Saturday Minutiae; Bob Melrose KCBS Royalty; Add Barbara Taylor at City Hall; Rita Williams KTVU Heritage; Crazy Week; KRON Has Reporter in London; Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame Small Ball

WHEN I THINK OF GREAT STREET REPORTERS, I think of retired KCBS legend, Bob Melrose. Nobody could paint a picture like Melrose and nobody was as tenacious as Bob.

He was first on-scene at the Caldecott Tunnel inferno; he described in detail the Fox Plaza sniper; he reported on the Bay Bridge closures and Loma Prieta earthquake.

One of a kind.

*Barbara Taylor at City Hall. Also a KCBS star in a time when brevity ruled the day.

*Rita Williams would give London Breed --da mayor--fits and we'd all like to see that but we don't get that anymore because we don't have that anymore. Disadvantage to all.

*Hey, Amber Eikel at KTVU: Williams would have saved the entire newsroom all of your BS and internal crap by simply not dealing with your ways and means. You should know that.

*And Fred Zehnder would have laughed at you.

*Between the woman in the peninsula who was beheaded and that Deputy Sheriff in Dublin who (allegedly) murdered his lover and her husband, what a crazy, sweltering week.

*KRON, of all stations, had its very own reporter in London covering the Queen's death and ongoing news --other stations relied on its network affiliations. Nextstar has money.

*Eric Thomas is slightly better of late (at KCBS) but he still touches the wrong buttons --he can't run a board, simple as that.

*Then again, no Lisa Chan, advantage Bay Area.

*If the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame (which holds its honorary lunch today) knew how to play ball and tout its being, it would make for a broader audience and get more press. But it doesn't and can't. Whole lots of ego involved here.