KRON: About as could be expected. Could it be any worse since the GM left? Yes and no. They're just trying to carry on. Surprising numbers in the early evening--they still occasionally do good work but ultimately, it's still KRON.
KPIX: Mellow and reasonably happy. Nobody at least in the lunch room bitching and moaning. The video exclu of the fire trucks at SFO rummaging near the still-alive Asian girl was nifty and Rosenheim seems to have the confidence of his boss, mysteriously quiet, Bruno Cohen.
KTVU: About the lowest in recent memory. Changes galore, mucho story count, seems like a new reporter every day, oh, and they hate the ND. When people miss Special Ed you know there's issues. Said a staffer, "thank God we got the Niners game!" --And the Super Bowl too. Now if only they could 86 the way too many weather teases.
KNTV: Surprisingly cool and relatively mellow. Olympics bounce bound to help and perhaps mute NBC's horrific nighttime schedule. Anchors and reporters are happy but the Investigative Unit is in-house mocked. Hey, Kovaleski? Buy the staff lunch and everybody will be
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"forklempta"? Rich boychick, you mean maybe "verklempt"? As in, "Buy everybody lunch and the staff will be verklempt, or, "choked with emotion"? Oy.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Kovaleski could sell all his pairs of stupid-looking suspenders to pay for lunch . . .
ReplyDeleteKPIX did do a beautiful job on the Judge Judy/ Jim Harbaugh promo.
ReplyDeleteI saw one of them doing a story near the jail here in San Jose. This person was walking around like she was Lowell Bergman from 60 Minutes or something. Maybe if they didn't ride around in vans plastered with "Investigative Unit" all over it they wouldn't be such a joke.
ReplyDeleteI don't waste the time of the day watching the local TV news. It's gone into the tank over the last ten some odd years, as stations hire kids fresh out of school, pay them peanuts, make them shoot and edit their own video (we did that when we were working in small market TV in the 1970s!), and treat them like sweat shop workers.
ReplyDeleteI am watching the Warriors on Comcast tonight, and they just broke away for a quick promo with one of their 20 something bimbettes who is an anchor. What the hell is going on there! Unbelievable how these rank amateurs get jobs in a major market like SF!
@6:34 Did you not see Rich's post showing Wendy Tokuda in the 1970's?? PYT's (pretty young thangs) have been part of the TV industry since it started. This is not a new phenomenon like some people like to suggest. TV news stations always have and always will hire young 20-something anchors and reporters. The difference today is that they don't stay in one place for 30 years (like Tokuda and so many others did.)
DeleteSan Francisco may be a major market but it doesn't seem to be a destination point for any major market talent worth a salt.
ReplyDeleteHey Kathleen....that wonderful promo is disgusting...anything with judge judy is an absolute abortion!
ReplyDeleteRich, did you hear? Some cloud cover is coming over Northern Calif. and we might see some clouds. They pay a meteorologist to tell us this, complete with graphics, promos, etc. Like I'm gonna sit through 7 minutes of commercials? Or three minutes? I just happened to have seen that on one of our local stations today. What a laugh. 10 seconds on my phone or tablet tells me the same thing. Or my computer.
ReplyDeleteHey Richie...did you happen to catch Richard Sherman's no-class yapping act during the NFC Title game? The former Stanford star showed zero class by getting into Michael Crabtree's face after he made that great play that won the game, and then he compounds his bad behavior by posturing and yapping on National TV in front of a stunned Eric Andrews about how he is such as great DB. He needs to grow up!
ReplyDeleteHey Karel, let me know if you need any cardboard boxes.
ReplyDeleteKPIX news just hired another manager! That would be number 9 or something. Things are back to normal.
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