Hi Rich, Did you ever inquire to KPIX regarding their AM/Noon weather anchor posting that closed 2 months ago? That one is a senior one and wondering if anyone new will be joining the KPIX Morning & Noon news team next year?
Also what is the update on Yamamoto’s wife? She is yet to be on KPIX
Nobody watches the noon news except me, KR and I doubt someone decent, even a weather anchor is placed there, at least someone other than a routinebody.
Yama's wife is at another station, I forgot, but that might tell you more about her "talent."
Good to know she is on KGO but don’t know what times just yet. Wonder if she is better than Yamamoto.
In terms of the weather anchor part, we just don’t know why the posting was there in the first place, and I was wondering what the reason could be since we have Burch, Peck, Heggen (and rarely Hackney & Lee). Is it that they want to add one more meteorologist and stave Peck off the backup weekday morning duties and leave him on the weekends & fill in during weekday evenings?
As I said he seems to be more comfortable during weekends & weekday evenings and not so on the mornings.
Scott from Concord---Any thoughts as to KTVU possibly revamping its newscasts in response to falling ratings? I think installing a good anchor team instead of the "merry go round" anchorship would help. Put Andre Senior as a main cog with ???
On a positive note, I do like Henry Lee's work as investigative reporter.
Scott, the problem is at KTVU, there's nothing to "revamp" when you have mediocre talent. Save for Alex Savidge and Cristina Rendon, most of the talent is simply not there.
Senior is just OK, not good enough to build around, hence his move back to morning, where he's average and less noticed.
Romper Room did not start at KTVU. I was on it when it ran on Channel 7 before channel 2 picked it up. The format was syndicated by Claster, with individual Miss Nancies in every market. PCM. Former TV critic
Do you have any sense of nostalgia, with regard to the soon-to-be demolished Coliseum in Oakland? All those great Raider and A's memories, legendary games and teams, "Days on the Green" and other concerts, "The House of Thrills" (as Curt Gowdy used to call it). A once great venue, now neglected, that is going out quietly and seemingly unceremoniously.
great teams played at the Coliseum for sure, but it was even in the beginning a dump. i'll channel some Rich here, "it had the appeal of a trashy hooker outside a 7-11 in Hayward"
Of course I do because I was in that very stadium for lots of Raiders and A's games --I'll never forget but the A's will be there at least another year and I'm betting if they don't get the Jack London/Howard Terminal stadium, they'll rebuild at the Coliseum site and play ball, so to speak.
Why?
Because MLB doesn't want to abandon the #6 Bay Area/Oakland TV market. Just my hunch.
If they build downtown it's going to be a traffic nightmare every time there's a game. The freeway ramps, side roads, and 880 are better suited to this where it is. I think the do-gooders want the land for low-income housing. Oakland finally ran AB&I Foundry out of town, watch them glom onto that property and other properties along San Leandro Street by the Coliseum and around the Coliseum.
Good morning Rich. This is probably more of a rhetorical question but why does ktvu continue to botch the most basic of things? Recent examples include referring to the "Oakland" Raiders multiple times, referring to RSV as "RVS," calling soccer matches "games" and a draw a "tie," linking their on-screen One Warm Coat drive QR code to a broken link for over a week, and referring to NY Yankee Aaron Judge as "Judge Aaron."
How can so many people be incompetent? I don't get it.
"Game" and "tie" are generic terms and can be applied to any sport, and so are "match" and "draw" for that matter. Also, soccer is boring AF so no one cares either way.
It'd be one thing if it were one sloppy employee, but to have so many incompetents working on different shows and different shifts is mind boggling. But I guess you're right, now it's just part of the culture there and no one has any pride in the product .
Can you imagine if World News Tonight or the Nightly News with Lester Holt operated like this night after night and they were totally fine with it? Typos...mixed-up information...botched names...referring to defunct sports teams...anchors unable to pronounce the names of famous athletes and political figures. Of course you can't.
There are plenty of people that care about soccer, but not in the US. I'm from Denmark and many, Danes as well as British,. Germans and other countries care a great deal about soccer. Soccer is also big in Latin American countries.
You seem to think I'm "wrong" but intern you are, you fail to recognize that they've been marginalized for years and are only clinging to life on a shoestring budget and limited returns.
So, yeah, in truth, I've been wrong, but in practicality, I'm spot on, now back to your ordering coffee for the boss, "JT."
