NBC Bay Area Suffers Anchor/Reporter MIA; Covid-Related; Growing Unease at KRON; Pam Moore Uncertainty Status; Palefsky Honeymoon Over; ABC News Has BIG Plans for Dion Lim; Tom Tolbert Days Numbered at KNBR; "Tolbert-Copes" Lousy Sports-Talk Radio; CNN+ Had Grand Bay Area Plans for Anderson Cooper; Monday Extravaganza

NBC BAY AREA in San Jose indeed had a plethora of missing anchors and reporters at their San Jose studios the better part of last week.

The reason? Alleged positive Covid tests and a whole bunch of people feeling sick as all get go. And they were sick.

The MIAers included Janells Wang and Raj Mathai. Plus several reporters and staffers. No word on their status this week but I'm told the situation is murky.

*A growing unease at KRON and ND, Josh Palefsky, who has had less than a year on the gig. It's not his fault there is discontent from staff because of the uncertian status of Pam Moore who is rumored to be seriously thinking about leaving and/or retiring. Moore's fall at the station over a year ago has complicated matters. She is still suffering pain from the fall. And that has KRON suits worried up the you know where.

Moore's status before the fall was in question. For years she's looked "tired" and disinterested but there's also those at the station who tell me she still oves her job and doesn't want to leave for at least another two or three years.

Palefsky's honeymoon is over. His defenders say he had to follow the ruins of Aaron Pero, the tyrant who ruled like a mad dictator and almost KILLED KRON. Pero hired Palefsky and it's that DNA that is his biggest obstacle to success at 900 Front. I've complimented the KRON regime of late. They are not great by any means but overall, considering a tough environment, peform much better the past few years. I can do without the 20,000 weather updates but that's just me. I like Grant Lodes and Vicki Liviakis. Ken Wayne is still too generic for my tastes but he's serviceble. Justine Waldman, I've always liked. Dan Kerman is a solid reporter in the field and Reyna Harvey has potential in the morning.

KRON routinely beats several stations in the early evening news platforms.

The GM, Jim Rose, seems wanting to warm up to the staff. He's sincere, he's trying. But a pep rally needs to take place immediately. Rose, do this: buy lunch at Grumpy's for the staff and no tuna sandwiches! Cheeseburgers and fries and extra diet coke. That would show the rank and file a sliver of love and buy you more time to freshen up the place.

*If Dion Lim has a decent audition as an ABC News fill-in this week (World News Now and This Morning) ABC will get serious and offer her a network gig, probably out of LA, maybe NYC. They LOVE her. Disney loves the fact, she's a woman and she's an Asian woman. They regard her as a super ace reporter, or correspondent in network terms. At the very least. Moreover, Lim is held in high esteem at a news network that regards youth and temperment as star-worthy and Lim has both qualities.

A Circle7 source tells me, "she's also very smart and she knows how to sell herself." Which translated means Lim is probably headed to the alphabet network.

*Tom Tolbert's reign at KNBR might be coming to an end.

Tolbert's terrible ratings at all-sports 680 AM (2-6 PM), with Adam Copeland, is a major reason. The "Tolbert and Copes" show has seen PUTRID numbers; combined with Tolbert's $350K yearly salaary he's the most obvious target of another Cumulus salary purge and it's coming any day now.

Tolbert has plenty of allies; his buddy, Steve Kerr, is head coach of the Warriors plus Tolbert is well-liked but he makes way too much money for Cumulus' taste and Cumulus has NO MONEY which is why they continue to lay off people and rid the SF cluster (and other markets) of talent that makes over six figures.

Tolbert has also pissed off the KNBR bosses with his want to show up late for work and possess a cavalier attitude toward being on time. Bad omen. And especially bad when your numbers are as weak as KNBR's numbers are.

*By the way, Copes (Adam Copeland) can't carry a show. He doesn't know how to conduct the orchestra. Simply stated, he's a one-trick pony.

Copeland is way too deferential toward Tolbert. There's no chemistry or favorable energy and although the show has only been on a few months, it's severely disjointed and chock full of awkwardness.

Copeland has an uber-annoying CACKLE and giggle that he cannot shake. It's more like a nervous disorder (maybe) but it's also irritating as all hell and it detracts from an already awful program. He doesn't help the show and he certainly doesn't help Tolbert who needs a lot of help.

*CNN+ had planned to send Anderson Cooper to the Bay Area for a special series of sit-down interviews (at the Paramount Theatre) with the likes of Mayor London Breed, Barry Bonds, Joe Montana and Willie Brown but that's all on hold now that CNN+ is kaput.

*KCBS: high-school radio is far more compelling.