Lousy Feeling at KGO Radio; KRON Back to Being the Old KRON; Pelley/CBS Crew Head to SF To Smell The Garbage; Lightweight KTVU Heather Holmes; Radio is Sound, Maybe; Friday Happy Hour

There's not many people at KGO Radio this Friday, in fact not many people around the entire Cumulus SF Cluster for that matter, but the few that are there, a feeling of anger, disgust and regret permeate the building.

They're pissed off at certain personnel, including one in particular, but they're also angry and resentfull of a management that seems more concerned about their own rear end than those who actually show up and risk their own safety and perform under the most dire of circumstances. All to get a radio station revving up that isn't quite running on all cylinders.

A story hit the snack bar on KGO late Thursday: the big bosses discussed the idea of buying lunch for the ladies and gents who showed up to keep the station on the air. Maybe buy some sandwiches and drinks from the deli across the street? That never transpired of course. Cumulus can't even dole out 20 bucks. Good way to maintain crappy morale.

*A KRON senior staffer, concerned about the vibe that has been murky the past few weeks; a bad feeling with regards to rampant rumors about the future of a longtime anchor leaving, sent out word to the news director to perhaps, set the record straight, have a Friday meeting and let everyone know all was well or was not? Certainly, it would calm everyone's mind and improve production but the meeting didn't take place and the idea of letting newsroom personnel get some degree of communication, (God forbid) was dismissed by the suits as balderdash. Which means KRON is back to being KRON because, well, why apply logic to a hopeless cause, right? Right.

*CBS News is sending an extraordinarily large crew to SF to once again examine if the streets are as ugly and dirty as they seem and look to the rest of the nation (as well as the world); Scott Pelly is the reporter and his staff include a producer and, get this, 2! cameramen. Me thinks this is "60 Minutes" material.

*If you want to see why many people out there don't take KTVU teleprompter reader, Heather Holmes, seriously, take a look at this--news chops? More like saltines in Toledo without salt.

*Why have radio producers if you don't take calls? You can book guests by allowing the publicists to coordinate their time for an interview, you don't need a producer to do that and you certainly don't need them to screen calls. The absurdity of concentrating on texts from listeners is even more ludicrous when the whole aspect of radio is that it is a SOUND medium and good SOUND is heightened by the SOUND of a human caller who expresses his/her opinion and engages with the host. It is patently absurd to not take calls and rely on text gibberish--how ridiculous and bizarre and downright idiotic but yeah, radio is dead, damn right it is when the fools who run it are DESTROYING it!

*John Rothmann is very disingenuous --something I discovered a long time ago that more people are beginning to realize--it's not an outward characteristic but it's there, trust me.