VERN GLENN UPDATE & KRON4's "Sports Weekend"
Staffer: "You can't be serious!"...
"KRON4", KRON-TV, San Francisco's venerable independent station at storied 1001 Van Ness, whose parent company, YOUNG Broadcasting filed bankruptcy a few weeks back has indeed made headlines in local media circles, but not the type I'm sure their management would like.
First off, weekend sports anchor, Vern Glenn is still employed at the station, but was stripped of his anchoring duties, and is now a midweek "VJ" journalist. Glenn told me "I have a 34 waist and now I'm trying to live in a 30-inch world". Glenn has been working without a contract since October of 2008. He's been at KRON for 19 years.
I watched KRON's weekend sports last week and couldn't believe what I was seeing. First off, on Saturday, they ran a CNN 'headline sports summary from FRIDAY's! sports stories, and on Sunday, ran a NATIONAL 90-second sports capsule with Saturday stories. NO local material, nothing about the Sharks, the Warriors. A canned, innocuous, and thoroughly embarrassing sports report, anchor less, using day-old highlights.
The events were so out of wacky, a KRON producer reportedly threw their hands up in the air and blurted out loud, "You can't be serious". At least the weather segment was current and the 30-something "news" anchor managed to get through a half-hour trying her very best not to mispronounce every other name.
Just another sad day at KRON4.
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KAREL Update:
KAREL, the openly-gay radio talk-host who was fired from KGO Radio during the election for wishing 'Joe the plumber' "would die", not knowing his mike was on, has apparently been hired at ENERGY, (92.7 FM) and is set to begin a new show March 2 from 9-midnight. Watch this site for more details.
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