Dan Ashley traveled back east last week on some business and personal issues --as Sweeps nears, it's important to report word on the street: Some significant cable and network outlets are supremely interested in landing the lead KGO-TV anchor.Ashley's contract is up in a little over a year and while he's most likely destined to sign an extension, there's also the chance he could take an offer already on the table --one rumor making the rounds: ABC News would love to land Ashley and is strong in a pursuit.
Even at that, Ashley, who lives in Walnut Creek and has been at 900 Front for almost thirty years, has told friends and associates that his preference is to remain at KGO.
It would probably be wise for Circle7 to get a deal done as soon as possible.
*Giants' play-by-play broadcaster, Jon Miller, took
The "On-Assignment" crappola has officially launched for 2019.
Miller actually took three days off, he was back on Sunday because Fleming was 'on assignment', but I agree with the BS/crappola characterization.
ReplyDeleteand duane kuiper sounding like he is falling asleep pausing and giving 15 seconds of dead air between pitches
DeleteNow for something completely different ... It's almost never a happy day in the Bay Area's largest newspaper newsrooms on the day in April when the Pulitzers are announced.
ReplyDeleteYou have to go back to 2004 for the last Pulitzer the Chron got. The Merc's Pulitzers came in the 1980s, though they claim credit for the one in 2017 that orginated in their east bay newsroom (formerly Oakland Tribune) for the Ghost Ship fire.
Today, April 15, was Pulitzer Day and the Bay Area drought continued. No prizes. There was a potential for a Pulitzer with the massive wildfires last fall. The Chico paper was given a "finalist" designation for its coverage, and the Chico editors were gracious enough to mention assistance they got from the Bay Area News Group. But being a finalist is just a runner-up prize, not a Pulitzer. The AP photo staff in San Francisco also got a "finalist" nod for its coverage of the wildfires.
What's noteworthy is that while the big Bay Area papers generally don't win Pulitzers, smaller papers are winning them every yer. A few of this year's winners are the South Florida Sun Sentinel, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and The Advocate in Baton Rouge.
At some point the top people at Hearst are going to figure out that Audrey Cooper, editor of the Chronicle, is out of her league, and they're going to bring in somebody who can inspire a staff to do excellent, nationally-recogized work.
Like so many of the fast-talking marketing hustlers, Audrey is only there to do ANYTHING to get clicks on the web. Have you seen SFGate? Poorly written click bait and slide shows put together by children with a knack for typos, bad info and embarrassing errors about basic Bay Area facts. There hasn't been meaningful journalism since Jaxon Van Derbeken broke stories about the Bay Bridge fiasco and PGE's "oopsie, has anybody seen our natural gas line maps" fiery pratfall. Now it's a lot of small market, inferiority complex articles about why millennials love (or hate) local coffee shops, tattoo parlors, vegan cafes, wine bars, and (insert your favorite local outrage here).
DeleteRich you like beating it to death dont you?
ReplyDeleteIt can be fun on occasion. ;-)
DeleteWhen a Giants broadcaster is away for any reason, they say "he is on assignment."
ReplyDeleteWhy is that so difficult to understand?
4:27 PM - Because it sounds stupid...
DeleteBy the way, someone needs to tell Michelle Griego it's not "Lori Locklin." [eyeroll]
ReplyDeleteAnd while they are at it...
DeleteTell Anne Makovec that it is Oxnard. Not "Oxford," or "Oxnerd."
Um, yes it IS pronounced Lock-lin. Always has been. Think before you type, chowderhead.
DeleteGiants management needs to put out a schedule much like the Giants game schedule that indicates who and who is not doing the announcing that night. That way the viewers can hold these goofball baseball broadcasters accountable when they pull these no shows.
ReplyDeletePlease explain why the phrase "he is on assignment" bothers you so much? It seems so petty on your part to harp on this non stop. Grow up!
ReplyDelete- It's not difficult to understand; it is a case of disagreeing with the interpretation like RL is doing; our 415 Blog man hates deceptive excuses for absences on the air. Plus, the writing has to be on the wall for Miller's career; yes, it is an official HOF career, but the last 2-plus Giants seasons have been anything but. Don't know how Miller could be happy with what is going on at the ballpark these days, and this was before the Lockstep suspension.
ReplyDelete- As for Ashley, if ABC HQ digs him a lot, even if the anchor wants to stay in the Bay Area, they would be prove it by reading the riot act toward KGO-TV's TomandTrixie and demand they finish off contract negotiations and get their best news personality signed for good. Sadly, the disgraces to all Bay citizens of Polish descent continue to enjoy leaving their hard working employees hanging in the wind. It is as if they are waiting for a different break.
Jon Miller was in Arizona celebrating with his family as his son earned his PhD from the ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration Science. I think that warrants a couple of days off.
ReplyDeleteParty school.
