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Why do I post so much material on Veronica De La Cruz? Because in a depressed market like this, she moves the needle. Even when she's absent like she is now, for the gazillionth time, she generates buzz and my e-mail and comment zone would prove all that. It's not that I'm consumed with everything De La Cruz, it's just she has her fans, good and bad.
By the way, Veronica gave up her personal life when she decided to enter the TV News anchor business. It's a public profession therefore it's difficult to have a private life when your very own movements are very much a part of the public domain. I'm not breaking news here, she chose the deal. Of all her blemishes, of which there are many, I've actually defended her. The woman has issues, so do I. It's a tough world out there, believe me. You do. And It ain't getting any better.
*You would think SOMEONE with an ounce of creativity and intrigue, would tell the assignment desk, radio/TV, about THIS: like, why does, FUCKING PG&E turn off the power in areas near me whenever there's some wind and it's hot outside. Here we are living in the seventh-largest economy, a stone's throw from Silicon Valley and we have a company that can't build a damn power line underground? It's damn criminal and ridiculous and NO ONE dares talking about it. OK, maybe Pat Thurston of KGO but that's about it.
*Speaking of KGO, last night (Wednesday) was a truly real "live and local" --John Rothmann conducted a local Town Hall; it centered on the SF School Board's new policy on Lowell High School enrollment --pretty heavy-duty stuff, albeit mainly 415 area code interest but that's not the point here. Rothmann took a civic-minded topic and had a healthy dose of interest from outsiders, including me. It was damn good radio and passionate to the max.
*Does Adam Copeland have to say, "dude" every other sentence on KNBR? Was that part of his employment package? Copeland can be a compelling actor on morning radio sports; he is far more compelling than the fake New Jersey guy with the fake accent and fake persona --a possible alternative. Yet Copeland can't utter an ordinary thought together without massive "dude" inclusion. It also doesn't help matters when his partner, a banal Brian Murphy, also includes "dude" in his repertoire. What a total DISGRACE!
*What the right-wing media echo machine doesn't get: Hillary Clinton isn't president. Hillary isn't Joe Biden. And Hunter Biden isn't the Coronavirus.
*Greg Papa doesn't get that when you have to resort to cheap, lame, UNFUNNY porno material in the last half-hour of an otherwise better-than-average sports radio show, it doesn't speak kind. Papa can change his voice all he wants but his participation in the half-hour crudefest is a total abomination.
*A few notes about KQED Radio's Michael Krasny: just because you're an intellectual giant doesn't mean you can't be a JERK too. Krasny has no doubt interview-high capabilities and gets great guests if you like renowned authors and white-wine crowd, but sometimes arrogance gets in the way, Mikey.
*The winds are howling here in the Oakland hills, gotta go check my power.
I have polled 5 people about VDLC. 5 out of 5 didn't know who she was. Sorry bro, she doesn't move the needle as much as you think. 90% of the Bay Area most likely doesn't even know who she is. The other 10% may have caught her while flipping channels when their favorite newscast was on commercial... Or they thought she was a card dealer at Bay 101 they met once.
ReplyDelete5 people! That's comprehensive. Did the 90% figure come from another one of your "polls?"
DeleteSounds like the metrics used by CNN and MSNBC in their presidential polls and every other question they ask of their zealots.
DeleteWow, what a large sample size! That's what she said!
DeleteSorry 2:46 & 5:50 but nobody, and I mean nobody, knows who this bitch is.
Deletelol
DeleteI know I'm not thinking/commenting on what's ahead, but mandating or encouraging electric vehicles while California now often shutting down electricity and/or encouraging cutting back on electricity usage seems ill-thought-out right now. I haven't heard if there's some plan to make electricity more plentiful. Perhaps the mandate for solar power in new construction is part of the answer. It all doesn't seem to be well communicated overall.
ReplyDeleteThe easiest way to explain it is....Democrat ideas.
DeleteI can't wait for the rolling blackouts after those cars are around 5 years. Morons.
The mandate is by 2035. That's 15 years! It's not like the current electricity infrastructure will remain unchanged. Let's look at this positively and assume there will be progress.
DeleteLike all of the progress we've seen the last 20 years?
DeleteBtw, solar panels generally don't work at night. Shhh.
We were having blackouts 20 years ago, remember the Gray Davis recall? How far have we come since then?
DeleteOh yeah, we got rid of a lot of generation since the Gray Davis years. The trend for the next 15 years isn't looking so good.
Sure, there'll be progress...the bullet train that's really a regular train will have reached Fresno, maybe. Everything else will be the same: progressive liberal clowns ruining whatever they touch, and state utilities buying coal power from Arizona at 3X the cost to produce it because their little hippy wind farms can't produce shit.
DeleteThe next governor is under no obligation to carry though with Newsom's directive. It would be great if all our energy was green, but Newsom's eliminating non-renewable energy plants before renewable energy plants are in place. Thus, brownouts and blackouts.
DeleteWhere was the Gavin Newsom recall?
