*SUPPOSEDLY A FRIEND? Quietly, Ronn Owens told KGO suits that "if Mark Thompson doesn't work out, I'm available." Sounds trashy and tacky, but Owens has no bounds. KGO told Ronn no thank you and go away. They were much more pointed like, "get the hell out of here, RO." Supposedly, Thompson wasn't/isn't exactly thrilled with his "pal."
*John Rothmann's vacation (until April 29 when he returns) was planned long before he returned to KGO on a regular weeknight schedule in March. He told friends that he was "sick" that he would be gone two weeks during the height of the Mueller Report backlash.
*Speaking of Thompson, he still can't register a blip on the local radio domain; when you have to depend on grumpy old man, Bret Burkhart for support, you know you're in trouble. Maybe Mark should do an in-person interview with a barber who installs hair plugs for men. Thompson knows all about that subject.
*A good talk-show host doesn't have to rely on sound bites and actualities to do his/her show. They don't even have to do two hours of prep; all they need is a quick glance at various web sites or SFGate. There's plenty of news to decipher, they just don't have the talent to open up the lines and conduct news-talk. It's relatively easy. You can't artificially manufacture move-the-needle material but you can still do a good show and create static--unless of course you're Mark Thompson, who does his KGO show from that "live and local" destination, Los Angeles.
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*Those of you that contribute 100 bucks to KQED and rip me for "begging" should be required to watch "Book Notes" reruns on CSPAN4.
*A reader was dead on: the Giants' broadcaster, Dave Flemming is overrated. He's very good, technically, no doubt, but he's really BORING as hell with no personality.
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*Simple as this but someone needs to get it straight over at 900 Front: KGO-TV cannot afford to lose Dan Ashley because he's their franchise player.
*If Phil Matier is quasi-laughing when I call him and ask him why there's no follow-up to the Jeff Adachi death than you know there's a problem. I did call Phil and like him and let him know but still, crickets. A new Chronicle low.
*I haven't heard Megan Goldsby on KCBS for a good two minues so maybe there's jope.
*KCBS has enough women to start their own N.O.W. chapter.
*MESSY MORNING: KGO-TV --and Sweeps won't help. Ditto poor KPIX.
*You think I'm sexist I AM NOT. I love women. Women are the greatest species on the planet. You can't tell a woman what to do with her body; I can't even tell a woman what to do with my body.
*Mindi Bach makes Mike Schumann look like Howard Cosell.
*Seems like yesterday but it isn't. Ralph Barbieri got canned 7 years ago this month because Cumulus didn't like him arriving five minutes late every now and than. Damn the ratings which Ralph was adept enough to point out were great. Imagine NBC firing Johnny Carson because he was a few minutes late taping The Tonight Show. I'm not saying Ralph was Johnny, but you get the point.
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*Reader Helda Friedman tells me she watches KRON nightly just to see how many technical gaffes they make to which I tell Helda when you spend 11 cents on the production equipment you get what you pay for.
*Once again, KNBR is el cheapo when it comes to either Kruk or Kuip's cell phone quality --guys, get a permanent line because Radio Shack phones really do suck.
*Stay Clear Dept: If you're a female TV News intern in the 19-24 year-old range might be wise to stay away from KTVU where running out the front door before you're tag-teamed by one of the grumpy old TV men is considered part of your basic training.
*Pam Cook hasn't written any more inter-office memos lately to which I say, damn!
*Don Lemon of CNN is coming to San Francisco in a few weeks and will do his show live including two nights at Oakland's Paramount Theatre (private tickets) but Yours Truly scored a pair of VIP tickets to conduct an interview with Lemon and ask him why no one is watching CNN. Could it be people are sick of the Trump/Mueller/Cohen Wategatesque masquarade and I say, yes.
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1. Biden is too old and touchy (innocent, my ass)
2. Schultz from Starbucks the Dem's Ralph Nader of 2020
3. That "Mayor Pete" guy from Indiana unelectable (but good ideas)
4. Liz Warren too much drama and not enough reality.
5. Trump math : maintain Electoral college states won 2016 and add an extra state like, say, Virginia)
CONCLUSION:
Like you I can't stand The Don Trump but I'm also a realist. Only hope: 1992: when Bush (Father) had an early 79% approval rating but then economy tanked and thus, "President Bill Clinton."
