Len Kiese Leaving KPIX Ignites Doom and Gloom at 855 Battery; Trouble and More Trouble; Another Sad Day at Inept KCBS (But What Else is New); Circle 7 Mildew; Inmates Running the Asylum; Friday Get Away

Len Kiese leaving the morning show --which I repoorted here, first--is yet another blow to KPIX's troubled station status. And it's getting worse.

People are leaving in droves, be it retirement (if you want to call it that) or early departures. Whatever the case, the natives can't wait to leave the place. Including Allen Martin, who retired (out of the blue and probably was pushed) last month. Again, I had it first.

There's a method to the madness. There's a system-wide failure at PIX that spells doom and gloom.

No leadership, no direction, no belief that things are going to get better anytime soon. And it starts at the top. The new GM, Scott Warren has done little to install confidence --so too, ND, Lisa White, --maybe there's a reason why White has been an assistant for more than a couple decades.

In any event, the rank and file is down and out. The newbies at 855 Battery are pretty much skeptical. There's is tremendous uncertainty and mass indifference.

From civilian to military. Yeah, don't get me started on that act of desperation.

BOTTOM LINE: It's depressinbg to be at KPIX.

*KCBS DISASTER ZONE: On Friday morning, the circus known as the all-news, all-commercial 740 AM (and 106.9 FM) continued...more blase and glitches across the dial and out over the air.

Boring Melissa Culross was solo (with equally boring, incompetrent, Eric Thomas gone, again!) --dreck bread crumbs Kim Wonderley on traffic telling people "there is no traffic" every 10 minutes. Great, thanks Kim.

Sports vanilla from the Lafayatte High school senior, Joe Hughes (yawn) and 190,000 commercials--what a complete abomination.

Send in the clowns.

*That scene outside Grumpy's on Thursday involved a key ABC7 producer who let it all out and was rather BLUNT in her portrayl of the current goings-on at Circle7, another misfit station with rampant rancor and confusion and desperation. It's a sea of chaos and despair and it centers around the diva news director who's seriously looking for a new job because her mildew is getting more stinky.

And her snitch let the folks know at Grumpy's: It's a wonderful life.

*I'm beginning to think, indeed, the inmates are running the asylum here but it's the inmates that have at least a quarter brain and the so-called managers have all the leadership prowess of a Modesto strip mall.