TOKRON moving in to KGO/ABC Broadcast Center: "KRON will remain an independent station with its own staff and separate broadcast facilities."
Immediate concerns:
Tech staff and some of its on-air talent is legitimately nervous about move to ABC Broadcast Center.
Reason: Layoffs and impending downsizing.
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Pretty soon, news on TV, radio and the printed newspapers will soon be so homogenous. No muckraking, no responsible reporting. No nothing. Everything will be one big fat glob. Yuk.
ReplyDeleteIt already is. It's called Bay Area Democratic Party newspapers.
DeleteAs opposed to what Faux News does on the national level: RepubliKKKan News
DeleteWhat a sad, pathetic joke KRON has become. They really started to go into the tank when they lost their NBC affiliation. They still have Radnich, Pam Moore and a few other credible personalities and journalists on their news staff, but for the most part, their news operation is substandard for a major market like the bay area. And from what I hear, their news director is a complete douche bag. Does anyone even watch their programs anymore? I was scanning the TV the other day and they had some obviously paid program that was ridiculous. I guess that's the only programming they can get because they're an independent? Rich, I know they've been hamstrung a bit since losing their network affiliation, but what do you think are the other major reasons for their alarming downfall?
ReplyDeleteRadnich, credible? Only to himself.
ReplyDeleteThat's good knowledge.
DeleteAre KRON's big names (Moore, Radnich, Folsom) under contracts or just day-to-day? When do those contracts run out? If the KGO news team can do news on two stations KGO and KOFY they can probably handle three stations just as well. Hell, why even stop at three, let them do the whole Bay Area. Kinda interesting that KTVU isn't in the mix since they're probably otherwise the low guy on the totem pole.
ReplyDeleteIn a world ... where Ranich still works, Karel is still employed and talking for an hour about a giraffe and where CNN today renamed Wolf Blitzer's 1 pm eastern "show" -- WOLF, (I'm not kidding,) this move by KRON is not so special or noteworthy.
ReplyDeleteVHF teleivison (in its high def glory) is rapidly becoming the AM radio of the television world.
"WOLF". Good God.
What's next? KGO 810 outsourcing Bay Area traffic to, say, Dallas?
The KRON relocation seems like a good way to shake out a lot of the staff before a sale of the Van Ness building and probably the whole station. With the new hospital going up only a block away the KRON building real estate might be better utilized for medical services. Anyone know what the earthquake status of the KRON building is?
ReplyDeleteAdios, Radnich...the grueling preparation you put in by reading the Chronicle sports page daily and half-listening to your callers and Krueger is coming around, and soon you'll have all day to cruise in your sedan and chat with the admiring throngs!
ReplyDeleteBetter cozy up to 95.7!
Anyone got any guesses on who will have to "buddy up" to all squeeze in the Front street location? Will Dan Noyes and Stanley Roberts have to share an office? Will Mike Shumann get along with Gary Radnich? How many studios does Front street have?
ReplyDeleteI could see Henry Tenenbaum and Stanley Roberts sharing an office. They could start a new on-air segment ala the Odd Couple. Now that's must see TV.
Delete"Garden Plants Behaving Badly"
DeleteThis sets the table for a big sale and for FOX to come in. Media General can sell the building on Van Ness now to whomever wants. Once they get that deal done they can then decide to unload KRON at a "discounted price" since the station is no longer packaged with the building. FOX can come in and buy KRON and then buy a building of its choice to house the station. Seems pretty simple. KTVU would lose its affiliation when all is said and done.
ReplyDeleteWhat can FOX achieve with KRON that it can't achieve with KTVU? Is the only attraction of KRON to FOX over KTVU that FOX would own the affiliate?
DeleteIt is all about NFL money. FOX has been buying stations in markets with teams in the NFC. It recently did this in Charlotte (Carolina Panthers). The 49ers are absolute cash machine as is the NFL. By purchasing KRON and moving the affiliation it gets what it wants: the NFL plus a very profitable team. It is a brilliant business strategy.
Deleteahhh i get it now
DeleteToo many reliable sources say that Fox will stay on Channel 2 in Oakland. If anything happens Media General will work a deal with KNTV, KRON and KTVU. The end result: Fox goes to 11, NBC 4 and 2 will either be MyNetwork or go indy.
DeleteThis must be a crushing blow to those who prophesied about the second coming of NBC to San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteHope to see some overdue retirements out of this.
ReplyDeleteRadnich would never go to 95.7 because, first of all, their PD would never hire him. He's too old and expensive for their demographic. The Game wants that young, hip, trendy audience that all stations seem to be coveting. The only problem is that the 'young, hip, demographic' for the most part, ignores radio these days. They're much too caught up in blogs such as this one, Facebook, Instagram, Tweeting, Texting, going on their I-phone or I-pad or skyping each other.
ReplyDeleteTeam Veprin must have shed more than a few tears during lunch hour today at Tommy's Joynt
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