TUESDAY NOTES... friend advised me that the March book was just released and there's something strange going on. There are several stations showing NO listeners. KFOG, KNBR, KTCT, KSAN. Which made me think it's a Cumulus thing but KGO and KSFO DID show up. Also missing are KDFC, KUFX and KRTY. I haven't heard any explanation. Has to be something technical with the PPM encoders...
**Cumulus little people announcers/interns/producers and ass-kissers--this is how wonderful your company is...
-The guy who was paired with Barbieri for 15 years; the guy who could barely "contain" his "emotion"; his self-examination about "that empty chair"; was so saddened by his partner's pink-slip that he went from on-air devastation to telling a "mustache" joke in the same breath; and on Monday was talking with that on-air galoop, "Byrnesie." Yeah, real classy, "Tommy."
--No, I'm not necessarily a Barbieri apologist, but he was at least listenable. Yeah, the pizza deal and the love affair with Brent Jones and other various people annoyed me. But I'm rooting for The Razor in this showdown, so go ahead and sue me.
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-To the guy who sent me a penny donation to 415 Media, you know, "Dave", if you take that penny, double it every day for 30 days, you'll become a multi-millionaire. Do the math. By the way, what, I'm not worth 2 cents, Dave?
-Again, I repeat, KNBR/KGO/KSFO interns: Your IP address keeps showing up. Be advised that I'm thrilled you love to come here. Care for some after-dinner mints?
-Ronnnnnnnnnn Owens KGOne/Sleeptrain Countdown clock: 260 days and counting.
-The traffic chick on KGOne in the morning who thinks its cool to chortle "Goood Moooorning" needs to be informed you sound a little goofy. Try some green tea.
-Today on "The Drive", the station will announce a new contest. Winner gets to be Program Director. Loser gets to be Program Director. For life.
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What do you expect Tolbert to do? He has to move on at some point right?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure if Barbieri is listenable. I haven't listened to him in 10 years.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wonder if there will be any mention in the lawsuit how Barbieri got his talk show only after he backstabbed Dave Newhouse oh so many years ago. What goes around comes around...
The reason (maybe) some of the stations are not showing up in the latest ARB rating period, is that Arbitron no longer will reveal data from stations that do not pay them for the data. Maybe those stations do not pay/subscribe to Arbitron.
ReplyDeleteYears ago many use to think (not sure if more coincidence or conspiracy) that if you did not subscribe to Arbitron, that you would not show up in their survey...because for years the non-com stations would rarely if ever show up in markets where everyone knows they had a huge listenership (like KQED here). Then all sudden a few years back when Arbitron "decided" to share all the info, magically all these stations that never (or were thought to never) register in the survey, had numbers!
Now, the oddity is that usually Arbitron has deals with clusters of stations (like Clear Channel, Entercom, etc...) which includes ALL the stations subscribing to the ratings information. But maybe (and I have no idea, but offering a possible reason) some Cumulus clustermates (KNBR, KTCT, KSAN, KFOG) are NOT part of a group deal, and only KGO is. KUFX likely (since they were only an SJ station until recently) is not subscribing to SF data...but KUFX did have data in San Jose...which was their point of origination. Other Entercom stations showed up (per usual) so maybe it will take them "paying up" to get KUFX to show in the San Fran ratings.
Again, I am not saying this is the case, but I suspect it may be part (if not a large part) of why only some stations from a cluster show up, and others do not.
Hope this helps.
Maybe that is Tolbert's way of relieving the pain by telling jokes?
ReplyDeleteAccording to Radio-Info.com http://www.radio-info.com/news/in-the-march-ppms-arbitron-adds-back-some-cumulus-stations-in-three-markets Arbitron discovered that the subscriber list in the new topline ratings applications was not complete for Atlanta, San Francisco and Dallas.
ReplyDeleteI saw a comment on another thread that surmised that despite the tearful tribute that Tom wasn't really all that sorry to see Ralph go.
ReplyDeleteI got that feeling myself. They seemed to need to be apart from each other more often than in the past and they each seemed to take more time off than earlier in their partnership. Maybe this one soured like a bad marriage.
I guess Tommy should have came out guns blazing and rip cumulus and knbr?? "Yeah fuck the big bad corporate machine that pays me 6 figs to BS about sports for a living" Get real. Nobody would say a thing if given the opportunity. Ive seen so many naive "fight the power" posts on this blog its sickening. Wake up. This is business today. I hate the max volume lowest overhead by any means necessary numbers world we live in, but i suck it up and go to work everyday knowing its just the way it is. Tell me Rich what would you do if you were in Toms shoes???????
ReplyDeleteYou would do what most people would do. Shut up, work, walk the company line and earn a paycheck to provide for yourself....or maybe not. Maybe you would start a semi entertaining blog and rip those who are living a life that you envy and long for.
Perfect,
DeleteRich has been rooting for Ralph to get fired FOR YEARS and now that Ralph is gone he's all boo hoo, what an outrage.
Also agree entirely, what else is Tom supposed to do!
Tom didn't even as much as take a day off!.. I love those dog eat dog,every man for themselves hosts at KNBR..just makes me laugh even harder when they say they love each other.
ReplyDelete..and right now Krueger is pitching the idea of a great and inexpensive show 9-12 each day to management in secret. He calls it "The Larry Kreuger Show".
ReplyDeleteI used to listen to KDFC alot. They now suck. Their choice is music is half ass. KDFC thinks that catering to trust fund females that their world will be ok.