Rich, If KCBS is considering having some “talk” programs in the evenings - as you’ve hinted - what about a call-in radio doctor in the spirit of Dr Dean Edell? Somebody who could talk about the whole gamut of people’s health concerns - not just Covid! I’ll bet Im far from the only listener who misses Dr Dean - especially his willingness to question mainstream medical and pharma communities when appropriate.
I didn't "hint", I said it was a formality and that it would debut probably at the beginning of the new year...
As for a "Dr. Dean" kind of med show, that's not in the KCBS/Audacy model, their new nighttime talk format will be more of a public affairs type showesque--less opinionated and more informational, just a guess on my part. And it won't just be KCBS, but all Audacy stations.
Joe from Hayward...lol, why all the Hayward slams? assume donations don't keep coming and you have to shutter the blog, what is Plan B? KSCO an option, a union scale sports reporter on radio, etc.?
He will never shutter the blog. It keeps him relevant. I just watched a Tom Hanks movie last week for the first time, "Larry Crowne". Julia Roberts husband in the movie was a blogger just like Rich. Watch the movie, I bet the depiction is spot on.
FYI: KSCO owner Michael Zwerling built an illegal cement patio without permits and is now retiring and trying to sell. If the station and patio are not sold by 12-31-22 everyone will be fired and the station will air pre-recorded garbage.
Hi rich, In other markets do they have the interesting personality types on monring news that we do? Lets face it we have quite the collection of the Strange and Crazy in the morning and they never seem to leave.
Darya, Laura Garcia, the GAAS, Aqui. why do I get the bad feeling we are stuck with them for another decade?
Well, they're not very interesting they're just benign and boring and consequently abysmal and profoundly lousy. I'd bet they'll be gone far sooner than a decade.
Darya is the cockroach of Bay Area TV. I thought she wouldn't last when I first say her on KRON but she has endured. I ain't watched her lately but if she's been artificially enhanced they likely won't shrink. Since many people lose some weight and stature with age her "best" features may only get accentuated. Lord help us.
Joe, I love Hayward --my favorite Caspars (non-Oakland K Kaspers) hot dog place is there and I love the Safeway near Foothill. No slam on Hayward just a sort of homage.
I'm not gonna shutter the blog; Plan B would to go to some sort of pay wall but limited ...as for KSCO, nope, they're being sold.
Any thoughts on former NBC Bay Area anchor T.J. Holmes alleged affair with his GMA co-anchor Amy Robach which is currently blowing up on social media?? He's making his ol' buddy Raj Mathai proud I would assume. (Hi, Janelle...lol) I say GMA 3 should milk it for all it's worth. Better than any soap opera they've ever had on that network. But of course, HR might not feel the same way. lol
Hey Rich, I woke up feeling all green and happy today...in a Greta sort of way... I was wondering how much does it cost per day in electricity, to run one of those 50,000 watt AM radio station transmitters like KCBS and KGO radio have? How many solar panels would it take to power that baby if I wanted to show off, and be green?
Hi Rich ! Elmo in San Ho here. KNBR’s ratings keep going down down down, for good reason - that’s some abysmal radio. Will there ever be a “changing of the guards” or will they keep the same tired dreck going indefinitely? Their reliance on dumb opinions - “which is better X or Y?” - is simply silly and sad. Is there a game plan to blow up the Castle (KNBR) filled with morons? Murph is to UCLA what Walker is to Georgia - a sad embarrassment.
You get what you pay fort--they already blew up "TKB" and they'll blow up one of the rudderless ships any day now. Yes, the morning Smuph and Smack is a joke and changes are coming,
Hey Rich, thanks for taking questions. The time switch from daylight to standard took place many weeks ago, but some Bay Area over-the-air broadcast stations continue to provide the time as daylight. Accessed by pressing the "info" button on remote. Maybe this is just a quibble, but makes a person wonder if a station doesn't report the time correctly, do they report their news correctly?
To be honest, I don't think this matter is even in their semi-semi-radar; you have a legitimate beef but in their world, they just have bigger fish to fry.
@1:27, go into your TV's settings, find Time or Clock, and turn off DST. Turn it back on after 3/11 next year. The TV transmitters all have their clocks adjusted by now.
re: 6:21, time information for digital over-the-air broadcasts is provided each station, via broadcasted air waves, not from the tv. Some stations are providing the correct standard time, others still provided daylight time. Besides time & date, there is also programming information, current program, next program, etc. This feature is used frequently by over-the-air viewers. If you obtain your tv programming by cable or satellite, this is probably not a feature you are able to access.
