*Did you see that 800-word free ad for "The Game" in the Pink section of the Sunday Chron? Let me get this straight: a soft, fluffy press-releasey story on an entity that no one listens to. On top of that, the subject matter was unintentionally funny.
*Speaking of which, can we all just agree that both Knibber and the FM sports station pretty much cancel each other out. Without the Giants or 49ers, KNBR is a pile of mush. And without the A's, The Game is...well, fill in the blank.
*Remember the time when Ben Fong-Torres was that great writer from Rolling Stone? Now Ben has resorted to writing coffee-table pieces, a sort of radio Readers-Digest. I still like BFT, but Jan Wenner would be disappointed.
*On the other hand, Mick LaSalle can still pen a perfect thousand words on movies.
*Some civility at KRON: The Weekend Morning News with Duron and Gonzales. Too bad they don't work Monday thru Friday.
*Maybe it's a jinx: The morning news at KPIX. Which finds itself in the same predicament of the CBS Morning Show, albeit with slightly more viewers.
*It's a lovely feeling to know that Steven Moskowitz and Pat Vatucci control about 98% of the ads on local radio. Between those guys and the mattress company...
*Ronnnnn Owens on the clock: 255 days and counting.
*If Radnich wants to get personal, I will also. Sort of.
*The people in the know who know about the people in the know insist that the housecleaning at Cumulus' SF outposts will now concentrate its strike force over to the FM properties.
*There's some fairly intense grumbling over at KGO-TV over the new female news director. I don't know the full extent of it, but some of the natives are getting restless.
*For all its new found financial resources, and it has plenty, you would think KQED-TV would be able to produce a thirty-minute nightly news show, but it doesn't. I think that's strange, don't you?
*That was a nice piece in last Sunday's NY Times written by the daughter of Giants' PBP-man, Jon Miller.
*The mark of a true professional: when a columnist who also writes a great blog plugs our little site here in spite of the fact that we have occasionally ripped, (respectfully) his subject matter: yes, thanks Lowell Cohn of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat.
*Henry Wofford, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area: OK, you're growing on me.
*That Ameci's dough might have been very UN-NY style pizza, but it brought a lot of green cheese into the Knibber cluster.
*Sure, Ralph Barbieri was a pain in the ass, but those who tend to thrive in the radio biz tend to be pains in the ass. I bring to you: Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Jim Rome and so on.
*That new "more hipper" Kars-for-Kids jingle is almost as bad as the old one, but when you consider the amount of money the KFK folks spend for that crappy ad, well, you'd be fairly surprised.
*Radio drag: CW Nevius' voice and Rene Richardson's. Separated at birth dept.
*"Hi, I'm Ray Ratto and I'm going to be sarcastic for 90 seconds." ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Real original, KGOne and Knibber.
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