A FEW those-in-the-know tell me
KRON's big meeting on Monday morn won't be ominous but it won't be tranquil either; if GM,
Jim Rose is not given an
ultimatum to shape up or ship out out, yeah, that'll be a surprise.
Rose has guided KRON to more respectability but he's also been careless in managing the ship too. A few rank and file people have complained to
Nexstar that its
Bay Area O/O is asleep at the wheel; people behind the scenes complain of lackluster management and careless personnel moves.
All this at a time when several of KRON's key people have expiring contracts such as Pam Moore, Ken Wayne, Grant Lodes and Vicki Liviakis.
Lodes and Moore are probably safe but Liviakis and Wayne might be on the hit list.
And Josh Palefsky, KRON's ND, might have to update his resume.
*
Olivia Horton, the host of the midday fluff show on KRON, makes roughly $100K, good money by KRON/independent standards,
WANTS more cash. Horton has her eyes on
LA and she has both the look and demeanor. I'd be surprised if
KTLA didn't snatch her off the waiver wire if KRON balks.
*If KTVU puts a camera on top of the Oakland Tribune Tower, you read it here, first.
*KTVU weather anchor, Bill Martin, may have set the world record for stumbling on his words the other day. It was a bad look. An uneven, awkward view of a guy who sounded clearly disjointed and uncomfortable. I keep hearing Martin wants to retire and is only staying because Fox has no qualified replacement. Obviously, Martin needs help.
Furthermore,
Roberta Gonzales and fashion designer,
Rosemary Orozco, are
not ready for prime time.
*I've NOTED a good dose of radio chicken soup is Marty Lurie and Bill Laskey's KNBR schmooze pre-Giants game.
Laskey, in particular is a very good listen. He's honest, he's real and genuine. And he obviously knows his stuff. It's refreshing to hear a guy who's comfortable in his own element talking baseball.
Laskey's
emotional tribute to his best friend,
Vida Blue, (who passed last week) was perticularly poignant and powerful.
Bill has been stumbling on words for years and goes off on tangents on a regular basis. It's time for him to retire.
ReplyDeleteBill Laskey is a good listen during the baseball season. I just wish he would stop talking over his guests.
The person who slammed Bill Laskey and his extra innings show is so far removed from reality it’s comical. I have been listening to Bills show from its inception. Not once have I heard him talking over his callers. He has never mumbled as a matter of fact he’s very articulate. Yeah have either an ax to grind or have him confused with someone else. You should call in and criticize him live. Let me know when you do so I can then have something to criticize you about. Bill has been pitching baseballs from the time he was a little leaguer to the major leagues. I guarantee Bill has forgotten more about baseball than you will ever know. Time for you to pump the brake's.
Delete@ 2:27 PM - the first sentence was regarding Bill Martin. The second sentence about Bill Laskey is spot on. He continually talks over his guests.
Deletere: Ms. HOrton...what's next, her gynecological photos?
ReplyDeleteTake Sominex, stay asleep
DeleteFor real. Her feed is all pictures of her backside and Jesus stuff. No thanks.
DeleteMore pics please
DeleteIn terms of the contracts, I get that's on the context of KRON, but I was wondering the same with KPIX....Allen Martin & Ken Bastida only retired because their contracts were up. Brian Hackney used to work both in KGO & KRON 4 before coming to KPIX in 2004 (I think). Is he also on a contact and would it be up anytime soon? The only reason I'm asking is because he's one of the anchors who have been there for decades. Could have asked the same about Goodrich but she got moved to the primetime slot, so it's different for her.
ReplyDeletePam Moore should NOT be safe. She's been phoning it in the past couple of years AND she's running the Johnny Carson playbook: work only four days a week. That is INEXCUSABLE and KRON needs to put its foot down and tell Moore to get with it or retire. Catherine Heenan too.
ReplyDeleteHi Justine (Waldman)!
DeleteSouth Bay, tell us how you really feel! Simma’ down. Nothing wrong with a four day week if you can pull it off.
Delete@ 1:37 Go watch KNTV; don't need you watching KRON
DeleteShe's been phoning it in the last couple of years?? You're being generous.
DeleteBill Martin is the Joe Biden of weathermen: bumbling, stumbling and just seems so out of his element. I stopped listening to Laskey, he constantly talks over guests and is actually pretty boring.
ReplyDeleteSo does Steve Raleigh
DeleteOpps! Meant Steve Paulson, love Raleigh; he went back east, super accurate
DeleteI watch Olivia occasionally. It is a fluff show, but she is decent.
ReplyDeleteThe head scratching thing to me, however, is the way she pronounces
her last name when she introduces herself at the top of the show.
Hor-ton is a very easy name to say, but she says something that
sounds like Hor-in. Check it out. No joke.
Best thing next to Kyla coming to KRON, love her energy
Delete100K for Olivia does seem low, but she only does 1 show. She probably wants an anchor gig, so she can get more $.
DeleteYou beat me to the punch! If she didn't swallow her Ts, she'd be worth at least $125K. If she's off to "OMG, Gag me with a spoon land" she will fit right in.
DeleteThat is her husband's name, maybe he pronounces it that way.
