My best guess is that since PIX is an O and O station, (owned and operated by CBS), the network has control over programming but I can't imagine CBS forcing Channel 5 to carry golf over the continuing Napa quake coverage.
This is patently ridiculous. Inexcusable really.
KPIX and CBS have a lot of explaining to do. Yeah, I know, it's all about the money, but please.
KTVU has switched to the 49ers game on Fox--however NFL football trumps golf, even a meaningless exhibition game, so I understand that call.
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USGS upgraded quake to 6.1 at least an hour ago. All stations still reporting 6.0.
ReplyDelete@Peter The number has been going back and fourth all morning.
DeleteI guess it matters only if you care about accuracy.
DeleteDoes Lieberman have nothing else to live for other than searching for minutiae to complain about involving local radio and television stations?
ReplyDeleteToo little coverage, too much coverage, it's ALWAYS something. No matter what happens, Lieberman is indignant.
That's because he's a fucking loser.
DeleteThe switch to golf didn't occur DURING the quake ya idiot. It wasn't a Heidi bowl moment.
ReplyDeleteBTW, as much as it pains you rich, the eastern span is still standing.
Rich, where's the beef? It was a smallish quake, nobody killed, no bridges collapsed and in a rural community. Not a golfist I'd still rather watch golf than non-news.
ReplyDeleteYou're hyperventilating, stifle yourself.
4:08: you're either trolling or numb. Napa friends report: fires, houses off foundations, broken glass everywhere, store merchandise destroyed, furniture knocked down, walls cracked and more.
Delete4:08 sez, "hey it didn't happen to me, so it didn't happen."
Napa isn't rural. Get a map.
Hey 4:08 - this was ** not ** a "smallish" quake. Not major major - but there was significant damage and many injuries - to say nothing of the damage caused to the wine industry (which perhaps you've been drinking too much of - pardon the preposition). And if you're not liking these posts - don't follow the blog. Stick with golf.
ReplyDeleteKTVU is repeating CNN's factual error saying it's the biggest quake in California in 25 years. Maybe the Bay Area, but no California. There were 7.2, 6.5 and 6.7 quakes in Humboldt County in 1992. That is 22 years ago. When Google is available o Bing or Yahoo, it is inconceivable to me how news editors could let such fact errors to be repeated again and again. At least the team dong the Niners game today got it right.http://nisquallyquake.wordpress.com/2011/04/01/the-april-1992-mendocino-triple-junction-earthquakes/
ReplyDeleteTo be fair, the coverage was going ALL DAY on ALL the channels. That's fine, but it was the SAME stuff over and over. There was nothing new to report since like 10am. If people wanted coverage, there were plenty of other options.
ReplyDeleteLieberman spends his time finding ways to criticize KPIX, KGO, KNBR, etc. That's all he's got.
Deletei do not think this quake deserved such ongoing coverage. yeah, it is bad for the people there...i can appreciate that. but, give us maybe 10 minutes per hour update, if any, or replay pics of damage etc. with recap/summary, but it really doesn't warrant ongoing nonstop coverage. lazy.
ReplyDeleteThis is done largely for the same reason car-makers found out that the people who buy the largest, most "heavy duty" pick-ups actually haul, on average, the least. Real haulers buy trucks for utility. The posers buy trucks for status and to impress their Dasiy-Duke girlfriends.
DeleteWith news, it's so news directors can create promos (they're already working on them now, I assure you) that say when the "tragedy" broke, WE were on first, and were on for hours and hours and hours, our anchors peeing into buckets on the floor, tubes stuck into their arms for intravenous nourishment, all so we could bring you FRICKING NON-STOP updates of the same old shit all day!" It's a dick thing. And it's always amusing when, as with Asiana and KTVU, it gets chopped off.
Getting my information about the quake using a smartphone like everyone else.
ReplyDelete*** CHANGE OF TOPIC ** - lol....so, 7 - 10 Sunday nites is Karel's spot - but Pat Thurston is on. Why is that?? Perhaps just because of the football and EQ coverage - but, last week, Karel was on right after football. Just curious................................
ReplyDeleteWaaaaaay overblown coverage and BAD coverage at that. Everyone anchoring looked bored, unprepared and inconvenienced for the most part. "You interrupted my Sunday and everyone knows that news doesn't happen on Sunday." That seemed to be the attitude.
