Anybody notice that there is less and less production being heard by KGO's long-time voice, Mike Amatori? Haven't heard work from him in ages. Even the "new" KGO hourly ID is done by someone else ... and not Mike, a Bay Area Radio Hall of Famer and much loved personality. Where'd he go?"
Gees, I wonder if Cumulus...
*Late TV teaser: KPIX, (CBS5), has been quietly having potential anchors do some practice runs over at 855 Battery. Is Allen Martin, (co-anchor at 5 PM) suddenly out of favor? Nobody knows for sure, but some thing, or someone, for that matter, might be on the outs.
*I see the Cumulus interns are trolling me during their lunch breaks. Nice. Just spell my name right.
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I hope the Cummies fired Amatori's ass. Pathetic, swarmy and embarrassing, to say nothing of out-dated. How this clown ever made the HOF is beyond me. At one time, KGO had a stellar production crew of Craig Spear, Dennis Gregg and engineer Tom Yee. This trio runs circles over this incompetent. What an asshole. Shit on him.
ReplyDelete2011 New Years Resolution: Get Dick Lieberman sued, get his sponsors to quit, using tiny dick's own shady tactics: slander and lies. and Go!
ReplyDeleteRich, looks like one of the intern snakes is slithering out of the grass in the 6:08 post.
ReplyDeleteOh my the Cumulus trolls are at it again !!
ReplyDeleteHope you're ignoring them, Rich. You are the bright light since KGO's went out.
Funny that Amatori's voice is no longer on KGO while the fired hosts' voices ran on commercials for weeks.
It should be easy to find out... somehow.
Keep up the great work!
Is Mike the guy who did all the funny commercials with outtakes? Damn if that was him, he was AWESOME! They were sooo funny!
ReplyDeletehey,6:08, go crawl back under your rock!
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work there, Rich. Awesome blog.
6:08 pm --Is that you again, Jared?
ReplyDeleteAmatori was and is a dinosaur before he was hired.
ReplyDeleteIf he was fired, good riddance.
5:58 hit it on the head
ReplyDeleteMike Amatori is an egoitist that rivals that of Ronnnnnnn. Fuck him and ronnnnnn, too.
ReplyDeleteMichael Amatori
ReplyDeleteTomorrow will be my last day at KGO's Front Street Studios, My Studio, which I called the POD, was not very big, but lots of Great BIG Spots came out of that small space. My friends at Beach Blanket Babylon have produced their radio spots there for the past 6 years . I won lots of Awards with Spots & Promos from the POD...4 AP/Mark Twains for News, 5 Addy's for Promos, 2 Silver Mics for Promos. I produced 5 CD's of my work for charity that netted $195,000. My work from the POD got me into the BA Radio Hall of Fame. I will miss it. On 1/6/12 I will be in a
new studio on Hawthorne Street. I can only hope it will become the NEW POD and It will be a productive place for me. I can only hope. The Pod 9/17/94 - 12/23/11
"2011 New Years Resolution: Get Dick Lieberman sued, get his sponsors to quit, using tiny dick's own shady tactics: slander and lies. and Go!"
ReplyDeleteAdditional Resolution: Update calendar. Buy 2012 calendar since 2011 resolutions for 2011 happened a year ago and you failed.
Moron. lol
6:08 You are a MORON!!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Dickeys are textbook beneficiaries of nepotism.
ReplyDeleteIdiots who did nothing to earn their fortune, and are using their inheritance to harm a Bay Area institution.
Karma's a bitch guys. I'll be laughing my ass off when you fail.
Pricks.
Amatori's still on there all the time but doing a whole lot of commercials now. Unless the spots they're playing are old ones, I don't think he's gone anywhere.
ReplyDeleteThe nasty postings have to be coming from someone at KGO. Talk about a moron! You can practically hear him crying every time he religiously reads your blog. He's on it everyday!!
ReplyDeleteI can't wait until all the fired KGO talk show hosts re-surface on other stations. Cumulus doesn't get that We The Former KGO listeners want to listen to a variety of talk show hosts during the week. We DON'T want to listen to this monotonous 24/7 news crap. This new format, put in place by morons, is the most idiotic thing they could do to KGO. And Cumulus intern, nobody cares what you comes out of your mouth. You're an absolute mornon!!!
ReplyDeleteHow about T-shirts that read "Got Moron?" for the Cumulus staff, including the stupid interns. Hahahaha
ReplyDeleteUm, ex-squeeze me, but the word is "absolute MORON, not mornon." Thank you.
ReplyDeleteIncidentally, the "old" KGO had it's fans. The problem, just not enough of them or at least, ones who mattered.
Enjoy those SweetJack spots!
still waiting for the folks at Cumulus (and KGO?) to provide details about inaccuracies posted by Rich - when they resort to obcenities (as they did yesterday), you know they are in trouble.
ReplyDeleteWow-intern spending all their time on this blog. Doesn't look good. Also, intern doesn't know what they're talking about in regards to fan count. They drank the cool-aid full of lies about ratings, fan count, etc.
ReplyDeleteI'm laughing at the Obvious Corporate Shills who post on this page.
ReplyDeleteRich - - post the moronic comments' IP addresses. It would be lovely to trace them to KGO and/or Cumulus.
ReplyDeleteAnyone who talks in a disgusting way about KGO's former hosts or staff should be ignored and walked around like some waste you find on the street. I've always hated when people post, "move on, nothing to see here," but right now, that's how I feel when people who obviously don't care about the KGO we loved come here and spread their venom. Just let them yammer, we've got free speech, so do they, but we don't have to pay them no mind. If these people are interns, they're hanging out with bottom feeders and they'll eventually get thrown out in in the fall-out to come and I predict, pretty soon. KGO's numbers are gonna slide right off the side...
ReplyDeleteHI Rich,,,please support our effort to take on cumulus tomorrow. We won't let them silence you and we won't continue to stand for there destruction of freedom of speech in the bay area....
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Hope they find someone who can read the news without messing it up with "attitude" and "ego" smack in the middle of it. No more Kessler types (jokers) please! News is serious and at five o'clock we don't want to hear about "blowed up!" How about a pro who is interested in presenting serious NEWS, reading it properly and leaves his ego at home during the day!!!I've seen better anchors in small mid-west markets than San Francisco. I hope Dana King stays. She is a professional, smart and we need someone like her -- male or female. Keep up the good work Rich, we all want to hear what you have to say. If you weren't here we would be watching all the changes and have NO idea what the hell happened and who screwed the shit out of our market!
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