RAMPANT FEAR INSIDE KTVU JACK LONDON SQUARE BUILDING...
*Fox Network Execs conduct staff-wide meetings at 10 AM and 3 PM --benefits altered; health care coverage changed; prediction from senior staffers that pay cuts are "inevitable."
*Prominent staffer: "No One is safe."
*Top-tiered anchors no different than other personnel --"even Somerville is concerned."
*Senior air talent resigned to major pay cuts. Source: "They know they can hire anybody and pay them a flat salary and not have to worry."
*Reporters salary down the road: Capped at $120G--not bad but in the nation's #-6 market, hardly enough to afford to live here.
*Non-AFTRA staff said to be "extremely worried."
*22 News vans--delayed maintenance means dumping news-gathering vehicles.
*22 News vans--delayed maintenance means dumping news-gathering vehicles.
*Rich Lieberman 415 Media Exclusive
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The FOX is in the henhouse!
ReplyDeleteI hope Tori Campbell (no character) gets the biggest pay cut. She let others
Deletetake the fall for her gaffe and said nothing. How do you sleep at night Tori?
The FOX will probably go after the old hens first. The old hens usually can't put up much of a fight. The FOX may have learned to watch out for roosters, sometimes they can fight viciously.
DeleteRampant Fear, Exclusive??? - Rich, you've been claiming that for years. How is this new or different?
ReplyDeleteIf 5's Da Lin is getting more than the abandoned lunch room refrigerator contents on Sunday, he's over compensated.
ReplyDelete@3:06 I feel sorry for you because they must do the same thing to you at your meager job.
DeleteNice try dickhead. I'm the boss.
DeleteThen your lowlife employees do it to your degenerate ass. Your employees leave you a shitfull of garbage for you in your fridge to eat. Nice try with the comeback pussy! Like you can do any better in the journalism field. Get a life you social degenerate scumbag.
DeleteDa Lin is the worst "live" reporter in the Bay Area. He is a total amateur and should have stayed at KRON for some more seasoning. Look at the camera Da!!!
DeleteAnd, even though it may not even be necessary to continue these reminders, the rumors that Da is a vampire remain unsubstantiated.
Delete$120G not enough to live on? Really?
ReplyDeleteIt's enough if you want to live in the arm-pit of the Bay Area: East Bay...
DeleteWow , if that's the case I'll sell my house in Lafayette tomorrow!
DeleteSorry you live in Union City
Danville, Walnut Creek, Lafayette, Piedmont, Oakland Hills...nice pits.
DeleteAnd where do you live, Uppercut? I'm coming to you from a $6 mil (that's right) house on Sea View Avenue in Piedmont.
Sounds like they are only interested in carrying their programs and sports. They don't see money in news and won't invest in it. As bad as it is, if KTVU ends up like KPIX or whatever that is in San Jose, I'm out. Hard to believe news in the Bay Area is so awful. Watching the fall of KTVU is like watching a murder for hire.
ReplyDelete"whatever that is in San Jose"?
DeleteHeaven forbid something might not originate from San Francisco.
San Jose is bigger than SF. Most of us in the South Bay don't give a crap about SF traffic or local minor events. And we have the 49ers now because Newsom was an incompetent panderer. FACT.
DeleteSan Franciscans believe that we all live in the "San Francisco" bay area, not the "San Francisco Bay" area. They think the world revolves around them and local media consistently panders to that belief.
DeleteHey "Uppercut":
DeleteYeah, you go ahead and enjoy those Niner games. Violent, out of control drunken brawls inside and outside of the stadium (ask the folks neighboring the ballpark), overworked police officers who should be doing other things having to be tied up with all of this shit.....and just wait and see how your taxes for city services will be going up in the next few years.
And you don't give a crap about SF traffic? Check out the traffic around Levi's Stadium on game days. I will be sitting at home watching the game in comfort while you and your a-hole buddies will be driving a quarter mile an hour to and from the game.