Hello Mr Lieberman William in Richmond This is an observation with a question. The Oakland Raiders ( DAVIS Family) pooped on their loyal fans twice. I cannot forgive them. Oakland Fans put the FUN in dysfunctional ! Now they are the Vegas Traitors, and a shell of their former selves. They used to go out cat’tin, drinkin’, running amok before a game and beat the hell out each other in practice. These Wild Men took no prisoners and laughed and puked on their opponents. Now they are perennial doormats, and dare I say “pansies”?! They went full Vegas, all show, no game. Where do you stand on the current state of da raydas?
I don't care about them, they're useless, don't get me started, William, but they'll always be Oakland Raiders, always as there's only San Diego Chargers.
Another piece of local tv trivia from my youth in the 60's. Westinghouse was so cheap that they only bought 2 color Norelco cameras for kPix. Their directors had to do news and audience talk shows with a lot of panning and zooming. One night i watched Eyewitness News with John Weston (a pseudonym for Frank Bisset) when one camera broke down and it was torture to watch. PCM former tv critic
Good question, Bruce and I'll try to be to the point because get that question a lot, not just here but other places.
If the questions are interesting and real and are media-centric, then of course, I'll publish them even if I disagree or the questioner disagrees with me.
If there's a question that is obviously from a troll or is abusive and threatening, no I'll delete them.
My feeling, and this isn't outrageous, if you throw stones you should have the guts to identify yourself, like I do everyday when I'm critical and I quite obviously am. But I don't hide behind the keyboard and rip anonymously, like some others do.
There are questions that I get that get repetitive and go gung-ho political and often end up drawing political trolls and I'm not into that type of discourse so they too don't get published.
It's your site and it's your right to establish whatever tone you see fit and curate the comments that aligns with the subject matter you write about. If someone wants to espouse political beliefs or threats or trolling behavior there are an infinite number of sites designed for those very things. And you make a good point about you putting your name behind everything you publish, while the majority of us choose to be anonymous. It's easy to be a keyboard warrior, talk shit and take cheap shots at strangers when you think there are no repercussions. Your blog would go off the rails really fast if it became a free for all. Thanks again
Another blog I follow (about computer stuff) does the same and the author has mentioned many comments awaiting moderation are spambots trying to post links for Viagra and stuff.
Thanks for taking questions Rich, Jerry in Stinson Many years ago I asked Thom O’Hair of KSAN fame about radio’s future. He told me “Radio is dead, TV is where it’s happening.” I believe he was right, but I think TV is dead now, too. What’s in our future Rich? I just do not see AI as being embraced, or am i just being too old school. What’s Next?
I don't know if radio is dead but it clearly has become outdated--it needs a cultural cleansing and tweaking. If there's good content, be it talk, music, entertaining in whatever form, then people of all ages and background will listen.
Evidently you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Julie Haener has officially resumed her erratic and selfish schedule thing. She’s missed the work the past three days, just in time for the holidays when her co-workers with young children would probably rather be at home with their kids than at work filling in for Haener as she flaunts her wealth on social media.
Hi Rich, Lisa in Mill Valley. Where is Justin Andrews of KPIX? Did he quit or vacation? When will they change morning lineup of KPIX? I like Justin, not perfect but can watch him.
Here's a general question. Why isn't there much news or talk radio on FM in the San Jose area and also in Reno NV area (if that's even true). I'm aware of the 106.9FM & 740AM simulcast (with some delay by the time FM airs after AM. I actually never listen to 88.5FM and don't know what's airing on KQED-FM. Anyone else, please comment if RL is ok with that.
Another bothersome thought. I did get a glimpse of Sara Donchey (KPIX) finally. Both times, she was wearing pants I personally didn't like. I can now also say, as others have commented, I don't like her clothing tastes. One pair was black with white accents, perhaps stitching, to mimic Levi-jeans; the other pair were a tan-colored large plaid material. The more bothering thought is the KPIX webpage said she works 3pm and 5pm, but both times she was only on a 11pm (I don't remember which days, now). Then she wasn't on at 11pm after those 2 days I happened to finally see her. WTH! Is she another anchor with a Julie Haener (KTVU) schedule of work just..."whenever"? Otherwise, she generally looks and speaks well. I noticed KPIX has much of the news personalities standing vs merely sitting behind a table/desk.
