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*Emma Goss was looking to split KTVU --like everyone else is at The Firm. She began sending out resumes in earnest late last year. The real deal? KTVU feels like they're not losing much and although KTVU peeps are not happy at the station, they're not mourning the loss of a woman reporter who was viewed as "quirky and bizarre." The voice? I dunno.
*Goss wasn't making a lot of dough at KTVU and she won't be making much at cash-strapped NBC in San Jose. And yeah, you're right, she's earning a quarter of what Cheryl Hurd was making. Low five figures.
*A tree fell on this woman's house in Oakland, I know, I heard it 20,000 times on KCBS, thanks Bob Butler.
*Best comprehensive storm coverage: KRON, hands down , even if the reporters look like they just graduated high-school.
*No longer, "KPIX", but "CBS News Bay Area." Just awesome, re-branding is fine even if your numbers aren't.
*CBS is rumored to having an interest in perhaps selling its O and O's but their asking price is hella ludicrous.
*The alleged morning weather anchor on CBS/SF and KCBS, has, speaking of ludicrous, a stupid out take, "But for now, I'm Jessica Burch." "But for now?" As opposed to what you'll be in, say, twenty minutes? Bizarre.
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Twenty minutes in a rapidly changing and deteriorating weather story affect most of his state with declared disaster zones and more coming...twenty minutes can mean life or death..thus"for now".
ReplyDeleteI still watch the local train wreck otherwise known as ktvu, but knowing I’ll never see Emma Goss on their airwaves again makes watching the Titantic sink just a teeny tiny bit more tolerable.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Jessica Burch is gender fluid and is contemplating a change any moment. Perhaps by the end of the day, she'll be Jesse Burch.
ReplyDeleteToday Peck & Burch are teaming up on the storm coverage this morning. Sometimes if its an evening storm, Darren & Paul would do so as long as Peck isn’t working in the morning shift.
ReplyDeletePart of me can already tell how inexperienced Burch is (well she is) & Peck had to come in later morning at 9AM (he did work the 11PM shift last night) to cover more deep comprehensive coverage of the weather.
Heggen did a reasonably good job with Fehely and was kind and humble to answer Devin’s questions in the morning, though he did sound a little tired. Guess if Burch was there last week, Peck would have handled this both days on his own & be teaming with Paul on the evening storm coverage like previous times. The only thing I don’t like about Heggen is that he dressed casually whereas nearly everyone else wears a suit & tie (Peck, Hackney, Reed, whomever) & he lacks a little bit of personality with Fehely but he’s not that bad & knowledgable. Not like Paul Deanno but not terribly bad either.
I liked KRON too. Kept it well paced in the field and the weather people seemed to know their stuff.
ReplyDeleteThe NBC Bay Area news director is an idiot. They've been playing ominous music with storm B-roll to lead off their newscasts for the past few nights. That ridiculous hyping went out of style in the 90s.
ReplyDeleteI've previously been negative on Roberta Gonzales (weather on KTVU), but she did a good-to-great job reporting in-the-field on the Highway 17 southbound mud-slide closure.
ReplyDeleteI think Jessica is doing a fine job. Better than Roberta in the rain with the fake eyelashes.
ReplyDeleteJessica is good and has the potential to get better. I hope KPIX keeps her.
DeleteJessica is doing a good job and she's easy on the eyes, never a bad thing
DeleteIm sure CBS will keep some of its O & O stations especially in the top 6 or 8 in those markets along with their CW or independents...the rest of the 10 just sell it...
ReplyDeleteWhat was sad about the storm coverage is the Dec 31st storm got zero coverage because the stations are to cheap to bring reporters in on a holiday
ReplyDeleteI thought the stupid CBS Mandate was history.
ReplyDeleteI just realized that KPIX news has moved completely away from the "CBS Enforcer" theme, which traces back to WBBM-TV in 1975 ("This is our city; Chicago's our town")
ReplyDelete"Hella" ludicrous.
ReplyDeleteRich showin' his Oakland roots by using "hella."
Paul Heggen needs to go shopping. He still wears his Southern-roots wardrobe, jacket (now too small for him) and jeans. He might as well open his forecast by saying "Hey y'all, thar's rain out yer way, damn skippy." I wonder what Herb Caen would think.
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