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| Left to Right: Rosemary Orozco, Frank Mallicoat and Claudine Wong |
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words and the photo on the left is worth at least double that.
The KTVU AM juggernaut --"Mornings on Two" dominates, still, the Bay Area TV News morning shows-MO2 handily beats lame KPIX and brain -dead CBS This Morning; KGO is dead in the water and NBC Bay Area is bogged down by plunging "Today Show" flat lining. KRON tries mightily with its infusion of local news but continues to fake TV orgasms with shameless Darya Folsom and her cast of misfits. It's a sorry scene every morning because of Darya's stupid antics. Which leaves us with KTVU and inner symmetry --right? Great ratings do not make for stellar chemistry and love among the troops.
A KTVU Insider tells me the bulk of the morning crew can't stand each other. The three main players involve anchors Frank Mallicoat and Claudine Wong. On the outside but very much looking in, perennial "I'm bigger and better than just damn plain weather", Rosemary Orozco. Not again? Oh yes, there's history. And a lot of leg too.
The gist of what's going on inside the studios in Jack London Square where KTVU broadcasts:
* Mallicoat is enraged at Wong's behind-the-scenes showboating and flirtatious behavior with every guy in the newsroom and beyond. "She's using her sex appeal and sarcasm as a device to get a more prominent role in the news domain," said the Insider who watches the mayhem every day."Claudine wants the spotlight and is willing to do anything to get her way; she's set her sights on something bigger than the morning job and Frank (Mallicoat) is royally pissed off because of it."
Quietly, Mallicoat wants out of KTVU because he despises the "foxification" of the station. "But he loves the Bay Area too so it's a major dilemma."
The Insider tells me Mallicoat and Wong don't talk at all off the air and have built up quite a rivalry --so much so, one day Wong showed up at work with boxing gloves.! It was considered a joke; Mallicoat wasn't amused. Station brass were also not very happy.
For now, the gruesome twosome have let personal issues and hijinks aside and show no sign of conflict on the screen but that's all smoke and mirrors. "Complete bullshit!" offered another station spy, "They hate each other bigtime!; It's all a mirage."Orozco is viewed as a peacemaker but can't be bothered by such petty behavior. As I've noted before, the tall weather diva is looking for a Hollywood position; literally! Orozco curries favor with KTVU/FOX upper brass in hopes to get a network gig down south, something both Wong and Mallicoat despise and Rosemary knows it. Which is the focus point as to why she loves working every shift but the morning one.
The fisticuffs in the morning have created tension and turmoil in the newsroom. A fear and loathing of the terrible trifecta is pervasive among staffers and HR especially. The Insider:
"Our coffee machine sucks; we might as well have bottles of vodka and gin. Sooner or later, you need a break!"
Ouch!
All three of them should be feeling very lucky that they are where they are. Frank has to learn to shut his mouth when he's through reading his stories. Claudine needs to at least act like she's interested in what she's reading and with Rosemary you just can't fix stupid.
ReplyDelete> Frank has to learn to shut his mouth when he's through reading his stories.
DeleteHe should just make puppy dog eyes and moan sadly like the other Frank.
When I worked there the coffee also sucked. Ironically, in the green room there is a capsule machine with (relatively) good coffee for guests.
ReplyDeleteSo I'd sneak in and drink that coffee. I'd also chat/flirt with the woman who did hair and makeup for the onair guests, as she wore leather pants a lot and had quite the bod. The ND at the time, Andrew "Tight Butt" Finlayson, didn't like it and told me not to drink their precious guest coffee.
So I'd do it on the sly. Once I even hid behind a door as he came in to talk to the hair chick, or was just ostensibly talking to her and was really trying to see if I was in there. Anyway, he never caught me.
The asswipe is now a VC guy down in SoCal I think. The man who had a picture of Billy Graham on his office wall was all about a quick buck and screwing the other guy. Shocked...
Finlayson became a sleazy consultant hack.
DeleteIf these people have so much idle time on their hands, they should be sent out to sweep the parking lot. At different times, of course.
ReplyDeleteMallicoat is a boob. My friends and I remember seeing him outside the Stick before a big game ramping up the small crowd standing behind him to jump and cheer so his live shot would have more pizzazz. It was all so sad.. like a grandpa trying to repeat rap lyrics.
ReplyDeleteWhen Frank Mallicoat first arrived in the SF Bay Area & showed up on the KPIX early morning show, I resented him for replacing John Kessler. Eventually, I grudgingly admitted that it wasn't his fault that Kessler had been fired, & I had almost started to kind of like him by the time he was was fired in favor of Kenny Choi a few years later. He's pleasant & competent, seems like a nice guy, & deserves better than Fox.
DeleteRosemary is the one trying to get attention on TV, male viewers. One day she dresses like the picture and another day, did something happened???
ReplyDeleteWong's what they call "resting B___ face" is classic on the weekend mornings. Just this last weekend following a story on the Oakland Marathon, Mallicoat said something corny (I think it had something to do with Tony Tone Toni's "It Never Rains in Southern California") and Wong's facial expression was CLASSIC- Like STFU Frank LOL. I have no problem with Wong. Yeah she has a stoic tone most of the time... so? She's a news anchor she smiles enough and has a nice one at that. Mallicoat on the other hand in my opinion is THE most boring news personality on the news in the Bay- by far... No knock... I myself am extraordinarily ordinary... shrug. That guy is however mayonnaise on air and is a bad fit to the better Wong. I'd rather see Waylon Smithers twin (Google him if you don't know :) ) Christian Kafton paired with Wong in the morning.
ReplyDeleteFrank (I ain"t got no lips) Mallicoat is not the first anchor that Claudine Wong has carried on the weekend news at Fox 2. I am trying to understand why you continue to pick on Claudine Wong when she is the reason KTVU receives great rating with the morning weekend newscast.
ReplyDeleteRich, please watch Claudine this weekend and tell us all how many times that she smiled.
I don't believe Claudine is capable of "carrying" anybody.
DeleteI am sure Rosemary can fit in in LA, but Fox11 has a lot of pretty women doing weather already. For example, the very beautiful Maria Quiban and Olga Ospina as well as Vera Jimenez.
ReplyDeleteAlso, down South, sometimes the traffic girl does the weather also, and the weather female does the traffic too. So Somada Khan, the attractive traffic girl does weather also.
I like to be the referee in the Rosemary vs Claudine wrestling match!!
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