Thursday, March 30, 2017

Breaking: 415 Media Exclusive: Cate Caugurian Leaving KPIX; Headed To Chicago; Staffers Pissed at Bastida and Cook Over 'Sophomoric Behavior'

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Cate Caugurian off to Chicago; leaving KPIX
   JUST AS I was beginning to really appreciate the work of passionate KPIX reporter/occasional anchor, Cate Caugurian....comes word to me, via a reliable CBS source near Battery gulch that Cuagurian is leaving PIX and is headed to Chicago to work at an undisclosed station.

Caugurian leaves at a time when there's quite a bit of upheaval at the station; Bruno Cohen, the GM announced his retirement earlier this week. Plus, Caugurian herself was a central figure in some recent, in-house jealousy rage.

Meanwhile, 415 Media has learned that a vast majority of the staff is "royally pissed" off at the sophomoric behavior of prominent on-air talent Ken Bastida and Elizabeth Cook.


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Ken Bastida and  Elizabeth Cook
"They giggle and chirp constantly; it's like 'high-school homeroom crap in the newsroom --they're laughing and giggling while everyone else is working, " said a well-placed source.

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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 30, 2017 at 5:47 PM

    Let Cook laugh all she wants. She's my favorite female anchor in the Bay Area.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 30, 2017 at 9:11 PM

    Stress release!!

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  3. AnonymousMarch 30, 2017 at 11:44 PM

    Good news, don't want to see her! If Maria Medina leaves another station, sniff.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 31, 2017 at 1:22 AM

    Rich, you don't like Hackney because he chews with his mouth closed and knows what skeuomorph means, but he's lightyears ahead of Ken Bastida, who has the IQ of a waffle iron. Never worked with Cook(ie), but she doesn't strike me as more than a pretty face; in another life she'd be the hostess at Bridges Restaurant in Danville.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 31, 2017 at 8:37 AM

    Those losers taking shots at Bastida...C'MON, man. Ken is a great guy who happens to have a good sense of humor and likes to joke around.

    I work here...and know who these people are. They have the personality and humor of...as Rich likes to say...a Fremont 7-11/Denny's/KFC.

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    1. AnonymousMarch 31, 2017 at 12:17 PM

      Don't forget the classic flub line from Rich, "Like a Union City Arby's." There is no Arby's in Union City. Lol. What's next,"Like a Santa Clara Togo's without meat and bread."

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  6. AnonymousApril 6, 2017 at 7:50 AM

    More than one viewer called the station because they saw Cate and a "camera man" getting it in on in a news truck. And that's not even the juicy part: that photog happened to be in a relationship with a KNTV reporter for years, but this thing between him and Cate was going on long before they broke up. Good riddance, girl! You give the rest of us a bad name.

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