SUNDAY 415 MEDIA BRUNCH
*KRON has a new anchor which in the old days would have been big news, at least something notable. Now, it's no longer news or even a blip on the radar screen. Sad really but not surprising.
*If KGO Radio were to sell its weekend schedule, say to a pocket radio company like they do now, I'm betting they could find a bank, a credit union, a car dealership, a furniture store, any retail outlet, that could sponsor weekend programming because truly there is a need for weekend talk shows.
*Ronn Owens had Brian Banmiller on his Friday report and it proved one thing: Banmiller is a bigger windbag than Owens. That's saying a lot.
*Talk radio at its essence is a hearty dialogue between the host and caller. Even if there's complete on-air bedlam and goofiness, the entertainment component can be priceless. Unless it involves the Trump callers, more like cultists. There used to be a charming entertaining element to the Trumpers, no longer.
*John Rothmann, see above.*Angie Coiro is eternal fill-in, she can't do it in primetime, sorry.
*It's not so much Gil Gross is boring. It's that he's a sleep-inducer who doesn't know how to excite. Gross is the proverbial retread, much like major league baseball managers who get jobs based on their name, not on their ability. Gross somehow gets jobs no matter his gross repertoire.
*My all-star KGO line-up all-time: Owen Spann, Jim Eason, Art Finley, Russ Coughlin, Lee Rodgers, Monte Stickles, Jim Dunbar, Ray Taliaferro, Gene Burns, John Rothmann, Pat Thurston.
*Two very cool and very nice radio people worth mass listening: "The Breeeze --98.1 FM with Jack Kulp and Carolyn McArdle. Funny, cool, entertaining and crisp.
*NBC Bay Area in the midst of layoffs --it's all the NBC O and O's experiencing cutbacks du to the Coronavirus.
*Andre Senior at KTVU with a picture of someone behind his anchor back stirring up rumors at the office but I say, and heard, no truth to it.
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> Banmiller is a bigger windbag than Owens.
ReplyDeleteI worked with Banmiller. Pompous asshole who doesn't know much about economics (besides "Republiacn policies work and the proof is I'm rich from them") who at least when I knew him was married to a bimbo young enough to be his granddaughter.
Nobody at KTVU liked him. But he was buds with the then-new ND, Andrew Finlayson, and I believe they even went into a half-assed dotcom business venture together that lasted about a year. Two birds of a feather.
Jack and Carolyn look like the leaders of a 1970's Marin County encounter group.
ReplyDelete5/24, 10 PM: I hope you saw the KTVU tonight. Julie Haener looks like she skinned a cheetah. If they had any pretense to professionalism at that place, somebody would be saying to her "Dress like a journalist, not a hooker."
ReplyDeleteShe lost a bet to Heather Holmes in which the loser had to dress like the other.
DeleteBetween her inappropriate outfits (Heather Holmes too), her dumb ad libs and her embarrassing mispronunciations of common words, Haener is an embarrassment. Why does she have a job? Hire a Fresno grad for 1/4 the money and you'll get someone better.
DeleteIn your KGO lineup you left out Ira Blue.
ReplyDeleteAlso Lu Hurley from the "Hurleybird." I believe he was the first traffic reporter in the Bay Area to report from a helicopter.
ReplyDeleteMy all-time non-All Star KGO line up: Bernie Ward, Karel, Christine Craft, Pat Thurston, Chris Clarke and Ray T.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Gene Burns, John Rothman, the old Ronn Owens, Pat Thurston and Chip Franklin a tie. Loved Christine in small doses, great on week ends and fill in. As for fill in Bill Press, wish the would find a slot for his syndicated show. He knows politics and DC.
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