CBS (Again) Sends Suits to KPIX To Try To Figure Out Why It's So Crappy; 855 Battery on Edge; Circle7 Leads the Pack; Garbage Bay Area Morning Radio Noise; Thumbs-Down Across The Board

CBS, once again, is FED UP with its "under-performing" O and O in the Bay Area. "Massively disappointed" is another phrase from the suits in NY--how much so?

The bosses from BLACK ROCK will send another team to SF and KPIX and try to figure out the goings-on at 855 Battery. How this latest attempt to fix the neanderthal governing will help is anyone's guess.

We've been down this road before.

Scott Warren, who took over as GM in March, might be happy that he's renting an apartment in the East Bay.

*Current Bay Area TV News Station Leaders --5, 6, and 10/11 PM (Overall)

1. KGO-TV

2. NBC Bay Area

3. KTVU (at 10 PM)

4. KPIX

5. KRON

*MORNING RADIO NOISE

I barely listen anymore--if I do, it's just out of habit, here's why:

This morning (Tuesday) on the day after one of the most depressing, violent July 4th holidays (mass-shootings in USA) I decided to give a listen--what I heard was, as usual, abysmal.

On KGO, the screamer and permanent fill-in schmuck, was at his all-time low. Filling in for Nikki Medoro, incompetent Chris Merrill (Lee Hammer's man crush) was talking with an author who's written a book about animal sexuality. It went on and on and on. Merrill did mention the holiday shootings and tried to tie in both subject matters. Merrill is a major reason why KGO is dying only Lee Hammer doesn't care at this point. Merrill is an imbecile, whih qualifies as host on the 810 AM albatross.

*On KCBS, Melissa Culross was solo because (curiously, Eric Thomas is on vacation)--and Culross proved yet again, she's NOT a morning drive anchor. Culross doesn't have any personality and when she tries to inject any humor, it falls flat--as it did when she tried to engage with boring sports tonsil, Ted Ramey, about an exciting Wimbledon tennis match. Culross is OK when she's anchoring from 4-7 PM on a Saturday. Morning drive? NO. But KCBS is BRAIN DEAD. Got it? Ok.

*The morning zoo midgets on KNBR were at their gruesome selfs--and the pompous, privileged, Brian Murphy, his absolute WORST! Murphy told his audience (4 timnes) about taking his kids to a Giants game on Sunday (nobody cares) and the cost of buying hot dogs --combined with the Giants' mess. His co-hort asshole, the un-talented Paulie Mac, is a ZERO. Worse, when the morons tried to bring up the weekend tragedies (without mentioning them by name) it came off as shill because Murphand Smack are about as genuine as a Dublin Shell station.

*KSFO had on the disgraceful "Armstrong and Getty"--who sound like a couple Midwest hacks--and I immediately turned the channel when I heard sound effects of cows groaning--maybe the cows were listening to Armstrong and Petty.

*KQED was running some NPR BBC propaganda-I don't know the difference--about American polkitics. It was uneven and out of place.

*Bay Area radio used to be a place of dedicated craftsmen and a showcase for talented individuals. Now, it's a cesspool for lightweight posers who wouldn't know creativity if their life depended on it. What a total disgrace.

A JOKE. A THUMBS-DOIWN? Yes.

A TOTAL abomination.