Both KTVU "Weekend Mornings on Two" anchors were literally shouting questions over each other in an attempt to get some info from the unidentified woman. Fine and dandy. But when its apparent that other than the obvious, (that LA cops were in the middle of a shakedown) and very little is known, a bit of restraint would be nice. It's called common sense too.
Granted, it was breaking news of a big story and kudos to Channel 2 news staffers to snag a neighbor who was at the scene, but both Wong and Mibach's utter ineptitude of interviewing a woman, (who really didn't provide anything) was unintentionally comical.
*Two of the best in print and on-line: The Chron's reknowned sports scribe, Scott Ostler, had a beauty of a three-dotter Sunday, (paywall) and the San Jose Merc's Tim Kawakami broke the Warriors hiring of Jerry West.
*If the people that run the new FM All-Sports 95. 7 think that by hiring KNBR retreads, they're going to attract more listeners, they're wrong. Instead of going after new, refreshing outside talent, the Entercom outlet is making stabs at hacks like Dan Dibley, (an official announcement was not made of the Dibley hire, but Daffy Duck tweeted it on his Twitter account.)
Another stunner: someone in the biz who would know told me that the station made a stab at "Murph and Mac." I'm not kidding. Scary. And desperation central.
Daffey Duck? Thanks, Richie Littlebrain.
ReplyDeleteWest as advisor?..like Magic with L.A.? or Will Clark with the Giants?. Tims great excitement is..these are people he knew in LA-LA back in his prime years. If Sloan had been hired..we would have heard how Sloan is in his 70's is old,and advisor THEN to to Kawakami would have meant just that.
ReplyDeleteANY KNBR loss is good news. Slay that Dragon...although where is the diversity at WOLF?
It's KKKNBR with a hate of the Giants?. I am now torn...
Saturday evening in Sacramento was amateur hour as well on Fox 40; first an Amber Alert announcement during the Giants game robbed the game of its ausio, and the only information given was that an Amber Alert was issued; no information other than what counties were covered.
ReplyDeleteLater, during the 7 PM Fox 40 newscast, the two anchors shouted over one another at the reporter in the field on a murder-suicide; particularly odd as the reporter couldn't hear them.
They all need some decaf!
ReplyDeleteDibbley while not my favorite was tired of doing the Radnick puppet show and was never considered for any fill-in work whien the "talent" (loosely defined) is on vacation. He cant be any worse than those two afternoon tools and both Townsend and Scott Jackson could use a partner...If someone placed a call to Murph and Mac (the morning tool box), that person should be immediately fired since he doesn't know talent.
ReplyDeleteI've listened to Radnich on KNBR about half-a-dozen times in the last year. I found Dibley to be slightly annoying, and thought he was trying to manufacture controvery, but I ran across his twitter messages when I was trying to figure out what the hell Rich was talking about in a previous posting. In one of them, Dibley said he was happy to finally be able to talk about ALL the Bay Area teams. So I guess he was frustrated with KNBR, too.
ReplyDeleteI agree. That new 95.7 FM station is doing little to be cutting edge
ReplyDeleteYou might not think Dibs helps the WOLF(It does) but now Radnich without Dibs to reel him in? I can imagine what Radnich will say with only his Confederate producer to talk too.
ReplyDeleteNo more correcting on saying words like "retarded", anti Asian jokes, "Rush is a good entertainer" ..that and more that Dibs would counterpoint.
It's going to be KKKruegerized.
I personally am happy to see Dibs moving on. His act had worn thin on KNBR, he wanted to be the know it all but came off as an A$$ many times towards Gary. You can laugh at Gary all you want but his show draws and he was there well before Dibs and will be there well after. He would constantly be talking about his kids, putting his kids out front using his kids drops etc. It grew old very quickly.........the show is Gary and then the 1/2 hr with Bruno...tha's the show it was NEVER the dibs show....Myself and many people I know are actually quite thankful his smugness is off the KNBR airwaves. He loved to put down many nat'l radio/tv personalities yet he tried many of the same routines. I also wouldn't have mined if the murph and mac show was packed up and moved......I don't mind murph but paulie really brings-0- to the show!
ReplyDeleteMike Mibach is wack... belongs on an LA station somewhere with his wanna-be I'm an important reporter act. Everytime I see his KTVU, "... This area I'm standing in is filled with gang activity..." spots, I want to hurl something at the tv.
ReplyDeleteClaudine Wong comes across as a bitch.
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