NOT AGAIN? Yes, AGAIN! Only more EMBARRASSING.
"Phil (Matier), can you hear me?," said a clearly FLUSTERED Stan Bunger. NO GO from Matier. NADA. Mayor Brown had to carry on and fortunately for KCBS, he did so.
THE LATEST TECH screw-up has been PLAGUING KCBS for weeks now; it's an almost everyday occurence and it's got to the point where Bunger had to PLUG a new broadcast set-up for traffic guru, KIM WONDERLEY.
TIME FOR A MEETING at SF AUDACY? You BET YA!
Bunger doesn't dial the phone and make the connection. His producer does, and cell phone calls can be iffy. That's one issue when contributors do their thing remotely.
ReplyDeleteMorning shows are complex. Keeping to the clock, running the board, keeping the log and speaking all take concentration and it is easy to be thrown off course. When there were two in the morning, one ran the board.
And one other thing, Eric Thomas and Jeffrey Schaub are longtime TV guys. If they ran a board in their past lives, it was 30 years ago.
The people who host programs on SiriusXM don't seem to have problems. The programming is way better there too.
ReplyDeleteThey're a clown car. I no longer listen unless there's local breaking news and I need to know if it affects traffic or something like that. For one thing there's almost no content anymore. It's all traffic and weather and commercials and the occasional boring interview, and maybe five minutes of news wedged in. It's also nice that they carry CBS network, but even they're not nearly what they used to be.
ReplyDeleteIt's sad that we're one of the largest countries in the world and we have almost no news outlets worth a damn. Even the New York Times has become a PC sheet of socialist tripe not worthy of lining a bird cage. To really learn what is going on in America you have to follow European and Asian new sources. Sad but true.
Listen to the NPR hourly newscasts. In a few short minutes you'll hear what the important stories are, and the information is likely to be more accurate than what the commercial outlets offer anymore, notwithstanding the difficulty in assembling facts quickly.
DeleteWhat's with this Audacity thing? First it was CBS, which goes back to the 1920s. Then it was Entercom, pronounced intercom, like the device people had on their office desks in the 1970s. Now it's Audacity. The first definition of Audacity in the dictionary is a willingness to take bold risks. I guess the corporate name-changers stopped there and figured it was a good name. But the second definition is "rude or disrespectful behavior ... impoliteness ... bad manners." I guess if they had Howard Stern, I could understand the new name.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how hard it would be to get permission from CBS Inc. to call themselves CBS Radio? They could still be separate companies with different owners, headquarters, etc. But CBS started out in radio, not in streaming or whatever they do now. Thankfully they kept the legacy calls of KCBS.