95.7 FM nothing more than a KNBR-Lite

I can't listen to "The Game", (95.7 FM).

I've tried.

The morning show is tolerable to a point except when Opie talks. That's when I turn the station. As one industry friend told me,  "when the PD of the new station openly touts a guy who 'is adept at the use of social media'", you just want to throw up."

Yeah, a Knibber retread that can tweet and facebook, how 21st century. Maybe he can bake cookies too.
How fucking original, terrific hire.

The rest of the line-up is made up with a lot of East Coast retreads whose main ability is that they can shout and yell.

The afternoon guy is completely lost with no idea, (literally), of the market. Making matters worse, just the other day he was talking A's baseball with Eric Davis! Huh? Yeah, that Eric Davis, 49ers color analyst. Always great to have a football guy talking baseball. Awkward. And I like Eric Davis. But he should stick to the NFL.

Essentially "The Game" is a mix of out-of-town screamers. There's very little local identification. It doesn't help credibility when one learns that a prominent local sportscaster for a major station sent in a resume and was ignored. Maybe he couldn't tweet.

The weekend is a joke. Rick Tittle "bleeds green and gold and silver and black"; too bad he couldn't hold an audience other than his friends and close relatives. His monologues are like root canal.

Chris Townsend used to command the mike, but his A's talk is way too predictable, "ladies and gentleman."

John Lund sounds like Andrew Dice Clay without the hickory-dickory-docks. Some guy named Tierney has no pulse.

When the bulk of your talent is cannibalized from a local cable shop, that's not "original programming." It is merely much of the same without a shred of creative innovation. Think about this: has anyone even mentioned the new kid in town? Anybody could have programmed this canard and received better results.

There is no there there.  KNBR-lite. Come to think of it, both of 'yous kind of suck. As I said a few weeks back, when there's something of significance that transpires over there, let me know.


Right now, you haven't registered on the meter. And the early ratings only confirm as much.


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