Heather Holmes and Mike Mibach: KTVU Major Duds; Why 10 PM is Languishing; Joe Fonzi MIA at Warriors Parade Because Fox is Fed Up With Sports; Roberta Gonzales is Elvira; No Sincerity; Julie Haener Worry by Her Bosses; Anne Makovec Wasted at KPIX; KGO Radio Null at Parade; FP Santangelo BS on KNBR; KCBS Jon Bristow Factoid; More Incompetence at All-News 740 AM; Thursday 415 Media Extravaganza

LET ME SAY what others can't...especially the powers-that-be at KTVU.

The Firm has a collective DUO of DUDS--Heather Holmes and Mike Mibach. ZERO on the it factor.

KTVU is the scene of mass incompetence. They knew this was coming. They sure as heck had to have an idea when then two of their core4 anchors at the "10 o'Clock News" were leaving or being fired (Frank Somerville and Mark Ibanez) that 10 PM would lose its legacy status.

It did.

It has.

But it did further. The ratings have CRATERED. And they continue to plunge. And there's no hope in sight because, like KTVU, the newscast has lost its soul. It's just another news program in a saturated market on an imbecile station with NO leadership and clueless managers.

Let's cut to the chase:

Mike Mibach is a major dud. A nincompoop. A diseased canary has more emotion. Mibach is a pretty boy who got the job out of false merit and not qualifications. He is a non-factor with viewers. He is despised by inner staff at KTVU because of his aloofness and zero news chops. He makes Somerville look like Harry Reasoner.

Heather Holmes is only filling in at 10 but continues to anchor at 5 and 6. I still have NO IDEA what KTVU sees in her. She is a softie supreme and about as lightweight as they come. If Holmes is news savvy, I'm Halle Berry's boo. (But my chances are better).

Holmes, I guess, is regarded as eye candy and that's a FOX specialty because she's a total nothing on the desk. Julie Haener, another overrated blond torso, by comparison, looks like Diane Sawyer.

*That Joe Fonzi was largely a ZERO presence at the Warriors' parade coverage on KTVU underscores the prevailing wisdom: Fox is about to DO AWAY with sports as a segment on its O and O's newscasts--Oakland/Bay Area among them. They've been telling the local suits it's happening any day now. It probably accelerated Mark Ibanez's retirement.

Fonzi is a good guy. A Bay Area veteran sports anchor but his days at KTVU are numbered. Courtesy of The Firm and its view of sports broadcasts.

*Here's the STUPIDITY of KTVU and why it no longer has any depth: Its TWO BEST anchors are Cristina Rendon and Alex Savidge. But since KTVU is led by a bunch of morons, Rendon and Savidge are wasted and have never been utilized as a tangible duo. They are both very good, very up and coming. They have style and anchorship and get this!, they have PERSONALITY and a soul. Something all the others don't have but again, KTVU has no depth of its own and that's fairly obvious only the idiots that run the place don't have any intelligence whatsoever.

I PICK on Roberta Gonzales because she makes it easy.

It's one thing to project you have a personality and a sense of humor, it's another thing to project all that when behind the scenes, you have neither.

Roberta is about as genuine as an ice cube sculpture in the midle of Summer in Arizona. She's largely cold, frigid and outright intimidating to strangers and those folks behind the scenes at KTVU and other stations where she worked in the Bay Area.

*And from a pure looks standpoint, Roberta has become Elvira only Elvira has more polished news accumen.

*A KTVU wonk once told me, not that long ago, privately, that the bosses worried if a major news event broke and Julie Haener was solo behind the desk, "oh god, she'd be lost in space."

*Here's why, among many other reasons, KGO Radio is irrelevant: when the Warriors had their parade Monday, KGO didn't have anyone, not a soul, at the parade. They could have sent a damn intern and had he/she call in and give a live report. They did zero and only had the benign, no-talent news guys who reside in the studio give reports. For a station that still has the "live/local" credo, you know all that is pure BS.

*Anne Makovec has to understand that her willingness to be essenally treated like crap over at KPIX is both a virtue and a downfall because Makovec is lost in space in the morning. Her career path has taken a detour to an island of nowhere and that's a problem (among many) for her and PIX in general.

Makovec never shows up in prime time and has never registered on the meter other than languishing in the AM pea pods. She's not great by any means but she has a lot more style than baseless Sara Donchey--and less make-up to boot.

*Several people have inquired why KCBS fired ex-KGO news anchor, Jon Bristow.

Bristow a year ago made a sexist joke (that nobody can figure out) on air and several women were not amused especially Melissa Culross (pictured with Bristow)--which was bad news for Bristow because everyone at KCBS knows you should never screw with Culross who knows where all the bodies are buried.

*If FP Santangelo would shut his mouth every now and then, he'd be a halfway decent sports-talk host and can actually be funny and poignant. But the KNBR ex-baseball jock who is doing post-game Giants shows has a penchant to talk and talk and talk. His routine has some funny bits but he's consumed by a plethora of cliches and that's not good radio but you get what you pay for. By the way, FP, nobody gives a damn about your moving back to the Bay Area stories, only you do.

*The ineptitude and state of chaos at KCBS continues with AWFUL, misplaced anchors. Eric Thomas is just plain out of his element but at KCBS they don't care. The gross peons like god-awful Alisa Clancy and Lisa Chan still have gigs because the incompetent, alleged ND has told her buds that Audacy will never fire her because that would be PC homicide.

She's right.

*A KCBS staffer told me bluntly: "Audacy is not CBS." Damn straight.