Claudine Wong Wants KTVU To Know She's Special; Zouves Continues MIA at KGO-TV; ys asDarya Folsom Becomes Less Prominent at KRON; Miller Wanning Da Giants' #1 Broadcaster; Kuiper Bored; Krukow Troubling Status; BJL on KNBR Present-Day Yenta; Monday Mash

MONDAY MASH

Claudine Wong is playing nice to all her friends at KTVU; she's even attempting to smile more often; at least more than her current every other decade --why? Wong thinks she's the straw that stirs the drink at KTVU and wants the recognition; the star treatment; oh, and DA MONEY!

By Wong's account, she is the power in the morning show. She makes no bones about it. Said a KTVU staffer to 415 Media:

"Claudine is reaching out but it's become sort of weird; she's like totally not her actual self. We can't figure it out yet."

Oh, I can.

Wong has told her buds at KTVU that she wants more of a prominent role and that she expects to be treated as such. When your ego soars so does your demands. Ultimately, it'll be up to KTVU and the Foxies if Wong is pacified.

*Meanwhile over at KGO, Natasha Zouves continues to play the mystery game --she's been off KGO'

Reggie Aqui and Natasha Zouves in happier times

s air since a weird fall on the studio floor at 900 Front. THE INSIDE DOPE: Zouves fall left her in a lot of pain both literally and figuratively --and THIS!: A chance to weigh all her options and exact revenge on her onetime ally, the insufferable lout known as Reggie Aqui.

Zouves has eyes on LA; I already told you. Her Circle7 reign has been trying and slightly miserable. She really hasn't figured out San Francisco and the Bay Area in general. He took the morning gig because no one else wanted it but Natasha figured it would help her career and catapult her to Ell_lay where she really wants to be. But all that is on hold while she still recuperates from the bizarre hair-goo-slippage --we at 415 Media are still all over it.

Don't expect to see Zouves on KGO anytime soon.

*Insiders at KRON tell me that Darya Folsom's ego has hit the wall big time and that even though she still thinks her you-know-what doesn't stink, that her time is pretty much up at the albatross independent TV station.

Darya Folsom

Folsom's hijinks are considered a joke in the local industry and her only attributes? Her sinking violets? They've begun to sag. Just like her career. And women cannot stand her. Women viewers. KRON has made its morning newscast presentable and barely legit but not because of Folsom and her acts of stupidity and vulgarity, it's a wonder she's even still relevant --oh, wait a minute, there's a reason.

KRON management did an internal study and found that more and more viewers are put off by Folsom's lonesome dove acts and that she continues to not only embarrass herself but the station too --which given KRON's status, is really, really, really, HARD TO DO!

Jon Miller counting down the time 

*Any day now --maybe sooner rather than later, the Giants will announce that Jon Miller will retire at years end and that Dave Flemming will become the #1 voice of the Bay Area's SF baseball team. It's a hunch based on info sent my way by industry folks and simple common sense and math. To wit:

Flemming recently signed a new deal with the team and it's a gigantic raise and indication that Flemming is considered by the Giants' higher-ups as the millennial orgy; Miller has seen and had had better days and no longer carries the badge that has made him popular and likeable. The frequent stories are no longer that funny and his ubiquitous impressions are passe. It may be harsh but it's true nonetheless it's down the pike and in the stretch run.

QUICKIES...

*It's not popular to say but it's also why you come here to get the truth too: while Miller is likely gone after this year, those in the know tell me it's very likely Mike Krukow will be gone too, not necessarily next year but sooner rather than later, as Krukow's medical malady renders his physical movement an extreme hardship and handicap.

*Meanwhile, Duane Kuiper seems and sounds just plain bored.

*KGO Radio salaries for John Rothmann and Pat Thurston: roughly $125K a year for those of you that wanted to know.

*If KGO-TV (and ABC by extension) don't sit down and smell the roses that is Larry Beil and his arrogance and outward jerkism toward fellow workers, they might be in for quite an observance--more like an observance of LAWYERS! The natives are tired of being schmucked around by Beil's blatant act of bullying.

*Look up the definition of "yenta" and then listen, if you can stomach it, Bonnie-Jill Laughlin on KNBR.

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