*A CBS spy in NY tells me the "60 Minutes" people have made contact with Colin Kaepernick's people for a little chat with the Kap about a few things, something you won't see in the Chronicle.*Wayne Freedman, the star reporter over at KGO-TV used to be quite the ally of combative and non-people-friendly, News Director, Tracey Watkowski-Silva. No more. Even her most staunchest friends now can't stand her and those that do are only doing so to protect their interests. What a great morale booster at 900 Front.
*Speaking of KGO, that new set had all the buzz of a frozen waffle at IHop. I mean, it looks just fine and all, but for $4 million bucks I was hoping to see the Starship Enterprise.
*Circle7 Set Good Gossip: from someone in the building the KGO management told the weather women to "bring your best high-heels to the set." Seems the new camera/HD settings at 7 are designed to televise the women "from head to toe." Good time to be a podiatrist near Front Street.
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*Roqui Theus Update: better, now just merely half-dreadful.
*Chip Franklin: cardboard voice on the radio with intermittent silly topics ranging from "what's your favorite way to cook tofu?" to "Are you happy with your sex life?"
This all in one day while Charlotte, NC was about to burn.
Chip should stick to selling pillows and toe-fungus foam because his slop-show on KGO Radio is about as compelling as a public restroom on Turk and Eddy.
*KGO Radio: Home of the Byron Allen Show.
*Ronnnnnnnn: sad, really.
*Wonder what Duane Kuiper would sound like after a trip to Damascus.
*The KNBR "Sports Update": In reality, just another 2-minute commercial with accompanying sponsor --updates are real news and not rehashed scores from 24 hours earlier. KNBR and Cumulus has contempt for their listeners, with the commercial ambush on a daily basis. Greed, mediocrity, and audio blight, what a bargain.
*Radnich, Kuiper and Krukow: Republicans and Anti-Union. Fact.
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*Good point from a 415 Media reader: Kuiper, Kruk too, will never say anything even remotely anti-Giants because that would piss off Emperor Larry Baer who rules the day.
Baer is the biggest phony in the world, a guy who likes to appear as if he's Mr. Fuzzy but in reality is about as fun as three colonoscopies in a month.
*Kuiper, by the way, still sounded bitter on the Knibber air Thursday Morning, maybe he was sick of listening to the 40,000 commercials while waiting on hold, DUDE!
*Fire and Ice: Vida Blue and Mike Krukow.
*Here's the deal about Ronnnnnn: The Cumulus guys would dearly love for him to retire gracefully Dec. 31 (After the election) but Ronn doesn't know what to do with his life and wants to get out of the house.
Should be an interesting 90 days around Broadway and Battery.
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Mybe Its not just rings that Baer uses to promote strict loyalty,wink wink..based on rumors- wink wink.
ReplyDeleteKuiper does still sound a bit curt. Murphy asked him a question and he responded, "I'm just the broadcaster. I'm not the pitching coach or manager." Okay. . .
ReplyDeleteYou hit the nail on the head with Gonzales. She should just call herself, Miss Roberta, like the teachers from Romper Room, because that's how she delivers the weather and treats viewers. It borders on patronizing.
Rich...I hope you didn't gag this AM after viewing Radnich's Twitter photo on his Bentley...
ReplyDeleteIs that a Hyundai Genesis? They all look the same nowadays.
DeleteManufactured? Is the legendary Bentley a kit car?
Delete@12:13 haha! Spot on. In high school I knew a guy who had a kit Porsche 911 perched on top of an old VW Bug. Wouldn't that be funny if Raddy's Bentley was a kit on top of an old Chevelle!?
DeleteI bet Krukow is a Trump fan, just a hunch....
ReplyDeleteI bet Leland Yee & Willie Brown are Hillary fans, just a hunch...
DeleteHey moron at 1:29..Brown and Yee are politicians who happen to be Democrats. See, or maybe you don't, the analogy doesn't work....the point was how Piece of Shit Radnich, Midwestern Farm Fuck Kuiper, are low level local public figures, but can't hide their bias. This may be too deep for you to understand. I'll lay off the uber positive guy going through a tough physical challenge.
