Bay Area Snow Forecast Highly Misinformed --Check 1976 ; Starrantino Fills in For Cook at PIX --Donchey/Disco Plans; Sweeps Bad News for KTVU; Finch/Burns KCBS Early Morn Doo-Doo (Again)

YOUR LOCAL MEDIA mutts-mostly, out-of-towners and who don't know the geography are forecasting "real snow here around the peaks."

They weren't here in 1976, obviously when it snowed at sea level. Up to five inches of snow fell on Twin Peaks. Across the bay in Oakland, Lake Merritt on Lakeshore Ave was hard to navigate because of nearly three inches of snow. The Marin headlands were a winter wonderland, (see photo). The entire Bay Area --at sea level--might as well been Stateline, Nevada.

Which only makes this snow warning "at the highest peaks" even more premature and frankly, misinformed.

Hey , it could snow and I'd love to be wrong, but more likely it'll be a snow event on Mt. Diablo and Mt. Tam. That doesn' compare to 1976 when you saw it in Downtown SF and Oakland and Marin proper and San Jose. But why let facts get in the way of a good story.

*Amanda Starrantino will be filling in for Liz Cook on KPIX's weeknight news --this week. Good for her and the Instagram crowd, "woo-hoo"

*Starrantino will work with Sara Donchey, that's cool too: after 11, they can party at the disco and dance the night away.

*PIX, (CBS News Bay Area), had a better-than-expected Feb Sweeps --especially at 5 and 6 but when you're down and out the only way you go is up.

*KTVU did good in the mornings --they always do but with little competition, so what--but KTVU got KILLED at night --especially 10 and 11. The Firm ain't happy, trust me, folks.

*KRON? Flatlined. But that's OK in their world.

*Peter Finch and traffic anchor, Carolyn Burns, had a forgetable early WED. morning on KCBS--flubbed lines and wacky, weird laughter by Finch --and comical "uh's" and "that's" by Burns, who may be smoking extra packs of cigarettes.

At any other radio station it would be quite an embarrassing night but at KCBS, just another day at the office.