KGO needs to inject some good fundamental zip into its programming. The sameness is jarring and quite frankly, boring. There's a certain rigidity to what they put out and it hasn't been working for well over two years.
**Barbara Simpson, the ex-KTVU anchor turned ultra-conservative weekend talkie on KSFO has been substituting for morning vacationer, Brian Sussman.
I tried to listen to Simpson, whose grating monotone voice was like listening to a DMV clerk in Fresno tell me that I needed to fill out certain paperwork.
Not that I really wanted nor cared what Simpson says because ever since leaving TV, Simpson has gone off the political deep end, and I'm not the only one who feels that way.
**TV assignment editors, listen up. Must the same old, trite typical day-of-the-mill "interview", people -on-the-street in the Castro sound actuality re: Prop 8 be aired daily? Its not as if we already know that most gay people, one would assume, would be anti-Prop 8, sort of a given.
Maybe, and shocking enough, a visit through some of the other hoods to get a more varied opinion, or would that require thinking and, oh, I don't know, a bit of topical edge?
The viewers might enjoy some depth now and then.
**I'm really liking FP Santangelo more and more every day, particularly on KNBR, where he seems less loose and gives out some very insightful opinion nightly; I also like him on Com cast SportsNet, but he needs to relax and 86 the robot look. I wish he'd just think he's on radio and come out and say what's really on his mind.
A good take, by the way, which Santangelo thought was absurd: the idea that, perhaps, Tim Lincecum's dad, should be summoned to help out his kid.
Sounds like something originating from the Giants booster club.
Santangelo is too intense. He's had real problems with Radnich-no matter how much they pretend to admire each other,and He's also had real problems with Urban's sometimes attempted enlightened look at sports. FP is old school,the boot straps are the answer kind of guy. Why he took steroids when his own bootstraps weren't enough I doubt he ponders.
ReplyDeleteHe's searching for the middle ground-he just has a face that looks angry if he's not smiling-blame his parents DNA- and so the smile mask gets creepy when he leaves it on segment after segment on Comcast.
But,sometimes he suprises a critic like me with honesty. Even admitting he didnt read what Urban wrote as he ripped it..or did Urban point that out?..lol...
Overall-he's not as bad as I thought he was going to be. For a KNBR type, that's high praise.
What I remember of Barbara Simpson of ch2 in the late 80's - early 90's,was she had the best legs around. And she knew it...
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