IF YOU WEREN'T LISTENING YOU MISSED AN AUDIO BONANZA
IF YOU DID?
Oh Shit!
IT WAS Belly -Laugh Central on
KCBS this Saturday morning (today) from 6-7 AM and one that will no doubt make News Director,
Jennifer Seelig, steaming!, come Monday morning, I'm sure.
Electronic missteps galore on all-news
740 AM with an assist from ill-prepared, fill-in and substitute anchor,
Jeffrey Schaub, who failed miserably to handle mucho audio hell and embarrassing stretches of DEAD air and mistaken off-mike incidents including an un-intentioned
CBS audio feed that made KCBS's air.
It could have been the most embarrassing hour in KCBS history.
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| Jeffrey Schaub |
The mayhem began in earnest little after 6 when there was complete dead air for a good twenty seconds; OK, no big deal, things happen, but that was the start of audio hell. A sports report from Bruce MacGowan was interrupted by a commercial which muted out MacGowan's report. It was sort of bizarre, but funny. Turns out, we (audience) were just getting started. After the sports report, more dead air. Only five seconds, OK...then Schaub went to an on-air interview with a guy talking about the economy; during the interview, the guest said improved China-US trade talks was one of many reasons why US economy was still thriving; ten seconds later, Schaub, who appeared to be out of sync, asked the guy, inexplicably, "Do you think China trade talks has helped?" --guest sounds perplexed but answers...we now move to 6: 30 for the soon-aired update from CBS News, only listeners heard a "all stations, there's a 30 secs-after report coming." OUCH! --at this point, Schaub is fuming, I would guess because he can't handle it and could be heard shuffling papers in background. More dead air, this time, at least ten seconds and the electronic hell is getting worse...close to end of hour, there's more, this time, even more embarrassing...as traffic sounder rings out at 6: 58, there's no Schaub on-air to introduce traffic anchor, Peter Schofield, it's a good five seconds of MIA Schaub tossing to Pete, who did the traffic report amidst the obvious chaos...
Had to be one of the most historic hours in KCBS audio history, for all the wrong reasons. I wish KCBS were to archive all its hours because this one was memorable --an all-time belly-laugh for the ages and one, I'm sure, will be the talk of the newsroom at 740 AM (and 106.9 FM) and Entercom (which owns KCBS)
All I can say is, someone royally screwed up--maybe a rookie engineer or maybe Schaub himself not being able to handle the gaffes (even if it wasn't his fault) Schaub is someone who doesn't like to hear so I can only imagine what was going on in his head. He was solo and you could tell he was flustered because it all sounded uber-awkward ...but obscenely funny.
Probably not for KCBS.
I've heard much much worse on some of the liberal spewing radio stations in the Bay the past few years. Off-air conversations, dead air, even swearing once etc. Nothing new here.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of when Jan Wahl doo-doo’d herself instead of losing her place in line at Hunan Kitchen in Rohnert Park.
DeleteWow, I'm sure glad conservatives never have glitches on their shows. Good to know...
Delete@955...I've heard 10 times as worse on the conservative crap stations. Dead air for hours, racist conversations in the background. Swearing on dozens of occasions.
Delete8:26 I've heard 11 times as worse on libdiot stations. Drug use on air, blabbering (reopen the mental institutions please), swearing, and talk of what long con they'll pull on their low iq voters next. You know, "collective outrage".
DeleteI believe I once heard a top liberal radio host in the Bay taking bong hits while the callers talked.
Delete@826...Fact: progressives IQ's are way higher than Trump's little cultists. Like he said, he loves the uneducated.
DeleteGood to know! Thanks, Rich!
ReplyDeleteBruce MacGowan getting his audio rubbed out isn't so bad. It's a blessing to listeners. He probably doesn't have much to talk about these days because his beloved baseball isn't around. I believe the news anchors do their own engineering. Jeff is often in the field, so the pompous one doesn't have to lower himself to run a board. They could've put him on at 3 a.m. and only the interns and orderlys at Facebook SF General Hospital would've noticed any boners he would've made.
ReplyDeleteWhat a shit show !!!
ReplyDeleteThey should of broke format to play music during the caos.
That would buy them about 5 minutes to get with it before song ends.
Unbelievable....DEAD AIR
Not on one station. But 2
Time to file a FCC complaint on this station(s) & start the paper trail.
Rich,
ReplyDeleteIf you go to radio.com I believe you can "rewind" and go back and listen to previous hours of a station such as KCBS