KCBS went on air about six minutes after with live coverage and actualities from reporters and listeners.
'Nuff said.
Oh, and as of 4: 23 AM PT, KGO is still running Bloomberg ...Too funny, really.
UPDATE 1: 7: 01 AM PT
*KNBR --business as usual, running horse-racing show while most of Downtown Napa has suffered major damage and some infrastructure heavily damaged
*KSFO: Amazingly ignoring story--running live "Rabbi" show. Only updates from ABC Net top of hour.
*KGO: Finally halted religious show and has provided limited updates. (What a joke.)
KCBS: Wall-to-Wall coverage with non-stop information from anchors Janice Wright, Holly Quan, and reporters in field. KCBS also, to their credit, halted ALL commercials and ran with quake story.
Kudos to the staff at the CBS SF radio outlet.
UPDATE 1: 7: 01 AM PT
*KNBR --business as usual, running horse-racing show while most of Downtown Napa has suffered major damage and some infrastructure heavily damaged
*KSFO: Amazingly ignoring story--running live "Rabbi" show. Only updates from ABC Net top of hour.
*KGO: Finally halted religious show and has provided limited updates. (What a joke.)
KCBS: Wall-to-Wall coverage with non-stop information from anchors Janice Wright, Holly Quan, and reporters in field. KCBS also, to their credit, halted ALL commercials and ran with quake story.
Kudos to the staff at the CBS SF radio outlet.
On TV, Ch.5 had first crawl around 3:39AM. Then, Ch. 7 had their crawl at 4:01AM. Ch.7 was the 1st Bay Area TV station with LIVE coverage at 4:22am.
ReplyDeleteEarthquakes are over rated.
ReplyDeleteEveryone back to bed and sleep till Noon.
Earthquakes are overrated? Really, would you have wanted to be on the Bay Bridge in 1989? Or living in the Marina, or have been in Napa last night? Earthquakes cause injuries and death, property and business losses, and produces trauma. My daughter was 9 years old in 1989, and although we had no damage (a few items broke) she was traumatized for days. We have no control over where and when the hit, and there is no way to predict them. I think you are an insensitive idiot.
DeleteSome idiot that's probably a first generation Californian or brought here illegally and doesn't know shit about the area. Go back to taking your selfies and sitting at Starbucks, assclown.
DeleteEarthquake!!!! I'm so scaaarreed! Oh, the humanity!
DeleteI know some folks may think it's inane chatter from insomniacs but KCBS has always served as that rallying place after a quake... Especially in the middle of the night. Disappointed in KCBS. initial response. They picked it up later
ReplyDeleteThe TV stations didn't do much better. It was over an hour before 5 & 7 left their infomercials to broadcast some news.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind, newsrooms are probably at their lowest staff levels for the entire week in the Saturday/Sunday overnight period.
ReplyDeleteKeep in mind that at 3:30 on a Sunday morning the only people in a television station are the overnight producer(s) and the master control operator. Even with automation, you need time to get technical people and talent to the station to get on the air.
ReplyDeleteI went on the USGS site as soon as the earthquake woke me up. Then I flipped around and found some ditz on CNN who was talking about it.
ReplyDeleteKGO has amateur coverage - Latieri is no good in the studio - switched to KCBS. But really , God - please arrange major quakes st more convenient times.
ReplyDeleteKCBS started taking calls within ten minutes of the shaker. Back in the day I would've automatically switched to KGO radio. John Rothman would've stopped talking about the evils of the Muslim Brotherhood at 3:30am and began taking calls asking: "was it more of a rolling motion or up and down?".
ReplyDeleteKSFO's rabbi Lapin is such a joke. WWWIII could break out and he'd stick with the usual script: "liberals make decisions based upon emotionalism....".
Twitter was ablaze literally seconds after. Very slow response from local radio and tv. This was pathetic and should serve as a wake up call to the local media.
ReplyDeleteI too was surprised that KGO didn't go live. I tried KSFO no better, after a few minutes, when I collected my thought I turned to KCBS, and was not disappointed. I live in Concord, we felt it, although I was surprised it was a 6.0 magnitude.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure Rabbi Lapin, was live I turned briefly to him after 7 a.m. and his topic and wording was the same I heard either last week or before that. Anyway he is a joke.
Juliette Goodrich was doing a live report from downtown Napa. This guy walks up and says oh shit that's a fucking earthquake.
ReplyDeleteAnd Juliette said, watch your language.
Is it just me or has all the banners and graphics just gotten out of hand? It distracts from the content of whatever is being broadcast and obscures so much of the image you can't see everything.
ReplyDeleteIf you think a 6.0 is bad, and it appears it was, try three 7-plus earthquakes and hundreds of aftershocks, thanks to the very unstable Triple Junction off Cape Mendocino that occurred in 1992. Ferndale sustained a lot of damage to homes and businesses. In my reporting from the Lost Coast, I saw extensive damage that had the earthquakes occurred in a heavily populated area, you would have possibly had hundreds of deaths. The sea floor even rose at least several inches and in the coming weeks the sea life perished and stunk. Fortuna and Rio Dell sustained a lot of damage, too. In Scotia, the shopping center burned down. Many roads were closed. Although this one in Napa or near it caused damage, including burned down homes, a child injured and airlifted and someone else injured severely, and some buildings sustaining serious damage -- perhaps significant foundation damage, think if the Bay Area or San Francisco were hit with the same THREE 7-plus earthquakes as the Eel River Valley/Humboldt County in 1992. Then, you are talking tornado-type damage but of a different type. They are sleep-outside earthquakes and aftershocks. As for KGO, it is irrelevant, but FOX did get a KGO reporter on the air because I think the Fox reporter had worked with the KGO reporter or something. Didn't quite catch it. Twitter has replaced radio news for many people. Oh, in Ferndale, numerous Victorians sustained foundation damage that was repaired over the next several years. MAKE SURE YOU KNOW HOW TO TURN OFF YOUR GAS AND HAVE THE PROPER TOOL TO DO IT. Hope the two critically injured recover. Prayers said for them.
ReplyDeleteI didn't see any information on any of the local news sites. Wish I would have checked the USGS site like 7:17 did.
ReplyDeleteAt times like this, with an overnight earthquake shaking me in my bed like a foil pan of Jiffy Pop Pop-Corn, I need Daniel Lapin in his usual place more than ever. He IS My Rabbi!
ReplyDeleteMy hat is off to Dean Danos, overnight anchor at KCBS Radio, who was on top of the quake story in minutes, conducting interviews with colleagues and members of the general public. He knew where the epicenter was and the intensity. I also like his calm, easy-going
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