*Damon Bruce hits the KGO mike at 1 PM today through 4. Yeah, he'll talk sports, mix in some local issues and my bet is that he'll embellish on the Penn State mess. No, I don't envision a 'Saturday trifecta' though.
*KCBS' weekend coverage of news is pretty much first rate, (as I have said numerous times), but their ridiculous habit of repetitious stories is beginning to agitate me to the extreme. Just this morning, I heard Doug Sovern's story about the goofball up in the tree in Ogawa plaza four times in two hours. Four! C'mon guys, surely you can mix it up with more Dave Ross, Charles Osgood, or even Bay City news minutiae. But seriously, the overload of repeated stories drives away listeners.
*Wednesday brings the 'Bay Area media turkeys of the year'--feel free to chime in with some of your early candidates.
*Big Game fever? Yeah, nice start time--7: 30, (thanks ESPN), should be a helluva scene along the Palo Alto bar corridor on University Ave. on Saturday.
*Psst, hey Claudine Wong, KTVU "Weekend MO2", can you smile at least one time? Just once.
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Thank you for articulating what is annoying about KCBS. The Occupy movement is no longer news. It is a boring time-filler. KCBS is especially repetitive on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteClaudine Wong? ... "The last time a saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it!"
ReplyDeleteClaudine is a real downer. As soon as I see that angry pout and her usual dull gray suit..I change the channel.
ReplyDeleteI had high hopes when she started..but "Daddys girl gets what she wants" is written all over her.
I have to agree with the comments about KCBS. I am one of those people that turn on the news for an hour or two when I get up in the morning but between the commercials and the repetition it is getting harder to do so. I know there is more going on in the world than the five or six items that keep getting reported!
ReplyDeleteI think Claudine has a purrty mouth.
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ReplyDeleteThe Sports Saloon with Patrick Connor is becoming almost as unlistenable as Eric Brynes on Sportsphone 680.
Both Kevin Lynch and Jim Kozimor were outstanding as fill ins.
Is PConn just so white-ghetto-south that he has to use "frickin"..."my ass" or some of his other euphimisims that he delivers with the worst smokers voice-nasal delivery this side of Vegan-Ralph-I dont know how to breath through my diaphram Barbieri.
Planet Earth to Hammer: No mor Barbieri, Byrnes or Connor.
Pleeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzz Lee. Even Wanda hates those three guys.
As I write,Damon Bruce just said he WILL talk politics. I will get back to you later to say I either hate him as one of "them" or respect him...
ReplyDeleteI was finally able to listen to KNBR from 7-10pm on Thursday night because of Jim Kozimor. I absolutely can't take Eric Byrnes- would much rather hear Kozimor instead of "Byrnesie"...
ReplyDeleteI like KCBS for news, but once you realize that it is 2X20 min +/- newscasts an hour plus commercials, and they play about as many as KGO, they just break them up with stories, you can listen to the for 30 mins and get the news.
ReplyDeleteThey are good but they do repeat alot on the weekends...Unless the world is ending or someone has put up another tent in a park with a BAD cardboard sign.
I walked by Frank Ogawa Plaza at 6 tonight. There was a KCBS van and an unmarked TV van there. I guess they were hoping for something.
ReplyDeleteNo obvious police presence and no 60s burn-outs there either.
Claudine Wong isn't programmed to smile but I hear Apple is fixing that with the next upgrade.
ReplyDeleteKCBS is on a 20 minute clock. The assumption is that listeners only tune in for short bursts of listening. It's also true that filling up an hour of airtime with fresh news is damned hard. You try coming up with enough items and writing them all up. Bay City news is just crap rewrites of press releases, written by just out of college kids making 12 bucks and hour. It is so bad you have to rewrite the thing before you can use it. It's also just plain wrong a lot of the time.
ReplyDeleteThat's why KGO can still hold its own, since the news talk format is something you can listen too for several hours without hearing repeats.
Thanks for posting about KCBS's weekend new cycle. I do find my myself listening for longer periods of time on the weekdays (because I listen to KCBS on my 40-60 minute commute) and for shorter periods on the weekends (when I drive less often and take care of short errands). I would guess that my kind of 'listener style' is what they are targeting and your post had me analyze my listening habits and realize that their market research might be accurate.
ReplyDeleteThe other side of the spectrum from Wong is Kate Scott-who its seems sold her soul to the corporation..a Stepford smile as soon as the camera is on her..and she has now gone into the smarmy happy voice before breaks. She has learned fron Radnich fast..she' an exaggeration of his style of work everybody for gain.
ReplyDeleteIsn't Kate such a happy girl? I think so!
I think Claudine Wong smiled when she did a hatchett job piece against Mehserle, and a sob story BS piece on O. Grant's family/leeches.
ReplyDelete11:03 bigot.... can you do better than CW? you can't even do better than O Grant, and he is dead. It looks like Wong works hard and she has a TV job.
ReplyDeleteDo you? didn't think so.