Unrelated, but another generality is: I'm glad the am/daytime news business income must be good/ok, as when I try to tune in, every channel is playing an advertisement/commercial, seemingly for several minutes. I wonder what is the ratio of commercials to the actual news broadcast (is it 50/50)?
Those commercials are largely small local business and the rates for 30 seconds are a fraction of what they were pre-internet. Don't confuse quantity with quality.
Sara's usual spot is 11 pm. For a while they were moving her around—"breaking her in" I think. They had Reed Cowan doing the 11 for a bit. Now the Donkey is there permanently.
Those "Levis" pants were leather jeans with some white stitching. Hideous. I think they made her look like a goucho. And I speak as someone who loves a woman in leather pants!
Hey Rich- just wanted to commend you for calling out all of the frauds and posers in our local media. Relating to that; how do people such as Amber Eikel of KTVU, Jennifer Seelig of KCBS and Lee Hammer of the local Cumulus cluster, ( they’re all clearly unqualified and incompetent,) manage to get their jobs and then keep them for this Long?
Cumulus ain’t going nowhere. They destroyed KGO Radio, firing all of the on-air staff over a period of several years, replacing the local programming with a sleazy series of sports betting shows, which is not surprising. Rich, you should do an in depth story on how companies such as Cumulus have ruined a once-respectable radio business. If people knew all of the BS that went on behind the scenes, they’d probably be shocked. I know first hand because I worked at KGO for more than a few years. All of my co workers were taken into s room, given a cardboard box and then told by a Cumulus Henchman that they had 5 minutes to pack up their belongings. They were then frog marched out of the KGO building by a couple of underpaid security guards and thrown out onto the street like yesterday’s garbage.
Frances Dinglasen, she is on 7 now? She was on KPIX or was it nbc? I remember she was off air more than on. She wasnt good back then. Why is she on tv now?
Hi Rich! Isn't it about time that you mention in your column that the unlistenable Ray Ratto simply cannot utter a single sentence without inserting five brain dead "you knows" into it? And right behind the "you know" is an "I mean." TERRIBLE!
Hi Rich, Did you ever inquire to KPIX regarding their AM/Noon weather anchor posting that closed 2 months ago? That one is a senior one and wondering if anyone new will be joining the KPIX Morning & Noon news team next year?
ReplyDeleteAlso what is the update on Yamamoto’s wife? She is yet to be on KPIX
KR
Hayward, CA
Nobody watches the noon news except me, KR and I doubt someone decent, even a weather anchor is placed there, at least someone other than a routinebody.
DeleteYama's wife is at another station, I forgot, but that might tell you more about her "talent."
Ryan Yamamoto's spouse is Suzanne Phan a reporter now at KGO TV
DeleteGood to know she is on KGO but don’t know what times just yet. Wonder if she is better than Yamamoto.
DeleteIn terms of the weather anchor part, we just don’t know why the posting was there in the first place, and I was wondering what the reason could be since we have Burch, Peck, Heggen (and rarely Hackney & Lee). Is it that they want to add one more meteorologist and stave Peck off the backup weekday morning duties and leave him on the weekends & fill in during weekday evenings?
As I said he seems to be more comfortable during weekends & weekday evenings and not so on the mornings.
Scott from Concord---Any thoughts as to KTVU possibly revamping its newscasts in response to falling ratings? I think installing a good anchor team instead of the "merry go round" anchorship would help. Put Andre Senior as a main cog with ???
ReplyDeleteOn a positive note, I do like Henry Lee's work as investigative reporter.
Scott, the problem is at KTVU, there's nothing to "revamp" when you have mediocre talent. Save for Alex Savidge and Cristina Rendon, most of the talent is simply not there.
DeleteSenior is just OK, not good enough to build around, hence his move back to morning, where he's average and less noticed.
Yeah, Henry Lee is good.
Andre is so stiff it hurts. Does the man ever loosen up?
DeleteRomper Room did not start at KTVU. I was on it when it ran on Channel 7 before channel 2 picked it up. The format was syndicated by Claster, with individual Miss Nancies in every market. PCM. Former TV critic
ReplyDeleteThanks for clarifying --I can sleep now, TV critic.
