Sarah And Vinnie: Family Feud

 Looks can be deceiving at the Sarah and Vinnie Show

*Internal bickering from staff over duo's nitpicking --don't bother letting them know, even diplomatically, that the show needs an upgrade.

*Vinnie continues to fail to understand that she's the one who's the straw that stirs the drink.

*Sarah: well-paid priestess struts ego around the CBS-SF building --tells interns on no uncertain terms, "Careful 'bout my coffee, or else!" (She's not kidding.)

*Sarah: Just recently re-upped at Alice--laments insiders: "She left money on the table!" --no kidding. Maybe she should have called this guy.

*Management: "Shut up and go to work!"

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Sarah Tells Vinnie to Put Up or STFU; Melanie Morgan KSRO and Past KSFO BS With the Suss; Leland Yee is BIG; KTVU Walnut Creek Fetish; Friday Media Notes

 FRIDAY MEDIA NOTES BUFFET...


*Sarah and Vinnie continue to pout off the air over at Alice Radio: on a recent lunch break over at Hunan she basically told him to "put up or shut up, and STFU!" He's been bitching a lot about her larger check but what else is new? She's supposedly fed up to the point where an ultimatum has been thrown into the spectrum. We'll monitor because that's our deal here.


*Melanie Morgan has been itching to get back into the wonderful world of independent radio and the time has come. I reported, exclusively, she's going back to work Monday as the new primary anchor on Santa Rosa's KSRO and its News Director too.


Side story: Without getting too personal suffice to say, KSFO's Morning Show devoid of Morgan has been greatly diminished since Mel split because she couldn't stand Brian Sussman's ranting and raving. In addition, or more accurately, less addition, the continued embarrassment called Katie Green was the last straw. Green is beyond irritating with the grating, shrill, sandpaper voice and she sounds like a cosmetics chick at a San Leandro strip mall. Check please.


*The Leland Yee BIG story is BIG because of all the Hollywood angles and sheer characters that make up the centerpiece. Combine that with the main honcho and his other affiliates and you have a major media story without any real sexy pictures.  Fed Courthouse building will be more crowded than usual in the coming weeks and months.


NEWS, NOTES and COMMENTS: The alleged "all-sports" FM radio station that hired Damon Bruce, (he starts Monday), for its new PM drive show has been having a hard time selling commercial spots, gees I wonder why...To a certain TV News Director in town, be careful, the natives are getting restless and your constant berates have reached a boiling point--they're simply tired of your bullshit and your buddy can't bail you out anymore...The phony KSFO 9-Noon guy who mumbled his way to the gig and uses a fake Anglicized name  has already pissed of one major player in the building. He's usually good for 90 days and then it's bye bye baby...More KTVU desperation: sending two senior reporters to go out to demo-friendly Walnut Creek to "cover" manufactured stories that wouldn't rate page 3 in the CC Times: a chamber-of-commerce piece about extra cops for the kids at school and an over-hyped test-pattern involving PG&E's plan to cut down some trees. My god who was responsible for that?!!...Snippy multi-Emmy prima donna reporter guy at KGO-TV was extra surly the other day before going out in the field. He thinks he's God, really more a Grumpy's reject with an ego the size of Tahoe...Ronn: sad, dull, flat voice and gadgets...KTVU weather tease Update: 5 a night. Really insulting to your viewers and waste of time extraordinaire. Combine that with Walnut Creek BS and you have your current Lee Rosenthal/Tom Raponi massive mud pie...More KTVU: Tori Campbell's three-year extension signed before Asiana/Namegate will be bought out probably a year before 2016 so you kind of see the handwriting on the wall...Grant Lodes at KRON looks and sounds sort of non-diminutive at first but the more you watch the guy the more he looks and sounds just fine...It's one thing to milk an event that is the dominant program on your platform but KCBS/KPIX relentless pimping of the NCAA tournament went way over the top. Fine, plug your prime red meat but endless bracket chatter involving your own air talent sounds tacky and third-rate...Tom Tolbert/Ray Ratto is a decent, often funny KNBR PM drive show littered with pretty good content and interviews--on the other hand, if KNBR goes to red-bull lungs embarrassment Eric Byrnes, they will LOSE listeners galore. Byrnes is a shrill, misguided, over-excited bore who only made it past the back office because he was a jock and looked geeky. That doesn't translate well on radio; Tolbert is undermined by Byrnes hyper gibberish. Ratto is too irritated and his uber-uptightness shtick wears thin but he's 20x better than the buffoon Byrnes.


