600 KOGO has found the replacement for Ted Garcia on San Diego’s Morning News. Bret Burkhart will join Veronica Carter on the station’s morning program.
Burkhart joins the iHeartMedia San Diego news/talk station after spending the past three years as a news anchor and reporter at KCBS in San Francisco. Earlier in his career, he spent 22 years as a news anchor at 810 KGO in the city, and had also spent time working at KFBK in Sacramento.
Earlier this year, Burkhart was the news anchor at KCBS when the station was accused of giving listeners exact information on when and where ICE agents in the city were conducting raids. Those on-air moments drew the ire of the Trump administration and the FCC.
As a result, the Commission launched an investigation against the Audacy San Francisco all-news brand, alleging that the information shared put ICE agents in harm’s way and that the FCC would “hold broadcasters accountable for complying with their public interest obligations.”
Burkhart steps into the role previously occupied by Garcia, who departed the station late last month. Garcia had been on the station’s morning show since joining in 2014.
The show airs from 5-9 AM. Burkhart will work alongside Veronica Carter, who joined the show a year ago, replacing LaDona Harvey, who spent nearly three decades at 600 KOGO.
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Thank you for sharing this development. I really appreciate the importance of what you do for our industry, Barrett Media. However, I think it’s important to correct one thing in this article given the political climate that is laser focused on media.
I did NOT give the exact times. I read a story based on public comments from city leaders in San Jose hours after that activity ended. It was a story that was covered by most every newsroom in the Bay Area.