FRIDAY SHORT START*As large a salary as some of the Bay Area tonsils make, the money is not as good as it was years ago. Van Amburg made well over a million dollars. Dave McElhatton and Dennis Richmond were all around the million mark. The old KRON paid Sylvia Chase close to 800 Grand to read the teleprompter. Pete Giddings made well over $400G as a meteorologist/entertainer at KGO-TV. They all had one thing in common: they had PERSONALITIES. Sure, Giddings might have been obnoxious at times, but YOU WATCHED and he performed.
Today, we're mostly stuck with a bunch of mostly innocuous talking heads who have the personality of a non-ripe cumquat. And those few who do engage do so with the authenticity of a Danville strip mall. There ARE exceptions. You all know.
*Bay Area viewers are the most sophisticated and yet the dumbest too. YOO ALL don't deserve the daily mediocrity and foul manure you get on the airwaves --TV and radio. They TAKE YOU ALL for granted! Be lucky you have me here to go to bat for you otherwise it would be WORSE!
*Might as well call the KCBS "Daily Madden" the Daily Bocce Ball Update. Can we wait until at least June, guys and girls, before talking about the rich man's bowling game that 99% of the people don't give a crap about because mostly, nobody has ever really played bocce ball. By the way, Madden has been mostly mum on the Deflategate-Tom Brady deal. Madden's mellowed too much lately for my taste which is sort of crummy.
*If you think some of the money Bay Area TV/Radio people get is big consider Judge Judy gets roughly $75 Million a year to put up with a whole bunch of potato heads.
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Yeah,but the news guys read the news. Sports guys actually went to games. Now,we have sports directors who never go to -say- a Warrior playoff game for any interviews.
ReplyDeleteThey read you the latest internet sports page.
Speaking of Deflategate, 95.7 had their MLB analyst Kevin Youklis on this morning. They actually had the balls to open the interview with "so how will it feel to have a cheater at the thanksgiving table this year?" Tom Brady is Kevin's brother-in-law. To say he was pissed is putting it mildly.
ReplyDeleteThat won't end well.
DeleteGisele Bundchen is Kevin Youklis' sister?
DeleteAccording to Wikipedia, Gisele has 5 sisters and no brothers.
DeleteNow it's time for me to match my bread so I can post these pearls of wisdom. Geez....they all look like bread. What to do?
Sylvia Chase was considered a failure at KRON. KRON overpaid for her based on the fact that she was a former 20/20 correspondent. Chase's big claim to fame was quitting 20/20 after doing a report on Marilyn Monroe and John and Bobby Kennedy that Roone Arledge spiked (Geraldo Rivera got fired after calling Arledge out over it).
ReplyDeleteKRON launched this idiotic promotional campaign "The Chase is on" to herald the second coming. Then "the Chase" arrived and what we saw was nowhere close to the hype that surrounded her. She had a bad habit of laughing at Wayne Shannon's jokes...even when he wasn't joking. And she didn't have much of a personality either. She made Jim Paymar look telegenic...and that's saying something.
My friends and I like bocce ball.
ReplyDeleteRe: Madden,'s Mellow Yellow streak. When you become that rich for that long, and are getting most all of your needs met all the time, I imagine it would be very difficult to 'cook up' a big pot of "ANGRY" just because somebody sticks a mike in your face, waiting to be Zip-Zoomed'.again.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point. But if someone mentions the "Immaculate Reception" divisional playoff game, or the various championship games the Raiders' lost while he was an assistant and head coach (2 AFL and one Super Bowl in the '60s, and 5 AFC in the '70s), I'd bet he could demonstrate some anger that has been pent-up for decades.
DeleteI would also like to chime in on the lack of quality field reporters in the Bay Area. I have two friends that work behind the scenes at KPIX, so I generally watch Channel 5 news.
ReplyDeleteDa Lin is driving me crazy. They generally limit his on-camera time to 10 seconds to preface his story, and then another 10 after the recorded portion is done. In those 20 seconds, he continually looks down or away from the camera. Verrrry unprofessional,
and frustrating. TV newsfolk that give you the impression that they are talking to you
only, are worth their weight in gold. KPIX has got to send this guy back to broadcasting
school.
How do you know they're "limiting" his on-camera time? Who are "they"?
DeleteAnd Da came from KRON, where he was a "VJ." VJs get little real training. They learn how to work a camera, edit in the field, and hold a mike. Da got a job at a real news station because he's ethnic. That's half the battle there.
Rude
DeleteMost Bay Area news anchors aren't talking to me in as much as they are kissing management ass. The viewer is the elephant in the room.
ReplyDeleteJudge Judy should be Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court!
ReplyDelete- Greg from SF
20 years ago Ted Leitner was making 700K in San Diego. He was, however, triple dipping with KFMB-TV main sports anchor, KFMB-AM morning drive radio sports mouth, and San Diego Chargers football.
ReplyDeleteI seem to recall that Ted took home a small fraction of that after paying alimony to four ex wives.
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