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Before social distancing: KTVU anchors, left to right: Bill Martin, Frank Somerville, Julie Haener and Mark Ibane
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KTVU'S hallmark legacy: its vaunted franchise, "The 10 o'clock News", will more than likely lose two, possibly three, of its anchors, 415 Media has learned through industry sources.
Through normal attrition and a de-emphasis on high-priced anchor talent by FOX Corporate, KTVU's news anchors, Frank Somerville (who is signed through March, 2021) and Julie Haener, will probably be together through 2020 but after that, Haener will most likely be non-tendered.
Sports anchor, Mark Ibanez, like Somerville, is signed through March 2021. Ibanez, who has been a station staple for forty years, is angling for one last extension. Ibanez figures to get that re-up, but significantly less than the $325K a year deal he signed in 2018.
Bill Martin, the less star-studded weatherman, is almost certainly gone from KTVU next year. Martin's salary --which is at the top of Bay Area weather anchors (at roughly $275K a year) is the prime factor of his limited status but more precisely, one major reason that Fox will deem non-worthy of his retaining. At least at KTVU.
So, a completely different-looking "10 o'clock News" is on the horizon. Mind you, I'm told, this major shake-up was well before the Coronavirus pandemic. KTVU ratings, like others, are way up. But unfortunately, like others too, it's core revenue is down across the board as advertising revenue, both nationally and locally, are down--an unfortunate byproduct of the virus, has hit broadcast TV/radio stations hard.
The Ten O'clock News is not immune to change anymore; FOX will see to that.
People don't watch the news anymore and even those who do, it's time to cut the fat and get younger. Time for these folks to retire
ReplyDeleteMost of their current reporting staff has peach fuzz or wears training bras. You can see the quality of this younger staff by the local names they botch, local history they do not know, local people who they don't understand are important, and stupid ad libs. And the terrific Q&A they ask in pressers. Everything they know about broadcast journalism they learned from posting Instagram videos.
DeleteThat's KRON, too.
DeleteYou mean, but perhaps unintentionally, yet ironically, "That's KRON 2."
DeleteFunny when I visit South Fla, which is Gods waiting room, all of the Weather reporters are the hottest chicks on the planet.
DeleteI remember when their promos were, "We do only one newscast, the Ten O'clock News"
ReplyDeleteDennis
Piedmont
I would love to see an all female team run the anchor desk@ 10:00 ... HH, Allie, Rosemary
ReplyDeleteT&A on 2 at 10
Delete4:52 Unfortunately H and R don't really have the T. Everything else tho!
DeleteNEWS FLASH -- H, R, and A don't really have the A, either! What are you guys, fourteen and gay?
DeleteWomen are news. H.H. Get her a stylist. Cut her hair that balances her face and shows authority. Rosemary and Kyla, keep wearing what you are wearing. I would love to go into KTVU and rain a shit storm on that insecure moronic female dog that calls herself H.R.
ReplyDeleteLawsuits are coming bitch! You are Toast!
Love Heather Holmes. She's got about 7 years before she starts showing her age and goes full on Darya.
ReplyDeleteThe entire 10 PM newscast needs a kick in the rear.
ReplyDeleteThen move on to the mornings. Sal is the most overpaid, unessential, and untalented performer at that end.
New Director Amber Eikel has coasted on KTVUs strong ratings history and talent she had nothing to do with choosing. This will be interesting because so far she has not shown much prowess in choosing or promoting talent that makes any sense. She's all about other USC grads and getting her ass kissed. If she rocks the boat and the audience doesn't go for it, she's toast. KTVU gets to do what they want until their ratings slip then look for Fox suits to start stepping in.
ReplyDelete> She's all about other USC grads and getting her
Delete> ass kissed.
I've met a lot of USC grads and I've never understood why that school is so venerated. That's exactly what they're like: they think they're special and like having their ass kissed. But they're both spoiled and dim-witted. I know community college grads who are more capable, whom I'd hire over USC brats in a moment.
In the SF Bay Area where everybody is sucking up to UC Berkeley graduates, USC graduates are a refreshing change.
DeleteKeep Cristina Rendon and I'll keep watching. Mad crushing on her these days. Don't know if I'm in the minority on that but I don't care.
ReplyDeleteWhy can't KTVU dump the insufferable weather guy, BM, sooner rather than later? Clean up the air waves now. Please!
ReplyDeleteHey, KTVU, if it's not peer-reviewed and published in a legitimate medical journal, it's junk science, I don't care what Dr. Oz has to say about it.
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