, KGO and KSFO and a stint in Washington, D.C. as anchor of Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated America’s Morning News, Melanie assumed the news department and morning show reins at KSRO in March of 2014.

Under her leadership, KSRO news was honored with the Radio TV Digital News Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award and the AP’s Mark Twain Award for best newscast in the west. Also while at KSRO she continued her work with Move America Forward to raise donations and soldier care packages for American Troops.

She plans to garden more, travel more, and spend more time with her husband, noted radio programmer and executive Jack Swanson of KCBS.