Maybe she can teach hubby how to form a personality: KPIX has sunk to depth of desperation to outright abysmal.
They've hired Seattle's (KOMO) Suzanne Phan,(pictured, top), the wife of ill-suited, out-of-place Ryan Yamamoto. She's on board soon --is this a combo deal? My God, what a farce.
PIX is an ongoing DISASTER and this move is sure to create more friction in the newsroom. It now only shows how incompetent new GM, Scott Warren is but it further illustrates just how AWFUL and TOXIC it is at 855 Battery, a TV News wasteland and a certified garbage pit with inmates running the asylum.
*While you're at it, PIX, maybe you should also hire Liz Cook's brother, I hear he's just fantastic ...but WAIT!, Vern Glenn's wife would make a fine weather anchor on the weekend!
*The JOKE that is KCBS on Sunday morning still takes place and yesterday was no exception --the usual DEAD AIR and ANCHOR MALPRACTICE--gaffes, miscues, WRONG traffic and sports sounders--out of blue LONG filler segments of outside market features that made no sense and the list goes on...
Lisa Chan, the ilustrious, bizarre, no energy misfit was once again on the news anchor desk and was so BAD, she had to be rescued by equal AWFUL, Eric Thomas, who sounded as if he was auditioning for "Star Search."
The KCBS circus is a non-stop Sunday freak show, bring your friends and enjoy the cotton candy!
*KGO's clueless John Rothmann would rather selfishly do it his way: refusing to do various guests (except woeful has-been Jan Wahl) and skipping interviews on all fronts so he can talk about mundane topics that NOBODY cares about. Rothmann, as I've pointed out numerous times now, is UNFIT to do afternoon drive. It's just ASTOUNDING that inept KGO allows this to take place but PD, Lee Hammer, has an excuse because Cumulus doesn't have any money to hire a real host, which is why they fired Chip Franklin and let morons like Chris Merill do eternal fill-in.
*KTVU on the weekend: the pompous THREE: Frank Mallicoat, Claudine Wong and Rosemary Orozco: about as exciting as a Modesto bingo party.
*The last time KTVU had any semblence of cred and esteem: Dennis Richmond and Elaine Corral.
As I wrote earlier:
ReplyDeleteKCBS this morning had Victor the traffic guy doing sports. I like Victor on traffic he's great but when you switch all these spots like Jason doing anchor instead of business (which he's back on business) things get a little confusing.
Modesto plays the best Bingo.
ReplyDeleteHis wife lives in Seattle??? No rules on spouses working together? Please god,hope they dont put them together as a pair at 5 or 6pm? Is there anyone over 45 with some gravitas and skills for KPIX???
ReplyDelete> No rules on spouses working together?
DeleteThis isn't the military.
Dave Walker and Lois Hart, Brent Cannon and Laura Garcia Cannon, Fred LaCrosse and Terry Lowry,
Delete11:53am: Dude, this is the news, this isn’t a court of law or the military. There are no ‘rules’ about who can work with each other. LOL
DeleteChet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson. WCVB Boston. Bill and Patti Burns (father/daughter), KDKA Pittsburg.
DeleteSuggesting Chip Franklin constitutes a real host, LOL.
ReplyDeleteI used to run comedy clubs and my family in DC was full of cops… SARS CoV-2.. because, well, I read a lot.. ok, good stuff… I mean, so, anyway!
DeleteBROOKS JAROSZ IS WHO SAVED THE DAY in KTVU not LAMONICA..get it right
ReplyDeleteLamonica was DULL & DRAB, better suited for reporting than anchoring. "fantastic" NOT, Rich!
DeleteKPIX sounds even dumber than I thought. I was just chatting online with one of their anchors last night. He sounded even more bitter than usual. Now I know why. What a collection of idiots. Just what the station needed—the wife of their biggest loser is joining the team, probably at pretty nice coin.
ReplyDeleteHas Rich ever been to a Modesto bingo party? I bet his comment was an insult to Modesto bingo parties!
ReplyDeleteBack in the ‘70’s one of the NY stations had a husband and wife doing the news. Their last name was Harper. Station called it Harper News.
ReplyDeletePat and Joe Harper. WPIX in NYC.
