Breaking: Melanie Woodrow OUT at KTVU

 FROM MY WORD in Jack London Square: Melanie Woodrow is OUT as KTVU Investigative Reporter. She was told late last week that Fox would carry only one I.R. and that is Eric Rasmussen.

Woodrow came to KTVU only a year ago  from CBS/LA with much fanfare and now has been shown the door by the budget-minded Foxies.

Her KTVU affiliation was removed from her Facebook page.

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Leigh Glaser Leaving KGO-TV after 23 Years; KTVU Adds LA Investigative Reporter; Newsroom Buzz; Will 95.7 FM Ever Break a 1 Rating? Wednesday Media Opener Notes



Melanie Woodrow

 News that Leigh Glaser is leaving KGO-TV after 23 years as weekend meteorologist is not at all shocking.


Glaser told the boss as much in an e-mail late last week. She wants to spend more time with her family and makes that clear in her bio:


Family is everything. My young daughter is my heart and my husband makes me laugh. I love football, am an avid runner, and love to entertain. I have a passion for gardening, country music and everything Southern.


I believe Glaser and have no reason to believe there's any other speculation. It is, however, a rather sad tale of the TV news biz how many veterans, even the good people and performers like Glaser, are leaving en masse.


Rare are the air talent that reach middle age and beyond stay on the air and continue to work in an environment that is becoming more thirty-something every day.


*KTVU has added an LA "Investigate Reporter" to its news staff, Melanie Woodrow.


Woodrow, by all accounts, is a fairly decent reporter and looks like she's easy on the eyes. I didn't say the latter--it was sort of the buzz in the Channel 2 newsroom. Is Woodrow the new Rita Williams? Guess so although I would imagine that a few other people, like say, Tom Vacar or Rob Roth might be perplexed.


Maybe they haven't read the handwriting on the wall.




NOTES: What happens first? Will "The Game" ever break a 1 rating and when does KGO Radio reach a 1?...KSFO: Very much for sale. All stations are for sale you say but Cumulus is looking to unload this increasingly useless property, probably to pay off some exec's per diem account in Atlanta...(Psst, that part was a joke but you get my drift)...Speaking of KSFO, that morning "show" has become a de-facto morning zoo but I don't think their bits are resonating with listeners. Unless you like a guy doing Hee-Haw jokes and the gravel-voiced traffic performer who thinks she's hilarious. Oy! and the endless Joe Biden cracks: nauseating...My sports-predicting days have ended after a 72-hour experiment. Damn!...April 1 is not a good day to announce TV/Radio biz transactions. I received a few e-mails last night that were interesting. One was actually true...The item about the alleged, all-sports FM station having difficulty selling spots on the new PM drive show came direct from their sales dept, no, not on  memo, dummy...Sarah and Vinnie: quite an act!--off the air...From the mouth of a person who knows: In its heyday, KTVU's "10 O'clock News" accounted for 1% of the entire gross profits of its corporate owner, Cox Media. That's a lot of moolah...KTVU slogan making the rounds: Who have we hired today?...800-Kids-for-Kars, clever but not so clever...Morning terrestrial radio: repeating stories that were already told two hours earlier as if they were fresh and spontaneous--another tale of we got nothing to say, we're not creative and having a simple conversation is way above our food chain...The new song videos posted from time to time is a occasional break from the news--some of you really like it and a few want constant media items and gossip--well as Herb Caen used to say, send me items! Rich.Lieberman@Gmail.com but damn, those George Benson and Average White Band selections were DYNOMITE !!


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