DeleteI thought Romper Room started with Reggie and Natasha on ABC7 mornings
DeleteI used to bang one of the Miss Nancies back in the day. She even brought the puppet.
Delete@ 2:14: No you didn't, and that wasn't a puppet.
DeleteAnonymous 2:09 - Comment of the Day!
DeleteDo you have any sense of nostalgia, with regard to the soon-to-be demolished Coliseum in Oakland? All those great Raider and A's memories, legendary games and teams, "Days on the Green" and other concerts, "The House of Thrills" (as Curt Gowdy used to call it). A once great venue, now neglected, that is going out quietly and seemingly unceremoniously.
ReplyDeletegreat teams played at the Coliseum for sure, but it was even in the beginning a dump. i'll channel some Rich here, "it had the appeal of a trashy hooker outside a 7-11 in Hayward"
DeleteOf course I do because I was in that very stadium for lots of Raiders and A's games --I'll never forget but the A's will be there at least another year and I'm betting if they don't get the Jack London/Howard Terminal stadium, they'll rebuild at the Coliseum site and play ball, so to speak.
DeleteWhy?
Because MLB doesn't want to abandon the #6 Bay Area/Oakland TV market. Just my hunch.
If they build downtown it's going to be a traffic nightmare every time there's a game. The freeway ramps, side roads, and 880 are better suited to this where it is. I think the do-gooders want the land for low-income housing. Oakland finally ran AB&I Foundry out of town, watch them glom onto that property and other properties along San Leandro Street by the Coliseum and around the Coliseum.
DeleteI hope your hunch is correct! Thanks for the reply.
DeleteGood morning Rich. This is probably more of a rhetorical question but why does ktvu continue to botch the most basic of things? Recent examples include referring to the "Oakland" Raiders multiple times, referring to RSV as "RVS," calling soccer matches "games" and a draw a "tie," linking their on-screen One Warm Coat drive QR code to a broken link for over a week, and referring to NY Yankee Aaron Judge as "Judge Aaron."
ReplyDeleteHow can so many people be incompetent? I don't get it.
Because incompetence and ineptness is what you get when you're on borrowed time.
DeleteKTVU has lost all form of credibility and vigor in the Bay Area. For years now.
"Game" and "tie" are generic terms and can be applied to any sport, and so are "match" and "draw" for that matter. Also, soccer is boring AF so no one cares either way.
DeleteThanks for the response, Rich.
DeleteIt'd be one thing if it were one sloppy employee, but to have so many incompetents working on different shows and different shifts is mind boggling. But I guess you're right, now it's just part of the culture there and no one has any pride in the product .
Can you imagine if World News Tonight or the Nightly News with Lester Holt operated like this night after night and they were totally fine with it? Typos...mixed-up information...botched names...referring to defunct sports teams...anchors unable to pronounce the names of famous athletes and political figures. Of course you can't.
Love your blog. Happy Holidays.
Right 1:12pm, I'm sure you're right, not a single person on this planet cares about soccer. Thanks for this earth-shattering insight.
DeleteThis probably explains how We Tu Lo/Ho Lee Fook got on the air.
DeleteThere are plenty of people that care about soccer, but not in the US. I'm from Denmark and many, Danes as well as British,. Germans and other countries care a great deal about soccer. Soccer is also big in Latin American countries.
DeleteRich, you've been predicting 95.7's demise for the last decade. Is it ever going to happen and how have you been so wrong about it so far?
ReplyDeleteJT
RWC
You seem to think I'm "wrong" but intern you are, you fail to recognize that they've been marginalized for years and are only clinging to life on a shoestring budget and limited returns.
DeleteSo, yeah, in truth, I've been wrong, but in practicality, I'm spot on, now back to your ordering coffee for the boss, "JT."
Rich, If KCBS is considering having some “talk” programs in the evenings - as you’ve hinted - what about a call-in radio doctor in the spirit of Dr Dean Edell? Somebody who could talk about the whole gamut of people’s health concerns - not just Covid! I’ll bet Im far from the only listener who misses Dr Dean - especially his willingness to question mainstream medical and pharma communities when appropriate.
ReplyDeleteI didn't "hint", I said it was a formality and that it would debut probably at the beginning of the new year...
ReplyDeleteAs for a "Dr. Dean" kind of med show, that's not in the KCBS/Audacy model, their new nighttime talk format will be more of a public affairs type showesque--less opinionated and more informational, just a guess on my part. And it won't just be KCBS, but all Audacy stations.
