Melanie Morgan is an American radio personality, formerly with KSFO (560 kHz AM) in San Francisco, where her husband, Jack Swanson, was VP of News and Programming.
[1] She was laid off from KSFO due to budget cutbacks and declining ad revenue, returned to host the morning show,[2] then once more left the station as of July 10, 2013.
She is the Chairman of Move America Forward, a non-partisan, non-profit, charitable organization that supports the U.S. armed forces and their missions in the War on Terrorism.
While she focuses on San Francisco Bay Area regional issues, she has covered events in China, Mexico and Iraq.
[7] Melanie Morgan co-hosted a highly rated morning show with Lee Rodgers and traffic reporter "Officer Vic" on San Francisco Bay Area radio station KSFO.
[1] Her tenure on the KSFO morning show ended in March 2008 when the station "decided not to renew her contract as part of the company’s announced across-the-board financial cost cutting".
She is currently Chair of Move America Forward (MAF), a nonprofit, political advocacy group providing gifts to U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
[15] As the chairman of Move America Forward, Morgan lead a 40-city campaign Heroes for the Holidays Tour to "rally support for the troops and their mission."
During her last trip to the Middle East, Melanie Morgan and one of the Gold Star Mothers, Debbie Lee, brought over 100,000 Christmas cards to troops throughout the area of operations.
[23] Executive Producer Linda Winslow responded to complaints by saying, Since neither guest was in the studio with Judy Woodruff, there wasn't much she could do to prevent them from interrupting one another, short of saying – as she did at least three times – 'please let him/her finish his/her point'.