Where's Ray Taliaferro? Former KGO Talk Host Has Been Silent For Months

 WHERE'S RAY TALIAFERRO?

Friends of the former long-time KGO Radio talk-show host are concerned about the whereabouts of Mr. T. He hasn't responded to e-mails and has been silent for several months.

A friend close to Taliaferro told me it's unlike him to not let associates know he's all right.

His Facebook page is filled with friend request and "thanks" but no word from Ray.

His 77th birthday was Feb. 7th.

We will update when and if we get news.

Here's hoping Brother Ray is OK.

The Stench of Low Morale at KGO (ABC7); Inner Turmoil at 900 Front

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 WIDESPREAD DISDAIN AND ANGER IN KGO (ABC7) NEWSROOM; SENIOR STAFF IN 'MAJOR' FUNK; LOSS OF FAITH IN UPPER MANAGEMNT ...GM BURTON AND NEWS DIRECTOR, WATKOWSKI SOURCE OF FRUSTRATION AND 'INNER TURMOIL'

*An increasingly frustration with upper management exists at KGO-TV.

*Source:

How the two of them (Burton and Tracey) get away with bad management is by having a weak staff... The main concern is with having so few full-time employees. The part timers don't want to make waves... They just follow orders and suck up to Tracey so they continue to get work.

 

Source:

 

There are no leaders in the newsroom to serve as a counter point-like in the old days Pete Wilson really spoke on behalf of reporters, writers and producers.

 

It's a very unhappy newsroom-stressed by both changes in the industry and management that thinks the answer is youngsters with social media chops.

 

*Developing...

 

'Get Your Bentley Ass Away From Me'

 "Get your Bentley ass away from me!"

The New KGO-TV Morning Show Ratings are Down from a Year Ago; Plus Trixie Dumps Managing Editor Who Becomes Web Mgr; He's Pissed

 HEY KGO-TV (ABC7); The new morning show numbers from Sweeps February are in and the morning program was DOWN from the previous year. Yeah, the new program is a total disaster. The dancer who likes to shake  her arms pretending to be a news anchor is a fool and her superficial shill, Mr. Hot, looks more like a clerk at a Yuba City Men's Warehouse.

And hey, Mike Nicco? Still resting on your lady's man look? I'd be more concentrating on pronouncing ME-TE-OR-ROLOGIST! Man, Nicco, nobody will take you seriously until you get it right. And quit the secret tryouts for "Good Morning America"; they're already stuffed full of guys from Toledo

*Meanwhile, word in the newsroom at 900 Front is another major personnel move advanced by Trixie. The Managing Editor, a respected news veteran was just stripped of his gig to become the Web Manager. He's pissed and a future encounter with Nurse Wretched Trixie is beckoning..

The Oakland Tribune Is No More And That Really Sucks Because Oakland Is On The Rise

 THIS IS A DAY WE ALL KNEW WHAT WAS COMING...

Yeah, newspapers are dying left and right, still, the fate of the Oakland Tribune is sad news.

Especially when you consider Oakland is on an economic bonanza with a vibrant new downtown and eclectic restaurant scene; in fact, the hottest restaurant destination in the Bay Area.

The Trib had a lengthy list of great writers and columnists; back in the day, Ralph Wiley, Ron Bergman, and Bill Fiset graced its masthead --it was a dynamic newspaper with terrific features and offbeat columns --it was the birth place of "East Bay Today", which morphed nationally into the national daily, "USA Today."

"Eastbay Times" is no substitute for Oakland Tribune; the Bay Area News Group is but a sad sack. Don't they realize Oakland's rebirth? They have no business acumen; then again, the newspaper business is falling apart left and right.

So it goes.

A Super Tuesday Salute to KRON's Brittney Shipp

 I'M NOT A MISOGYNIST ...not even close. I just appreciate and honor certain women; most notably women of color who happen to work in media; be it radio/TV/advertising/Internet, who are good at what they do and happen to be beautiful like the woman pictured, Brittney Shipp-- from KRON.

It's one thing to acknowledge and appreciate women in media and write about their work, their delivery, their demeanor.

It's another to make fun of them, to belittle them, to lampoon them. I have done the latter and have some favorite targets as some of you know, but that's a short list And by and large, the recipients have made it easy for me to highlight.

Today, on Super Tuesday, I honor and congratulate the very capable and honorable weatherwoman extraordinaire, Ms. Shipp. She's become my very favorite low-pressure system.

She is a true professional.

The Utter Hypocritical Comcast Sports Net 'Sports-Talk Live'; Pairs Know-Nothing Kate Scott with Misogynist John Lund; Get Out the Kozimor Wonder Bread

 YOU WANT IRONY? Super Duper Irony? Take Monday Night's CSNBA's ..."Sports Talk Live", hosted by the supremely soft, warm and fuzzy lightweight champion of the world, Jim Kozimor.

Kozimor was joined by that all-knowing sports-update diva expert, Kate Scott, who allegedly knows, uh, in this case, basketball, the NBA. Joining Scott, who is openly gay, was panelist, John Lund, the loudmouth 95.7 FM midday co-host. Lund is a nobody who frequently makes dick jokes, and makes fun of women also pokes fun of lesbians. How original. I have turned off The Game because Lund is not only not funny, but a juvenile delinquent who is a certified mental case. A true misogynist ---which begs the question? What in the hell was Comcast thinking when they invited on Scott to share the panel with Lund? It's particularly galling and hypocritical because CSNBA doesn't like to rock the boat. They are the holy grail of keeping it plain and vanilla so as not to upset the viewing public, and more importantly, their client base like the Warriors, Giants, 49ers, Raiders and to a lesser extent, the A's and Sharks. Those latter are Comcast's bread and butter; anything even remotely jeopardizing the beauty shop is anathema to treason. More on that later.

So Scott labored on about something; I think it was the Warriors, I forget, but as usual, it was all nothing, NADA. Which is why the local outlets have Scott on so they can cater to the LGB crowd, which would be perfectly fine and legit in PC-laded SF. Only, Scott, doesn't know jack about sports. She's the TOKEN's token; a blond woman who has a cutesy voice and disposition so people like Brian Murphy and Jim Kozimor can defer; and make for brownie points that CSNBA honcho, Ted Griggs can pass off to headquarters in Philadelphia: "See, Comcast is DIVERSE!" More to the point, the young horny lads in the Bay Area watching an obscure, cable sports-talk show can have a lallapolooza --a collective jack-off, if you will. And that's all it really is; if Scott looked like Rosie O' Donnell she wouldn't be on. Say all you want about Erin Andrews (well, maybe not this); she's hot, but she knows her sports; so too other female sports pundits like Rachel Nichols. Scott doesn't know shit, a certified dim-witted numskull with the IQ of a hyena but treated as if she was the second coming of Christime Brennan.

To pair a rank amateur like Lund with painfully dull Scott is like buying Kobe beef and placing it on a bed of spam and mayonnaise --Kozimor is wonder bread; what a fantastic Fresno supper. Care for some after-dinner mints?