ReplyDeleteWPIX was the Yankees station. WOR was the Mets station.
https://pix11.com/news/wpix-action-news-open-from-july-10-1975-with-joe-and-pat-harper/amp/
Re: J Rothmann's KGO program. I concur, this program is not a good fit for drive-time. Seems a simple, common-sense solution to swap the time slots of JR's 4-7 pm with Bohannon's 7-10 pm.
ReplyDeleteWait, what? 1:47 wants KGO’s syndicated Southern right-wing talk show moved from nighttime into the 4 pm slot? Would the Bay Area afternoon audience go for that? Do they really want to hear callers who sound like extras from “Deliverance”?
DeleteCorporate budget cuts! It’s always been a challenge to program against evening TV and now it’s worse. There’s just not enough audience or revenue to to pay for a local host after 7pm. They’re running a National show Cumulus already owns. It’s not that difficult to understand, especially since KGO has NEVER been profitable under Cumulus ownership.
DeleteBy extras from Deliverance do you mean Pat Thurston's callers or the people that attend events at the Commonwealth Club?
DeleteMy ex-wife saw Dennis Richmond in San Ramon at a jewlery store over the weekend. Sadly, she said Dennis looks feeble and frail, weighs about 100 lbs. He could probably still come back and do a better job then Mibach, Mallicoat and Haener. Geez! Sounds like a law firm... not news readers.
ReplyDelete"With husband & wife team, Ryan Yamamoto & Suzanne Phan. With... Ryan Leong on Sports. This is your KPIX Eyewitness News at 11!"
ReplyDeleteWhat timeslot and what position for Phan? KRON has a couple together on TV doing New Years Eve Live and NBC 11 also has a couple, but the female is strong enough to kick out the husband on TV and take his cash for divorce settlement. Another one, Lawrence Karnow and Sharon Chin!
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DeleteRothmann was best suited for doing the late nights back in the day. His routinely boring shows and limited topics were a perfect cure for insomnia. He never fails to put me right to sleep no matter what time he's on. What will it be tonight? - Covid, climate change, and Trump/January 6th or Ukraine, climate change and Covid? Or maybe he will spice it up with more talk of the murals at his high school. He really does not want to know what I'm thinking. He only likes to hear the sound of his own voice.
ReplyDeleteAstounding!
DeleteLet’s see…The News Today:
ReplyDeleteFire on the mountain. Fog returns overnight. Giants lose again. A’s to Vegas. Homeless numbers increasing. Trump. Newsome swings , misses. Market down. Gas up.
Repeat ad nauseum
Hmm... sounds like a KTVU broadcast. Don't forget all those KCRA Sacramento stories they recycle.
DeleteFire is threatening lives and property, and is an indicator of drought and climate change. Gasoline prices are down. The market went up; today. All of it matters.
DeleteLet's talk about Seattle, Washington for a quick minute.;
ReplyDeleteI find it incredible that their most famous landmark remains the
Space Needle, built in 1962. I was there in 1980, as part of the Navy. I thought the Needle looked out of date even then, something from a Jetson's Era tableau.
Nothing awful about it, but 60 years later, isn't there anything else in town to brag about?
Apparently the Space Needle is the Eiffel Tower of Seatlle!
Maybe that’s why she’s leaving Seattle.
DeleteCome on Seattle has more ruggedly stunning natural vistas than 90% of the Bay
DeleteAnd damn good dining scene
Rich, Chip’s perpetual sneering anger was bad radio. I switched off as soon as his show started, and I have to believe I wasn’t alone. I’ll suspect his firing might have had something to do with bad ratings. Can you prove that’s not correct?
ReplyDeleteI know the Asian population in the immediate bay area is around 25-35%, and African American is around 7%. Doesn't that mean that we should be seeing a few more white faces on the local news broadcasts?
ReplyDeleteMy ears are still bleeding from the Paulie Mac segment with David Hollander. High school students could have done a better mixing job of a fake show.. Sounded like it was a tape of Hollander talking to himself. Every few minutes PM would say " Ow wow" " That's right" at a much louder level. Brought back memories of the MASH episode where they faked a World Series Broadcast - only the MASH episode was suppose to be funny.
ReplyDeleteI love that episode too but for the record it wasn't a world series broadcast, just an ordinary game where Frank was betting and cleaning up. What they never explained was how they managed to broadcast over the camp PA on *the same frequency* that Frank was tuning into to get the real games. That would take some doing.
