It's TEAM COVERAGE time!
Hey, time to put on the station-logo slickers and maroon through Kentfield asking roofers, "How rough is it?" ..."Yeah, dude, it's wet up here."
Must be the rain.
This time of year that tends to happen. Next thing you know there's a power outage and traffic tends to build up on the Bay Bridge and before you know it, there's pile-ups. I think it's the rain.
Of course here all hell breaks loose. TV people love live shots from Marin. Radio goes further bonkers. Every fender-bender on 880 is ground-breaking. Weather people love this. Doppler radar is orgasmic. Howling winds. OMG!
There is an upside to the over-bloated weather coverage: no impending drought stories with the usual 100 shots of the empty reservoir in San Jose.
A Bay constant this time of the year: Black Friday live shots; more team coverage. Then when it rains for a few days, more team coverage. Then the usual pile-up of live shots at Blue Canyon in the Sierra: damn, it's snowing. Quick, get a camera on the guy pissed off because he can't get to Tahoe because he forgot to bring chains. Dang! Next thing you know a small craft advisory will be posted.
Chill. Lay down on your Sleeptrain mattress and listen to my radio show.
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Meanwhile some morons will justify the over-the-top coverage with the slogan: ”it is a slow news cycle!!”. Looking forward to your show Rich. Any chance you could interview Jackie Bennett in the future?
ReplyDeleteThe poor girl on ABC7 doing her live shot from Los Gatos. Thank God for waterproof mascara
ReplyDeleteHey Rich have you heard? It's raining!! World coming to an end, film at 11!
ReplyDeleteIt is coming down 'cats and dogs' here in Marin! Batton down the hatches!
ReplyDeleteIts raining here in Seattle, too. We tend to ignore it unless there is a landslide, the rivers come over their banks or its a REALLY slow news day.
ReplyDeleteUnlike some other TV markets, though, we don't give points for stating the obvious.
And the guys in their big pickups and SUV's love to drive 75 in pouring rain. And - those guys who cruise so slow in their Benz or big Beemer in dry weather?...Once the rain starts..."German engineering needs to go fast in the rain!". So nutty out there.
ReplyDeleteLove it, Rich. Your commentary is right on the mark. There would be nothing special about this if it were happening in Seattle or Portland.
ReplyDeleteWell, when I went to work this morning, the entire freeway (West 580 in Dublin) was closed. I was kind of glad to hear about it on the radio. I'm sure people living near that creek in Petaluma needed to know about the flood advisory too. It's not all just a bunch of hoo-haw.
ReplyDeleteMaybe its the rain,but Radnich has fallen back into being cutesy poo,and telling of his love for Larry. Sad to see a old man get effeminate. Not gay...just girly.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:13: Amen. Just spent some time in Portland recentlly where it rained like hell and not one live shot from the side of a freeway telling people it was raining. News departments here are breaking into regular programming to announce "It's still raining!"
ReplyDeleteMy wife has relatives in New York, both of us are SF natives, talk about feeling sheepish when discussing with them our latest "storm".
ReplyDeleteRatings for stations came out on the 27th. KGO up .1 KKSF up .4
ReplyDeletehttp://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb009
Listening to Louie and Armstrong in place of Gross and Rhoda makes you realize how bad things are on radio land. I thought it could not get worse than Rhoda but I think I was wrong. The high pitched moron is annoying as hell.
ReplyDeleteOver at KTVU, they sent their junior weather gal (Rosemary O.) to report on the rain in Marin during the noon news. Meanwhile Mark Tamayo stayed nice and warm inside the studio to report on the current conditions. Does that not seem odd to anyone?
ReplyDeleteRosemary Orozco soaking wet under the rain is WAAAAAY more appealing than the ever youthful Tamayo. Orozco is my nominee for MILF of the year.
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DeleteI agree with you about Rosemary. She did get some ribbing from the morning crew today about having to stand in the rain yesterday.
Oh, you snobby NW people! I lived in Alaska and flew into Seattle in January, where they'd just had a measly FOUR INCHES of snow. The entire city shut down. Complete wimps compared to me, a seasoned Alaskan!
ReplyDeleteGet over yourselves. :)
Hey .... Is this Jack Friday checking in?
DeleteAt 2:54: and yet, they'll probably bring their shorts to SF in August!
ReplyDeleteguess we're not supposed to mention ratings? What's the matter Rich, even if your station has lousy ratings now, sure they will surge way beyond the best with you on their now, with your monologues and scintillating guests! Not sure why you rejected my post about last month's ratings.....
ReplyDeleteKSCO/KOMY have high enough ratings to crack the top 1000?
DeleteWe all know that KSCO/KOMY are in the ratings basement and that they don't blanket the coveted San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose market from Santa Cruz, but so what?
Delete"Lieberman Live" has just made its debut, albeit on a small, independently owned and many might say kitschy station owned by the iconic Zwerlings.
This is just the beginning. Fact is Rich's program can be heard all over the Bay Area and beyond, and in every continent of the world, as it is streamed live on the World-Wide Web.
We should consider ourselves fortunate to watch history in the making. If things go right--and I'm confident they will--Rich's program will be picked up in syndication and carried live on talk radio throughout the U.S. and he might just achieve celebrity status, not just as a media blogger (which he already has), but as an on-air talk show personality.
You won't be poking fun at Rich and KOMY when he's in the top spot on the "Talker's list" and has knocked off giants Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Mark Levin.
So there!
...I'd like to have some of what you're smoking or drinking. You have no standards and obviously don't know the radio business. Rich needs to pay attention fixing this blog and its archaic post sign-in and getting truthful, accurant information instead of wasting his time for the Zwerling's. What a joke.
DeleteWhat r u smoking
DeleteSomeone please please stop KGO's Robin Winston from ever saying, "allow some extra time". She must use the phrase 5 times per traffic brodcast and its silly advice (better would be alt routes). Thc.
ReplyDeleteRich,how could you forget the "Petaluman's flooded" story every year-those people who live on an ancient flood plain and then somehow get the government to buy them an all knew home or shop after the inevitable flood. Yeah,we get how plucky those people are story's..but how much taxpayer money pays for sanctioned insanity is never questioned.
ReplyDeleteIf it was a black 'hood or a barrio..
The best video clip about snow in Seattle. KING-TV kills the fun: http://youtu.be/jmei9yWxhyM
ReplyDeleteWe shut down the city during snow storms to get some extra sledding in...
There's a highway intersection here in Sonoma that floods in any large storm yet remains very easy to get close to for a "live shot." It makes for a very a dramatic visual...I'm sure you've all seen it (http://www.sonomanews.com/News-2012/Waters-rising/). I was once told by a local restaurant owner that part of why it's a popular story it that it's just far enough from SF that most station policies say the reporter/crew can expense dinner if they come up to shoot it!
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