I've often ripped hard into Gary Radnich, but he deserves major points on his KNBR show Friday, showing much-needed levity in addressing the tragedy in San Bruno.
More to the point, Radnich' mantra that sports took an immediate back seat to Thursday night's calamity provided much-needed cover to the embarrassing "performance" by his morning show mental midgets, "Murph and Mac", who barely gave scant attention to the goings-on in San Bruno. ("Murph" blurted out a 20-sec. brief mention at 5 AM, and immediately went straight to a rah-rah Giants win rant)
Sure, KNBR is an all-sports station, but the magnitude of the events in San Bruno were far more important, more compelling, most importantly, IT was what people were talking about; indeed, ALL the cable networks, even ESPN, made note and covered the conflagration.
Except, of course, the clueless boobs named Smurph and Crap.
**Ronn Owens devoted the first two hours on KGO to the San Bruno story and managed to get phone interviews with Lieut. Gov, Abel Maldonado, State Sen., LeLand Yee, and Insur. czar, Steve Poizner.
If I wanted to hear anything important outside of sports, KNBR would be the LAST place I would go to. Better they sound stupid talking about things they know than sound stupid about things they don't know. I should be listening to Ronn Owens and KCBS for this.
ReplyDeleteGary is fine detailing the importance of sports, but it's when he tries to project that on the audience(i.e. getting them to agree with his view) that reaches a wrong note.
There was a guy from PGE that sounded wrong on KNTV, that he didn't say anything of substance and got called on it. He sounded fake, was this the same guy on KRON or do I have the channels mixed up.
Does the KNBR morning show generate any ratings... it's inane at times...sometimes Murphy has something to say but Paulie Mac seems to be a parody of a has been radio personality. Are they satisfied with it... since every thing they tried since Frank Dill has been a misstep?
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