Jan Wahl, the movie and entertainment critic has been shown the door at KCBS.
Wahl had a regular Friday movie review segment in addition to regular entertainment reporting on the all-news 740 AM (and 106.9 FM) CBS/Entercom outlet. Her demise was outlined in a company e-mail that simply stated she was no longer on the station.
A KCBS source told me that the decision to boot Wahl was more to maintain KCBS' image as a "news-oriented" station as opposed to non-news content. Even so, Wahl's ouster is somewhat of a surprise.
I was never a fan of Wahl's schmaltzy delivery and over-the-top style but that's just me.
Wahl has been doing a movie-review gig on John Rothmann's KGO Radio Saturday night show. She's done reporting for KRON in past entertainment gigs.
Didn't Jan Wahl and Mayor Willie Brown do some kind of show once in a while? I agree with Rich that Wahl's schmaltzy delivery and over-the-top style is annoying.
ReplyDeleteNo loss here. I can see her working in the thrift store in Hayward!
ReplyDeleteThe ouster is a surprise. Finding more work with help from Rothmann or any other Bay radio personality is not a surprise. With Wahl, who I'm also not a fan of, there are always connections somewhere.
ReplyDeleteJan Wahl did a discussion with Mayor Willie Brown regarding the Oscars each year.
ReplyDeleteNow KGO needs to try to limit Tim Sika
ReplyDeleteWhat is this wish to get someone off the airwaves or TV, if you don't like someone just don't turn of the radio or TV. Not that complicated.
DeleteYou would think she has taken that gig about as far as you can go. Especially with movie theaters basically closed the past 6 months. I heard her on Rothmann and she was discussing old movies. Same as Pat Thurston with Tim Sika, not exactly riveting radio.
ReplyDeleteDepends on your point of view. I love old movies, (forties, fifties, especially the sixties, seventies and even eighties)and many of the stars from back then. I think few stars today have the star power of Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Gregory Peck and Montgomery Clift just to name a few of my favorites. Same for females is there a Liz Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Ingrid Bergman or Lauren Bacall today? And to be a little more up to date, do we have a Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman or Candice Bergen, Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda. I could go on, but I think you get the idea. And as for some movies from the past From Here to Eternity, Casablanca, The Graduate, Cat on hot tin roof, To kill a Mockingbird, In the heat of the night, The Godfather. Again I could go on, but I think you get the idea. Try to watch one of those movies, and see how you feel about "old movies", many are available on UTube.
DeleteI can feel for anyone who is ousted from a job which they depend on. Good luck to Jan.
ReplyDeleteThat's great news. I hope we have seen and heard that last of her.
ReplyDeleteThat is really up to you. As far as I'm aware you have the right to listen to and watch whatever your heart desire.
DeleteI don't know her too much, but since there are no movies playing probably makes financial sense.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was thinking, Neal!
DeleteMaybe NBC Bay Area will find a spot for her on, California Live!!!
DeleteAn upgrade for KCBS. She's always been embarrassingly bad. Like an SNL skit about a bad movie reviewer.
ReplyDeleteWhat is there for her to do? There are no more movies and those that are are all comic book and superhero movies--the type she hates. She's an anachronism, as are most movie reviewers, as they don't really make true movies anymore, they make photographed video games.
ReplyDeleteHow tragic..
ReplyDeleteWhen I heard the news about Jan, I ran home and hugged my children.
We will get through this together...wear a mask...and a gay old hat...in memory of Jan, and RBG.
Some Flags will be at Half Mast for Jan, some movie theaters will have half priced tickets in her honor.
DeleteI'll admit, I can only take her in small doses, but I've always stopped and listened to her reviews. I wondered recently where she's been (I heard one of those window ads but without her). She is full of "personality" but she knows her stuff. The radio landscape here is so full of the lowest common denominator, it is sad to see her go. She will pop up somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI've been listening to KCBS less and less lately. Tired of the Male Medical commercials and the screechy weather reporting; screechy, yet lacking any substance.
Yes, lowest common denominator - see: Chip Franklin and Nikki Medoro.
DeleteThank God! Foodie Chap next please!
ReplyDeleteThank goodness, I hate watching her on KRON wearing that fancy hat praising all those Euro theme movies number one and US movies thumbs down. Now, thumbs down for her
ReplyDeleteShe was annoying way back at the real KGOwinh Ronnnnn.
ReplyDeleteHey Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI do a weekly DOUBLE FEATURE write up on B movies made in the 1940s through the mid fifties, if you're interested.
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Have a feeling your comment is directed towards me I wrote the post at 9:47. No, I'm not interested, none of the movies I mentioned were B movies, and I didn't limit it to the forties and fifties. Read my post again.
ReplyDeleteLove when people make jokes when someone loses their job. It’s a cool take.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs a "Schtick" and she had it.
ReplyDeleteSad to see her go, she added some character and her reviews were good. I always stopped and listened when her reports came on.
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