SEE, WHAT KNBR FAILS TO GATHER IS THAT ...for the most part, people tune in to hear the Giants' broadcasts or 49ers; if KNBR relied solely on their talk-show content they'd be just about the way of the radio station of the SF Unified School District.
*That said, Larry Krueger in the PM drive slot is getting much better and if you told me I'd say that a year ago, I'd bop you.
*Dear Tom Tolbert: Get a grip you're not God's gift to the world and enough of the beer updates and concert itinerary.
*"KNBR-FM?" : really? Why would people go to FM when your so-called "50K-watt blowtorch" in prime radio frequency real estate won't work? You took out a legacy station (at one time) for this bit of intuition? Dear lord.
*Jeremiah Crowe, the boy wonder of PD at Knibber, some guy named Bill Dwyer would have kicked your ass and you'd have deserved it. If you don't know Bill Dwyer, google him.
*Crowe would look at you in is office and say, "Who's Pete Franklin?"
*Mark Willard, good way to ingratiate yourself with Giants player by giggling like a high-school girl over his (the players) last name. That should do well for your future Larry Baer lunch.
*Willard said he "got a chill" when he entered the KNBR studio on his first day which I'm sure touched his wife.
*Tolbert can't stand Rod Brooks which a few weeks earlier I could have agreed but now both of them are sort of pricks.
*Tolbert actually said he's really not that much a betting guy which would be like me saying that I really don't care for the pastrami at the Oak's Club.
*Ronn Owens reason why there's a "Ronn Owens Report" on KGO: pays for Ronn's cruises and manicures.
*Gary Radnich has gone into hiding since being told by KNBR/Cumulus that he was "retiring" in late June. It was and still is a FARCE! Gary and family are off on vacation somewhere south of Paris on a fact-finding mission.
*Crowe's future at KNBR is secure no matter how incompetent his PD decisions because, like most Cumulus hires, Crowe has some people in key management positions at the Cloud Company who loves his ass-kissing and overall obedience.
*Ted Robinson was SCREWED, can I say it any more clearer? He was shown the door by a guy who had this fascination for the fired, bloated, Raiders' voice whore, Greg Papa, yes, who was seen hugging Bob Fitzgerald at the 49ers' game so that's all you really need to know about that story plain and simple.
*Papa: 49ers' best ever radio spawner.
*John Lund, Papa's ass-kisser on KNBR, is so juvenile and pathetic he was turned down for an ad gig by the Macys infant clothes department.
*Lund is to radio what Mel Gibson is to the Jewish community.
*Doug Harvill: SF Cumulus Market Manager is so full of shit his mouth stinks.
*Ronnnnnnnnnnnnn Owens has not mentioned his beard, Brian Copeland, for almost a year now which is so darn unusual, gees, I wonder why? Oh, yeah, I forgot.
*Those in the know tell me Copeland has about as much a chance beating Cumulus in court as I have getting a date with Taylor Swift.
*Wanna know how DUMB Harville, Crowe and other lame-brain Cumulus SF suits are? How bout they didn't even keep the call letters (KFOG) which could have reaped several millions of dollars for cash-strapped, BK-embedded, Cumulus but it's only money.
*Today on the Ronnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Owens Report, Ronnnnnnn interviews Gavin Newsom and asks where his new hairdresser is; very riveting. Then Ronnnnnn talks to his favorite gadget guy, Sol Gigabyte to inquire, "can women use an iPhone as proxy vibrator?"
*Women who were offended by the Lisa Argen "Winnebago" post and who told me via comments and e-mail that "we'll never ever donate again to 415 Media" as if that's gonna stop me --get this? I have ZERO tolerance for threats and please, if I have to depend on you chicks for donations I should be shot and put in a dark closed room listening to the Ryan Scott Show.
*95.7 FM, "The Game": the casket is outside the entrance to the station.
*Damon Bruce: Boy, you got real stale fast and furious which I'm sure has nothing to do with your marriage because I know how much you (gasp) love her. I know she loves you having financed your trips to Europe and beyond. Does she make toast too?
*Ray Ratto with a beard: Yeah, I'm sure that closed the deal on the Deadspin gig. Ratto has a new ID: "I'm the Italian Tim Kawakami!"
*Sometimes when I wake up in the morning and scream "FUCK YOU ALL" I think back to my romantic years.
*Dennis O'Donnell over at KPIX it would be nice if you went to more quite, off-the-beaten-path places to screw someone other than your wife because it's so much easier.
*Joe Vasques: see above item.
*Roberta Gonzales suddenly went hiding somewhere south of River Islands in Lathrop and totally snubbed some zoftig Jewish blogger with two sandwiches and some cream soda.
*READ THIS GREG PAPA: You're a schmuck. A disloyal Piece of Shit Schmuck with all the allegiance of Jeffrey Epstein's last tryst. FUCK OFF, GREG.
*Papa once told some woman at the local bar he was "someone high up with the Raiders." which I'm sure Al Davis' lawyers were eager to know.
*Peter Hartlaub of the Chronicle likes to make cookies for his boss, Audrey Cooper, fact. Hartlaub the day had a page one story in Datebook on John Travolta. I don't think that was meant as a promotion more a demotion so yo, Pete, maybe next time, Buster Posey? Audrey is a big Giants' fan.