*Drifting away from the limelight: Michael Savage. Podcast to hell in about 5 minutes.
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So, it's okay if you talk endlessly about Mark Thompson's hair plugs, but not Dan Ashley's horrible died hair. What gives Rich? How do you know all of this shit? Also, is Ronnnn Owens the person you hate the most on this planet? Why, Rich, why????
ReplyDeleteI think DA's hair is looking great now. He's been letting the gray come in for a long time. It's a good change for him. He's the best in town anyway.
Delete"died hair"....seriously? do you even know?
DeleteYeah, seriously. Do you know how old he is and how long he's been on the air? Of course he dies his hair. He's 55. Don't you watch and pay attention?
DeleteExactly right-- haters gonna hate. He does a good job too. Nice guy too-- who is super involved in the community. A friend of mine met him at an event a couple of weeks ago-- says he could not have been nicer.
DeleteHey Rich,
ReplyDeleteIf you can't find someone to fix your tag line to a lighter color maybe you can add it to your Subscribe Notices. I really do like the tag line I just wish I could read and see it.
Just an idea...
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If it's the image on top, the blog system using the dark colour on it doesn't help. If Rich is able to upload his own image, could do one with the wording already on it.
DeleteAs for KQED when I lived in the Bay Area, I never gave them a dime after reading an article long ago on how rich they are.
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Delete"TV, Radio, Internet...dishing dirt since 2001" the font just needs to be changed from black to white. In the "tech capitol of the world" this is a quick fix. If someone can show or tell Rich how to do this that would be great.
I'll play around on my test blog and try to find the command. Love the "dishing the dirt since 2001!"
DeleteHave a chance to hear Thonpson interview Josh Mankiewicz last week? Really painful stuff. Especially the Thompsson girly giggle, REAL bad.
ReplyDeleteFor those of you who listen to KNBR, Sharks/Golden Knights Game 7 tonight in San Jose.
ReplyDeleteTAKE THE HINTS AND GTFO RONNNNNN
ReplyDeleteWow!! you told me something I didn't know, CNN is still in business.
ReplyDelete“Like you I can't stand The Don Trump but I'm also a realist....”.......as long as the Dow is going towards 27k, I can stand a lot more Trump.
ReplyDeleteBut what about our environmental laws. And the jacked up tax laws for us Californians.
DeleteYou are right about Trump getting reelected.
ReplyDeleteSideshows, another blistering example of a legal system without a backbone and gutless politicians who are basically useless.
Want to stop the sideshows in Oakland, no tickets, no warnings, just tow all the cars and sell them at a public auction. Half the money goes to the Oakland police department and the other half to charitable causes in Oakland.
I can hear them already, "Can't do that it's not nice." I love the response from the Oakland police, "We were vastly out numbered, that's why we didn't stop the sideshow." Grow a backbone!!!!!
I've been listening to Mark Thompson's show a couple hours a week now, and he seems like he has potential to grow to be a pretty good news-talk radio host. So far he's being held back by his own fear -- apparently -- of doing the 2 hours all by himself. He also seems to shy-away from taking calls. But when he does, he's usually ok. Cultivating the callers is the key to success. Nobody listens to news-talk radio b/c of what the host thinks. They already know what the host thinks. Folks listen b/c they want to hear what the other callers think, and the judge the host by how well they introduce the topic, and how well they moderate the forum. I'm not saying I could do that job, but I'm betting Thompson can. If he just gives himself a chance to succeed, I think he will. He should listen to some of Ronn's old shows, or Gene Burn's; i.e. Start the show by "Hi, I'm Mark Thomson, and this is what we'll be discussing this hour. topic a, topic b, topic c. The telephone number is xxx xxx xxxx. Call me up if you have something to say, and our producer will put you in the queue."
