More Desperation at KGOne; 'Overwhelmed'

It's getting worse over at KGO. Yeah, I know you've heard this before, but now even the crap patrol is being asked to account for the crap they're placing on the weekend.

Who is running the show? None other than PD, Paul Hosely, who also has dual duties as news director. This is the guy who thinks "The Monte Show" is ground-breaking radio content.

Straight from the mouth from one of the station's ex-insider:

Hosley is making the decisions-- he's just overwhelmed. He was expected to piece together a completely shattered radio station but Cumulus had no plan other than saying that KGO wasn't successful and they needed a younger audience to make it so. Greed is a powerful motivator and combining it with stupidity and arrogance makes a mess.

And then there's the boy wonder, Assistant PD and Mattress Man's producer, Jared Hart:

 Just completely over his head. And doesn't know what the hell he's doing. Not a clue. You know the whack jobs late on the weekend? Most of those are his call.

Latest potent potables:

--The Embarcadero studios are a ghost town. All the sales dept. and management people are over at 55 Hawthorne. (No wonder Owens sounds detached and depressed).

--A few veterans in news are biting their tongue and trying to just do the job and get the hell out as soon as their shift ends.

--As cannibalism from KNBR and KFOG spreads, (Ray Ratto and the woefully out-of-place Rene Richardson), more division. You can only take so much.

**Developing...