ReplyDeleteOne GOOD thing. No Karel on KGO. Thurston on. Karel is covering, from what I was told, the MTV video music awards in Irving...on the "red carpet." for HuffPo. He said this week that he wants to be on the KTLA (channel 5) Morning News in LA. As entertainment reporter. Good luch, creep.
A 6.0 that damaged an area the size of one-fourth of downtown Napa doesn't mean full blown continuous wall-to-wall TV coverage.
KGO Radio sounds so unprepared. Don't think they gave the Dallas news team off, either ...
Karel will be on at 8. Oh, man ... Thurston said, "We asked Karel if he would "step aside" so we can do an hour of earthquake coverage. Blatant BS. I'm betting he was at the VMA's and they still called him and said, "Step aside punk."
KRON 4's Vicki Liviakis is braindead...She thought yellow tape around the most damaged building in Napa meant it was not red tagged therefore people could enter and retrieve important items...she actually asked Dan Kerman why there weren't any people behind him??? Because it's taped off and dangerous you moron...Pam Moore was clearly mortified by the inane stupid questions she was posing to Dan... And Dan was stunned too...he replied..no no no no....hahaha. Who is the genius that put her on the anchor desk tonight? She is the very definition of a news reader...She is not capable of thinking and asking coherent questions of her own. Embarrassing...but hilarious
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't matter. She's Vivacious Vicki.
DeleteRich, all you seem to do is watch and listen to things with the sole intent of criticizing. Occasionally you will throw in a back-handed compliment to give the illusion that you are fair handed but this gets old. Try mixing it up occasionally, see a therapist or go on meds.
ReplyDeleteHe says he does see a therapist. That guy driving around Blackhawk in the Bentley. That's Rich's therapist.
DeleteI was surprised KGO preempted the little league world series championship at noon.
ReplyDelete> Inexplicably, KPIX Switches To Golf During Quake Coverage...
ReplyDeleteI guess a bunch of middle-aged men in brightly-colored pants called the station and complained.
How about Catherine Heenan, eh? When it comes to doing REAL news, where there's no script and you have to think on your feet, nobody in the Bay Area beats her (especially now that KPIX has Brian Hackney performing at far below his capabilities). She's prepared, smart, never stammers or loses her place, and says intelligent things instead of the stupid banter that passes for "news coverage" these days. ("Wow, as you can see, there's a lot of damage from this tragedy. There's complete and utter desolation here." --Claudia Cowan. They've now pulled that video: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/25/usgs-60-magnitude-earthquake-shakes-northern-california/. I wonder if they were ashamed of having it up there.) I'll taken Heenan over anybody in the Bay Area when it comes to real by-the-seat-of-your-pants reporting. Too bad she doesn't have the notoriety so many lesser lights have, but then again, she's never been much about blowing her own horn, and that's what does it these days.
Claudia Cowan has been a top flight reporter for many years and has covered every kind of story, quite ably from rape, murder, mayhem, riots to bigger earthquakes than this one. It is not inane to say that there is a "lot of damage from this tragedy". As for "desolation", you'd have to know the context, precisely. Perhaps she was referring to the destroyed motor homes. In any event,Claudia, the daughter of actress Barbara Rush, is a beautiful woman like her mother, and is a charming and non-egotistical person. I can think of several others, both male and female who would better suit your definition of "stupid".
Delete> As for "desolation", you'd have to know the context, precisely.
DeleteLOL.
> Perhaps she was referring to the destroyed motor homes.
She was standing in a mini mart pointing to plastic bottles on the floor.
Nice try, though. I'd have to know the context. The context was the earthquake in Napa. Severe, but hardly complete and utter desolation.
I used to write for Claudia. She's a moron.
You used to "write" what? exactly for Claudia? Did you get canned from that job too?
DeleteWow, Lieberman upset that KPIX switched to golf leaving only five other stations repeating all the same quake stories.
ReplyDeleteHow much coverage on a 6.0 quake that didn't kill anyone do we need? The coverage started, (I would assume), at about 4am, and probably went five plus hours until 9am at least. This was not some sort of national disaster, it was an earthquake of no major consequence, accept for the poor vintners who lost some of their precious wine, and the inconvenienced tourists who were woken up out of a wine-induced sleep in their B and B's by the quake. For gosh sakes Rich, who really cares after watching this for five hours? Sounds as if you need to take a chill-pill my friend!
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