For other people named Burns, see Burns (disambiguation).

Gene Burns is a radio talk show host on KGO 810 a.m. in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, USA. He is noted for his membership in the Libertarian Party, his loss of his run for the Libertarian Party candidate for President of the United States, his opposition to the Iraq War, his patrician voice and clear diction, and his erudite, energetic declaration and defense of his views. He was previously a radio talk show host in Boston, Massachusetts.

He hosts his daily radio show from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. PST Monday through Friday, and his food and food-culture focused Dining Around with Gene Burns airs on Saturday morning from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. PST. Each December, Gene Burns's Dining Around program hosts an annual cookie exchange for listeners.

Some background on Burns appeared in Boston Radio Watch, 9-14-95:

The Boston Globe is reporting this morning that talkmaster Gene Burns will return (sort of) to Boston airwaves on Monday, October 2. Burns will host a 10am to 2pm show from his San Francisco's home on WKOX AM 1200 in Framingham, MA. He's expected to relocate to the Boston area later in the year.

Burns held highly-rated 10am-2pm shift at all-talk WRKO AM 680 from 1986 and 1992. In the fall of '92, he left Boston for a lucrative syndication deal at WOR-AM in NYC. (WRKO, which was part of a much smaller Atlantic Ventures at that time, couldn't accommodate him with such a setup.) WRKO-AM did carry his 2-hour syndicated show on tape-delay.

Last fall, in a dispute with WOR management, Burns walked out on his contract -- with a year remaining. After leaving WOR, he underwent complicated neck surgery which kept him housebound in NYC for a couple of months. Aftewards, Burns headed to KGO-AM in S.F.

External links

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• Gene Burns' official bio page
• KGO History - Some Events of the Past Decade (Unauthorized)

American radio personalities | Libertarian Party (United States) presidential nominees | Libertarians | San Francisco Broadcasters