Sunday Media Sunshine; Shafer/Mitchinson KCBS Nirvana; Storm Coverage Idiocy; Contracts Mean Nothing, Damon Bruce, Unless...; KRON Clarity; Darya Folsom's Poignant Interview With 94.9 FM's "JV"; Liz Cook A Little Ticked at KPIX; The Oscars: No Star Power

I'VE GOT SUNSHINE ...on a rainy day

IF KCBS were smart, they'd pair Dan Mitchinson and Susan Kennedy on the 10-2 PM weekday time slot --but Jenny Seelig only plays favorites.

*Margie Shafer is perfectly fine --she'd be even better as the permanent evening, (7-11 PM) weeknight anchor but Seelig's shifting whack-a-mole act is cheaper and scores her points from Audacy.

*Memo to all, especially Damon Bruce: there is no such thing as a guarenteed contract. Especially in radio. When Bruce boasted about his recent contract renewal, he made it sound as if it were real and ever-lasting. NOPE. The only real contract that means anything in TV/Radio is a personal services contract. That's real. Only a few have those today. Ronn Owens years ago had one at KGO, courtesy his agent, Don Buchwald.

*KCBS was so news-savvy the other night, that during the latest storm deluge, they ran, twice!, the taped, CBS News round-up and a week-old, "60 Minutes"--remember, Seelig has NEVER worked as a reporter in the field. She's a professional bean counter. She's about as journalistically sound as a Millbrae Shell statiot.

*I didn't say KRON was suddenly CBS with Walter Cronkite. I only stated they'd improved their act and that they look a little better. It's not nirvana by any means but it's a marked improvement from a few years back when they were particularly gruesome.

*Darya Folsom can do good work when she has to...like when she interviewed MIA 94.9 FM radio's "JV"--Jeff Vandergrift--even a half-decade back, what a sad video:

*We have ZERO Investigative Reporters in this SF market dept. Of course, JV is most likely dead, but anyone dared to go out and interview the wife? The cops? Anybody? It's a joke, a sad joke that this story has been placed in the circular file even though it demands futher notice. The Bay Area is a cesspool for dead journalism.

*Liz Cook, outside PIX , isn't smiling so much these days. She is incredibly annoyed that Sara Donchey is not only getting attention for reasons that have nothing to do with news, but rather Donchey's continued wardrobe drama. Liz won't say anything, even to her closest friends, but she's ticked. The shadow knows.

*I'll watch Jimmy Kimmell's opening and that'll be my Oscars 2023 viewing. It's not that I don't want to watch the Oscars it's just that there's no real stars left and The Academy Awards has lost its luster. There is no Jack Nicholson. No Burt Reynolds. No Johnny Carson. And Marlon Brando. I miss real starrs like Cary Grant and Bill Holden and Bob Mitchum. Where's Billy Crystal? Liz Taylor and, well, you get my drift.

*Yeah, I know most of 'em are dead, like the Oscars, unfortunately.