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| Dion Lim |
I DON'T KNOW WHY DION LIM would object to this picture, after all she was fine with it while anchoring in Tampa before she headed west to San Francisco at KGO ...but that's not the point of this notice...
I'VE LEARNED that Dion is probably not going to advance on ABC News quest to have her anchor the Weekend News out of LA and why? Well, for starters, ABC hasn't formally offered her the gig and it appears, even if they did, Ms. Lim is happy with her job at ABC7 at 900 Front.
A source tells me:
"She is intrigued with the interest but they (ABC) never formally met with her and she absolutely loves the Bay Area."
ABC News in LA and NY didn't respond to requests about their interest in Lim.
Industry sources that are aware of the situation threw out the possibility that a key network insider at ABC's offices in NY essentially threw out a public trial balloon and that all indications is that Lim wasn't crazy about going to LA even with the generous amount of money Disney would throw her way.
But again, it hasn't happened. At least for now and I'll say again my hunch is Lim will stay put offer or not. I will say Dion Lim appears to be one of Circle7's more popular anchors and sooner or later, might want more moolah or weekday evening prime time.
This was much ado about nothing. The SF stage is too big for her, and now she would go to a bigger stage? Affirmative action at its finest. As I said, I would eat my hat if this happened!
ReplyDeleteWhy eat your hat? Ever work with Soledad O'Brien? I have. An idiot. But she had the right ethnic soup, so off to the big leagues she went.
DeleteThe days of real reporters, of Murrows and Cronkites and Jennings, are gone. Now we have pretty ethnic faces and Rainbow Coalition newsrooms. Di-VER-sity!
10:29 sounds like a bitter White Male...probably passed over for that promotion at Burger King to Shift Supervisor...in favor of a hard-working, never-complaining, never-asking-for-a-day-off Mexican guy.
DeleteDUDE...you have a problem with minority on-air talent? I guess you don't have a problem with those blue-eyed blonde WHITES at your beloved foKKKs news, huh?
I don't get all the hate for Dion. I don't know her...and have never worked with her. But people I know at KGO say she is a hard worker, and a total sweetheart. I've seen her a few times on air, and she seems pretty good to me.
DeleteI just don't get the hate.
Nice legs.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that. From the first time I saw her, I thought she came across as being a very odd anchor. Maybe next time.
ReplyDeleteToo bad -- for us.
ReplyDeleteAfter your column last week I thought I'd give her another look last weekend. It sure seemed like she was trying out for something, going way overboard with her enunciation, each word extremely individually pronounced and not in a normal flow at all.
After a few minutes I realized that you could record every word she said and play them back in a different order and you'd have yourself a story that she never said. Very much like a speech synthesizer you'd hear over the phone.
In other words, she's absolutely unlistenable.
Julie Haenar, same thing. Only Siri actually has a nicer flow to her words.
DeleteOther Asian females (e.g., Sydnie Kohara, Veronica De La Cruz, Vicky Nguyen, Weijia Jiang, who come to mind) have gone to or come back from national network level. Maybe Dion L. will make the jump someday. Whether it'd be a good career or lifestyle move will just remain to be seen.
ReplyDelete- I noticed that ABC's current weekend anchor Tom Llamas is filling in for the holiday-vacationing David Muir the rest of this week. Sounds like Llamas isn't going anywhere from an NY assignment standpoint. Lim made the right decision.
ReplyDelete- Nguyen likes working for Lester Holt at NBC News in NY, after those years in San Jose. I wonder what Kohara is up to these days. Nothing new from VDLC. And Jiang has been targeted by the Right Wing the last few days; Weijia is fortunate that Norah O'Donnell has her back at CBS News. And ABC is still loaded with reporters at their LA bureau, even with the worsening pandemic. Lim might as well stay in SF, where she has the weekends covered and gives both Kristen Sze and Ama Daetz a day or two off each every now and then, when Liz Kreutz doesn't do the filling in herself.
I'd put my money on Betty Yu, except I'd change her first name to something less "Old lady" sounding.
DeleteIf KGO doesn't pay Dion big then she is gone. She's the best all-around talent in the Bay.
ReplyDeleteUh-huh. Yeah, that's who I'd want reporting on a war or a earthquake or a major scientific discovery. Right...
DeleteNever watched her. Never heard of her before Rich started posting incessantly about her. The vast majority of the Bay Area couldn't pick her out of a lineup.
DeleteYes, "best all around".
My gosh! Dion Lim is like, TOTALLY HOT! Wow Rich! What a great pic of Dion! Is this from your own personal collection?
ReplyDeleteWow, showing a lot of leg in that photo. What type of "news," exactly, is she trying to report?
ReplyDeleteThat photo is from back in her Tampa days where leg is quite acceptable. I'm surprised no one mentioned her cans. Whoops... Too soon?
DeleteWished I had married her.....could have started my professional poker career playing at the greatest hole in the wall Indian casinos out in the middle of nowhere while she pays the bills.
ReplyDeleteEither that or owned a chain of nail salons, with massage parlor in the back. Or a Pho house with slot machines in the back that launder money. Not stereotyping just reality.
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