Joe from Hayward...lol, why all the Hayward slams? assume donations don't keep coming and you have to shutter the blog, what is Plan B? KSCO an option, a union scale sports reporter on radio, etc.?
ReplyDeleteHe will never shutter the blog. It keeps him relevant. I just watched a Tom Hanks movie last week for the first time, "Larry Crowne". Julia Roberts husband in the movie was a blogger just like Rich. Watch the movie, I bet the depiction is spot on.
DeleteYou're a regular Roger Ebert.
DeleteFYI: KSCO owner Michael Zwerling built an illegal cement patio without permits and is now retiring and trying to sell. If the station and patio are not sold by 12-31-22 everyone will be fired and the station will air pre-recorded garbage.
DeleteHi rich, In other markets do they have the interesting personality types on monring news that we do? Lets face it we have quite the collection of the Strange and Crazy in the morning and they never seem to leave.
ReplyDeleteDarya, Laura Garcia, the GAAS, Aqui. why do I get the bad feeling we are stuck with them for another decade?
Well, they're not very interesting they're just benign and boring and consequently abysmal and profoundly lousy. I'd bet they'll be gone far sooner than a decade.
DeleteDarya is the cockroach of Bay Area TV. I thought she wouldn't last when I first say her on KRON but she has endured. I ain't watched her lately but if she's been artificially enhanced they likely won't shrink. Since many people lose some weight and stature with age her "best" features may only get accentuated. Lord help us.
DeleteThey are 100% artificially enhanced. But nowhere near as bad as the girl on KNTV, Asistio.
DeleteJoe, I love Hayward --my favorite Caspars (non-Oakland K Kaspers) hot dog place is there and I love the Safeway near Foothill. No slam on Hayward just a sort of homage.
ReplyDeleteI'm not gonna shutter the blog; Plan B would to go to some sort of pay wall but limited ...as for KSCO, nope, they're being sold.
so who is buying KSCO? John Rothmann?
DeleteI doubt it ..but maybe Harold Stassen's grandkids?
DeleteJohn is very busy maintaining the Raymond Burr memorial bathroom as well at Calmart..a real labor of love
DeleteAny thoughts on former NBC Bay Area anchor T.J. Holmes alleged affair with his GMA co-anchor Amy Robach which is currently blowing up on social media?? He's making his ol' buddy Raj Mathai proud I would assume. (Hi, Janelle...lol) I say GMA 3 should milk it for all it's worth. Better than any soap opera they've ever had on that network. But of course, HR might not feel the same way. lol
ReplyDeleteYeah, TJ has great taste.
DeleteLove Amy Robach.
TJ had such a low sounding voice, but when he went national, his voice changed!!
DeleteHey Rich,
ReplyDeleteI woke up feeling all green and happy today...in a Greta sort of way...
I was wondering how much does it cost per day in electricity, to run one of those 50,000 watt AM radio station transmitters like KCBS and KGO radio have?
How many solar panels would it take to power that baby if I wanted to show off, and be green?
I have no idea but it's probably very expensive, solar panels and all.
ReplyDeleteTK from MV
ReplyDeleteIs ABC7 going to get another meteorologist to replace Mike Nicco?
They'll fill Nicco spot with another body from the weather dept no big loss though on Nicco leaving.
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ReplyDeleteHi Rich ! Elmo in San Ho here.
ReplyDeleteKNBR’s ratings keep going down down down, for good reason - that’s some abysmal radio. Will there ever be a “changing of the guards” or will they keep the same tired dreck going indefinitely? Their reliance on dumb opinions - “which is better X or Y?” - is simply silly and sad.
Is there a game plan to blow up the Castle (KNBR) filled with morons? Murph is to UCLA what Walker is to Georgia - a sad embarrassment.
You get what you pay fort--they already blew up "TKB" and they'll blow up one of the rudderless ships any day now.
DeleteYes, the morning Smuph and Smack is a joke and changes are coming,
Have you noticed that Tom and Brian Copeland's son have started taking phonecalls again? It's blatantly obvious why.
DeleteCan't wait for Greg Papa to have to finally take phonecalls and be put in his place.
I gave up on Knibber and only have them on as background noise, to be honest.
