According to the San Diego Reader, after their show last Friday, July 20, the six member-on-air crew were taken into a room and told they just had their last show on KFMB 100.7 FM after six years of dominant ratings in morning drive.
They were not given a chance to say goodbye. The DSC crew will still get paid this week becasue of their contract but their fans won't get to hear them.
"We are still Tegna employees through August 1st," Dave Rickards wrote via email last Friday. "But they have taken us off the air for the remainder of our contract. It’s a shame that Shelly didn’t get her final day. But I am keeping the entire show together. In town."
Here is what the general manager of the KFMB stations, Alberto Mier y Teran said in a statement released Friday afternoon July 20:
A message from our President & General Manager at KFMB.https://t.co/sWJGLCPvkI— 100.7 KFM-BFM (@kfmbfm) July 20, 2018
By phone on Friday, Mier y Teran said his offer simply was not as much as the team was offered by a different radio group. He assumed, but did know for sure, that would mean the DSC crew would end up either at Entercom which owns Sports KWFN The Fan 97.3 or iHeart which owns Classic Rock KGB 101.5 FM and Rock KIOZ 105.3 FM . It is thought by most insiders the DSC team would end up on on of those three stations, reports San Diego Reader.
DSC was thought to be making $2-million a year. iHM, would have difficulty convincing a bankrupcty judge to fork out such a huge new expenditure. And Entercom is struggling with decreased first quarter earnings and tumbling stock price since it swallowed the CBS Radio group.
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