DeleteThe guy has 5 months off, and then he takes leave just 3 weeks into the season. Or should I say, ANOTHER in a pattern of frequent absences in recent years. Miller's audacity is unwarranted. Get someone in there who actually wants to do the job, full-time. Adios pelota, Kahuna.
DeleteOne would think Dan Ashley would be perfect for the ABC network Evening Newscast. Certainly a whole lot better than geeky, awkward David Muir.
ReplyDeleteMuir is a good-looking dude. Ashley not so much.
Delete> ...Ashley ... has told friends and associates that his preference is to remain at KGO.
ReplyDeleteEven though Trixie is there. Wow, that's impressive.
Dan Ashley is 55 years old. So if he ever plans to move "up to the network" he doesn't have that much time to make the switch. Lester Holt is 60 and in his prime for an authoritative anchor. Scott Pelley is 61 and his stint as a network anchor is over.
DeleteThe clock is running on you Dan. Don't get stuck in the starting block...
Oh heck, I’m 62 years and was looking towards a news anchor gig at KRON. And now you say I’m too old! Perhaps I should send in my tapes since I already paid for them.....
DeleteThen KNBR should say this! The issue isn't Miller taking time off for an important family milestone. He SHOULD be there. The issue is KNBR LYING about "being on assignment." That's not an assignment. It's a "family matter"...or "attending a milestone family graduation." HELL---why not just "on vacation"...or simply "has the day off???"
ReplyDeleteDon't lie, KNBR.
Relax... no one is lying. It's called "tongue-in-cheek". Everyone knows they are not "on assignment" - what assignment would there be? This has been a running gag for YEARS. You can debate how amusing it is or isn't, but that's all it is, a gag.
DeleteMiller (Kuiper, Kruk, and Fleming) isn't a KNBR employee; they are employed directly by the SF Giants. So it isn't a KNBR problem.
DeleteWell said Greg B.! I can't believe how enraged people are about this, it's truly laughable. I think it was sort of an inside joke between the broadcasters at first and they just kept it going.
DeleteChronicle editor Audrey Cooper's news judgment was on display again this morning. While every major paper in the U.S. put the Notre Dame cathedral fire on the front page, her top stories were about kids growing up in trailer homes and the city's latest efforts to help the homeless. Yawn! The fire was relegated to below the fold as a photo only. The Notre Dam story was on A3. (To see how other papers played the fire story, go to http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/). Since she doesn't write a column or do any reporting, her main job is to pick front page stories. She can't even do that very well.
ReplyDeleteI'm no fan of the Chronicle--but I have no problem with this. The Notre Dame Cathederal is in Paris...and I'm Atheist...so I really don't care.
DeleteI don't care about the homeless, either--but at least it's a local story.
10:14; I agree with you 100%. The front page with the Chronicle is always something about the homeless issue. Can’t the San Francisco politicians throw more of our tax payer money at this and fix it?!?! They have certainly had enough experience trying to fix something.
DeleteThe Chronicle's Editor in Cahoots would rather run 10,000 stories about the Giants attendance woes or the state of the Warriors than real news or food trends. I guess it all depends where she's getting free suite tickets to accommodate her family and friends or who's going to give her gratis meals. Let's not forget that nimrod who claims to have a local radio column on Sundays but would rather write about anything but because he just doesn't give a rip. The sports editor is another nincompoop. A pretty solid NHL team plays in San Jose, yet the Chronicle would rather use wire stories for road games and sends a freelancer to cover the team. Hockey is very popular around here. But he's oblivious to that. In fact, the whole damn paper is pretty frigging oblivious to the population here. Someone's gonna complain that this post is all negative, but hey, it's true. Can't handle the truth? Go read the comics.
Delete2:59PM "I don't care about the homeless." Says a lot about you as a shallow, selfish, uninformed, oblivious-to-serious-issues shell of a human being. Hard to tell which is more empty--your brain or your soul.
DeleteThis whole "on assignment" BS is disrespectful and insults the intelligence of the TV viewers-- the very Giants fans they want watching the games. The Giants organization shoots themselves in the foot again.
ReplyDeleteRuss Hodges and Lon Simmons never went "on assignment." Lon did 49ers while he was doing the Giants, but it wasn't like he was sitting in a dandelion patch like today's gab festers. With the exception of Dave Flemming, the Giants announcers are overrated. That ill-advised campaign to get Grab Some Pine Meat and It's Out of Here inducted into the broadcast wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame was a publicity stunt done in partnership with the Giants and that Chronicle Editor in Cahoots, I mean chief. Want to listen to some good baseball announcing? Tune into the Athletics. It's just a shame that they're playing before a dinner theatre crowd.
DeleteYou are as much as a dumbass as Rich. What a tool.
DeleteHey 109: Left home without your brains today, did ya now?
DeleteI hope they keep Dan. I've watched him for many years and so has most of my family and a lot of my friends. Best delivery and neckties in the business!
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