DeleteHey Rich, thanks for taking questions. The time switch from daylight to standard took place many weeks ago, but some Bay Area over-the-air broadcast stations continue to provide the time as daylight. Accessed by pressing the "info" button on remote. Maybe this is just a quibble, but makes a person wonder if a station doesn't report the time correctly, do they report their news correctly?
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I don't think this matter is even in their semi-semi-radar; you have a legitimate beef but in their world, they just have bigger fish to fry.
Delete@1:27, go into your TV's settings, find Time or Clock, and turn off DST. Turn it back on after 3/11 next year. The TV transmitters all have their clocks adjusted by now.
Deletere: 6:21, time information for digital over-the-air broadcasts is provided each station, via broadcasted air waves, not from the tv. Some stations are providing the correct standard time, others still provided daylight time. Besides time & date, there is also programming information, current program, next program, etc. This feature is used frequently by over-the-air viewers. If you obtain your tv programming by cable or satellite, this is probably not a feature you are able to access.
DeleteWhy are you such a putz?
ReplyDeleteJonas in Jerusalem
The better question, Jonas, if I'm a putz, why are you here in the first place? But whatever.
DeleteHello Mr Lieberman
ReplyDeleteWilliam in Richmond
This is an observation with a question. The Oakland Raiders ( DAVIS Family) pooped on their loyal fans twice. I cannot forgive them. Oakland Fans put the FUN in dysfunctional ! Now they are the Vegas Traitors, and a shell of their former selves. They used to go out cat’tin, drinkin’, running amok before a game and beat the hell out each other in practice. These Wild Men took no prisoners and laughed and puked on their opponents. Now they are perennial doormats, and dare I say “pansies”?! They went full Vegas, all show, no game.
Where do you stand on the current state of da raydas?
I don't care about them, they're useless, don't get me started, William, but they'll always be Oakland Raiders, always as there's only San Diego Chargers.
DeleteI wish I could win the lotto and buy that station.
ReplyDeleteAnother piece of local tv trivia from my youth in the 60's. Westinghouse was so cheap that they only bought 2 color Norelco cameras for kPix. Their directors had to do news and audience talk shows with a lot of panning and zooming. One night i watched Eyewitness News with John Weston (a pseudonym for Frank Bisset) when one camera broke down and it was torture to watch. PCM former tv critic
ReplyDeleteThat’s why they had 2 pc70’s and one pc90 latter on.
DeleteHow do you determine which comments to publish and which ones get declined? Examples would be helpful.
ReplyDeleteBruce
Alameda
Good question, Bruce and I'll try to be to the point because get that question a lot, not just here but other places.
ReplyDeleteIf the questions are interesting and real and are media-centric, then of course, I'll publish them even if I disagree or the questioner disagrees with me.
If there's a question that is obviously from a troll or is abusive and threatening, no I'll delete them.
My feeling, and this isn't outrageous, if you throw stones you should have the guts to identify yourself, like I do everyday when I'm critical and I quite obviously am. But I don't hide behind the keyboard and rip anonymously, like some others do.
There are questions that I get that get repetitive and go gung-ho political and often end up drawing political trolls and I'm not into that type of discourse so they too don't get published.
Appreciate the response.
DeleteIt's your site and it's your right to establish whatever tone you see fit and curate the comments that aligns with the subject matter you write about. If someone wants to espouse political beliefs or threats or trolling behavior there are an infinite number of sites designed for those very things.
And you make a good point about you putting your name behind everything you publish, while the majority of us choose to be anonymous. It's easy to be a keyboard warrior, talk shit and take cheap shots at strangers when you think there are no repercussions.
Your blog would go off the rails really fast if it became a free for all.
Thanks again
Another blog I follow (about computer stuff) does the same and the author has mentioned many comments awaiting moderation are spambots trying to post links for Viagra and stuff.
DeleteThanks for taking questions Rich,
ReplyDeleteJerry in Stinson
Many years ago I asked Thom O’Hair of KSAN fame about radio’s future. He told me “Radio is dead, TV is where it’s happening.” I believe he was right, but I think TV is dead now, too. What’s in our future Rich? I just do not see AI as being embraced, or am i just being too old school. What’s Next?
I don't know if radio is dead but it clearly has become outdated--it needs a cultural cleansing and tweaking. If there's good content, be it talk, music, entertaining in whatever form, then people of all ages and background will listen.
DeleteSo, Rich. Your page the last few days was very interesting, don’t you think? Did you realize what we were seeing?