ReplyDeleteBarbieri stabbed Newhouse in the back (or was it a passing of the torch?)... Fand Fitzgerald reportedly stabbed Papa in the back, who wanted a monoploy as King of All Bay Area sports.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I kinda saw Papa's ouster as the Warriors PBP man as a Karma Payback for his downplaying of the Warriors lone and great NBA title, Papa attributing the NBA title as the Bulets blowing the series... minimal credit to Attles brilliant coaching, Barry's dominance, Clifford Ray's wisdom, and the ultimare Team Victory with Attles playing 10-11-12 men every night... throw in Jamaal Wilkes and Phil Smith, as well as cagey veterans like Bill Bridges and Jeff Mullin... no, no, the Bullets dropped the series.
Papa: Karma Payback
P.S. Papa also thinks that Jeremt Lin is "an average player".
If Papa thinks Lin is "an average player" that means he assessed Lin in a far more accurate way then the Warriors brain trust.
DeleteExcellent knowledge on the 1975 Warriors team.
DeleteMany of those names I had fogotten about.
Jeremy Lin is an average player... Do you watch the NBA? He averaged 11 pts and 7 assist for a month then got hurt yeah he's a superstar!
ReplyDeleteI listened to the first 30 minutes of Tolbert's first show without Barbieri. He sounded very sincere to me (I think he should have used the mute button during some of his sighs).
ReplyDeleteAfter Tom gave his thoughts on Ralph, he said that as a pro athlete, he had teammates and friends that were suddenly cut or traded, and that was tough, but he was still getting paid to do a job, and he had to do it.
Most of us have seen co-workers downsized, fired, or quit, and we still have a job to do. Yes, often we're sad to see them go, but also maybe grateful that we still have a job, and that job continues, with or without our friends.
And no, Barbieri wasn't listenable. His rambling 5 minute questions, not letting the interviewee answer them, his lack of knowledge of sports (you're getting paid $300,000 per year to talk about sports for 4 hours a day, you'd think you'd know what is going on around the sports world), his tardiness. Sorry, I quit listening to Barbieri some time ago.
Gotta agree with a previous poster. Tom Tolbert was doing the sad comedian routine after the Razor was thrown out. Mr. T resorted to laughter to supress his heartache.
ReplyDeleteall the jeremy lin haters hate because of skin color not on merit .. the worst is john lund and dribley
ReplyDeleteDitto Lin is a good story and should be a serviceable NBA player for many years, one the Warriors should have hung on to... but NBA superstar (ability wise) ? No. Not close.
ReplyDeleteI guess this "average" player lifted a team on a Death March, with their top 3 players out hurt... and they won what, 7 straight games?
ReplyDeleteIt looks like radio is entering a new age in which the direction of the industry is tough to chart. With the proliferation of the social media, so many folks are now getting their information on-line via
ReplyDeletethe internet or through their 'smart' or '-phones,' and very few seem to have any interest in actually reading a newspaper anymore.
Radio is still a viable medium because it is free, unless you go with satellite/commercial free radio, but the quality of the product has diminished greatly over the last decade. It's a shame, because radio stations are no longer making it a priority to serve their communities. It's make a big fat buck to satisfy the CEOs and Shareholdedrs of these mega-media companies, then take care of your employees, then serve the public's needs.
But perhaps the most alarming trend of this new age is the demise of newspapers, which have been an integral part of communication in modern times since the 18th century. People just don't seem to have the time to sit down and actually exercise their brains anymore by reading. They're getting what I call 'sound-bite journalism' from the electronic media, or reading highlights and headlines of important world, national and local events on their smart phones or home computers fewer and fewer credible sources.
The result is a frazzled, misinformed, and dumbed down public, which is a grave danger to our free society. And our government seems t o have no clue as to what it has done; allowing for media deregulation which has led to about ten mega-companies owning about 90 percent of our radio and TV stations. This has led to a cookie-cutter product that might as well call itself 'Walmart TV' or
"Costco radio,' for each station in each city that is owned by these companies sounds alarmingly similar with little variety and creativity.
Until the Congress and Senate get their act together and realize that grave error that was made by the the mid 1990s when the Communications Act was signed into law, and until they do something to try and turn that mistake around, we're going to continue to be a place where our free citizens have less access to credible, respectable, responsible journalism.
Maybe the government is actually happy about a dumbed down populace. It is much easier to manipulate people and get them to vote for you if they are not too well educated and don't really care too much about the truth.
DeleteThe syndicated talkers, who can say almost anything over and over and over again until people start believing it, works to the politicians' advantage.
Trends in education are similar to trends in radio, newspapers etc. Cookie-cutter, everybody doing the same sort of thing in the same sort of way. Anyone who wants to break out of the mold is cut loose. Toeing the company line has become the most important "skill" in almost every business.
Countdown till Rich does his due diligence and writes about Phil Lerza. A broadcast legend, personal hero, and nicest guy I've ever known. Why does that not make this blog? I'm done reading this rumor mill. I hoped to have a place to write and read others thoughts, so I'll head somewhere else for actual news as usual.
ReplyDeleteRich,
ReplyDeleteAre you in touch with your feminine side?. Your changing your opinion as Ralph is playing the Parkinson card which you agreed on a few months ago. Ralph reminds me of a guy who is working for the union and is entitled to have a job and benefits even though his job performance is unsatisfactory.