Showing posts with label KGO KNBR Radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KGO KNBR Radio. Show all posts

Thursday, October 20, 2011

KNBR/KGO, Your White Boy Leader

*KGO and KNBR, now under the same corporate umbrella. How poignant. And how appropriate is it that both radio stations have virtually zero minority staffers. Shall we examine?

KNBR has an exclusive all, (except for one), white male- dominated line-up:

5-9 AM: "Murph and Mac": White air-talent, white producers. One token woman traffic reporter, (who works for Metro).

9-Noon: "Gary and Larry": Two white hosts, a white producer, and said white woman.

Noon-3: "Fitz and Brooks": White male, and huzzah!, one black host, (The only one at Knibber)

3-7 PM: "Razor and Mr. T": Two white hosts and one white producer.

7-10 PM "Sportsphone 680 with Eric Byrnes": One white host with white producer.

SHAMEFUL.

KGO: One wee-hour black talk-show host and a fill-in. But lots of women. Yippee. (Not one black reporter in the newsroom.)

I'm hardly a wonk for minority hiring. I believe in the business of talent. But in a city that professes to possess diversity, this is a colossal joke.