Wikileaks 'Secret Documents' on Bay Area Media

Wikileaks has received a ton of coverage for publishing over 250,000 secret and classified documents involving US and world diplomatic meetings, memos and intelligence.

Further probing of other documents not immediately released disclosed several notable inside items concerning various Bay Area media. Among them:

**KGO-TV sports anchor, Larry Beil, went to management and proclaimed that he was, in fact, Jesus Christ, and demanded a throne be perched at his desk, with authority, otherwise he threatened to leave and host "7Live."

**Producers at "7Live" confirmed that, yes, indeed, some people do actually watch "7Live."

**Staffers at both KGO and KCBS were involved in a nighttime brawl near the Battery media gulch. SFPD called for outside agencies to break up the midnight fisticuffs. The brawlers were heard screaming "We have first traffic!" Those arrested were taken to Treasure Island, via the KGO copter.

**KTVU's Dave Clark was seen, at least momentarily, smiling, for "a hard second", according to several independent sources.

**Jan Wahl, in her KCBS review of the new Cher/Christine Aguilera movie musical, "Burlesque", actually used the term, "fabulous" 379 times. As a reward to keep that word under 400, the top brass sent Wahl on an all-you-can-eat frenzy at Tommy's Joynt.

**Recently fired CNNer, Rick Sanchez, applied for work at KRON as a "rapping anchorman", but was turned away because Young execs said he wasn't "wacky enough."

**Gary Radnich, "for the 900TH time!", offered to, A. host his KNBR Radio show, B. do ALL 162 post-game Giants shows on Comcast, C. do all 82 Sharks/Warriors Comcast post game shows, D. kidnap Greg Papa and moderate "Chronicle Live." In exchange, Radnich would give up his anchor seat at KRON as long as he got a piece of Jaymee Sire's hair.

**Comcast threatened to raid every existing newspaper sports departments. In one biting memo, a Comcast exec allegedly blurted out that "as far as I'm concerned, every sports writer is an INSIDER!, dammit, and whatever it takes, nail 'em!"

**KPIX, in an effort to try new things, is weighing a new 4PM newscast in which all anchors and reporters, editors, producers, and the like, will only sit down and "never stand up." Even the weather guessers will be prevented from standing up. The only time anyone will be allowed to actually stand up is when the show ends at 4: 30 or unexpected poddy breaks.

**Henry Tannenbaum opened a new gardening store in Brisbane.

**Ralph Barbieri is contemplating retirement and looking to turn KNBR headquarters at 55 Hawthorne into an Amici's pizza parlor.

**KCBS sports anchor, Steve Bitker, on a recent morning, said this: "Good Morning Stan, 'Good Morning Susan, Good Morning Kim, Good Morning Ed, Good Morning Jason, Good Morning Hollie."

**Bloggers Tim Kawakami and Lowell Cohn declared war on the Oakland Raiders and began blogging secret writings on how Richard Seymour ties his shoes.

**Comcast "Senior Insider", Ray Ratto, shocked top execs at CC studios with an ultimatum: "Either I get more billboards, or the sweater's coming off!"

**The ghost of Milt Kahn was seen hovering over Dennis O'Donnell's desk at KPIX.

**49ers coach, Mike Singletary, asked his opinion of the Bay Area local TV news, shot back that he'd "have to take a look at the film."

**In an effort to spike up ratings, producers from "The Sunday Night Rap" were offered an entire studio audience from "7Live." The merger was seen as a cogent way for both shows to pick up an additional 30 viewers.

**KGO-TV anchor, Dan Ashley, stunned fellow colleagues with an early new year's resolution: "Enough is enough, dammit!--I'm sticking with THIS! hairdo!"

**The KNBR "Morning Show" was put in temporary hiatus after noted singer, "Paulie Mac" had a case of the heebie-jeebies and threw his sound board out the window. Co-host, Brian Murphy, was visibly shaken. "Dude!"

**KQED once considered to go to a new 24/7 format of "All pledge brakes--all the time", but at the last minute, resisted. The reason? Couldn't find enough Burl Ives and Count Basie videos for donations over $500.


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