{"id":850621,"date":"2026-08-10T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850621\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T20:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T20:12:10","slug":"laid-off-after-24-years-bay-area-radio-host-writes-scathing-farewell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/850621\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off after 24 years, Bay Area radio host writes scathing farewell"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco radio waves<\/a> have lost one of their most prominent voices. Lamont Hollywood, who hosted \u201cThe Lamont Show\u201d on 107.7 The Bone (KSAN-FM), announced Monday that his long tenure at the San Mateo-based station is coming to an end.<\/p>\n

Hollywood worked in radio for 37 years, 35 of which he spent alongside cohost Paul Tonelli. The duo started on\u00a0KSJO-FM in San Jose but moved to 107.7 in 2002, making his tenure at the station 24 years long. Their program ran from 5:30 to 10 a.m. on weekdays, with a mix of rock music, irreverent banter and call-ins from listeners.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd there\u2019s no way of sugarcoating that. They were pulling the show as of today, there are some contract negotiations going on for some of us, but on the Bone, there will be no more \u2018Lamont & Tonelli\u2019 show after today,\u201d Hollywood said at the time. He returned to launch\u00a0\u201cThe Lamont Show\u201d<\/a> without his former partner a couple of months later.<\/p>\n

Hollywood announced his departure in a scathing Facebook post<\/a> to his friends and listeners. He began by attributing the layoff to corporate restructuring and severe cutbacks at Cumulus, the parent company of 107.7.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we are all witnessing is the tragic consequence of debt-fueled media consolidation,\u201d he wrote. \u201cFor years, giant corporate conglomerates bought up hundreds of radio stations using massive leverage, only to spend the next decade slashing real human talent, gutting local newsrooms, and replacing live voices with syndicated feeds and automated voice-tracking just to pay down interest on executive balance sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n

He went on to continue the vitriolic message by railing on the \u201csuits in corporate headquarters,\u201d condemning executive salaries and bonuses, and noting how algorithmic automation can\u2019t replace the trust built between hosts and listeners. After several paragraphs of ire aimed at the station\u2019s corporate arm, he went on to express gratitude to his listeners and announce that he\u2019ll be continuing the show via an independent platform free of corporate control.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t a final goodbye\u2014it\u2019s a deep, heartfelt thank you, and a promise that the best is yet to come. Keep the music loud, stay tuned, and thank you from the bottom of my heart for every single year,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco radio waves have lost one of their most prominent voices. Lamont Hollywood, who hosted \u201cThe Lamont…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136,292366],"class_list":["post-850621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-sfgculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}