Monday Mash; NBC Upps Offer to Raj Mathai; Ronn 'Badgering' For a Reason; 415 Media Opener

 NBC  has stepped up its offer to KNTV (NBC Bay Area) lead anchor, Raj Mathai, quite substantially --how much so?--Mathai is under contract another two years in San Jose (at roughly $450K per year) and is quite happy with his situation and growing family. Only a YUGE offer would tempt his appetite for a trip to 30 Rock and that's what NBC is betting too; so here's my contact telling me the Peacock is offering 4 years and $750K per year plus all moving expenses and a temporary pad in suburban Jersey. That's a helluva offer but my guess is Raj stays put.

The NY market and network exposure is high on Mathai's list and he'd be a tremendous asset to NBC and its cable platforms (like MSNBC and CNBC) but Raj is still young and can make that move when his kids get older and hi family situation allows it. If he (Raj) were 35 and didn't have young kids, he'd be gone in a NY-second.


*RONN Backlash --an e-mail sent my way on Sunday night, several in fact; "why are you badgering Ronn Owens; he's elderly now, why are you kicking him down when's he's out?" I'm paraphrasing but you get the gist. The truth hurts.


Why am I badgering Ronn?


You mean the same Ronn who while his colleagues were gathering their belongings and being escorted out of the building, he was laughing and giggling with a Cumulus exec over his contract? That Ronn? You mean the Ronn who went on the radio after the first massacre and excitedly told the shocked listeners, "we're going to have a great new radio stations!" You mean the Ronn, who kissed the behind of the Cumulus exec at North Beach Restaurant after the funeral of Gene Burns, who died shortly after the firing blitz of a literal broken heart; the same Gene Burns who collapsed in the Embarcadero building immediately after he was told to get lost by the infamous woman in black. All the while, Ronn Owens was giggling en fuego in an adjacent hallway when the boom went down. YOU MEAN the same Ronn Owens who asked, to take a picture with Randall Bloomquist, a Cumulus asswipe who just earlier had an affair with a female Cumulus exec who curried favor by having multiple sexual trysts with KGO execs, producers, and the like--that Ronn?




Ronn Owens

Some of you will call it badgering; I call it accountability. Those that know what went down know all my information is true and 100 percent accurate. All of it.


And Ronn Owens Lowenstein is a truly despicable person who cheated on his wife; had a six month affair with a former KGO guest and was kicked out of the house in Seacliff by his wife, Jan Black. He's also a very duplicitous man with a curious case of overpowering women and backstabbing those he deems as a threat.


Now that he's lost any and all leverage and his career is essentially over and he's just hanging on, I have ZERO pity or empathy for the guy. If it's me and only me that calls him out, so be it. I Can live with it.


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