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Leo Ciolino
I haven't yet confirmed, but have information that KGO-AM has made three big cuts, one on-air, two behind the scenes.
Weatherman Leo Ciolino is gone, apparently, as is assistant program director Trish Robbins and news director Paul Hosley. If you have information to confirm or deny, drop me a comment.
Up to now, you could say they were cutting to the bone. Now, you can add, they are shaving the bones too.
Robbins has been at the news station for more than a decade, after her time on rock radio. She is responsible for the edgier programming, such as Karel, and was working hard on getting more women onto the air (a real challenge given the mostly white male programming at the station). Under Hosley's tenure, the station has won major news awards, including six regional Murrow awards last year. See the rest of the awards here.
These are longtime talents who have kept the station at the top of the heap for more than three decades.
Leo is still on the Web site at www.kgo.com.
Here's his bio:
Leo Ciolino, KGO Radio’s raspy-voiced, quick-witted weatherman, has been providing forecasts for KGO’s listeners since 1981.
Along with his computers and weather forecasting equipment, Leo gets neighborhood weather from his team of regular “spotters” around the Bay Area. According to Leo, “It’s great because you are getting it from people who are feeling and tasting weather.”
Leo became fascinated with weather as a child, as he watched the formation of cumulus clouds over San Francisco Bay. “I was mesmerized by clouds by the time I was seven years old. I used to cut out temperature and weather charts from the newspaper,” says Leo. He delivered his first radio weather forecast when he was 14, after he complained to a local station that he could do a better job than their weatherman. He auditioned, and the station manager put him on the air.
In 1945, Leo began a 20-year stint as supervisor of Golden Gate Park. It was during that time that he began taking meteorology and climatology courses. In 1965, he made the move to professional broadcasting, working as a weather forecaster for a number of local radio and television stations.
Leo just plain likes observing and forecasting the weather, and he’ll do it for just about anyone who asks. “It’s an exciting, changing element,” he says. “And everyone is affected by weather.”
