KGO-TV is seriously taking a look at legal czar, CNN had pursued him last year but was unable to work out a deal. Money was not the issue.
Cardoza is engaging, candid and frank. Yes, infinitely watchable and highly entertaining. His compensation at KTVU is near minimal and, according to a source, KGO might add to its refrigerator a guy who moves the needle, a hearty bowl of legal spaghetti and meatballs.
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*I don't want to dwell on the issues that are hitting KQED TV and Radio because there's a lot of tentacles to digest that are probably boring to the average reader but I'll say at the heart of the mater is this: KQED is roughly worth about $500M and while they give extraordinary coin to their managers, the little people who do most of the heavy lifting are provided little and treated like shit. So there, put two and two together.
And the next time you think I'm "begging" for donations because I'd like to eat and pay my phone bill, consider KQED is awash in cash and has DAILY, multiple, pledge breaks that ask viewers to shell out a hundred bucks (and more) which might include a coffee cup and PBS carp.
So, does KQED "beg?" Yeah, you bet they do.
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How much cash does KQED have available in the bank?
ReplyDeleteDoes KQED foundation own any land or other major assets?
The worst part about KQED's money raising is that it removes its regular programs to do it several times a year. Sometimes they announce it in advance; sometimes not. If you miss a part two say that is shown on PBS elsewhere, you miss your chance to see that show for quite sometime. Of course, other networks do special reports for this and that, but it happens why too often on KQED.
ReplyDeleteWho(m) ever does the programming for KQED-TV should be fired. This public station is stinko... KQED management should, at least, look at WTTW in Chicago, for an example of how to run a public station. smh
ReplyDeleteThe guys who run KQED don't want to be WTTW. They want to be KQED and have the resources to do that.
DeleteThe minute you give money to KQED, you keep getting notices in the mail begging for more money. Learned that lesson. I prefer to give $18 a month for HBO, who provides much better programming & no pledge breaks.
ReplyDeleteI agree. The station would save thousands by not sending mail to folks who have donated previously. I toss it into the trash. I also had no idea KQED raised so much money and big salaries to top management.
DeleteIt's a country club for the connected in San Francisco.
DeleteJohn Rothmann lived up to his nickname "the one trick pony" on Saturday night. Did you hear him at the end of Pat Thurston's show last night?
ReplyDeleteI remember a few years ago when Progressives like Thurston and Rothmann told us that we needed to be "tolerant" toward the views of others. They forgot about that last night.
The One Trick Pony's (OTP) only trick is presidential politics. So he brought up some obscure reference to Richard Nixon to castigate Billy Graham as a "phony" and a "fraud." Thing is, Graham, as a Christian fundamentalist, felt that gays were sinners and Jews weren't getting into heaven because they didn't believe in Jesus. I'm not saying Graham is right and I'm not defending him, but those are his views. I'm tolerant toward those who hold different opinions than mine. I wouldn't attack a Muslim, Buddhist, Catholic or Martian because they have different beliefs than I do. But not Thurston and Rothmann. They'll defend Muslim fundamentalists all day long but relentlessly attack any Christian.
I know what you're thinking -- they're just playing to their audience, which is anti-Christian, in order to get ratings. (Similar to NBC pretending to be anti-Trump because it attracts an audience, but the Comcast executives really like conservatives.) Maybe so, but this kind of attack makes these two local hosts look like hypocrites. Can you imagine them attacking any Rabbi who had just died? I can't.
Rich, I know you don't like the OTP label for Rothmann (and probably won't post this comment because I mentioned it), but can you name another non-sports radio host who has expertise in just one area of life? I think this is why Rothmann isn't doing a weekday gig somewhere.
Earlier in Rothmann's career, somebody like Mickey Luckoff should have pulled him aside and told him that if he wanted to get off the midnight-to-4 a.m. weekend gig, he needed to broaden the topics he could easily discuss. Maybe take some community college classes or widen his circle of friends so that he could speak off the cuff about other things in life than presidential politics. There is more to life than White House trivia. And to be a successful host, you need to be more than a one trick pony.
Billy Graham, despite your assertion that he has views, no longer has any views. While alive, he didn't say jews couldn't get into heaven, he said they were evil on earth and "controlled the media". He later said he was sorry for getting caught sharing his anti-Semitic views with a powerful politician(Richard Nixon).He favored "conversion therapy" for gay folk. Jesus Christ, never said diddly about gay people, so it's hardly "Christian" to threaten them. Jesus, after all wore long dresses, ringlets, and had dinner with his friends at an all-male supper club. Billy Graham was a con man who made megamillions pimping the idea that he held some truth that would get you to "eternal rewards". For years, his company kept newspapers afloat with ads for his upcoming. appearances, saying he was soon to die, better hear him while you can....for a price.Did you think those "crusades" were free? Billy Graham was a false prophet, hopefully now finding a false paradise, ruled by a gay jew.
ReplyDeleteSomebody forgot to tell "Billy" that his "Boy" Jesus was born, lived and died a Jew!!!
ReplyDeleteNah, the KQED tentacles aren't boring. I'd gladly hear more. I guess I'm so interested (particularly on the radio side of it) because they are just about the only station on the radio that has any interesting content at all, aside from KPFA. I forgive KPFA's constant pledge drives because they are 100% commercial and sponsor free, unlike KQED and other NPR stations. Whatever you think of their politics, nobody at KPFA appears to be rolling in cash, unlike KQED.
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