ReplyDeleteNo, tell me and I'll probably regret asking you.
DeleteNot a question but an observation.
ReplyDeleteEvidently you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Julie Haener has officially resumed her erratic and selfish schedule thing. She’s missed the work the past three days, just in time for the holidays when her co-workers with young children would probably rather be at home with their kids than at work filling in for Haener as she flaunts her wealth on social media.
Hi Rich, Lisa in Mill Valley. Where is Justin Andrews of KPIX? Did he quit or vacation? When will they change morning lineup of KPIX? I like Justin, not perfect but can watch him.
ReplyDeleteNo clue, Lisa, on Justin Andrews.
DeleteHe’s on vacation back to his hometown in St. Louis. Most of the anchors will take the week off and return the following week.
DeleteHere's a general question. Why isn't there much news or talk radio on FM in the San Jose area and also in Reno NV area (if that's even true). I'm aware of the 106.9FM & 740AM simulcast (with some delay by the time FM airs after AM. I actually never listen to 88.5FM and don't know what's airing on KQED-FM. Anyone else, please comment if RL is ok with that.
ReplyDeleteAnother bothersome thought. I did get a glimpse of Sara Donchey (KPIX) finally. Both times, she was wearing pants I personally didn't like. I can now also say, as others have commented, I don't like her clothing tastes. One pair was black with white accents, perhaps stitching, to mimic Levi-jeans; the other pair were a tan-colored large plaid material. The more bothering thought is the KPIX webpage said she works 3pm and 5pm, but both times she was only on a 11pm (I don't remember which days, now). Then she wasn't on at 11pm after those 2 days I happened to finally see her. WTH! Is she another anchor with a Julie Haener (KTVU) schedule of work just..."whenever"? Otherwise, she generally looks and speaks well. I noticed KPIX has much of the news personalities standing vs merely sitting behind a table/desk.
ReplyDeleteUnrelated, but another generality is: I'm glad the am/daytime news business income must be good/ok, as when I try to tune in, every channel is playing an advertisement/commercial, seemingly for several minutes. I wonder what is the ratio of commercials to the actual news broadcast (is it 50/50)?
Those commercials are largely small local business and the rates for 30 seconds are a fraction of what they were pre-internet. Don't confuse quantity with quality.
DeleteSara's usual spot is 11 pm. For a while they were moving her around—"breaking her in" I think. They had Reed Cowan doing the 11 for a bit. Now the Donkey is there permanently.
Those "Levis" pants were leather jeans with some white stitching. Hideous. I think they made her look like a goucho. And I speak as someone who loves a woman in leather pants!
—Leather Pants Lover in Piedmont
As a real gaucho, I resent the misspelling of same, above.
DeleteHi Rich. What do you think comes first? A new talk radio format in Bay Area or Cumulus selling KGO AM? Thanks...
ReplyDeleteNeither.
DeleteHey Rich- just wanted to commend you for calling out all of the frauds and posers in our local media. Relating to that; how do people such as Amber Eikel of KTVU, Jennifer Seelig of KCBS and Lee Hammer of the local Cumulus cluster, ( they’re all clearly unqualified and incompetent,) manage to get their jobs and then keep them for this Long?
ReplyDeleteCumulus ain’t going nowhere. They destroyed KGO Radio, firing all of the on-air staff over a period of several years, replacing the local programming with a sleazy series of sports betting shows, which is not surprising. Rich, you should do an in depth story on how companies such as Cumulus have ruined a once-respectable radio business. If people knew all of the BS that went on behind the scenes, they’d probably be shocked. I know first hand because I worked at KGO for more than a few years. All of my co workers were taken into s room, given a cardboard box and then told by a Cumulus Henchman that they had 5 minutes to pack up their belongings. They were then frog marched out of the KGO building by a couple of underpaid security guards and thrown out onto the street like yesterday’s garbage.
ReplyDeleteFrances Dinglasen, she is on 7 now? She was on KPIX or was it nbc? I remember she was off air more than on. She wasnt good back then. Why is she on tv now?
ReplyDeleteEmma Redwood City
Hi Rich! Isn't it about time that you mention in your column that the unlistenable Ray Ratto simply cannot utter a single sentence without inserting five brain dead "you knows" into it? And right behind the "you know" is an "I mean." TERRIBLE!
ReplyDeleteDave in San Mateo