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Sarah and Vinnie on Alice; Alex Bennett; KGO-TV's Unintentional Weather Sensation; The Gary Radnich Rope-a-Dope; Wednesday Media PM Diner

 Contrary to what some of you might think, I don't have any issues with Alice Radio's "Sarah and Vinnie", it's just that if you're going to hit me, I'll hit you right back.

I don't listen to the show. I tried. It's basically a bad copy of Alex Bennett without husband and wife, although pain in ass he was and is, Bennett's show was significantly superior than these castaways.

The only reason why I mentioned them to begin with was word from a mole inside the building that Vinnie was internally pouting that he was pissed she was getting far more money. He should be so lucky. She drives the show and he's the guy in the back seat. The forced and contrived sexual innuendo bits sounds, well, forced and contrived.

*KGO-TV's back in business at its news studio at 900 Front but so far, the weather reports continue to emanate from atop the building at the Embarcadero which I like. Unintentional or not, it looks a helluva lot better with the Bay Bridge in the background and get this, actual weather you can see! If it's rainout outside, the weather guessers can actually say it's raining!

*The Gary Radnich Rope-a-Dope: When Gary does a straight interview on radio, (or even TV on KRON for that matter), nobody's better. Nobody. And sure, when it's boring and the sports minutiae is too much to take, he's better than OK doing the Don Rickles bit it's just that when there needs to be a semblance of seriousness and you get Rickles you begin to get frustrated. Like you, enough man, stick to sports and be real. I call it the Radnich rope-a-dope. It worked better for Ali.

*Every other female reporter at KTVU is new. What does that tell you? Although I like Rasmus, Moriarty, and Rendon especially.

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Deconstructing the Sarah and Vinnie Titanic on Alice Radio Because Someone Had To

 A reader tipped me off that the dynamic duo of faux shock and awe on Alice Radio's dreadful, "Sarah and Vinnie" referred to me, indirectly, (cowards), last week during their dreck toilet play that sounds like some hissy fit between a male and female yenta out of Bakersfield.


Here's the link: listen, beginning around 6: 30.


As I have mentioned here too many times, I have tried hard to listen to this his-and-her pedantic audio bludgeon but it was so bad it literally induced me to sleep to a point where a Janet Reno wet dream was more compelling. Typical shit SF FM radio minutiae personified.


Ironically, a tipster who roams the halls of the CBS TV/Radio studio outpost at 855 Battery said the gruesome twosome were feuding. The zaftig one, who looks as if she swallowed half of El Capitan steals quite a bit more cash than her doofus partner, some Neanderthal dimwit, "Vinnie", straight out of the tourist portion of a Vegas IHop. Frankly, I don't give a rat's ass about either of 'em and even if I did I'd begin puking out the pig vomit both of them and their wussy interns spew forth. Thank God for Satellite radio.


And another thing, yenta #1 and you're pimply-faced "staff", if you going to play rough footsy with me and rip, at least have the balls and vagina to come at me directly --as if "that blogger" gave you any satisfaction and that your boss had to call you into the office to see what was going on. Dummies.


I called you out and the story about your internal bitching is good. If you want to play hard ball then you might want to do a better background check on some of your past human anal warts who provided me the goods. Other than that, have a nice day and get your toilet fixed-- there's a lot of leaks in it. Not than it really matters.


Furthermore when you get a show that's a quarter listenable without the half-baked bleeps and fake and manufactured sexual dog shit, I'll try to stomach myself to give you guys a second chance. On second thought, go back to the hotel and gorge on a box of Cheetos. I have things to do. Have a nice day.


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