*Caught Keith Olbermann's debut on SF-based 'Current TV'...Olbermann is long on terrific writing and well-packaged segments--short on the likability factor. His 'Countdown' show is effective, (if you can widdle through the cable forest to find the channel) and the program looks like a keeper.
Sure, Keitho's politics are another story, but you knew that going in. Another show factor: as my buddy at InsideCable pointed out, Olberman's Countdown is 63 minutes, just over the usual 60 to screw with MSNBC and Rachel Maddow's show, (ironically, it was Olbermann who jettisoned Maddow to her current cable star status)
*Now that ESPN Deportes will take over the control at fledging KTRB, you would figure, logically, that the A's would re-hire Amaury Pi-Gonzalez and take advantage of the huge Hispanic market in the Bay Area, right? Wrong.
Turns out the A's wanted Pi-Gonzalez to work for free. This, from an organization that is the fourth-richest among MLB owners, (John Fisher, GAP money) Class move.
*In spite of people who tell me that he's not a "team player", Bay Area broadcaster, Roxy Bernstein, (CAL basketball, baseball, ESPN, etc) is one of the most underrated pbp guys in the area.
Bernstein is solid on calls, not to0 overly homerish and calls a nice broadcast, especially on basketball.
*Gotta love the clowns who repeatedly called me out for being "soft" on the new FM sports-only station. Really? As if calling the doofus morning show nothing more than three boorish frat boys talking innocuous shitty mish-mash. They sound like morons chugging on endless rounds of Guinness while extolling the virtues of Mark Ellis and Jemile Weeks. Truly groundbreaking stuff, guys, way to grab an audience.
*KQED-TV is supposedly weighing a late-night 'Charlie Rose'-like local interview program. I just hope we can pray that the proposed show isn't a forum for boring Berkeley Rep actors, endless Willie Brown "introspectives", Beach Blanket Babylonmush and so on.
*That supposed SF Chronicle/SF Gate paywall trial baloon appears to have been shelved, at least temporrarily. Reports circulated a few months back, that a $10 a-month paywall, (similar to the NY Times) was to have been started around late May, but so far, no go.
*Yes, Gene Burns on KGO Radio, appears to be sounding more lucid and fluid, the old Gene Burns, here's hoping he makes a complete recovery. While I'm not the greatest Burns fan, he at least provides a completely sincere program.
Too bad other KGO hosts, (including one who recently de-friended me on Facebook--oh, the sleepless nights) sound as if they just got off the Amtrak train from Lompoc.
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Couldn't agree with you more about John Fisher. He's embarrassing the family name in the bay area. They don't have Spanish language broadcast here in the bay area??? Then of course they complain about not selling tickets...
ReplyDeleteBilly Beane in his Lowell Cohn interview in his smugness said the A's attendence went down after they won the west in 2006...his smug face didnt seem to remember that's also when he and Wolff and the Fisher family(finally being called out in the media) started the "we want out of Oakland" campaign. They have made every wrong move while taking no blame. Was it the clubhouse toilets that traded Eitheir?
ReplyDelete95.7 better get its act together. Monte is just an even more obnoxious Radnich. And that he gets personal at what should be his compadre Dibs just makes for uncomfortable listening.
I think Montys attacks have had an impact already on Dibs..he's quiet for long stretches of the show and I dont hear the funny Dibs that comes out when he worked with Radnich or-- When he's on with Papa-he's even funnier. With Monty,the look at the clock until I'm gone can be felt by listeners. I've heard Dibs get into that thing where he makes a stand on an issue..where he knows deep down its weak..but also knowing Monty will wont let it go,Dibs cant laugh it off ..so bad radio goes on. All because he's being bullied.
And what to make of Radnich saying "The late great Ray Woodsen" hmm?
Ray did Giants postgame and hosted sportsphone all last week while Burns was back East with MLB network
ReplyDeleteI enjoy Ray on the radio
I hope KQED gets its shit together soon. They are perpetually in pledge mode and even show commercials between programs now. I love the radio side but the television aspect makes me truly miss my colege days in Boston with WGBH, where most of KQED's programming comes from.
ReplyDeleteWhe "Hey Greenie, Yeah Golic" is the best thing on sports radio between 6-7am, you have a problem (hope those two ESPN guys have a great life together when they finally marry each other. If 95.7 was smart, they'd replay Steve Czaben's nation SNR show between 6-9am (proper mix of sports and guy stuff) and after hiring Tittle and Roxy from KTRB figure and firing dumpster fire Rob and Arnie figure out the rest of the schedule between 9-4pm, when Townsend comes on.
ReplyDeleteTHIS BLOG IS TOO POWERFUL! no.3,482..Monty just did a few minutes saying how he DOES NOT look at the clock on the job-time just flys he says.
ReplyDeleteAnd he's being a bit kinder to Dibs today. btw,Dibs said he was tired of being on a show that "mailed it in"..and that's why he left. What show would he have been refering too?-lol.
Radnich-who doesnt seem to have the fun had with Dibs on his show like before,just talked of " A new format"..more interviews,more calls. Of course since he has almost no back and force with Kate Scott,he has time to fill. And Pecon's almost robotic predictable answers with kow towing to Lee Hammer doesnt add much to the show either. And I bet Radnich DESPISES the new giveaway segment. It sounds so cheesy and carnival show like. You can see on TV Radnich feels degraded every time he has to do his dialing for dollars routine. Just needs more cowbell...
ReplyDelete7:21 Good call--I heard them a few weeks ago, Greenie was dressed as "Justin Beiber" for the day, over some bet or deal they had. Golic seemed to be excited about the whole thing. What's going on with these guys, are they going to start conducting oil rubdowns on each other during the show.?
ReplyDeleteRachel Maddow actually got her start on MSNBC with a very generous Tucker Carlson, who gave her plenty of time to argue her points without the yelling or interruptions of most other cable ideologues. Not much well-reasoned back-and-forth between cheerful adversaries anymore. Windbags and harpies, on all sides, seem to prevail these days ....
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