Sunday, July 1, 2012

KNBR 680 and 1050 Dead Air; Even God hates Knibber; UPDATE: Laughter

It's Sunday morning and both KNBR 680 and its little sister, 1050 are kaput. As in Dead air.  No air. Airless. Maybe God hates Knibber.

There's a perfect metaphor here about dead air and KNBR. Help me out.

I'm just wondering--why couldn't this be happening when Fitz is on? You could then blunt Rudy with the very best weapon. Silence. Dead silence. Like, for example, say Fitzie was in mid-sentence:

"You know, when healthy, Biedrins is one of the best centers in the NBA." And then, boom goes the dynamite. Dead air. Minutes become hours.

Or when Byrnesie follows a Giant's game with his Red Bull in high gear: "Dude!"

Here's an early 2012 Christmas wish: Murph and Mac, dead silence for an entire show. Oh, God and Jesus, I'd even donate to Kars4Kids for that one.

KNBR, THEE Dead Air leader.

(Psst: Hey Dickey brothers: maybe it's a pissed-off engineer. Don't mess with the union.)

UPDATE: KNBR went back on the air at 9: 35, (after more than an hour of dead air with some unintended laughter: A caller from KSFO talking about her plant. Hysterical laughter)

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21 comments:

  1. More like an hour-and-a-half-plus? Some horsey show had just ended then poof---I thought my shower radio's battery had gone dead, but hit the KCBS button and the top of the hour news was starting.

    Hopefully KNBR isn't part of the emergency alert system....

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  2. Pretty sad it happened during Marty Lurie's show. Tuned in hoping to hear some discussion on the 2002 Giants team reunion happening today. But all I heard was dead air.

    Marty might be the only thing other than the actual Giants games worth listening to on KNBR.

    Now that it is back on I lost interest and am going to watch the All Star selection show.

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    1. Yes, we in the bay area are truly blessed to have Marty Lurie as a broadcaster!

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    2. not a fan of him at all but the hour and half of dead air was martys greatest work,more dead air!!

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    3. I used to like Marty when he was on the A's station because he talked about BASEBALL, not just Giants all the time. His Right off the Bat segment and Memories of the Game were great. He had good interviews with a wide variety of people - broadcasters, players, coaches, management -- in baseball from all teams past and present. You actually learned something and came to appreciate baseball and its history even more. Now it's just Giants over and over and over. Repetitive and rather boring after a while. He's on so many hours on the weekends you would think someone would give him permission to talk baseball other than only Giants. And even after so many years preceding A's baseball, he has to go out of his way to never even breathe the word A's. Kind of ridiculous and rather obvious what is going on.

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  3. Dead air on KNBR - not the first time. How about those times when Ralph was late to work and KNBR kept replaying promos until he got to the mike and then goes on air all huffing and puffing from the exertion of getting there.

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  4. The 2002 team reunion? Do they do a 10-year reunion for every team? I don't recall the 2002 team winning a World Series? I've never seen one team so stuck in the past.

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    1. The KNBR Management team is obviously stuck in the past since there is ample technology that should prevent them from being knocked off the air. But nobody ever accused Dickey or Hammer of being World Champions.

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    2. They won the NL Pennent that year.

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  5. Perhaps they'll adjust their philosophy of inclusion to reflect your needs.

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  6. That hour and a half of dead air was the best radio KNBR has broadcast in years!

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  7. Glad to hear Ralph is gone. He is so Rude. Thank You KNBR, now can you do the same to Grary R. He never lets any caller talk, he always interrupts.

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  8. this concept of ralph being a saint, or even a professional, is a laughable one. i wonder if colin cowherd, mike francesca, and jim rome were late to work like 100 times in a year?

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  9. The best programming KNBR has had in years. Why couldn't it have happened during Gary RATinSNITCHES show? Or during the early weekday afternoon butt-kissing session?

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  10. Fatnich is the 8th wonder of the world that he is still employed.

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  11. Does Papa have the ability to do Warriors games now? Casue Fitz has no gravitas, and seems like such a suck up.

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  12. Wow, I can’t believe you guys. I can’t believe I’m seeing these comments about Marty Lurie. He would probably be sad to read these, even though I don’t think he’s much into blogs really.

    I think Marty Lurie is pretty good overall. Yeah, his postgame shows are a little too long on the weekends, and yeah, they can get somewhat boring because of the length of the shows, and it seems like he kicks around the same topics (nicknames of Giants players (honestly, that has gotten kind of old. LOL), Giants issues, trades to kick around), but he has serious baseball discussions, and I think it is good that he lets callers talk and give their thoughts and opinions on the Giants, for a few minutes.

    Yeah, he has some dumb callers or callers who don’t take the show seriously, but it’s good he gives time for anyone to call in. Marty Lurie has the respect of everyone at KNBR. Honestly, how can you say something bad about an older man like Marty, who loves baseball? It’s almost like you would feel bad for saying anything bad about him. He’s almost like an older person that you know whether they are in your family or a family friend, that has short comings or does things you might not agree with, as you guys are talking about, but you still respect them anyway.

    But yeah, I like Marty Lurie, and he is probably the perfect host to have on weekends for those Giants pre and post game shows. Next to Damon Bruce, Larry Krueger, and probably Ray Woodson, Marty Lurie has to be one of, if not the hardest working host/employee on KNBR.

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  13. Speaking of the KNBR dead air, that was weird. I turned my radio to 1050 at around 8 this morning, and there was nothing. I later turned it to 680, and there was dead air. This happened on 680 earlier this year I think during the Murph and Mac show. I had to settle on listening to 95.7 this morning, and them replaying their interviews from last week.

    As far as the dead air on KNBR 680 and 1050 goes, it must be a glitch or something like that, or some of the board ops might've been lazy and just shut the station down and have it be dead air on the station for a little while. haha. I doubt the latter, and I was kind of joking about that, but you never know. There kind of are some lazy board ops or "league of dorks" as Damon calls them, on KNBR. LOL. Has anyone else experienced the problems trying to streamline Damon's show the past few weeks or so, where it's basically commercial dominated during a lot of his show, and when he goes to break on the streamling, they cut out early to commercial? The thing is, they play the same darn commercials day after day. LOL. A lot of these commercials (Kars 4 Kids, the Raybuck commercials, the State Farm commercials they used to do, et. al) are starting to get old.

    But yeah, the dead air is probably just a glitch. It's kind of funny how when this happens, no one on KNBR brings it up.

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  14. "There's a perfect metaphor here about dead air and KNBR. Help me out."

    Okay... "At KNBR, dead air isn't found only between the ears of our talk hosts."

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  15. Rich, this morning Melanie on KSFO said there was a fire yesterday at one of the new facilities. Since everyone is now at Hawthorne, perhaps the fire knocked out knbr and 1050

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  16. I thought Marty Lurie had finally run out of ways to tell us how smart he is.

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