Don't be so damn snotty.
*I mentioned KCSM as a "diamond in the rough" yesterday. Redact that. They've been great for years. We take them for granted.
In the middle of the downpour driving around the Berkeley Hills I go to 91.1 FM and hear some old Branford Marsalis. Bravo. How calm, how cool, how mellow. Last week, in between a pledge break, out comes a voice from the past, Sonny Buxton, retro-SF-radio master. I don't know how KCSM does it, but by god, they do it so well.
Give some dough to the fine folks over in San Mateo.
*"Armstrong and Getty" and Sacramento: Birds of a feather...
*Out of the 415 but worth an observation: CNN can do no worse if they plucked Katie Couric to fill the vacant Piers Morgan slot. She's a decent interviewer, she's attractive and she'd own the A25-54 woman demo. Men seem to like her too.
*Someone asked the exact amount of how much debt on Young-KRON 1001 Van Ness building. I don't know that but it's several millions I'd guess.
*The same people that bitch and moan about showing snot emanating from a TV reporter probably watch KQED and think olive is a cool color.
*Radnich was cranky yesterday for no apparent reason.
*Jim Lange was a very nice person. My late brother was on the "Dating Game" and won. The date didn't go so well, I was told, but one of the lasting images was Mike telling me Lange was cool.
RIP Jim.
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Sad to hear the news of Jim's passing. He was a real icon, and it is nice to hear that he was a good guy too!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXOhINiz0ww
ReplyDeleteThe Great Race of '61.
Jim Lange made the Bay Area a nicer place to live.
If nothing else, Katie could work for Jeff again. They've been friends for years.
ReplyDeleteJim Lange was another one of those high profile personalities you never heard anything bad about. It's too bad he's gone.
I don't know what your problem is with KQED. Yes, they're full of themselves but they do have a good product when you compare to what passes for public television in a few markets back east I'm familiar with. The only issue I have is they think they're WETA or WGBH and they're not. I know they grind WVIZ and WNEO into the dirt.
Josh thinks he walks on water and Leslie's an pretentious little snot who I'll bet is drunk half of the time. I can't imagine being married to her but she is very pretty. Hand her a Celexa and send her on her way.
Part of life back in the day was Jim Lange bellowing "here they are!"... And of course, those great KSFO days.. RIP Jim.
ReplyDeleteSad this morning . . . one of the great radio icons of my youth has passed. I remember listening to Jim Lange on KSFO on my way to school in the mornings in my grandmother's car. Rest in Peace, and thanks for the memories.
ReplyDeleteYou know you're getting old when . . . people you used to listen to on the radio when you were a kid start dying. :-(
Ah,man Jim Lange? Like yesterday watching Dating Game, Newlywed Game,Galloping Gourmet and Here's Pippa on our new "Mediterranean wood cabinet" color TV on morning bay area TV on school vacations. Then later,Speed Racer and Ultraman on ch20. What ever happened or became of Stan the acoustic guitar children's host on ch20? He was the first African American I ever saw hosting a kids show. Even Google forgot him. I didn't. He acted like an adult..and wore normal clothes..just easy going.
ReplyDeleteTime..Neil Shon is 60 today,Steve Perry turned 66 last month. When the lights go out in the city, Journey takes their lisinopril and statins with warm milk before going to bed!
DeleteTime...Barbara Eden, Lincoln High class of '49, is 82!
DeleteOOPS! Rich, did you 'mis-type' by writing that Katie Coric would be a good replacement for Piers? Katie has been bounced around like an overinflated beach ball, ever since she left Today. I doubt if they want her back. Every 'dog' has his day, and hers was someplace within the last millenium. I vote they give that time to Sarah Palin, if they really want to rock the boat!!
ReplyDeleteAren't Palin and Couric both in their fifties? Palin is too stupid and too partisan and Couric is predictable pablum...Other ideas being pitched include Ronan Farrow and Rosie O"Donnell. Who else?
ReplyDeleteKatie graduated from UVA in 1979 so that would mean she's pushing sixty.
DeleteI'll bet she retires in a few years. She's known to be hard to work with.
She married money once and looks like she's gonna do it again.
Didn't Jim Lange also host the show Name That Tune!?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I remember about him.
One season--mid 1980s, I think--when it was a weekday morning show.
DeleteJim did it for awhile but the one I remember most from Name That Tune is Tom Kennedy. He's still around but very elderly.
DeleteCNN should go for the gold. Put Jay Leno in Piers Morgan's chair.
ReplyDeleteRonan is his name (now) and Mia is his ventriloquist (as always). The over-sell on Ronan is so strong, nobody could live up to all the bestowments and gratuitous applause. He'll become another "precious little bird' under glass, like Anderson Cooper. Both have ability, but are limited in total appeal. Coopers ratings are down 48% lower than the year before that. His ratings have been sliding for years, but he represents a special constituency, so ratings be damned (for now anyway). Maybe Ronan will replace Cooper as the new kid on the block. I cant wait for his first series of meltdowns when somebody asks him that long, long list of forbidden questions. He will bloviate worse that Alex Baldwin, cause Mia told him he was always white, I mean right.
ReplyDeleteKatie Couric has about as much creativity as an interviewer as this chair I'm sitting on (maybe not quite that much....). She begins almost every interview with "So how did you feel (or what were you thinking) when your son was hit by that car (or your house was lost in that storm, or your savings were scammed by that crook)? When I watched those first few "Katie" shows (I no longer watch), I waited for someone to say "I felt just great (you moron.......)! And - I'm no fashion maven, but it irks me no end when "media women" wear sleeveless dresses in the middle of winter - especially when their arms are less-than-in-good-shape. Other than that - she's great :)
ReplyDeleteThe sleeveless dresses have got to go on the newswomen. Some of them look like they are going to a cocktail party. It's very distracting and hard to concentrate on what they are saying. Not only are some not in shape but some are so scrawny and bony it's scary. Michelle Obama started this look with the big guns.
DeleteJim Lange, David Rose, The Stripper Thanks for the memories.
ReplyDeleteI remember Jim and Dino in the am. Every once in awhile Dino would play the Dating Game theme song for Jim and Jim would get embarrassed.
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