DeleteIf it is true that Krukow and Kuiper are "anti-union", that makes them all the more odious as human beings given they got all their perks as staunch union members as players. Disgusting, totally hipocritical and disgusting
DeleteGive us the low-down on Roberta and Randy ... Did they go splitsville or not? Randy took a Canadian vacation without her this summer, so it got me to thinkin'. C'mon, Rich, I gots t' know!
ReplyDeleteAnd Ronnnnnn looks like he died a month and a half ago. I know he's not well, but it's time to retire and do whatever old folks do.
Randy and Robbie G splitsville a few years ago.
DeleteRE: 60 Minutes interview with Colin Kaepernick
ReplyDeleteThe rest of America will get to see how stupid he is.
9:03 exactly! After watching three interviews of Kap trying to verbalize what he is standing up for, it is obvious he is not very smart/educated. So I am going to cut him some slack for being stupid. Had he not done the interviews, we would have never known.
DeleteIt is really very simple...Colin is Standing Up for Sitting Down. He is a tool.
Delete@9:03 and 1:19
DeleteC. kaep has explained his position(not QB) in terms simple enough for a 3rd grader; surprised you folks can even use a computer.
"terms simple enough for a 3rd grader"
DeleteI think that's the point.
If he puts his nose to the grindstone and really works his ass off he'll hopefully be able to use terms simple enough for a 4th grader one day.
DeleteHe can then get a celebratory tattoo.
> Colin is Standing Up for Sitting Down. He is a tool.
DeleteWhether you agree with him or not, how is he a "tool," unless you're just using a generic meaningless insult like when the Right called nearly everyone who disagreed with them a "communist." Kap is actually the opposite of a "tool," if you understand the meaning of the word.
"The rest of America will get to see how stupid he is."
Delete@9:03 & 1:19
Please. Americans themselves are too stupid to realize the country has more pressing issues than Kaep.
4:15 is that like the left calling everyone that disagrees with them a racist? It's their go to insult. You want guns off the street? Racist! You comment on Lieberman's blog? Racist!
DeleteColin's third grade explanation is about three grades higher than Trump's rhetoric. I mean the words "what the hell do you have to lose" will go down in history as among the greatest. It'll be yuuuuge I tell ya'
DeleteCOLIN KAEPERNICK Has made the Cover of TIME MAGAZINE...Therefore I believe he sat down to make a Point, and he did!!!
DeleteKaepernick may have a point, but he doesn't know what it is, or he's not able to articulate it, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed...
DeleteLike our forefathers who stood up for America's rights...including the pepetrators of the Boston Tea Party...Kap is an American Hero for standing up (kneeling, actually) for those less fortunate than him.
DeleteThat's the key point: THOSE LESS FORTUNATE THAN HIM.
He is not protesting for himself. He is protesting for those who don't have his money/fame/platform to protest. Those who disagree with him have said "There are better ways to protest/make your point."
REALLY? What way? Blacks/hispanics/gays have for decades been going through the "proper" channels with their grievances. You know, OpEd pieces/letters to the editor, local governments, Congress...and it has not worked. Why? Because White America ignores these tired approaches.
THe fact that White America is outraged by Kap proves that this is an effective (AND NOT ILLEGAL) way of getting his message.
Bravo, Kap.
PS--though I work in Sales now, I am a OEF Vet...rated at 70% disbled (am currently fighting to get it up to 100%)...a Purple Heart Recipient (took some shrapnel in my legs and have partial hearing loss in my right ear) when our Humvee struck a hidden ball-bearing-filled roadside IED in southern Afghanistan. I served my country. I got injured for my country.
I served and sacrificed....because I believed then--as I do now--in freedom for Americans.
And this includes freedom of speech.
I bet 100% of the poster above me do not have any military service.
Well Colin has certainly threatened the hell out of Rich's commenters. Lots of insults and not one word about the substance of his protest. Just another dumb Negro to you. Steve Kerr stood up for Kaepernick. I guess he's stupid too. And Kareem. And John Carlos. And Tommie Smith. And Megan Rapinoe. And assorted other NFL players. And all the active and veteran military personnel of all colors who stood up for him like Nate Boyer. And entire high school football teams who kneeled.
