THE FRIDAY PULSE
**The proposed Jay Leno/Conan schedule alteration, (Leno will go back to 11:35; Conan will commence at 12:05) has many peacock affiliates thrilled, including NBC Bay Area in San Jose.
Although the imminent move has more of an impact with other NBC affs in other markets, locally, KTVU's cash cow, "10 O'clock News" was killing NBC11, and more importantly, Leno's rapidly declining numbers muddled the lead-in to the San Jose independant's 11PM newscast.
As a side note, in all the "Leno isn't ready for primetime," the network hasn't said what will replace Leno at 10PM, but given NBC's overall last-place designation, that seems trivial anyway. Maybe NBC should bring back "Supertrain."
Shades of Fred Silverman/circa 1980 at 30 Rock.
**While ABC7's anchor Dan Ashley, along with ace reporters Wayne Freedman and Dan Noyes get a huge amount of recognition, (justifiably,) lost in the shuffle is unassuming and talented Carolyn Johnson. The long-tenured, capable Johnson is quietly steady and occasionally lost on the local TV news radar. You get the feeling that Johnson is OK with that; gees, what a concept; a news anchor that merely reads the news.
**The ABC/ESPN broadcast of the alleged, (sarcasm intended) national championship Thursday night at the Rose Bowl between Texas and Alabama had great production, with excellent camera angles and all, and a decent call by veteran Brent Musburger and color analyst, Kirk Herbstreet.
An annoying presence ON the telecast: ESPN's under screen rolling crawl of sports scores and news. Hey!, this is college football's big finale. Get rid of the visual graffiti at the bottom. The NFL would never allow any network to use crawls on its Super Bowl, and for good reason. The Disney folks and ESPN should take note.
**Although Clear Channel continues to bleed a lot of red ink, its both refreshing and comforting that its major market talkies in the Bay Area, Green 960 and KNEW, (talk 910 AM) have maintained, and in Green's case, strengthened their prime line-up.
Karel, (as scooped here) will begin his new talk show Monday, from 3 until 6PM. The last two hours of Karel's show will be syndicated.
**NOTES: Speaking of KNEW, morning team and occasionally very funny "Armstrong and Getty", (6 AM until 10 AM) were openly lamenting their impending contract end. Whether or not the Sacramento-based duo have signed a new deal remains unclear...KGO and Ronn Owens bid a semi-goodbye to "retiring" Rosie Allen the other day. Allen repeated for the 200Th time that she's not retiring, merely "redirecting." That's a code word for "buyout" at Citadel/KGO, and some radio sources indicated Allen's buyout was at or near the six-figure area. Funny how GM Mickey Luckoff made an unintentional allusion to Allen's exit, saying, (and I'm paraphrasing,) "just like 'I took care of my assistant at the end.'"(Luckoff was referring to his personal secretary of 41 years, who also "retired" and was given a nice severance package) Side note: Luckoff's longtime employees speak well of him and how he's managed to "take care of them" in these challenging times, (especially at cash-strapped Citadel); it would be a lot more credible and transparent to KGO listeners to simply acknowledge so and so is leaving because we/Citadel, needed to go lean and made it worth their while...now the current talk at KGO? Who's the next big name to go and when...the tension and anamosity continues at KPFA, Berkeley's ultra-left radio FM holdout, which was the recipient of a very controversial year-end piece by the East Bay Express...Word is the possibility of an "ESPN San Francisco-Oakland" is still in the cards...FINALLY: that local high-up TV exec should try to be more discreet about his late afternoon "enjoyment" every now and then. Your co-Hort's know every story, so you may want to ease up a bit.
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