ReplyDeleteRe: KQED/PBS. I don't think the problem is lack of local programming so much, but that their main-line programming isn't very interesting. I mean hour after hour of Antiques Roadshow, Brain Health, How to avoid weighting 800 pounds, Recipes of dishes you'll never make, Ways to waste away your life worrying about How to Retire, Travelogues of places either you've already been, or you'll never go, celebrities' you don't care about family histories, Film Shorts -- i.e. the writer/director didn't have any ideas on topics that would hold viewer interest for very long. It's all a little too much. And by "too much" I mean too boring. At this rate, pretty soon the KQED programming will degenerate to four hours each night of how to buy life insurance. Exaggerating of course. They had a good show on the other night about the history and science of telescopes. That's the sort of show that folks in the Bay Area are interested in. Not how to make dinner using cauliflower and kale and green tea, then spend the rest of the evening worrying if you have enough money to retire. Here's the sort of programming viewers want to see in the 7 pm to 1 am time slot: This Old House, NOVA, Victory Garden, Sherlock (both the new one and re-runs of the old BBC show), etc. Programs about interesting stuff in other words. Stuff about taking off, looking around at what there's new to see, learning new things, not about the final glide path.
ReplyDeleteAt least KGO doesn't run the Dr Drew Pinsky program any more. That isn't much... but it's something.
ReplyDeleteThe latest changes to KGO have definitely been for the better. With Pat and John being on 3 hours 5 days a week, they tackle more subjects and bring up a lot of local issues as well as national politics. I never warmed up to Dr. Drew (liked him on TV). The week end programming is somewhat lacking, Kim Komando is on at a different hour, not early morning, as I believe she was before, still a lot of paid, thus boring programming, but perhaps later that might change too. The hour with Doug Andrew is nothing, but a scam, he is pitching whole life insurance (I believe he never actually says that). I'm an insurance agent, and it is a very bad product, and he is trying to convince his audience to take money out of their 401K and by his product. At least the hour with purity products they pushing vitamins and minerals, which to a certain extend has some nutritional value, and mostly likely cause someone to go broke, even if they the buy a lot of their products.
ReplyDeleteIs it me, but it appears no one else saw the incorrect use of "died" hair vs the correct "dyed"
ReplyDeletehair. Yeah, I am 73 but still have a grasp if proper English. If I am wrong, correct me and I will not post again.
I noticed. You and I my friend grew up in the days where our teachers and parents demanded proper spelling and punctuation. Spell check can't tell the difference between died and dyed.
DeleteRalph was being propped up by Tom Tolbert. Plus it wasn't that he showed up 5 minutes late every now and then. Many days Tom would be doing the first 1/2 hour by himself then magically Ralph would start talking. He was also boring with zero insight, and next to Mark Levin has the most grating voice in radio.
DeleteBush lost for two reasons and the economy wasn't one of them. He pissed off the Republican Party with his tax increase after stating "read my lips. No new taxes". He also had a large number of votes siphoned off by Ross Perot. Much like Jill Stein took votes from Hillary. If the Dems don't kill each other off in next years primaries they are turning off the middle America voters that they will need to win. As much as I hate to think what Trump will do as a lame duck President I think the Dems will screw up like always and hand it to him on a platter.
How about this? The Ronn Owens Show, weekdays, 9 pm to midnight. Live and Local!! No doubt about it, that programming would double the listener tally over that slot's current blasé hard right programming. Double the listeners, triple, or even more, for that time slot. And that's an important time slot for a news-talk station.
ReplyDeleteProblem is that Ronn can't make it to 8:30 most nights.
DeleteToo bad John Bachelor is increased 2 hours. He's so far up trump's ass, he's waving through trump's mouth!
ReplyDeleteYes, Christ almighty, why the hell is John Batchelor still on? He is so boring, has the most irritating voice on the planet, and is not live or local. I would honestly prefer they play Coast to Coast AM at the time it actually airs live, which is 10:00 pm Pacific time, rather than this nothing garbage of a show. I would rather have my kidneys pulled out of my rectum with a tuning fork, than listen to John Batchelor.
DeleteAh, Ralph.....I had almost forgot about him. I remember when he
ReplyDeleteripped Barry Bonds regularly on KNBR and when BB came to the Giants, Ralph shamelessly kissed his ass. Barbieri=phony
Can't believe Ronn Owens is still conniving for his old job.
ReplyDeleteRonn can't you get the message?
Quit!
Your tenue is over. Accept it.