Roger Hedgecock has long made a career out of holding people accountable... in his earlier years as a politician and for the past 22 years as the number one radio host in San Diego, CA.  Roger hosts the Roger Hedgecock Community Forum, from 3-7 pm Monday-Friday, on KOGO in San Diego.  The show can also be heard live on-line, worldwide, at www.rogerhedgecock.com.  In addition, Roger hosts a nationally syndicated show on Saturday mornings, heard live at www.rogerreport.com and on stations around the world including XM Radio.  In addition to hosting his own radio broadcast, Roger has been a frequent guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show.  He has also broadcast regular news commentaries on several San Diego TV stations.

Roger’s straight talk and dynamic personality have enabled him to inspire his listeners into action.  When the Republicans took control of the House in the '94 election, Roger and his audience talked about making the Contract With America a reality and not just a platform.  Over 200 listeners paid their own way to join his broadcast in Washington, D.C. to demand that the new majority keep their word - and for the most part, they did.  The event became known as  “Hold Their Feet To The Fire” (HTFTTF) and Roger has been back to D.C. 11 more times for balanced budget, welfare reform, and border control; and he has now expanded the trip to Sacramento two times lobbying to balance the state budget and get state border control. 

In April 2007 HTFTTF received national media attention as 38 other hosts from across the country joined Roger to create a Radio Row in D.C. for 3 days addressing the problems of illegal immigration and border security.

He  is writing The 2008 Conservative Voters’ Field Guide” a series of books intended to educate voters about the critical issues of the election.  The first "#1 - Immigration" and the second "#2 - The War" are available at www.amazon.com or on Roger's websites.

Roger’s generous heart and incredible drive have helped his listeners to support our troops.  Shortly after 9/11, the Skipper of the carrier Constellation invited Roger to address the ship's company as they prepared for war.  Roger promised those young sailors and marines that he and his audience would take care of their families while they were away fighting to protect their country.

As a result, Homefront San Diego was born.  Every day since then, the generosity of Roger’s listening audience has been applied by dedicated volunteers to the needs of military families in his area - donating furniture, car repairs, baby supplies, and whatever else they can to just say THANK YOU to the military families whose sacrifice is not appreciated often enough.

Well known as “The Radio Mayor of San Diego,” Roger is a former Mayor of the City of San Diego.  He served as a member of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors for six years and before that as City Attorney for Del Mar.

Roger has received numerous local awards for broadcasting including, most recently, the 2004, 2005, and 2006 awards for Best Talk Show, and the 2002 and 2004 Excellence in Journalism Award from the San Diego Press Club; and the Best Talk Show Award given at the 4th Annual Achievement in Radio ceremonies in October 2002. 

Roger has also received the Gold Medal for Broadcast Excellence at the New York International Radio Festival and the Silver Medal for International Radio Programming at the New York Festival for World Media.  He has been twice nominated for the prestigious Marconi Award...and has been named one of the 100 Top Talk Show Hosts in America by Talkers Magazine for nine consecutive years.

He has also received numerous awards for service and recognition over the years, among them:
 

·         Patriot of the year 2004, Boy Scouts of America San Diego/Imperial Council
 

·         Shine The Light Award – Christian Coalition
 

·         Paul Harris Award of the Rotary Foundation of International Rotary
 

·         Grand Order Filippo Mazzei Civis Illustris Award of UNICO National, Italian American Service Organization
 

·         Commander’s Certificate for meritorious support as a reputable community leader during Operation Desert Storm – Army Recruiting Co.
 

·         National Border Patrol
 

·         Volunteers of America
 

·         San Diego County Young Republicans
 

·         Association of Retarded Citizens
 

Roger has made a theme of creating responsibility and awareness among his listeners and his question to them is often, “What are you going to do about it?”  With the help of his listening audience, Roger has become quite the activist…in addition to HTFTTF and Homefront San Diego there are other successful endeavors:

·       The yearly “radiothon” fundraiser for the St. Vincent de Paul Village and Toussaint Teen Center.  Over the last 17 years, over $5 million has been raised for homeless and troubled teens.  In 2002 the St. Vincent de Paul Villages awarded Roger and his wife Cindy their highest honor, the Pierre Toussaint Award.

In 2002 and 2003, Roger partnered with Dr. Laura Schlessinger to raise almost $500,000 each year for Dr. Laura’s “My Stuff Bags” in a radiothon at the San Diego Center for Children. 

In 1989, as the San Diego-Tijuana border descended into chaos, Muriel Watson, the widow of a Border Patrol agent, called the show to tell Roger that she and her friends were going down to the border on a Friday night and shine their car headlights over the border to ignite the light of truth on the border lawlessness that the media studiously ignored.  She invited Roger and the listeners to join her - and over 1,500 people did. She called the demonstration "Light Up The Border" and it began the whole national movement to control the border.

·       When the Left dusted off the Vietnam War playbook and began demonstrating at Navy base gates in San Diego against the Iraq War, veterans and reserves in Roger’s audience knew what to do - wherever and whenever the Un-patriotic Left gathered for the cameras, "Protest Warrior" would demonstrate for America - confounding the Left and the media.

Roger attended San Diego State University and is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He received his law degree from U. C. Hastings College of Law and is a member of the California Bar Association.

Roger is married to Cindy Hedgecock. They have two sons, James and Christopher and a brand new grandson, Nathaniel Hedgecock.