YES,
KTVU has quietly shelved sports reporting from its sports anchors--no more was this evident last, (Friday) night when its
news anchors delivered the sporting life on the day of the
Giants' home opener.
I'VE been saying for months now
Fox is getting rid of sports as a local segment on all its O and O's letting its news anchors do the chores.
It's a cost-cutting move, first and foremost and it comes at a time that, frankly, I'm surprised hasn't taken place sooner. It no doubt sped up the action of the forced-retiremenrt of Mark Ibanez who took a golden parachute offer from Fox just a year ago.
I've always wondered why Fox, which owns the
NFL/NFC pro football rights, would want to detour away from sports in its local markets but money is money, or in the case of Fox,
saving money.
I wanna see if Fox affiliates, including the one here in the Bay Area, would have to gonad to eliminate the NFL coverage since its own affiliate would no longer have sports reporters do the sports. One word: SUICIDE!
ReplyDeleteYes, this was inevitable and you'll have some newscaster droning on in a monotone voice, reciting box scores like a shopping list devoid of any emotion. That's where were at. That being the case, I'd like to see a Max Patkin type behind the desk delivering the evening news. Hey, if your gonna spew lies...at least be entertaining!
ReplyDeleteKCBS Radio does the same thing. Anchor gives a couple local scores and then mostly taped over and over other BS.
ReplyDeleteSteve Bitker gives game scores to his Wife, and she said “I don’t want to hear that shit.”
DeleteAn emerging trend in LA (KCAL 9 CBS) is having the Assignment Editor on duty report on events directly and live from the assignment desk, instead of sending a reporter out to stand in front of city hall or a fountain or interview a clueless neighbor somewhere. More stories covered with less personnel.
ReplyDeleteWithout local sports anchors we just get homogenized reporting on national sports (NFL, MLB, NBA etc). I'm sure they'll be coverage of some NCAA stuff but it's going to be generic. Say goodbye to local high school athletes, you'll never hear of them again.
ReplyDeleteI’m surprised they didn’t bring back Greg “Wendy Williams” Liggins for Sports. Hmph.
ReplyDeletePauly Mac, gambling goombas and annuity salesmen before a seven hour pre/post game show for the Giants. KNBR weekends are truly the worst.
ReplyDeleteThat replay of a P. Mac podcast is pretty dreadful, two or three guys talking over each other and dude-ing, bro-ing, and shout-out-to-ing amongst pop culture references alternately obscure and basic, and then a plodding segment from his good friend Steve Moskovitz (sp). Everybody soloing, and little working as a unit.
DeleteGuess it's economical, though.
Did anyone hear the Paulie Mac Podcast replay on radio this morning. At the very end of the podcast, right before it cuts to commercial break. Paulie clearly says to one of the other guys, “When the f**k are we doing the Donte Divincenzo song?” Not sure who was in charge of editing, but they made a huge mistake by letting that slip out on radio.
DeleteTV news is following in the footsteps of newspapers and soon there will be none.
ReplyDeleteThe folks killing sports coverage are not the weirdos at Fox, but rather the imbeciles at KNBR.
ReplyDeleteIf I wanted to know what Murph and Mac did over the weekend, or wanted to know what MIGHT happen in the NFL draft (Papa/Lund), or wanted to know about betting odds and frat boy shenanigans (Tolbert/Copes), I can get all that stuff, ad nauseum, on KNBR. What I won’t hear on KNBR is actual sports talk. They’re killin’ it !!
I doubt if the average high schooler cares about local tv coverage of sports.
ReplyDeleteIt's all intetnet.
High School prep shows are pretty popular in other markets. KUSI in San Diego makes bank off their "Prep Pigskin Report". Don't even mention H.S. football in Texas, they have entire networks that just cover H.S. sports.The BA can't support a show like that, since this area is hostile to most contact sports.
DeleteDidn't KICU once do a H.S. sports show? I forget.
Yep Robert Braunstein for about 20 years.
DeleteHaving worked under Kevin O’brian and fought the good fight for more than 26 years, there are no longer broadcasters running the business. Great leadership is sorely lacking at Fox Television Stations.
DeleteSo are Fonzi, Appelbaum et al fired? Gone? If they’re not doing sports, what are they doing?
ReplyDeleteCan they do news segments or reporting. Fill in anchor? Who knows.
DeleteWho gets the 'Sports Office" in the newsroom? That's some prime newsroom real estate!
