All Bay Area Local TV News stations; KTVU, KPIX, KRON, KNTV, and KGO-TV broke from regular-scheduled programming and went wall-to-wall coverage with the 6.0 quake that hit the Bay Area and Napa wine country region early Sunday morning.
KTVU began broadcasting shortly after the quake and went commercial-free. It's "Mornings-on-2" coverage was pretty first-rate with anchors, Claudine Wong and Mike Mibach.
Eric Rasmussen was live on the scene in Downtown Napa where he interviewed people whose businesses were heavily damaged and got significant pictures from the buckled roads. Rasmussen's reports were chock full of vital information and spot on.
KPIX too had some informative and lively reporting from the scene from reporter, Juliette Goodrich. PIX had some detailed overview shots from its chopper over the scene from Downtown Napa.
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Watching channel 2, you mention your thoughts on Claudine(Chinese gal) sorry can not remember her last name, today she looks hot and lusty for some reason, is it the makeup, a bit of a change on her hairstyle, have seen her in that red dress, just can not figure it out, also where are the "LOOTERS"???????????
ReplyDeleteI also thought she looked particularly attractive.
DeleteIf I see one more solipsistic cunt tweeting photos of their destroyed wine collection, I am going to hunt them right the fuck down. No joke. If you have lived in this state, or any state on the West Coast for that matter, for longer than a week, and don't know that you are supposed to strap that shit down, you fucking deserve it. Boo-hoo for you, and good luck getting any insurance reimbursement now that the adjuster can see you didn't take proper precautions because of your sick need to humblebrag.
ReplyDeleteNever mind all of the displaced people, or the poor fuckers whose homes burned down (and it's always the folks who can ill afford such a disaster.) Fuck you, fuck your shitty wine collection, fuck your Instagram, and I hope you lose your jobs and have to go live in a homeless shelter.
So, how do you REALLY feel, you ignorant moron? Come now, are you going through traumatic stress syndrome? You are a freaking idiot. Thoughts for those injured this morning and hope for those with damage Thanks for those who covered the event, but, yeah, continuous Breaking News of the same story over and over does get old. If people need that info, they'd have it in the first hour. After that, it's short, relevant updates and a recap. Downtown SF in a 7.0, different story - however, there would then be a lot more to cover as well. Good coverage, Rich. Facebook and twitter messages are not news coverage. John Hamilton on KGO did a better job at least with people on the phone -- live. KCBS did a nice job. KGO News sounded ill prepared, but then,what to do ... report it from Dallas?
DeleteAre you kidding? White people don't do that. That's the whole point of so many of these discussions. We had to civilize them. They didn't civilize US.
ReplyDeleteDon't bother with the epithets. You could change me if you wanted to.
Solid command from KTVU's Wong and Mibach. But a Chron critique says the station lagged behind others, notably KGO, which was lauded for having quick and thorough coverage.
ReplyDeleteMemo to all local News Stations: ENOUGH WITH THE BREAKING NEWS!!!! Showing the same damaged buildings, the same house on fire, the same ruble in the store aisles is NOT BREAKING NEWS!!! Enough already... Go back to regular programming and when there is something to report REPORT!!
ReplyDeleteAfter awhile the tv coverage is repetitive and boring. And needlessly redundant since all chans are covering. Golf on ch 5 has been preempted and I'll bet the niners game on ch 2 will be.
ReplyDeleteKTVU -- reading facebook posts is not news. Better get and interview with Bang Ding Ow
ReplyDeleteThis is my first post on your website but today I had to write something.
ReplyDeleteThis is the lowest point in KGO 810's radio history, a station I used to rely on and truly care about. A station which once cared about it's audience and it's communities.
KGO 810 is the ONLY major Bay Area media outlet not covering the earthquake. All of the television stations have chosen to cover this even though there are events like the "Little League World Series" on TV. They recognize the public service aspect.
KGO 810 does not. They are running coverage of a football game, which my husband just told me is a game that doesn't even count.
This is the floor for this once great radio station. And as my husband just said, and I concur, "they care more about their profits than they do their product or audience." They chose to run a stupid football game at a time when people desperately want news about friends, families, loved ones, and communities. A station with the most powerful signal in the area, and they are airing a football game that does not even matter. And other stations/outlets are telling us there could be more aftershocks to come.
Shame on you. They should lose their license.
Good riddance. You have officially lost another listener, and my family as well.
I really know nothing "officially" about this topic - but am guessing that perhaps KGO 810 had a contract to cover that game. Can't violate the contract. Having said that - I only listened momentarily to KGO quake coverage early this morning - it was dismal. Scott Latieri, who usually reports from the field, was apparently recruited into the studio - and was ill-prepared and unpolished, to say nothing of not providing good info that was being provided by KCBS.
DeleteEvery station has contracts to run things. Public Service supersedes these things and is obviously understandable. They easily can make the call to run the coverage, and then tell listeners to listen to the game on the FM signal which was also covering the game. Excuses excuses.
DeleteAfter being shaken awake at 3:20am here in Sonoma, I got dressed, found KCBS on my Radio Shack transistor radio, smoked two cigarettes, and made and proceeded to drink an entire pot of coffee. I only had a fleeting thought about KGO, and how I remembered being comforted through a number of odd-hour earthquakes with Bernie Ward of all people throwing open the lines for us to share stories and tips and fears and just commiserate. Then he'd get Bruce Bolt from Berkeley seismology on the horn to give an informed and measured assesment before going back to the folks out there. That was when KGO was great and that was a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteKCBS really did a fine job this morning.
Did Rich Lieberman seriously believe KGO would be reporting live quake coverage 3:40 AM Sunday?
ReplyDeleteHey Rich, do you still dial 411 for phone information?
Lieberman can't resist criticizing KGO for whatever they do or don't do. It's one of his obsessions.
ReplyDeleteI turned on KTVU at 7 AM. Wang and Mibach were good. The live shots kept cutting out, though. Not just aerial views, but also on the ground. Tom Vacar on location at a hospital treating those injured. He did a sloppy job explaining things.
ReplyDeleteClaudine Wong puts Allie Rasmus to shame with her weekend anchor work.
I was rather gobsmacked that it took over an hour for a talking head to appear on any of the local TV stations. Within the first 30 minutes, KPIX ran a crawler underneath the pelvic mesh infomercial. It took a good hour before ABC-7 and KNTV-3(?) went on the air. The first live report on KPIX actually came from a CBS guy in New York, and KTVU was still running their infomercial at 5 a.m.
ReplyDeleteKCBS scooped them all, TV and radio.