You wanted it, you got it.
And you are welcome to it. We in SF are glad to be rid of all that crap.
FACT.
Up yours, "Uppercut".
"We in SF are glad to be rid of all that crap." Desperate libs always use "we" when they can't make a logical argument.
DeleteYou (we) conveniently forget how much effort frisco put into keeping 9er's.
@10:30 - was out of the parking lots in 25-30min. Me and my buddies are in our 50s and college educated with no tolerance for thugs. FACT - up yours.
DeleteThat should make their already panicky reporters even more frenetic in the field. Have fun with that, photographers.
ReplyDeleteLighten up. They haven't done anything bad yet. They haven't done anything good yet either, but it's only been one day.
ReplyDeleteWhat else is new? These empty headed, greedy bastards who work in corporate offices and only see spread sheets and bottom lines, have no concept about serving the public with valuable programming. They are only concerned with making money. Since companies such as Fox, Comcast and the Dickehead Bros from Cumullus have moved in and been allowed to consolidate stations by buying up as many as possible, jobs have been lost, and just as significantly, the quality of on-air broadcasting has gone in the shitter. Embarrassingly bad rank amateurs, frauds and no talent hacks such as Karel, Amy G. Kate Scott are now polutting our airwaves with their banal drivel. The overall quality of air work on TV and radio has dropped considerably since deregulation.
ReplyDeleteYet I always notice that right wingers and conservatives, say that deregulation is good because it minimizes government interference. Yet these moves to deregulate business have led to some of the worst policies from our business world since the shameful 'Gilded Age' of the late 19th century, when robber barons used our Congress, Senate, President and Supreme Court to rubber stamp the policies and screw the workers. We're not that far removed from that situation these days as our middle class is being strangled to death by consolidation, offshoring, and downsizing of jobs. .
Your commentary is more than apt!
DeleteMr C
Amen to 6:15PM. You're right on the mark.
ReplyDeleteWhere is Newton Minnow????
ReplyDeleteIt's going to be bad if they get reporters like Azenith Smith who comes off like a rookie. When she first started, she spoke like she had stage fright. Da Lin is an improvement on her.
ReplyDeleteSo maybe it's time to break new ground in the Bay Area. The FOX bean counters would probably like to see a 3-way news-sharing operation between KGO-KRON-KTVU. Costs could be even lower. A news operation ménage à trois could be interesting, and it fits in with the Bay Area style.
ReplyDeleteI think Azenith Smith is the only person who does not mix up her words and comes across very confident. Not sure what you are watching
ReplyDeleteThis is today's media of the 21st century. I was talking with a young college student who wants to get into broadcasting yestereday, and she asked me if I had any advice, as I have been working in the profession for 2/3rds of my life.
ReplyDeleteI told her I really didn't know how to give advice, because with all of the new platforms, the consolidation of media, the rampant abandonment of journalistic values, and the vastly changing reading, listening, and viewing habits of Americans, I'm not sure where we the media is headed.
We WILL get there sometime, but I think this state of flux and uneasiness will continue in our profession as long as deregulation remains in effect and blogs, tweets and youtube are given as much credibility by the general public as the traditional 20th century media of the print, radio and TV.
Personally, I'm quite disturbed by what I see. While there are just as many bright, and creative young Americans out there as there were in previous generations, today's youth (and in actuality, a good percentage of everyone else too), has had their attention spans shortened by much of this new media.
IN general, today's American, (and for that matter, everyone in the world who relies heavily on new media) doesn't read or listen to the media nearly as much as in the past. We consequently have a dangerously less informed public, as people rely more on 'quick hits' off the internet or perhaps the radio or TV, than reading detailed info in the newspaper, or magazine.
Rich's blog reflects much of this and its certainly an interesting phenomena to follow. Keep up the good work with it though Rich. I may not agree with your opinions much of the time, and you do occasionally get some posters on here who are really too much!! But I always enjoy reading 415 media, and so do many others in our profession.