Roger Hedgecock - Radio and Television

Radio and Television

With the controversy ending his political career, Hedgecock became a talk show host four days after resigning. Despite having been a moderate Republican as a County Supervisor and Mayor, as a talk show host and practicing Roman Catholic, he moved rightward by taking conservative stances on most political, economic, and social issues, especially opposition to illegal immigration, abortion, homosexuality, and equal rights under the law for homosexuals, even though he courted the gay/lesbian vote during his campaigns for County Supervisor and Mayor of San Diego, and in October 2011 endorsed fellow Republican and San Diego mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio, an openly gay member of the San Diego City Council. He frequently speaks against environmental extremism, despite having been a spokesman, in his early career, for the Sierra Club. His ratings were initially fueled by his campaign contribution controversy, but he still remains a popular commentator among conservatives. He has done simulcasts with talk hosts from other areas of the country, such as Lars Larson of AM 750 KXL in Portland, Oregon, and often does transatlantic simulcasts with James Whale on the British station, talkSPORT, and was also, until October 2007, a frequent guest host for the nationally syndicated Rush Limbaugh Show.

Hedgecock's weekday radio show began in 1985 on San Diego's KSDO and later moved to AM 600 KOGO.

As of Wednesday, January 23, 2008, he expanded his show to four hours, so that the program started at 3 p.m. and ended at 7 p.m. Pacific time. The fourth hour was later dropped and the program now runs from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Pacific time..

Hedgecock also has a television show, The Roger Hedgecock Show, on San Diego's U-T TV weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to noon (Pacific time). It is carried on Cox television channel 114 and is streamed live on the internet at www.utsandiego.com/tv. Beginning in November 2007, Hedgecock hosted a nationally syndicated radio talk show on Saturdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Pacific Time; flagship station is AM 600 KOGO.

On January 5, 2009, his show began being syndicated nationwide by the Radio America network. Originally, the plan was for the fourth hour of the show to continue only on KOGO and continue discussion of topics relevant to the local San Diego/southern California audience, but KOGO later decided to drop the fourth hour altogether, thus bringing to an end the "Community Forum" that had been his focus since the show's inception in 1986.

In November 2011, it was announced that Hedgeock would be leaving KOGO for radio station AM 760 KFMB, San Diego's CBS radio and TV network affiliate. His weekday 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Pacific time broadcast debuted there on Monday, January 2, 2012. The show includes topics and discussion relevant to the San Diego/southern California audience.