Pam Moore Stays Away from Steve Aveson on KRON This Week; Jesse Gary Still at KTVU Under Bizarre Factoids; Radio Boy and Girl Adventure in North Beach; Kristen Sze Takes No Crap at KGO--Good For Her; An Urgent Plea

FRIDAY RUNDOWN

Pam Moore has been conspicuously absent this week --her co-anchor, Steve Aveson's final day at KRON is tonight --and there's a reason.  Many reasons.

Moore had no use for Aveson; she wasn't alone and she made it a point not to be at the desk for Aveson's farewell, that is if there's even any farewell to begin with.

As noted here, Aveson, in addition to being a cold piece of wonder bread on the air was not especially liked by a majority of people at KRON behind the scenes. He had a prickly attitude and was regarded as an ego maniac. His faux banter with Gary Radnich was about as genuine as a 7-11 in Beverly Hills. He had ZERO chemistry with most of the anchors in his short reign at the independent "news station."

Worse yet, he never connected to viewers. Virtually no one even knew who Steve Aveson was/is and that was among the biggest reasons why KRON chose not to renew his contract.

There's been no news of his replacement but whomever it is can't be any worse that he was. By the way, Vicki Liviakis has been filling in for Moore this week on KRON's 6, 8 and 10 PM News.

*Yeah, Jesse Gary is still at KTVU. I never said he wasn't. But take a look at this.

And this too. If you read the story I indicated that for someone who is working at a local TV News outlet, it's a little bizarre that he's not on the Fox2 roster and his other social media accounts were vague at best.

Bizarre.

*THIS STRANGE CITY: Earlier this week on a chilly night in North Beach at a rather dark bar late into the evening, a well-known local radio guy was sipping a martini with a brunette who was not his wife. I wasn't there; I got this from the bartender who said everything was nothing out of the ordinary until the two left the bar and headed outside before coming back about an hour later. He looked sort of overly mellow and her hair and lipstick, according to barkeep, was noticeably out of place.

I don't think they left the joint to exchange pasta recipes.

*Busy day at KTVU for things that have nothing to do with news. Trust me.

*I've said it before and I'm going to say it again: KGO-TV veteran anchor, Kristen Sze, is a hard-working, excellent anchor who gets some heat because she refuses to back down from a co-worker clearly out of bounds. Sze didn't get to her position of over twenty years for being a wuss --in other words she's earned her stripes and doesn't need some prima donna to get into her face and lecture her.





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