DeleteFirst, MASH was a comedy, so it destroys the comedic flow if they have to get into the nuances of how something like that got accomplished. Second, it's not all that difficult to do. Someone who understands how a radio works would jury-rig Frank's radio by adjusting the tuning coil so that when Frank thinks he's tuned to Armed Forces Radio Network (on, let's say, 1000 khz), the radio is actually tuned to, say, 950 khz, or 1060, or some similar nearby frequency. Then Hawkeye would need a mini-transmitter that put out a weak signal on that same alternate frequency. Voila, Frank thinks he's tuned to AFRN but is actually tuned to MASH Radio! At the same time, the guys can monitor the actual AFRN on the actual 1000 khz to hear the real game. A solution any company radioman could have whipped up out of spare parts.
DeletePerhaps Ryan Yamamoto has been distracted with his spouse working in Seattle. Maybe with his spouse in town he'll be more focused.
ReplyDeleteDoes Pat Thurston get paid by the hour or by the number of times she mentions Trump?
ReplyDeleteDidn't NBCBayArea try husband wife team Laura Garcia Cannon which ended in bitter divorce and him being let go?
ReplyDeleteThis isn't like Fred LaCosse and Terry Lowry working together. At least they had talent and style. Why is it that the CBS stations (KPIX and KCBS) have fallen faster than a meteor approaching the earth?
ReplyDeleteJust face it. Nobody gives a shit anymore and crap is king!
ReplyDeleteKRON could do the husband/wife anchor news combo with Grant Lodes and Justine Waldman and actually thats watchable if it happens...
ReplyDeleteNo Ryan or Sara on 5 PM broadcast today.
ReplyDeleteHey KPIX, hire Carmen Kiew! You don’t have to pay her much and she had all of the qualifications to be a TV presenter. It couldn’t be any worse that what you’ve thrown in front of the camera.
ReplyDeleteHello, Carmen. No thanks, you blow burrito chunks.
DeleteMs. Phan already works at a major television station. Why not have them live in the same city. What's so evil?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure this was a package deal from day one. she's a reporter with experience. Considering what PIX puts out there she'll be an improvement over the latest hire from Fresno.
DeleteThe brothers Judd and John Hambrick (KTVU and KRON respectively in the 1970s) thankfully never anchored the same newscast, enough Hambrick to make you sick. I was always hoping for one or the other to go up or down the dial so we could hear a hubby-wifey Ronn Owens / Jan Black program. Now THAT would have been appointment radio.
ReplyDeleteSorry Rich, Lamonica was not stellar. She was bland and average at best. You were just blinded by her blackness.
ReplyDeleteRich, Julie Haener has been at work the past two days, something she hasn’t done in a few years. Looks like she’s feeling the heat from your blog and all the comments calling her out for taking endless vacation days.
ReplyDeleteI hope it's OK to post this here..........longtime KGO Radio caller Rama has passed away from Cancer. Regular KGO listener's will know him. He was a very good caller and person. May he rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteA good caller.rip.
DeleteI was very sad to hear the news about Rama. As a longtime KGO listener, you get to know the regular callers, and it feels like sort of an extended family. Rama was a very frequent caller. I had no idea he was sick. He will be missed.
DeleteDennis Richmond and Elaine Corral——better times and better news!
ReplyDeleteOne of the first husband and wife anchor teams in the country was Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson at WCVB in Boston in the 70's and 80's. There was even an article about them in TV Guide. They ended up divorcing. Chet Curtis passed away a few years ago. Natalie Jacobson is long retired.
ReplyDeleteAnother married couple working at the same TV station is Joe Buttitta and Kelsey Gerckens at KEYT in Santa Barbara. He anchors the morning newscast, She's the chief meteorologist. They were contestants on The Amazing Race a few years ago and won their season.
Lois Hart & Dave Walker were married when they were prime anchors at CNN then moved to KCRA in Sacramento. They were a great team.
DeletePat Thurston & John Rothman are masters at taking half a call and then cutting the caller off while they spout their crap. They rarely give a caller the chance to respond. Pat cut off a completely sane femaile caller who opposed her today and started on her little rant. Wicked witch of KGO. Then there is our instuctor John Rothman. What a condescending ahole who won't let anybody respond. He responds with a lecture. FU John
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, you listen… a lot it seems. Go figure.
