"I made the decision to stop appearing on that show last March because I got tired of Comcast producers repeatedly trying to tell me what I could or couldn't say about Chris Cohan and Robert Rowell, and I'm fairly certain Comcast got tired of me being tired of Comcast's warnings."
Comcast is trying to monopolize and buy off local media.KNBR is part owner of Comcastwest,so that's why Radnich is seen all day long there. It's gotten so polished,nothing is said most days and rare is the day people are allowed to disagree.
ReplyDeleteThe worst show ever had to have been Kawakami interviewed by fill in host Radnich..and I bet Tim would agree.
Comcast has its fingers so deep in local and state politics, its not even funny. They spent a lot of money to change state law to reduce the amount of money they had to spend to pay for public access (i.e., free speech) cable. Since public access doesn't make them any money, they tried hard to kill it so they sell those channels to commercial interests. San Francisco's own "Department of Telecommunication" (DT) is run by guys so deep in their pockets, its obscene. Why do they do this? So they can continue to pile on surcharges to your cable bill, guised as 'taxes' and 'maintanence fees' that they can then control for their own interests.
ReplyDeleteSome may not like to hear that this is due to deregulatory practices that have become di rigeur the past 10 years, but that's precisely what this is the result of. Oh, sure, deregulation helps corporations make a ton of money, but it's at the expense of a lot of things we often take for granted.
since when is KNBR a part owner of CSN?
ReplyDeleteDidn't the dereg rules change farther back than 10 years? Maybe the mid-90s when companies could own multiple stations in the same market? Which has given us less competition and situations like Channel 36 and 44 being step children of KTVU and KPIX.
ReplyDeleteThe Telecommunications act of 1996 was the first step in relaxed regulations, yes, but there was an increase in that in the 2000's, especially at the state and local levels. Want one easy guidepost to see how this was working? Remember how AT&T Park opened as Pacific Bell Park in 2000? A few years later, Pac Bell was bought out by SBC, and the name was changed. A couple years after that, when SBC bought out AT&T and, in essence, reconstituted a lot of 'Ma Bell' that had been broken up in 1983. Now mark the path of those mergers against the policy changes made by Michael Powell, who became FCC head in 2001 and started immediately taking out several regulatory practices to "encourage competition."
ReplyDeleteComcast follows a similar path of acquisition that the deregulatory practices of the 2000's allowed them to make, starting with their acquisition of AT&T broadband in 2001. The funny thing is, when they helped finance the bill that basically killed of Public Access in the state of California, they tried to claim that it wasn't them, but AT&T (the 'new' AT&T broadband) that sponsored the bill. While technically true, anyone connecting the dots knows that they really are different companies 'competing' in name, only. Sort of like KNBR 680 and the KNBR 1050, but perhaps not as transparent.
To anom about KNBR and Comcast sports west-Wikipedia brings it up on it's Comcastwest sports page..and just a couple of days ago Radnich mentioned the partnership. You have doubts as you see KNBR flunkys do so many shows? How many KTRB hosts do shows for Comcast? if Radnich wasnt committed to the KRON 6 pm news,no doubt he would have been hired to do the 5pmComcast hour. As it is,it's strange KRON would let him do it part time for the competition. But,I guess Comcast pays off KRON for that.
ReplyDeleteI slightly misspoke. Comcast is 1/3 owned by the Giants,who also are part owners of KNBR. So the tenticals of monopoly are even deeper than I made it sound..
ReplyDeleteAnonymous "misspoke" again.
ReplyDeleteCSN Bay Area is partially owned by the Giants (30%).
KNBR is a partial (minority) owner of the Giants.
During the election run up for Measure J in Santa Clara, Jed York was allowed to come on Chronicle Live's TV show, and spin his BS PR anytime he wanted to. When the opposition asked to come on to give viewers their point of view of Measure J...they were to NO....
ReplyDeleteThe Yorks also spent over 5 Million Dollars on Ads to promote Measure J too. The opposition was barred from being on TV, or getting out their message by the 49ers/Yorks...who I might add are "Intellectually Dishonest."