Another massacre in America --this time, the crime scene is a small town in Texas ..and of course, pretty much all the outlets; cable, Internet, even non-NFL networks are wall-to-wall coverage.At least 27 are dead as of this posting.
Locally, KCBS is all over it.
And yes, KGO Radio, is running a TAPED, financial show; I know I'm a broken record but still, how pathetic, how embarrassing. Cumulus, you are the gift that keep on giving.
And yes, as long as I run this blog, I will always call out despicable KGO when this takes place, save the broken record mantra.
Hey it could be worse! Moronic and clueless chef Scott Ryan could be on air drinking margaritas giving chimichanga recipes
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure what the confusion is about.
ReplyDeleteThe news stations are reporting on the tragedy of the day as expected.
KGO is not a news station nor should it be confused as one.
Rich, you're thinking of KGO Radio as being a news station. Hasn't been FOR YEARS. And there probably isn't anyone there on board who could report on what's going on anyway. There IS a big difference between a tape op and on-air reporter.
Delete3:26- "FOR YEARS" !? Lol, I didn't know April 1 2016 to present constituted "YEARS"...get your info right then maybe what you say will have ANY coherence.
Delete10:28 - Last I checked, anything longer than one year turns into a plural. My info is correct; your snottiness negates your supposed point.
DeleteIf we ever have a taped financial emergency... I will know where to tune to.
ReplyDeletehow could you possibly want to interrupt John from the John and Jeff Show who is now talking about how the Online Trading Academy changed his entire life...doesn't mention that the training he received is actually being used to work as a shill for the OTA and not actually as a trader, but hey who cares.
ReplyDeleteKGO...what a disgrace. When you consider what they once were and to see what this poor-excuse-of-a-radio-station has become now...it is beyond pathetic. Keep calling them out, Rich. They deserve it.
ReplyDeleteSorry Rich. The old KGO is dead. It is not a news station and really doesn't claim to be. You want news? Very easy solution. Turn the dial to the left from 810 to 740. Does harping on what KGO is no longer, a magnet for clicks? I doubt it.
ReplyDeleteLook, you do good work and have input from people on the inside. Why cheapen that with the never-ending criticism about a now-irrelevant radio station? It demeans the balance of your output.
Ditto. Give KGO a rest. They don't deserve the attention nor the news label.
DeleteNo Better said, thank you. hopefully rich will take notice. i doubt it though.
DeleteYep. Rich, yours is the broken record mantra. Expecting KGO to rise to the occasion because of what it once was is like tuning to 610 and expecting to hear John Mack Flanagan play Fleetwood Mac. It's over. Done.
DeleteDo you call out KSFO for not covering the shooting? (Or the last one, or the one before that?) How about KEAR? Or KNEW (Bloomberg Radio 960)? Or any of the music stations that are running on autopilot on a Sunday morning? Why not offer praise to KQED, which provided updates during the day, and even dropped (one of my favorite programs) On The Media so they could join All Things Considered early at 2pm with full coverage. And while I wasn't listening to it, I'd bet KALW was also live enough to have updates during the day. Quit flogging the same, tired dead horse. KGO's a fond memory and no more, as long as the Cloud Company owns it. And AM radio in general is in its death throes and ain't coming back. Focus on the present and the future.
DeleteAmerica is numb to this shit. This will become weekly. Any maniac can get a gun! Who cares??
ReplyDeleteThe TV stations didn't do anything either, at least not while I was watching, which was in the thick of it. They just continued with football and paid infomercials.
ReplyDeletewhat do you expect from a station that gives you a guy who routinley disscusses his bowl movements and sex life on a daily basis and two yentas who laugh at everything he says
ReplyDeleteI agree with so many others, Rich.
ReplyDeleteIf you want to "call out" the former News-Talk station, on those occasions when they don't cover, big/breaking news ... go ahead. But, it's boring.
The fact is that they're NOT going to cover anything. They don't have a news staff. (To quote Sean Spicer, "PERIOD").
I have deleted KGO from my pre-set buttons. They are horrible. I just wish they'd go under and get it over with. This is hard to watch.
ReplyDeleteI think the controversy brings up a lgood question...Does KGO have an obligation to report Breaking News? As a provider of public information what is the real function of the station?
ReplyDelete8:05, no station is 'obligated' to do ANYTHING. It's not a part of their licensing to broadcast. Some do, most don't. In days gone by, it was a requirement that they provide so many hours of information for education and public service, but I believe most of those requirements have gone by the wayside with a lax FCC which is doing away with a lot of legal obligations. Add to this being a part of a corporation that is in dire financial straits and you get a station that can no longer provide services that were once thought as essential. If you have staff that just runs taped or shows from another source, they may not have the training or skill set OR ABILITY to get on a live Mic and report anything. Where will they get the info from? What news source? It has to be written, approved, cleared and okayed before it goes out on air. There IS NO NEWS STAFF to do this at KGO Radio or many other stations. So what you're asking for is not only financially impossible, but also not what the station is capable of doing.
DeleteSorry, everyone bashing Rich for continuing on KGO rant..
ReplyDeletehis rants on Kgo are why I subscribe, again and again..to 415 Media...that and of course Rich's great personality.
If you see KGO in the topic...avoid the topic...I avoid topics that I have no opinion on or don't care about...try it.... You have many, many, many more topics to use your brain cells on...why waste them...
Rich, bravo for publishing all the posts about KGO. I agree with most posts:it's time for you to move on from wanting the old KGO to come back. Yet, good for you for your courage to publish opposing point of views to your own. Rich, there is so much media to cover-get a SiriusXM subscription. No one is blogging about all of their news stations.You could be the FIRST!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm amused and angered, too, reading from all the "get over it; quit flogging a dead horse" apologists. You people haven't a clue. We know "it's not coming back", and that "there's no news staff", etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteWhat you don't get is Kgo, not that long ago, was arguably the best radio station this country has ever seen. That was borne out with multi generational decades being number one, with millions of loyal followers coupled with the most popular, entertaining, and intelligent hosts, reporters, anchors, staff ever assembled. Millions of families listened through the years, grandparents, moms, dads, children, one's own kids. People LOVED that station, indeed, as it was part of the family. Though it was owned elsewhere, they let local management alone to run it for the most part which allowed the station to hone in and serve the Bay Area, as Ray T would say, to a fare-thee-well. It was a crown jewel and we knew it and appreciated it along the way...
Enter new ownership and then newer ownership and things started changing. But it wasn't until a bit over 5 years ago that we saw what they'd been planning all along. With utter disregard, out of town and out of their mind corporate greed raiding, "to-a-fare-thee-well. First ax the hosts who were the heart of the station, then 4 years later, ax the news. All to bring us the mired-in-muck we hear now.
So, it is with anger, disgust, and contempt when we, and I still count us in the millions, happen to cross 810, or maybe out of old habits tune in when there is a news crisis, when we are reminded how low this station has sunk. That 6 short years ago it was a cherished treasure; now...
So it's an affront to our senses, a slap in the face reminder, when we think of the current kgo, what it's become, what it recently was. We don't forget. And it still makes us angry. As it should. The few people it doesn't, just haven't a clue.