NOVEMBER SWEEPS are in full swing; they actually started in late October so be ready for a full onslaught of wild and wacky reports; investigative specials; a lot of material designed to get your eyes and ears.
In the 70's
KGO people used the term, "
If it bleeds it leads." How true and how successful that model worked for Circle7--still does.
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OBVIOUSLY, talented pro,
Terry McSweeney, the veteran weekend anchor on
NBC Bay Area (KNTV) is still in the anchor chair and has not split for
Atlanta and
CNN. A source tells me McSweeney was offered "
big money" to anchor
CNN's international news,
CNNI, but chose to remain in the
Bay Area --nothing's official but if CNN wants McSweeney that bad they might have to line up a Brink's Truck in
San Jose, short of that he's probably staying.
*I don't know the name of the deli where KGO's
Larry Beil got his tainted sandwich which resulted in his serious food poisoning incident but I do know it was a turkey with avocado and mayo and wheat bread, slightly toasted, my sources tell me. Next time, Larry, order the tuna on rye and a root beer.
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| Gary Radnich: no treats on Halloween but stale candy corn |
*Speaking of food, and this tells you a lot about
Gary Radnich, on
Halloween night at the Raddy house in
West Portal, word is that Gary handed out candy corn to the trick-or-treaters --candy corn is quite possibly the
WORST,
CHEAPEST crap on the market. The tight-fisted Radnich used to give big snickers bars to the kids --maybe he's downsizing because he lost the TV gig at
KRON but still, what a cheap SOB.
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| Jessica Aguirre |
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ADD BEIL: Those of you that like true romance will want to know
Larry Beil and former KGO anchor,
Jessica Aguirre (now at NBC Bay Area with no contract) were quite the duo, I'm told. They were almost daily lovey-dovey lunches and dinners; hands held; many a good time only one negative: They were both married, no not to each other. Bam!
*The new, disturbing, trend and frankly one in which I'm not surprised: the "
Live" report from a reporter on the scene. Well now it isn't really live anymore, actually something taped a few minutes earlier. Why is this? Because some reporters can't do any ad-libbing and often stumble with their words.
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| Larry Beil |
*The
Bay Area TV News stations are going all out on
Election Night with special reporting and reports from various events here,
Sacramento and even
Washington. On radio,
KCBS will have expanded election coverage and
KGO will have on
John Rothmann and
Pat Thurston for coverage.
KQED Radio will also provide election coverage.
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>... some reporters can't do any ad-libbing and often stumble with their words.
ReplyDeleteAmber Lee rarely makes it through her standup without tripping over something, usually something mundane like where she is.
The LIVE report is the measuring stick for any field reporter. Amy Hollyfield is the best in the Bay Area.
DeleteDa Lin is probably the weakest because he continually
breaks eye contact with the camera.
Most of the local anchors have the same tripping, stumbling and stammering problems as well. It's funny--actually sad--these anchors are paid to read copy and they can't.
DeleteWill Tran on KRON does great LIVE reports. Sara Stinson always looks high!
DeleteAs a kid, we had an elderly neighbor who would pass out walnuts from her tree. She was so sweet, it was hard to be disappointed.
ReplyDeleteSo you're telling us KGO will have "Breaking Cackles" on election night?
ReplyDeleteAppointment radio. *rolls eyes*
Who would you rather have, A & G for another 6 hours covering the election? I'll take cackling Pat and solid Rothmann over the two clowns who laugh non stop at their unfunny shtick.
DeleteI just hope KGO has a sounder whenever they have an updated election result.
Delete*serious voice* "BREAKING CACKLES!"
Gary is a POS. He wishes he was an SOB
ReplyDeleteI think stumbling over words became the norm way back when Marcia Brandwynne was doing it on a nightly basis at KTVU.
ReplyDeleteAnd geez, how many goddamned fire hydrants does a person need to click on to get a post verified? I just clicked NINE of them. That's a little excessive.
What did Ronnn Owens give out ???
ReplyDeleteExpired "Sweet-jack" cumulus vouchers?
Next year we should send a live crew to the Radnich residence as he hands garbage candy to the kids.
All live recorded.
haven't listened to gary in years because I have no interest in sports but he seems like a cool guy. especially nice to kids. cant imagine that he would be stingy with candy.
ReplyDeletestory sounds like bs.
I've worked with him. He's self-centered to the extreme and a braggart. Overall Rich's picture of him is pretty accurate.
DeleteTo give you an idea what Radnich is like when the camera is off:
DeleteOne day Vicki Liviakis' mother was visiting to watch her daughter on the air. That was the day Raddy chose to embarrass her on the set, basically saying she only "judged" athletes or at least baseball players by hot they looked, even though what she said could in no way be interpreted that way. It was so ugly that management told him to call Vicki later at home and apologize, which he did. (I was standing behind him when he did it.)
Another time he was on air with other talent watching some sort of anchor-involved-in-the-story stunt kind of thing featuring Vicki, some silly fluff news she had to do because you march where they tell you, and Vicki nearly fell, and someone (else) said "Watch don't brake your nose," and Gary said, "Yeah, she paid a lot for it." Nervous laughter but again an apology was mandated.
And of course there's the Catherine Heenan debacle that got her counting the days to his retirement. Google Rich's page if you want to know the details on that. Ugly—he embarrassed her and made everyone on the set uncomfortable for no reason aside from the fact that he has a sugar glass ego.
Radnich is a POS.
there is still a "i cant stop talking about myself all the time" obnixous hyper so called chef with loads of brown nosers who feed his enourmus ego still on the airwaves
ReplyDeleteSo much hate here. Is it that hard to be pleasant?
ReplyDeleteGary Radnich giving out Candy Corn?
ReplyDeleteWhat a cheapskate!
Not surprised he didn't give out stale apples.
CNN has an interest in McSweeney?? WHY????
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