*Ronn's been back with his wife, Jan Black, which is great for Ronn because he can start dating again.
*Tolbert went to a beer and cheese party recently and a sports-talk radio show broke out.
*THIS is how much Tolbert HATES Rod Brooks: He got in to Brooks face and said, 'Youuuuure a very ridiculous, paaaathetic, nnnnnnnnagging luuuuuuuuuuuuunatic, do ya hear me?"
*Travolta was in town to promote a movie and was seen mouthing to Ronnnnnn" Up Your Nose With a Rubber Hose!"
*Doug Harvill and Cumulus stock: slightly 12 cents and a can of spam from 1976.
*Crowe has a big day on his docket: lick Papa's boots and tell Sarge what a swell guy he is 146,000 times
Bill Dwyer was no saint either, just ask Hank Greenwald's widowed wife.
ReplyDeleteFor as General Patton once said, “Fuck You, Kraut, get out of the way!!”
DeleteRonn's been back with his wife, Jan Black, which is great for Ronn because he can start dating again. hahahahahahahah
ReplyDeleteBoy, en fuego today Rich!
ReplyDeleteYeah, does anyone think Papa and Lund's radio show is good? I think it's a turd. The previous show there, Gary and Larry, is hugely missed. P & L are Purely & Literally horrible. Crowe should also get ass whupped by Tony Salvadore.
Is KGO giving any consideration to relacing Mark Thompson with Ronn Ownes ?
ReplyDeleteThis would make for a seamless transition.
Rich is on a roll!! Very sad on how radio got so bad. Glad some of us were around to see the real pros back in the day, think Van Amburg or the old KGO gang from the 70s and 80s.
ReplyDeleteMy sister who still lives in the Bay Area flipped by KNBR and the talkers were giddy about the "new" frequency they're going on soon. No chat of the loss of KFOG.
"can women use an iPhone as proxy vibrator?"
ReplyDeleteSorry apple fanbois, that's Android only.
Yes folks, and there it is, the much fabled "locker room talk." Makes you wonder how they ever managed to walk upright, let alone overcome the knuckle dragging.
DeleteRich, telling it like it is. Howard Cosell, cigar in hand, is looking down and smiling!
ReplyDeleteCosell was a highly educated, literate guy, regardless of what you think of his style of communicating. If he's doing anything as he looks down from heaven, it's heaving.
DeleteAs you said the guy who ingloriously screwed the great Ted Robinson by hiring the disgusting Raider Whore Greg Papa is "Sarge" who is Bob Sargent Director of Broadcasting & Partnerships for the SF 49ers. A Permanent Pox on "Sarge's" House. Regarding the Execrable Rod Brooks despite numerous format changes, he has incredibly been on KNBR for an astounding 22 years now(first hired way back in Aug 1997.) Rich as you have previously pointed out we all know the reason why Brooks has somehow survived despite being a terrible sports talk show host. Obviously Tom Tolbert & Larry Krueger's show would be much better without Brooks. In my humble opinion either move Brooks to 95.7 or move him to the KNBR morning show to replace an even Badder sports talk show host the absolutely PUTRID Paulie Mac! Thank you for your Great Blog Rich.
ReplyDeleteYawn.
ReplyDeleteI might take a shit later today.
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DeleteAre you with me? Knock on wood. On point. Period. If you can't handle the truth, go watch tennis or golf. Thank goodness for satellite radio.
ReplyDeleteYou're on a roll today...good column
ReplyDeleteWhat do Brian Copeland and 7-Eleven have in common?
ReplyDeleteGo get me a Hot Link, you Son of a Bitch
'Youuuuure a very ridiculous, paaaathetic, nnnnnnnnagging luuuuuuuuuuuuunatic, do ya hear me?"
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHA!!!!
I rather enjoy Rich's takes. But funny mentioning the "romantic years" when he's probably never been touched and hasn't seen "it" in years. Too many brewskis and hot pastramis on rye.
ReplyDeleteThe radio station of the SF Unified School District is KALW, 91.7 FM, and there's a hell of a lot of great programming on there.
ReplyDeleteYou ought to give it a listen sometime, Rich. You might learn something.
Cool plug by Bottini.
ReplyDeleteHow many remember when there was a KNBR-FM in the late 1970s-early 1980s? They changed the call letters to KYUU, now known as Movin' 99.7. It was where Don Bleu's career took off for 1-3 decades, including an eventual move to K101 before that station was unfortunately Seacrest-ed. Even Dr. Don had a post-KFRC stint at KYUU in the last 80s or early 90s.
And Rich, I think it's high time for another catching up lunch among Lieberman & Frank Dill. Dill would probably read Crowe the riot act, and maybe he still has retired friends in high broadcasting places who could expose the Tricky Dickeys and their disgraceful presence in the radio conglomerate world. The Dwyer-Dill-Cleary Era would not have stood for the cloud clowns' hijinx.
95.7 is doing alright. The Warriors just renewed their contract with them. The only mistake they made was bringing in Ratto to ruin Damon's show
ReplyDelete95/7 has nothing except the warriors and they also pretend to be the giants/49ers flagship stations, all the people there are all fired/or laid off knbr people with their knbr biases..
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