DeleteThey've been having the anchors do sports on Friday and Sat urday nights for some time. What's more curious is the decision to run a bank commercial 5 (FIVE) times during last night's 10 pm newscast. It's happened on an off over the past year or so, but it seems to be happening more lately. Maybe they're not making their audience guarantee
ReplyDeleteI loved listening to Peter Cleaveland first on Kgo TV then on ABC's national radio network and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. He was always a great news correspondent.
Delete"What's more curious is the decision to run a bank commercial 5 (FIVE) times during last night's 10 pm newscast."
DeleteWhat bank and why is it "curious." They run most of their commercials at least five times an hour.
> They've been having the anchors do sports on
Delete> Friday and Saturday nights for some time
It's Saturday and I'm listening to Joe Fonzi (who sounds like he has a nasty cold, btw.)
I hope KPIX picks up on this trend with Vern Glen.
ReplyDeleteKPIX should promote Andrea Nakano to report sports M-F and have Charlie Waller on the weekends. Glenn is insufferable. They should cut Gary Radner’s clone now!
DeleteWho cares? This obsession with sports is childish. Who needs it? I laugh at the grown men sitting around a table, going over stats like it’s a matter of life and death. Stupid nonsense.
ReplyDeleteHas this happened at any of the other Fox O&Os?
ReplyDeleteI only trust getting my sports from the great Champ Kind.
ReplyDeleteWhammy!
Delete"The Sporting Life" is Patented Trademark of Mark Ibanez!!
ReplyDeleteAnd???? What’s your point?
DeleteAs is "The Vinyl Room." ("The Leather Room" is still pending.)
DeleteBetcha ibañez has a pleather room for those “romantic weekends” with himself.
DeleteChances of a TV comeback for Gary Radnich are fading...
ReplyDeleteAnd that's good for everyone!
DeleteGary, Ibañez and Somerville anchoring on a new station! With Jennifer Jolly, Anna Chavez, Elaine Corral and Terilyn Joe.
DeleteRadnich was getting old and cranky.
DeleteRich: I saw the writings on the wall a few years ago; the last 2 or 3 generations is killing society as we know it, they are killing in person shopping, restaurant dining, and professional sports spectating and anticipation, all we can do is live and let live and let them inherit what they have embellish and just be glad when we go we aren't in their realm and not understanding what we felt was right and comforting in our times....truth in reporting the news, sports reporting.........I dream for the olden days........
ReplyDeleteNBC Bay Area have anchors reporting sports for years. Anthony Flores does sports on the weekends.
ReplyDeleteAnother indication how pathetic KTVU is:
ReplyDeleteThey did a story on the five best cities for public transit in the world, according to Time Out.
Here is the actual list:
1. Berlin
2. Prague
3. Tokyo
4. Copenhagen
5. Stockholm
THEY reported it as
1. Berlin
2. Prague
3. Tokyo
4. Copenhagen
5. Denmark
Of course Copenhagen is IN Denmark. The idiot doing the graphic didn't notice the comma (Copenhagen, Denmark) and put them separately, apparently not knowing Denmark isn't a city.
But I'll bet he/she can name all the Kardashians and knows every song by Maroon 5.
Priorities!
So they made a mistake. Posting the list was intetesting.
DeleteThe only one showing ignorance here is you by over reacting.
Go to time out for a while.
I get most of my sports news from Yahoo these days. There was a time I would have gone nuts if they eliminated sports from the local broadcast, but not anymore. In fact, if I'm watching local news, I'll often turn it off when sports comes on, because I already know what they're going to say.
ReplyDeleteI never listen to KNBR or
ReplyDelete‘The Game’ for sports news because the on-air “staffs,” ( if that’s what you want to call them,) are a combination of idiots, loudmouths and unprofessional people such as Paulie Mac, , ‘Copes,’ FP Santangelo, “ the Guru,” John Lund, and Willard. There used to actually have trained, experienced broadcast journalists on the air but brain dead management at both stations prefers to go with cheap, embarrassingly bad ‘ talent, ( if you want to call it that.) As for KCBS, they have traffic guys such ss Joe Hughes who are high school radio quality reading the sports.
As much as we've liked our local TV sports anchors through the years, I believe there is no longer a need for a sports segment on local news. In an era when every local team's game is televised every night, with a Web and cable networks available, every fan knows what happened long before 10:45 or 11:22 when the local sporting-life segments air. There might be a use for sports reporting or interviews on stations' streaming platforms, but the days when we waited for Gary Park or Wayne Walker to inform us of the day's scores and highlights are long gone.
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