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KGEO (1230 AM broadcasting, branded on-air as "ESPN Bakersfield") is a commercial radio radio station in Bakersfield, California. It broadcasts a sports radio radio format with shows from ESPN Radio and the Infinity Sports Network. KGEO is the flagship station of locally-based American General Media, with studios located at the Easton Business Complex in southwest Bakersfield.
KGEO is powered at 1,000 . Its AM transmitter is located southwest of Highway 58 and Union Avenue in southeast Bakersfield. KGEO shares its broadcast tower with KWAC 1490 AM. Programming on KGEO is also heard on FM translator K266CG at 101.1 Hertz.
Original local owner Kern County Broadcasters sold off the radio station in 1955, and the call letters were changed to KGEE. It aired a mix of talk and middle of the road (MOR) music. Its moniker was "KGEE, The Talk of the Town".
KGEO switched to an talk radio format in the late 1990s. It featured syndicated shows from Dennis Miller, Dave Ramsey, Lou Dobbs, Clark Howard, Wall Street Journal Radio, Gordon Deal and Red Eye Radio. Local programing heard on KGEO included Your Radio Store and Californian Radio with hosts Jeff Lemuccci, Richard Beene, Lois Henry, Robert Price and John Arthur. KGEO also carried minor league baseball games of the now-defunct Bakersfield Blaze in the California League.
KGEO later experimented with hot talk carrying such syndicated programs as "The Phil Hendrie Show" and "The Tom Leykis Show". Imus in the Morning was heard on KGEO until its cancellation in April 2007. KGEO also dropped "The Don and Mike Show" just one week before radio veteran Don Geronimo had planned to retire anyway.
On April 5, 2011, KGEO changed formats and became a news/talk station known as "$mart Talk 1230." That lasted a short time and once again, KGEO returned to ESPN Radio as its Bakersfield affiliate.
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