Tuesday, May 8, 2018

KTVU Trifecta 'Mishegoss' at 10 O'Clock

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Frank Somerville (left) Julie Haener and Mark Ibanez
FIRST OFF, If you don't know the term about mishegoss, it's a Yiddish term for craziness. KTVU trifecta supreme: Frank Somerville, Julie Haener and Mark Ibanez, are in a state of real world craziness with enough pent-up anger, frustration, deep-seated gossip and innuendo they could quit Channel 2 and start a new show on their Fox mantle; Frank is sort of pissed off at Mark for fostering rumors of...(take a guess); Julie doesn't trust either of 'em because she is loyal to weatherman, Bill Martin, still leaving the station after pm night shifts to have dinner at home in CoCo; and Mark is getting cat calls because he just signed an extension and isn't Ken Wayne--among other things, what a WILD and CRAZY guy!

To be sure, what you see now on KTVU is really not the warm and fuzzy surroundings the anchors try to portray; it's more an act than reality; but only a reality show would be fit for this nightly display of uneasiness that permeates the building. It makes for spectacular thought and envy only the real players are the reality stars themselves! Even Claud Mann would be impressed!

Granted, it's a circus at 10 PM but in a way, I'm impressed that the wily veterans has managed to put aside internal strife and still maintain a pretty damn good newscast in spite of things like...

Jana Katsuyama; the senior reporter who does the first studio report with all the serenity of a Bakersfield 7-11; how and why Katsuyama is the chosen one is beyond me; maybe it's case of PC-demo nirvana run amok.

Bill Martin: weatherman el mumbler; Bill, used to love you but your forecasts are becoming the visual equivalent of a double colonoscopy --painful and troublesome. You're beginning to look and sound like a depressed, drunken, sullen blogger on his last legs; for heaven's sake leave the building and go have a couple of hoists with Ibanez just make sure it's not on his workout night.

Newsroom: Beware of a nebbish who likes to write anonymous letters that he/she thinks possess influence and great wisdom; in fact they elicit nurturing laughter and comedy of errors.

One, said correspondent of newsroom's chief troll isn't interested in office politics or that of GM Gregg Kelley's daily workout regimen; he/she should be more interested in the upcoming Kelley/Chris Nohr Fox matinee about a fictional TV News station beset with conflict and drama. And that's the good news.

But...

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19 comments:

  1. Call me crazy but I long for a TV station I can TRUST. None are trustworthy these days. They all find ways to shoot themselves in the foot.

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    1. It's pretty damn bad when I'm out for my nightly two mile walk and hear this at the local Starbucks. Yes, I heard it from another guy who's over fifty (retired mortgage broker, duh...it is Danville) and he lapsed into the usual bitching about entitled kids with too much education and no work ethic, fact that California has become an inherently inflationary place to live and then that both television and radio news have become little more than screaming fests.

      There's an opportunity here. I still say that when the merger of TimeWarner into AT&T completes, we may see CNN sold off to CBS at which time it will be rebranded into something that fits into their corporate portfolio. CBS and CNN were sharing news operations at one point but I never heard how that worked out.

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    2. Local stations would do well to drop the junk science reporting to increase their credibility, in my opinion.

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  2. > Frank is sort of pissed off at Mark for fostering rumors of...(take a guess)

    Honestly no idea. What am I missing?

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    1. The affair and texting the intern?

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  3. Yeah Rich, which rumors are you alluding to about Somerville?

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  4. Gregg Kelly has cameras watching you

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  5. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN SOMEONE MAKE WITH THE DETAILS ABOUT THIS??

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    1. Rich likes sistahs

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    2. The suits are at KPIX again today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  6. Ken Wayne showed his face for the first time tonight on the KRON 4 news at 6 PM...

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  7. "Mishegoss."

    A new word added to my active vocabulary.

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  8. Something is amiss with Fox2 and it shows on their broadcasts. The revolving anchors is annoying for them and the viewers.

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  9. Not going to lie, the first 10 minutes of KRON 4 NEWS at 8 were great. Ken Wayne and Pam Moore both very solid! 3 live reports (two multimedia, one cameraman) and a couple packages! KRON 4 is making a rebound!

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  10. Holy Crap, what a difference from Steve Aveson to Ken Wayne. Night and Day!!!

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  11. Please Rich, we've donated to your site and don't want cliffhangers and guessing. You're the blogging King-say it as it is.

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  12. Actually, Rich, mishegoss isn't so much as "craziness" as it is a denotative of "inane silliness".

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  13. I have no idea what is going on. I don't even know if these 3 people are married or not. So the sports guy had affair with an intern and the other two people are upset with this? No clue, can't read in between the lines

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  14. Fuck. More TV shit?

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