DeleteEric Thomas was not that great on KGO so why would he be better on radio where he never worked before or if he did pre KGO days?
ReplyDeleteMonday's (7/25) 11p newscast was crisp with Goodrich and Cook as anchors. Wish we could convince Goodrich to be a weeknight presenter.
ReplyDeleteShe must be holding some good cards to maintain her weekend anchor duties and periodic weekday field reporting.
Also got a chance to watch the "Now" hybrid newscast on CBS News Bay Area. Anne Makovic deserves better.
Right when I thought ktvu has finally hit rock bottom, they release a set of commercials featuring Sal Castaneda in which he refers to himself as Sal ‘The Bone-crusher’ Castaneda.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Ok.
Lamonica Peters??? Good god, man. Very average and unhot. And she ain't that great as a reporter.
ReplyDeleteLocal TV news is a cesspool of posers and prims donnas with big egos. 20-30 years ago, 90 percent of these low paid clowns would have been laughed off the air.
ReplyDeleteCreepy Castaneda needs to crawl away.
ReplyDeleteI just saw the commerical where Sal calls himself the Bone-crusher. He’s so pathetic. Doesn’t he have younger women to flirt with as he is known for around the station? Oooops, was I not supposed to say that out loud?
ReplyDeleteHow sad that ktvu has resorted to turning their lame traffic reporter into some sort of comic book character with a stupid nickname.
ReplyDeleteBreaking news: Julie Haener has just started her 143rd vacation of the year.
ReplyDeleteRest in peace Rama. A predictable make-peace-not-war schtick but always made without rancour or ill temper.
ReplyDeleteThe same can’t always be said about John Rothmann. Late last month, two callers in a row took John to task for sycophancy to the Democrats insofar as seldom devoting segments to current problems afflicting the Biden administration.
John quickly shut down the first caller, saying: “The hate, vituperation and intolerance I’m receiving tonight is very reassuring.”
The follow-on caller, Gene from Lafayette, was able to make his points despite John’s fulminations.
Gene: “I listen to KGO a lot. I listen to you a lot. There’s no doubt you are more educated than I am, and you handle the crowd quite nicely. However...your promotion of the Democratic Party is so one-sided now.”
John: Excuse me! Who was the most critical person, here on KGO, about Bernie Sanders? I was! Of Bill Clinton? I was! So don’t give me that (criticism).”
Gene: “All in the past...”
John: (starts talking loudly over Gene)
Gene, persisting: “Let’s talk about the present.”
John: “I have. I do that every night.”
Gene: “And here’s the other thing I also notice about you: You’re starting to really get upset a lot. Which leads me to believe that you’re getting frustrated and weak and angry.”
John: “I’m not frustrated, weak or angry!”
It's John show he can talk about whatever he pleases, or whatever the thinks his listeners are interested in. Have you listened to Sean Hannity, Mark Levin or other right wing hosts how fair are they to the democrats? Tom Sullivan is a conservative host that at times are very critical of Trump and other republicans, other than that most hosts are one sided. Did you ever listen to the late great Gene Burns, he could get frustrated and angry, and tells his callers so in no uncertain terms.
DeleteYou missed another DOWN: KTVU's microphones. They never work! Something as simple as microphone technology and they can't do it right. Pathetic.
ReplyDeleteWell, if Ryan Yamamoto & Suzanne Phan are working together at KPIX, it might make Ryan more relaxed as his wife is right next to him delivering the news, and he seem more human and excited instead of an emotionless robot .... lol! - Who am I kidding!?! LOL!
ReplyDeleteDarryl Lamonica Peters was nothing special. You just like the Sistas Rich 0 its more than obvious.
ReplyDeleteHow the fuck did Sal ever get a job in media ? Fucking deer in bright headlights clown show!
ReplyDeleteI watched the newscast when Brooks Jarosz and Lamonica Peters anchored together. Brooks did a fantastic job of reporting the news. He was poised, confident and professional. He didn’t make any errors as we all know the regular anchors are guilty of doing every newscast. Lamonica Peters started off the newscast serious and a bit nervous but by midway she was becoming more comfortable at the desk. I find her professional and poised and I look forward to seeing more of her and Brooks at the anchor desk. I also have to mention Lamonica’s smile, she should smile more often.
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