As we close out the new year and navigate quickly to 2010, a few answers to questions I invariably get from the folks who read "my little blog."
**Rich, why do you have such an anti-KNBR fetish? Let it go. Did they not hire you? We'll, first off, I have never wanted nor applied for a gig at KNBR. Check the records. The truth is KNBR is a joke and if not for carrying the 49ers, Giants and Warriors, they'd be toast. Maybe Barbieri and Tolbert too, but that's about it. The nighttime guy has some talent too, but apparently he's been told to muzzle up. This is a radio station that uses interns to do updates. This is a radio station that buckled under the Larry Baer gun to use a house voice from the Giants to do their post-game shows at AT&T. This is a radio station that puts Vegas tip-sheet guys, (four of 'em) on their air as "guests", without telling the peeps that such guests are paid advertisers. This is a radio station whose noon-3 "talent" has more cackling and giggling than a Hillary Clinton birthday party..."America's #1 Sports radio station?", sez who? The tooth fairy? I hope the Cumulus Xmas party was swell; heard quite a few stories from some of your sales guys who aren't so happy. Wonder why.
**Comcast Sportsnet Bay Area: Nice people over there. A few too nice and even one who was cool enough to massage a whack job like me when the earth was caving in. Figuratively-speaking...The good stuff: coverage on A's/Giants/Warriors terrific, with nice HD touch. Lavish sets, the 1200 bank of monitors and the high-tech look is all splendid. I'd like to see more of a variety of non-sports teams' programming. "Chronicle Live" is fairly standard, coffee-table fare and no, its not just because some little dweeby producer won't put me on; howz about more OPINIONATED, more VISUAL, more OPINION-variety writers/guests who will actually SAY SOMETHING that elicits traction and generates a bit of buzz, and no, I'm not talking about Willie Brown and Rado on the 49ers post game show. Willie, as I've said 20x over is loathed in the suburbs and an instant turn-the-channel figure...on the other hand, Tony Bruno and Bill Romonowski are quite watchable even if the Raiders are struggling...as for the other talent: Greg Papa? check. Scott Reiss? say something Scott; we like the anchor look, but please, say something...Damon Andrews? Humn...Eric Davis? Tremendous; give him more time...Dave Benz? Funny and sorta-different and I can't explain why...OK, the 'youthful talent, (read what you want into that, I suppose if you really want to work in this town, we'll...)
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