I wasn't able to watch or listen to all the coverage of the Napa and Sonoma fire catastrophes but what I did observe and hear --hats off to KGO-TV and KCBS Radio in particular.KGO ran 25 hours straight coverage--no commercials--and did a great job with reporters on scene and anchors quarterbacking live coverage. Dan Ashley was on the air 11 straight hours alone.
KCBS on radio was all over the story and then some.
Don't even mention KGO Radio; what a joke. But did we expect anything different from the call letter deficient station that doesn't know how to cover a disaster; isn't equipped to cover a LOCAL disaster like the fires up north; they are an ALBATROSS with a capital "A".
We'll talk more soon.
Glad you agree. Reggie and Jessica did a good join the am and it only got better when Dan Ashley took over at 1:30.
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DeleteAnd Dan looked fresh each of those 11 hours. Remarkable.
ReplyDeleteThe "Classic" KGO radio would've been on top of that. Not the joke station we have now.
ReplyDeleteI agree KGO 7 and KCBS did a stellar job on this fire disaster.
ReplyDeleteI do miss the old KGO Talk Radio 810 when locals could call in from all parts of the area and talk and get informed about the fire situation. What a piss poor station KGO 810 has turned into.
KPIX was stellar. I found myself coming back again and again for their reporting.
ReplyDeleteKSRO, 1350 Santa Rosa, has been absolutely on top of everything! when their beleaguered reporters need a break they simulcast KGO 7 in the interim! kudos to this station that stood up so strongly when tragedy struck their community!
ReplyDeleteFor $575,000 a year Dan Ashley should be on the air for 11 hours straight.
ReplyDeleteKSRO 103.5 fm and 1350 am in Santa Rosa has provided excellent coverage, preempting regularly scheduled programming.
ReplyDeleteHave KQED-TV and Local public radio stations been up to the task?
We were watching KTVU from our home in Santa Rosa Monday morning and couldn't believe the misinformation they were putting out as news. Steve Paulsen was particularly bad, especially since he worked on TV in Santa Rosa years ago (Kmart was on fire, but was never part of Coddingtown Mall in a sea of concrete).
ReplyDeleteI know they were reporting a live event, but to read individual texts to them as confirmed "NEWS" was horrible and added to confusion here.
I thought reporters on Akron were excellent in am. cj2 reporter was a amateur she could NOT put a verb and noun in the same sentence.she was overwhelmed with the BIG storyyou know?
ReplyDeleteI didn't catch her full name, but a young lady with the last name of Nielson on KPIX did a yeoman's job. Clear, concise, calm. Everything you could wish for.
ReplyDeleteMonday coverage was a joke on all channels -- absolutely no information as to fire locations, movement of fires, size of fires, etc. Maddening when you are living in the eye of it, as we are, and trying to figure out whether an evacuation order is coming down the pike. All channels were guilty of showing the same videos of the homes burned to the ground and silly questions to victims.
ReplyDeleteNatasha shows no professionalism not reporting, Jessica is a major PRO doing a wonderful job reporting this, better than Reggie who look freak out by the fire. Big credit for Jessica work after reporting in Vegas last week coming back dealing with this fire news.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Rich! Bet the CBS employees (minus 1 station) are breathing a sigh of relief huh?!
ReplyDeleteRich, how about some props for the Santa Rosa & Napa radio stations that are 24/7 fire coverage with only a sliver of the size of staff available to the larger SF stations. The staffs at KSRO, KVON & KVYN are really doing yeoman's duty.
ReplyDeleteDrew Tuma did an outstanding job during the initial early morning (around 2am) coverage of the fire. He had to adlib for long stretches of time without much video footage but was able to provide good information. Kudos to Drew. You earned my full respect.
ReplyDeleteWith the exception of Darya in the morning I thought KRON did a good job, despite waaaaay to many commercials later on and in the days that followed. Darya just seems to over emphasize everything...way too dramatic.
ReplyDeleteKGO 7 TV was the only local TV channel with live coverage around 2:30 AM for 2 or 3 hours on Monday morning. Comcast channels 2,3,4,5 and 9 missed the boat.
ReplyDeleteOur daughter called us from Santa Rosa at 2:30 AM and asked us to turn on TV since their power was out and she could see flames in the area. Based on what we saw on ABC 7, we told her she should evacuate which she did safely with her family.
So, kudos to KGO 7 TV crew!
Kristen Sze was LIVE with Dan Ashley all 11 hours. They did a great job together.
ReplyDeleteReggie Aqui and Jessica did a fantastic job, too!
I watched KNTV and KGO. Both stations had “all hands on deck” and reporters and cameras on the front line.
ReplyDeleteKTVU provided real Breaking News coverage around 11 PM on Sunday night. Mark Ibanez provided excellent coverage and video of the fire on Atlas Peak. I guess he lives in the Napa area or had covered the Safeway golf tournament earlier in the day. Other stations had not picked up on the story yet from what I could see.
ReplyDeleteThis has been extremely tough to digest but very impressed with KGO coverage this week. Stay safe everyone
ReplyDeleteThought of you the first morning of the fire, we only get Channel 2 in limited hours thus on line, in one segment they had, Gasia Rosemary and the Disco lady at the same time, is that a first? But on a serious note, just a tragedy and will continue for a while & on the Dan Ashley $$$ 575K all relative as long as he generates $5.75m in revenue, trade outs, goodwill or ancillary revenue
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