DeleteOh year, hypocritical Democrats.
Cars can (and should) be charged in off-peak hours, so no issue with blackouts there. As for shutdowns on red flag days, the utilities are addressing improvements but still need to get their collective acts together and fix their infrastructure so shutdowns on windy days aren't needed.
DeleteAt PG&E and SDG&E it's no secret that they are exercising their right to cut the power...to reduce the risk of fires.
ReplyDeleteYou can reduce the risk by underground power lines.
But it's expensive to underground with all the costly regulations preventing low cost under grounding.
So they cut the power...
Because they can.
Put that on the "News".
That's life in CA.
Go Yookla, dude, Pauley Pavilion, dude, Mill Valley, dude . . . there, I just wrote Murph's script for tomorrow morning's (and every morning's) show on The Commercials Leader.
ReplyDeleteWell, if they started jacking up your utility bill, digging up the streets, sidewalks and your front lawn to put in underground power lines (thus creating hellish traffic jams and delays), you'd surely be on here complaining about that. Going underground is not a panacea.
ReplyDeleteIt's super expensive, both in terms of construction and routine maintenance. Vulnerable to its own kind of issue too (animals gnawing at the cables, flash floods, greater damage in an earthquake, even small ones...imagine having to turn your power off to check for damage every time there's a 3.2 shaker the way they stop BART trains and check the tunnels).
DeleteThen you add those electric cars and the charging...
DeleteOh nevermind.
Rich, try checking out Kate Scott, Bonta and the shouting guy on The Game instead Smurph the Stoner and Copie
ReplyDeleteNothing excessive about your VDLC entries, given her on-going bizarre dysfunctional serial. The expectations were high when she arrived at KPIX, and (during the early phase of her tenure) the station put a promotional focus on her.
ReplyDeleteI often listen to 98.1, I know, Doctor's Office Music w/o the Doctors.
ReplyDeleteThere isn't much else on Terrestrial radio, if you don't like sports or Rap (GaG!).....There is this new commerical, don't know what they're selling yet, but after the announcer makes his pitch, I hear a 4/4 drum beat, then a (young) female voice goes "Wow!"...followed by another girl going "Uh-Huh!".... Yes, it's stupid, but my goodness is it catchy! That "Wow!/ Uh-Huh!" stays in the head for a while.
98.1 KISS FM. I mean iHeart '80s.
DeleteVDLC came to San Francisco after intentionally get pregnant hoping to start a family with her boyfriend or the person who got her pregnant, giving birth and wrote a long BS trying to promote woman rights and single mom. Back to the real story, San Francisco or California is an easy place getting protected using excuses like VDLC real or false, still get paid using tons of BS not to go back to work. Adding on, her mom is from the Bay Area, Daly City and she desperately needs someone to babysit the little one while she use her power as a reporter in and out to get paid and the worst, must find love and another man. We all seen her profile on a love site. I won't be surprised she is pregnant the 2nd time abusing this power system and there are a bunch of similar people in this world who once intentionally get pregnant just to trap the man and they will do it again and again and again with different people just to abuse the power of free money and support.
ReplyDeleteFIRED HER and BASH HER SLACKING OFF REFERENCE SO NO ONE WILL HIRED HER! Never seen a reporter using her life as a single mom and issues issues issues getting free money in exchange of something else.
> VDLC came to San Francisco after intentionally
Delete> get pregnant hoping to start a family with
> her boyfriend or the person who got her
> pregnant
Would it have made things any different if she came to San Francisco after accidentally getting pregnant? I mean, most people who get pregnant get pregnant intentionally; that's usually the desired way.
When will KRON debut their new set?? Hopefully it'll coincide with a new music package and graphics!!
ReplyDeleteGrant Lodes seems like a pompous ass!!
ReplyDeleteIsn't he married to some KRON hottie, though? The New Year's Even chick?
DeleteYep. Spot on. He is.
DeleteWe're critiquing sports talk show personalities. How many of them have any training before they sit behind the mic? Filling time and being knowledgeable and entertaining is not easy.
ReplyDelete- LOL, 11:23!
ReplyDelete- When one's team is about to suffer a very ugly 0-3 homestand - which is the ultimate nightmare for any NFL team - one's PBP will emphasize the last "P" with sophomoric acts on the terrestrial radio.
- As stated before in response to another RL post, when Rich's least favorite PIX personality finally runs out of patience with VDLC (and Allen Martin has), it is only a matter of when VDLC will be permanently gone. Once the complicated buyout matters get simplified, it will be less stuffy at CBS SF. At least it will be minus one banal personality.
I had to stop reading after the very first sentence in this post. VDLC moves the needle. Sorry. Not true. Bad information. Give me some numbers to back it up. I have overnight Nielsen numbers. Sorry, there is no difference when VDLC is there and when she is not. Same holds true for any anchor. KRON thought bringing Ken Wayne would give it a ratings boost. Nothing. Names do not matter. Sorry.
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