DeleteWhat you apparently don't realize is how every one of your clueless comments validates what and why he is protesting. Your ignorance is why people are in the streets in Charlette.
7:49...My post @1:19. Vietnam Veteran, Naval Aviation, two deployments to the war. Fourteen from my squadron didn't come home, 12 still MIA.
DeleteEver since this started I have been trying to find a list of all the oppressed people and why they are oppressed in this land of opportunity.
On my block we have four families from Mexico, three black families, a family from Central America and two families from the Philippines. They are all living in very nice houses, drive nice cars and their children are going good schools. They are not oppressed at all, they are living the American dream. A large amount of retail business's in my area are owned by people from India, they are not oppressed.
America is the land of opportunity, it's out there, you have to figure out how to go get it, they did!
There is a lot of oppression, it's called self oppression! Quit or got kicked out of school, have no respect for yourself or anybody else. No respect for the laws and rules of this Society, no respect for the police, the list is endless!!
So those of you who support Kap please send me a list of all the oppressed people with an explanation why they are oppressed, do not include those who are self-oppressed, we already know who they are.
@11:40
Delete"Vietnam Veteran, Naval Aviation, two deployments to the war."
Vietnam vets deserve the utmost respect and praise, but you're exactly the ones who aren't getting it. Only the World War II vets are constantly celebrated. Others-like yourself-are forgotten...in all aspects. You're ridiculously angry about Kap's position, yet you accept the way heroes like yourself and other Vietnam vets have been routinely discarded. Get your priorities together.
11:40 Your post makes no sense. Were you thinking everybody not white is oppressed or are you just mad your black and brown neighbors are doing as well or better than you. W.E.B. DuBois called on the Talented Tenth to step up and be a voice for the voiceless. That's what Kaepernick is doing and he's putting his money where his mouth is.
DeleteYou hate his nonviolent protest and you probably really hate the Charlotte violence. You want "those prople" to shut up sit down and be grateful to you for letting them live in your neighborhood.
Like I said this is why people are in the streets. Folks are tired of your ignorance.
5:17...What protest, just a bunch of morons doing what morons do. Population of Charlotte, NC, 793,000 and about 500 protesters, wow that is some turn out. Where are all the people if this issue is so important? The people are at home watching all the morons on TV making fools of themselves!
DeleteI would have thought by now there would be many, many posts telling me about all the people that are oppressed and why they are oppressed, but not one!
Poor babies, waaaaa, waaaaa, sniffle, sniffle I'm oppressed. It's called self-oppression and America can't help you with that, it's a "personal problem," talk to your family doctor, not the American public, we find you rather boring!!
Jane Fonda is auctioning off some her personal belongings today, perhaps Kap should by a dress or two, the guy is a "pantywaist" anyway!
So far in 2016 the post at 9:03am is the best.
DeleteWhenever Colin Kaepernick opens his mouth he removes all doubt regarding his lack of intellect.
When Kaepernick speaks on 60 minutes this weekend, you can expect a collective cringe coming from the 49ers management.
DeleteThe crew at 60 Minutes should give Kap a couple of sheets of blank paper and some crayons, he might want to take a few notes during the interview.
DeleteRomper Room brings back memories. Joys of getting old.
ReplyDeleteI get what kpix was trying to do by adding a dark skinned African American woman to their cast- relatable right? Only Theus is not from the area. She is a millionaire kid who was on a reality show about being a millionaire kid. Not the best way to appeal to the working class in Oakland and Vallejo. She is just another undeserving person of priviledge claiming a spot she has no business having
ReplyDelete"Radnich, Kuiper and Krukow: Republicans and Anti-Union. Fact."
ReplyDeleteThis anti-union stance must go over well with the Union rep Ted Ramey.
Listeners in this market are so fucking stupid. They continue to think KNBR is the bomb. They think whatever they say is gold. You people need to wake up!
