UPDATED Dave Shelly and Chainsaw looking for a new radio home.

Oh my! as Chainsaw would say.....Is Dave Rickards and company headed back to one of their previous homes? Does this station have three call letters? If that happens, would the "S" in DSC replaced by a "C," or would the popular C person be moved to a different part of the day? And what would then would happen to The Fan which was dead on arrival and clearly needed the DSC crew to help them get back on track?
— July 23, 2018 2:40 p.m.

UPDATED Dave Shelly and Chainsaw looking for a new radio home.

It should be noted that I asked Rickards if he had an agreement with another local station. He declined to answer. It should also be noted that KFMBs "generous offer" could have been a fraction of what they were making. The consensus is that KFMB-FM without Rickards and Company will not be a compelling destination for local listeners.
— July 21, 2018 10:10 p.m.

UPDATED Dave Shelly and Chainsaw looking for a new radio home.

The problem is that while DSC remains an attractive platform for many local advertisers, radio as a whole has significantly dialed back on talent expenses as overall ad income has decreased over the years. DSC was thought to be making $2-million a year. It is thought that iHeart, which is bankrupt and owes $20-billion to creditors, 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 earlier this year. Mier y Teran said he is looking for the replacement for DSC.
— July 21, 2018 7:29 p.m.

UPDATED Dave Shelly and Chainsaw looking for a new radio home.

As was first suggested here July 5, the top-rated Dave Shelly and Chainsaw crew could not reach an agreement with Tegna, the Virginia-based TV conglomerate that took over the KFMB stations four months ago. 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 giving KFMB dominant ratings in the all-important 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." Rickards has served as ringleader and key on-air talent since the show first went on the air in 1990 at KGB. Rickards came from Denver and news reader/sidekick Shelly Dunn arrived from a station in Phoenix. They both joined sports-dude and comedy utility man Cookie Chainsaw Randolph who was already at KGB. The three formed the core of the morning crew (fiirst known as the Dawn Patrol) which has dominated the morning ratings since then. Only the now defunct Jeff and Jer and the syndicated Howard Stern shows regularly gave the gave the DSC crew competition in the morning ratings race in the sought after 25-54 age range. Dunn announced July 13 that she was retiring and her last day with the DSC crew would be July 27. Rickards said during the next ten days the show would feature special tributes to Dunn. The DSC crew only made it through the first five. The DSC crew gave no indication on the air that they would be yanked off the air before their contract was over at the end of this month. Here is what the general manager of the KFMB stations, Alberto Mier y Teran said in a statement released Friday afternoon July 20: "After extensive negotiations and a generous offer to the DSC team, we were unfortunately unable to keep the show here at KFMB. We are looking to the future and remain committed to our listeners in San Diego." 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 The Fan 97.3 or iHeart which owns KGB and Rock 105. It is thought by most insiders the DSC team would end up on on of those three stations.
— July 21, 2018 7:28 p.m.

Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto

Cbad- yes good point about the headline and that there maybe should have been quotes from other people. There also maybe should have been quotes from neighboring businesses. But it was pretty long as it was. I wanted to make sure what i thought was the most important stuff got in. Maybe the UT Fallbrook reporter can do it. Oooops. They don't have one.
— July 14, 2018 10:38 a.m.

Popular Oceanside ex-mayor keeps counsel

It should be noted that Mayor Wood has endorsed both Sanchez and Lowery in past elections.
— July 13, 2018 12:57 p.m.

Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto

Laurie - you have failed to point out any facts that are not straight, other than 12 years was supposed to be 22 years which was fixed. I am saddened to know that I am a terrible writer. But we all have our own (burning) crosses to bear. And DONT think I for one would not like the Metzgers back. Speaking only for myself, this is a nuclear dumpster fire/trainwreck just waiting to erupt again. Because, as you pointed, Tom never hurt anybody. Right Laurie?
— July 13, 2018 12:49 p.m.

Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto

Cbad- I think it was clear in this article that the common thread was the same Fallbrook local who led a rally at 16 is now, at 41 leading another Fallbrook rally that also has racial undertones. So therefore, the two are not totally unrelated. Also, since you live in Fallbrook, I am sure you are aware that the natives are talking about some kind of return of Mr. Metzger. I don't think many people knew he had moved to the adjacent county. I think to many Mr. Favela represents a profile in courage, then and now.
— July 13, 2018 12:37 p.m.

Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto

In the 80s Tom Metzger had his own TV show called Race and Reason. Here he is interviewing Orange County "Combat TV" host Wally George. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YamnBBIlaIg At the end George talks about how history will be written "long after you and I are long gone." George then said he hoped Metzger would go first. George did not get his wish. He died in 2003. Metzger is still kicking.
— July 13, 2018 4:19 a.m.

Tom Metzger has moved to San Jacinto

That was a joke Laurie. Of course Fallbrook would love you back in town. It's a free country. You ("we") are welcome to live anywhere you want. HAHA....
— July 13, 2018 3:55 a.m.