Up and Down Bay Area Media Celebrity Status: Drool and Cool; The Tuesday VIP List; Nobody is Safe

KCBS: Down

The anchor shuffle is such an embarrassment, Audacy decided to have its late summer conference in LA, not SF where it was originally scheduled. Victor Zaragosa--traffic guy doing sports? How cheap can you get? And that's the least of their problems

KCSM: Up

The little engine that could. An underrated non-profit FM jazz outlet that continues to put out great, vintage radio with a thrifty budget and limited manpower. Just a gem of a radio station--where's Larry Ellison to dole out a few million when you need it.

KRON: Up

When they put out a better-than-average product--and do so with competent anchors and a underrated set, then even KRON gets the nod up here. Their reporters are still too young and giddy for my taste but I'm not going to quibble. KRON in the last year has begun to both look and feel un-KRON like --complete with a cool streaming site and web product--they deserve props.

KPIX: Down

Maybe the most decrepit TV News station in the Bay Area--a haunted house is 855 Battery--now they're so out of it, they're hiring the wifes of amateur posers like the current mutt late of Seattle. Can they get any worse? Oh you bet they can.

Damon Bruce: Down

The all-sports FM radio putz has been bragging to co-workers I'm the highest-paid guy here!"--until some of the bosses at Audacy kick your ass and tell you to shut up and do your job. Besides, if Audacy's financial status doesn't improve, Bruce will have to migrate back to his hometown Indiana.

Matt Nahigian: Up

The Game's (95.7 FM) PD has taken the station out of the abyss and into relevance with a crafty playbook of mostly sharp-witted hosts with attitude and opinion. Now if only that applied to Bruce and Mark Willard.

KNBR: Down

Just plain yuck! Nothing else needs to be said.

Nikki Medoro: Down

The KGO Radio morning yenta continues to talk about her kids as if they've morphed into being our kids. They haven't. Medoro couldn't execute a solid morning playbook if her life depended on it. Anoother thing: her interviews suck too. The weekly jive with Oakland mayor, Libby Schaaf is a textbook case of softball alley. It would be good if Medoro had a real producer on board to tell her of her mildew but that's too harsh a chore for the current dame who is really KGO's internal snitch.

Steve Moskowitz: Down

Get audited and tell the IRS it's KGO's fault for allowing you airtime. Then again, I'd rather listen to you than Chris Merrill. Thompson (Mark) too.

*The Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame: Down

Sorry folks but nobody really cares. If you wanted to make it legit then you could decide the honorees by sheer talent and legacy as opposed to just naming names for the real goal of getting pub and fiscal relevance. The ceremony too would be a helluva lot better if you had it at a place that serves decent food and limit acceptance speeches to a minute.

*KDFC: Up

Still up when everyone in this area thought at first you were a has-been from day one. Bethoven wins out.

KOIT: Up

They've been consistent for multi-decades now and I. for one, am an advocate. It's still got a winning formula every Christmass time and that's cool with me because it works. A bit too robotic but what the hell.

The Buy Bay Area houses jerks Down

Those ads by the assholes telling you they'll buy your home no matter the condition and no matter the circumstances--basically predatory lenders with cash who are, in reality taking advanatge of people who are down and out and in personal turbulence--I say to these assholes? Fuck you and go stuff it. And to KCBS and KGO and KNBR for running these bastards ads.

The relentless family lawyers morons --namely Habbas and Dolan law firm Down

Who knew Kars4Kids would be refreshing compared to these nauseating lizards.

Lamonica Peters: Up

You say robotic, I say utter cool and network-like--and her anchoring on KTVU the other night was certifiably brilliant. She wrote all her copy and delivered a knockout performance that made KTVU look good and then some.

John Rothmann: Down

All the reasons why this once-decent KGO talker has gone to the crapper--just like KGO. the 415-eight-zero--eight-zero savant, needs a better time and place. He's just so yesterday. Rothmann needs to channel his good friends, Abe Lincoln, Richard Nixon, Harold Stassen and James Madison, for a fireside chat: how to orchestrate better talk radio in afternoon drive.

Jon Miller and Dave Flemming Down

The absurd practice of bitching about every ball/strike call by the umpire is so labored and tired, members of the Giants inner broadcast circle are up in arms over it. And Miller's ridiculous, tired "that was hit 107 MPH off the bat" is out and out pathetic and embarrassing.

Carlos Ramirez Down

Just go away.

Bill Laskey Up

Laskey is a very concise, talented, interesting and cool post-game radio guy and his Giants commentary is first-rate and underrated. He's critical and thought-provking and he's decidedly better than that overbearing schmuck, FP Santangelo, who should go back to emceeing bathtub races in Redwood City.

Pam Moore Down

Pam, people at KRON are beginning to think you make yourself out to be bigger than KRON. You were a long time ago. Just make up your mind already.

Reggie Aqui: Down

You are, hands down, the BIGGEST asshole to grace the seat at Circle7. Who gives a shit about your personal life, your sex life, your diet, your running, your fucked-up habits, it's all sort of BORING and no one cares. You're lucky the mouse house puts up with you.

Dan Ashley: Up

That new high, six-figure extension you're about to sign is all the better with a new wife, Walnut Creek palace and more positive vibes than the PR guy at SFO. Congrats Dan now if only you took control of that hair!

Kristen Sze: Down

You, surprisingly, have more baggage than the United Terminal at SFO.

*Jennifer Seelig and Don Bastida : Down

Must have pictures.

John Lund: Down

"Like you said" guy, Greg Papa's bitch, is an abject moron who is nothing more than a radio retread with a teenage filthy mouth. A redundant, jerky putz who gets jobs because he has some technique that wins out radio program directors. His buddy at KNBR, the PD Kevin Graham, Lund brags, is one such victim--thus, the Bay Area too.

Seattle media: Up

Who'd have thunk the Starbucks denizens caught on to the brilliant, shy, spelling-savvy, media-newsy virtues of one certain guy with the initials of RL and now, if you guys here only made contributions to this blog, well then, life would be so much less difficult.

Bill Martin: Down

""Uh. uh, uh, yeah I had a hand in getting Roberta Gonzales, uh, just, uh, had to get 'her done, uh, uh, done."

*Carolyn Burns Down<p> "Uh, uh, traffic on 101 is, uh, uh, really, uh ...uh, bad and 'that pile-up on Whipple, is, uh terrible becaue THAT road is awful,and THAT accident is, uh, very bad on THAT, uh, Bay Area roadway."

KRON weather screens: Up

"You like us, you really like us!" Weather boards at KRON studios channeling Sally Field.