It’s 9 a.m. on June 25, and Bret Saunders should be hosting the morning program on KBCO, at 97.3 FM, as he has for more than 28 years.
Instead, he’s talking with Westword about the news delivered to him fewer than 24 hours earlier: He’d been laid off as part of the latest cost-cutting move by media behemoth iHeart, the station’s owner.
“I found out after my show was over yesterday,” he notes. “I was pretty surprised.”…