KCBS Sinks Further Into The Abyss with More Cackling and Less News; Scott Lettieri Selling Italian Restaurants on Telegraph Hill; Total Embarrassment

Stan Bunger

I DON'T HAVE TO SPELL IT OUT --YOU CAN HEAR EVERYDAY BECAUSE IT'S AN EVERYDAY OCCURENCE NOW

KCBS is major sucking these days. Its news identity in the toilet and its once-mighty staple of reporters who know the Bay Area and are mostly good have either retired or left the business.

What we have now is a radio station where an inordinate amount of useless chit-chat and inane jokes rule the airwaves. It isn't unusual now for endless giggly overkill by once-excellent anchors Stan Bunger (pictured) and Susan Leigh Taylor who believes, still, that the Bay Area news audience cares she saw mist on her windshield driving up to the station from Pacifica. This verbal doo-doo used to be a joke; now, Taylor has made it a caricature and it's no longer funny, more irritating and dumb.

Scott Lettiere

I LAUGHED OUT LOUD THE OTHER DAY: Reporter, occasional anchor, Scott Lettieri, was sent to Telegraph Hill to "report" on a new restaurant opening and "interviewed" some European natives saying how great the food was and how "San Francisco has such nice views." It was basically a two-minute restaurant commercial and Lattiere's cackling and goof-off made it even worse. Is Entercom (which owns KCBS) that hard up for cash that they have to send some dickhead reporter to a restaurant and call it news? What a hopeless disaster. They should all be embarrassed. Lettieri, a former KGO retread, should have had his press credential yanked and ordered to swim to the Farallons and eat cheese with the mice.

The whole set-up is a disgrace now with wacky, stupid reporters and repeated, ad nauseum news coverage with an overwrought residue of "traffic and weather" reports that never end and whose presence on the station seems to have created a life of its own. Sure, that's KCBS's bread and butter; traffic reports and weather updates but when there's no weather and traffic is your beacon of light, you have a problem. Am I the only one who is suddenly fed up with KCBS? Check this out.