KEVIN DURANT HAS SIGNED WITH THE WARRIORS...ESPN reported it first and Durant confirmed it with a post on Players' Tribune.I immediately went to KNBR, the Warriors flagship radio station in the Bay Area and, get this, Knibber is running a taped interview --TAPED.
Now, you would think that someone, some thing, a board op? An intern. Someone! Would Stick their head in and announce on the mic that "Freaking Kevin Durant has SIGNED with the Golden State Warriors!" But true to form, not a word.
Yes, It's Independence Day. A National Holiday and all of Cumulus' staff, (with the exception of the little people are off) --including the human torsos at KNBR --that's no excuse. A management figure could have called someone--could have immediately switched to CBS Radio Network Programming which broadcast the news but instead the dinklewaits at the Sports Bleeder looked foolish.
--Finally, at 9: 20 PST: almost more than an hour after the original announcement, an announcement on Knibber...Swell.
In regard to the signing: BEAUTIFUL!
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Diamond Notes wasn't playing.
ReplyDeleteWith Baseball Marty of the Oakland As...I mean Giants now.
DeleteNo word on the signing of Kevin Durant on radio station KNBR?
ReplyDeleteSimple explanation.
KNBR's on-air staff was too busy study the Giant's cheer leader manual.
@12:02 or Kars for Kids. How did they not see this coming and be prepped? The sports shitter. I'm sure tomorrow the frat rats will be all over it like yesterday's newspaper. Yawn...
ReplyDeleteHe hasn't signed yet, not until Wednesday.
ReplyDeleteKNBR is just like their corporate owner. They have their respective heads in the clouds. I stopped listening to KNBR a long time ago. The Internet, Social Media, push alerts are now my #1 source for "instant" information.
ReplyDeleteToo bad GARY RADISH is off today. His puffy red face would be glistening with whiskey perspiration as he announced the acquistion with an "I-told-ya-so" swagger.
ReplyDeleteCSN Bay Area was on it immediately, and their stable of analysts and Bay Area News reporters all on the phone. KNBR is good for the Giants and Warriors broadcasts only.
ReplyDeleteYup. I flipped between CSNBA and ESPN.
DeleteSome of the board ops at Cumulus are barely aware if the correct program is playing through the equipment to the transmitter. Odds are about even that the signal could actually be in cue, or they could be playing the wrong program altogether; some of these clowns would hardly know the difference and would just shrug it off anyway. In other words: a small step up from outright automation, but barely.
ReplyDeleteI turned on KNBR and Guido Pat Connors was hoarding the current live show and Guido had basically pushed Marty aside. Doe PCONN have photos of important people in compromising positions?
ReplyDeleteKNBR should've known something big was coming up. They should've had one of those $12/hr geeky dorky producers working that day. But I'm sure they would've had to been paid time-and-a-half to work the holiday so the Cumulus assholes said, "Fuck that."
ReplyDeleteWho needs KNBR except for software testers who need to listen to something while they test software? Just get the news from Twitter like everyone else.
Funny thing was that 1050, the ugly stepchild of 680, beat 680 to the Durant news by virtue of carrying the CBS Sports Radio national programming in the morning.
ReplyDeletebut you got to hear lots of ''4 th of july'' ranting from woodson and covay. how bout this GREAT country,lol.
ReplyDelete'P-Con' was apparently told by management to talk about it continuously for two hours during Lurie's show because Marty is not a baseball guy. This is what 'the Sports Leader' now gives us. No expert analysis from credible reporters or broadcasters, but a loud-mouthed board operator who's favorite expression is 'War Eagle!' This is the kind of brilliant programming that the clueless Lee Hammer, (a Cumulus tool) designs.
ReplyDeleteObviously I meant to say "Marty is not a BASKETBALL guy." No local broadcasters knows baseball, (outside of guys like Miller, Fleming, Kruk, Kuip and Ken Korach) know baseball better than Marty. P-Con? Just another 'super-fan' who may know a lot about college football, but who also has zero experience as a reporter or interviewer and was not trained as journalist. Neither was Marty for that matter, but he did have 20 plus years working as a criminal defense lawyer.
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