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty sad that Krukow isn't a union guy. I think he was the MLBPA player rep during his time in SF. How soon he forgets how Marvin Miller fucked over everyone by preaching greed and a "one-for-all" attitude that now pervades all professional sports. I guess when you've got it, you don't give a shit about anyone else except yourself.
KGO-TV news is the best in this market. No gimmicks. No happy pappy talk. Just the facts delivered in a straight-forward manner.
Maybe Lowenstein and Fatnich can do commercials for Viagra as they're getting phased out. Or they can become the new Cal Worthington and his dog Spot. Question: which one is the dog? They can take turns. Yeah, that's it!
Chip was better in the earlier slot. Now he gabs with the news and weather gals, plays stupid trivia games with the listeners, it's so cheesy, I have to change channels. NPR more than ever now, because 860 and 560 is hatefest crap radio. What's an educated Lib suppose to do now?
ReplyDeleteChip has a good mind and an engaging show ...but they reined him in supposedly in a cynical effort to get mindless housewives to listen...it's now just unlistenable even to the mindless housewives.
DeleteThat Chip Franklin should hop the next train out. His annoying,meaningless dribble about nothing relevant in particular has already worn out its welcome. Its like eavesdroping during a 6 th grade recess on a bad day.
ReplyDeleteNo one "reined in" Chip. Management has a this mind-numbing style they're going for and he's going to do whatever the company tells him to do. They told him to stop being conservative and he did! His show sucks. He sucks. NO one cares about KGO radio.
DeleteI figured Kruk as too eccentric to be a Repub. Hmmm.
ReplyDeleteIf Freedman is fed up with Trixie, then what about Burton?
One Giant alum who won't put up with Lockstep Larry if it becomes more irritating is Vida. Because Mr. Blue dealt with Charlie Finley, and even Baer is cake compared to that.
D-Kuip must be thinking about his worst Indians teams as the G-Men continue their collapse (still in it because the Cards & Mets can't defend their own home turfs at all - the NL-worst Braves sweeping Queens? Are you kidding me?).
And if his health is making good broadcasting impossible, Ronnnn should retire pronto when his contract ends.
Blue takes callers frequently on KNBR, partnered with Bill Laskey. Both guys are homers. Give it a listen you will hear that his criticisms of the Giants are that of a guy who knows who signs his checks.
DeleteRonn Owens was mocking Greta Van Sustren's voice and looks the other day. Is he one to talk?
ReplyDeleteChip is more like chalkboard radio. His recent kars for kids ad mentions how great it is that kgo donated its news vans since "they didn't need them anymore." Uh yeah, and why don't they need them anymore? Oh, because lots of people lost their jobs. But Chip kept his. Useless as he is.
"Don't get me started" on Nicky and her home consignment center commercials. Possibly more annoying than JJL.
Nicky sounds like she lives in a cul de sac with a hall tree...so fascinating. Then there are the infamous KGO radio news vans...that never existed...slightly more fascinating.
Deleteso krukow ain't what you thought he was. thought he was a semi- hippish guitar playin' greatful dead-ish type.but just another republASScan.maybe they need an overhaul at that station. p-conn pie dropped a ''dude'' in the morning.what else is new?
ReplyDeleteI am dumber for even reading your comment.
Delete4:12 Roger that. It was actually painful. Using the CA "No Child Left Behind" guidelines, that post would warrant a solid B.
DeleteMost of the words were spelled correctly and period placement was within the norms as was word spacing. Extra credit would be given for using a question mark at the end of, "what else is new?" That involves using more brain circuitry than normally used.
Local TV news is just a waste of time these days. All the good journalists are dead or retired
ReplyDeleteRoberta Gonzales and her look-at-me, love-me! antics are such a turn off, I will not watch the otherwise very fine Kenny Choi and colleagues on KPIX. What next for this narcissistic hussy, a belly dance around the weather board? The producer who indulges her so should be fired. Disgusting.
ReplyDeleteHave to agree w/you 100% Rich; Chip Franklin would be better off for all concerned to return to his stand-up comedy job full time, opening up a slot at KGO radio for a talk show host w/a listenable program.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you showing that disgusting photo of the woman eating corn. Just grossed me out.
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