Saturday Rundown: Deanno/PIX News-Weather Hybrid Runs into Money Conflict (Still); Pat Thurston Gets Better with Age on KGO Radio; Chip Franklin and Nikki Medoro ReBoot Sounds Better; Kate Larsen Still Embarrassing on Circle7

SATURDAY RUNDOWN

*It continues to be something on the to-do list: KPIX brass, in its attempt to try something new and make its news content seem alive and not morose, continues to meet with weatherman, Paul Deanno, about the idea of Deanno doing both weather and news. Hybrid anchoring. I like it but Deanno and PIX are stuck in neutral because of money. Deanno wants more. I agree. Better yet, KPIX, why not just make him a fulltime news reader and let someone else do weather. I suspect that Deanno would relish that promotion.

*Yes, I too agree Pat Thurston is a bit too far left for me but her overall performance as a talk-radio host far outweighs her political leanings. In order to develop an audience and make for interesting conversation, Thurston has vastly improved her on-air style by eliciting good calls, interviewing pretty good guests and commanding the airwaves with strong monologues, something she has lacked in recent years. I remember listening to her on KGO on various Saturday nights where the topics weren't as pithy as one would like and Thurston's railings seemed out of place. She's much better and more lucid if a bit limited on political bent.

Nikki Medoro

*I've had a change of heart on Chip Franklin, the afternoon KGO talker, (he was out most of this week battling the flu); Franklin's show is a lot more interesting and not as off-the-rails as has been the case in recent years. Most of you know I consistently ragged on Franklin's frenzy of topics that sounded irritating and in vast disarray --especially when he and sidekick, Nikki Medoro, would go from one topic every two minutes to another and it sounded utterly crappy. No rhyme or reason which was largely due to the past regime wanting the dreaded "7F" format to emerge. It never worked and was blessedly, thrown out to pasture. Franklin has a much more crisp format and Medoro works off his topic indicator more smoothly. There's a much better flow and the two have developed a chemistry that works. It's not great but it's a heck of a lot better than in years past.

Kate Larsen

*Kate Larsen continues to be an embarrassing mockery at KGO-TV. She simply doesn't have any credibility and her on-air style is replete with consistent gaffs and too many "uh" this and that. Larsen got the gig through family channels (haven't we seen this before) and her buffoonery is the talk of the KGO --ABC7 newsroom. At the very least, she needs a chill pill.


*It's raining again outside --I didn't know we lived in Seattle.

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