Joe's Act Wore Thin at KGO/KNTV; Conventional Man/Woman Pairing on TV News is Out of Touch; KTVU 'Dreadful' To Go To Work; Wednesday Rundown

Terilyn Joe was one of the most controversial KGO-TV (ABC7), and later, KNTV (NBC Bay Area) anchors ever; although more than capable and a very able anchor, she was difficult to work with; she was notorious for having a "sailor's mouth" and often clashed with both on and off-air staffers at the KGO studios on the Embarcadero.

This much publicized incident was the final straw for KNTV, where Joe was last seen on Bay Area TV News. Officially, NBC wouldn't say the "egg-throwing" incident wasn't the reason but it sure didn't help.

I actually liked her work and thought she could hold her own but, according to a local media observer, "her ego and judgement" got in the way of her work and she paid the ultimate price."

*This is something that drives me absolutely crazy. Is there a law that EVERY TV Newscast has to have both a man and a woman? Would the world collapse if, say, you had a two guys anchoring or, god forbid, two women on the desk? It's so idiotic and out of date. As if by having both a man and a woman makes the newscast more gender friendly and PC. Yet most viewers are not that stupid and consider this illogical and patronizing act a pure farce. Hey, I'd love to see, just for example, Dan Ashley and Larry Beil do a newscast together. It would be a solid program and it would move along just nicely and I don't care that there's no woman on the set (other than, maybe, the weather) Conversely, I'd have no issues watching Pam Moore and Catherine Heenan; what a combo and much more compelling than the boring Steve Aveson who thinks he's Walter Cronkite.

*Uh, potentially, the beginning of a TV "Bridge over Troubled Waters": Gary Radnich and the management team (other than the ND) at KRON.

*Here's an opinion from someone who was not only in radio for over four decades but sold radio too: "Rothmann (John) is beloved by the 'Volvo crowd'". Yeah, and the last time I checked people still BUY Volvos --along with mattresses and clothes and vacations too. People who ostensibly would listen to Rothmann might be inclined to patronize those potential advertisers, a thought apparently LOST in SPACE by the dummies who run KGO/Cumulus here in the city. When the biggest suit hires morons like John Lund you understand why Rothmann is considered "too smart" for KGO's remaining ten listeners.

*"It's dreadful" --a KTVU longtimer who says going to work at the station is no fun and under conditions more apt for a university library. Staffer: "Nobody smiles anymore; everyone is freaked out about the cameras. This used to be a fun place to work; now, everyone's on edge."

The situation at Channel 2 (Fox2) would warrant, under normal circumstances, a meeting with EVERYONE who works inside the building but the current GM rarely spends time at the station preferring a toxic atmosphere and usually out of the office by 3 o'clock. Way to run a operation. No wonder Boston Fox was elated when  Gregg Kelley was shipped out to the Bay Area.

*Correction: Kevin Frandsen will apparently still be on KNBR's airwaves as his new Philly gig is only selected games. So, unique, obnoxious, and uninteresting human waste, part of what Cosell referred to as the "Jockocracy" have a home at the Sports Bleeder. Frandsen makes Paulie Mac look like Dave Ross.

*Local TV has followed in abundance CNN's horrid and irresponsible "Breaking News" alert when there's really NO breaking news thereby delegitimizing legitimate "BREAKING NEWS" --again, what a disgrace to TV Journalism everywhere.

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