Delete@2:44 completely agree. The pronunciation of “Horten—uuuhn” is utterly awkward. It’s the delivery too. She stops, seems to hesitate as if scared to pronounce it improperly then slowly says: “hoooorteeeennuh”. I love her pedicures and perfect physique. Would definitely miss her if she left. Hot hot hot.
DeleteMaybe Bill Martin plans to make so darn many mistakes and goof ups, like all in a row, to where he will passively/ aggressively force management to boot him out, since he can't make up his own mind.
ReplyDeleteMike Krukow asked Kuiper if it hurts more to land on real grass or Astro Turf when diving for a ball??? These hacks are shot. Grab some pine meat.
ReplyDeleteRosemary Orosco isn't ready for prime time? Why not? Weather is weather. If she does it at 4 or 7, then she can do it at 6 or 10.
ReplyDeleteIf you say she's not ready for prime time because she doesn't have prime time 'chops,' well that's a moot point because KTVU doesn't give a flying fuck about that. Case in point: Mike Mibach.
This is accurate. As long as you have a pulse Amber E. will throw you on anchor duties.
Delete"I keep hearing Martin wants to retire and is only staying because Fox has no qualified replacement."
ReplyDeleteThey got one—and then let her escape to KRON.
Exactly. So stupid but seems like a lot of stupid moves at KTVU in the past few years. No stars or anyone worth watching there anymore.
DeleteYa, watching KRON 4 more ever due to Kayla and Horton!
DeleteSay what you want about Bill "Mumbles" Martin but at least he knows his weather, as does Steve Paulson and Mark Tamayo.
ReplyDeleteRosemary is a number pointer who went overboard on the botox. Now she looks like a clown. Facts.
RoGo is a trainwreck, but in an endearing way.
"Rosemary is a number pointer who went overboard on the botox. Now she looks like a clown. Facts."
DeleteDon't you mean Roberta? ;-)
Aw, you're just jealous of Rosemary, not only eye candy but smart on weather, Mark is ok, Paulson just mumbles a lot
Delete7:52. Sure, pal. Sure.
DeleteRosemary used to be a very attractive lady, until she started in with botox and plastic surgery.
DeleteRoGo so sexy.
DeleteRoRo not so much.
@ 8:59 Ok Roberta
Delete1:23, who is “RoRo?” Are you referring to Ms. Rosemary Orozco. If so, it would be “RoOr.”
DeleteMark Tamayo would be the best replacement for bill Martin but his weird suit choices on occasion seem to indicate a self inflicted wound. He literally wears a weird jobnnny Carson era brown suit every few days. I’m waiting to hear Ed McMahon laughing in the background with a martini in hand
DeleteThat's funny. I've been talking about Mark Tamayo's suits since he was a kid at KRON. I used to chalk it up to him just starting out and wore what he could afford. He may want to go Paul Heggen and wear jeans, polos and Scetchers
DeleteMr Martin sounds like he is about to have a stroke.
ReplyDeleteI like Bill Martin when he does the weather showing his cat Molly.
DeleteThat's interesting, 2:47 to learn that there is a "sound"quality in one's speech that indicates an imminent stroke..What, specifically, is that quality?
DeleteGoing to defend Bill Martin. Delivers the weather in a conversational manner...which I happen to like. Sure, he can go off on tangents...because he talking to you (not giving a rehearsed presentation). He knows his stuff, knows the unique weather of the Bay Area and knows the towns, pronounces everything correctly. Note: Forecasts are the same at every station...only the delivery is different.
ReplyDeleteAll are Missing the point on troubles at KRON.
ReplyDeleteJim Rose is an outsider from a small West PA town trying to make it in a top ten market. He was hired by Matt Rosenfeld at Nexstar another small market guy from Albany NY and Fresno
Good Luck With That!
Nexstar needs to hire people at KRON with big market experience and residency in SF. Morale suck because they never hire from within KRON.
The result has been Ineffective management by risk adverse Jim Rose over past 2 years, resulting in a mass exodus of experienced local personnel.
KRON is a leadership trainwreck
So you know Jim Rose came here from Seattle right? He has a lot of bozos working for him at KRON behind the scenes. That's his biggest problem. They need new blood to re-rig the place because it's falling apart. But the people on TV are all good at KRON.
DeleteOh god please do NOT hire from within KRON. That's where the problem is. Jim Rose came to SF from Seattle. So nope, not a small market at all. The old timers at KRON are just pissed because he is making them actually work and they would rather not. Morale is fine except for the old timers who want to hide in the control room. If there could be a mass exodus of the rest of the old school KRON people they'd be clapped out the damn door. Hilarious that these old KRON-victs come on here to bitch but not surprising. When you aren't doing your job you have a lot of time on your hands to surf the internet.
DeleteWhen you do not want to pay people, (from the GM on down) that's what you get. It's pervasive in this market.
DeleteEvery station, whether it's radio or TV, their presentation is a joke. Overpaid (small market) management, no real money for EXPERIENCED broadcasters behind the scene to pull off a quality broadcast, then we get what we get.
Seattle is not a top ten market….before that salt lake….Jim
Deleteis definitely not ready for prime time. Neither is the rest of nexstar management. If a GM does not know the culture of the market it does not work.
Dear Bitter old timer at KRON. Please quit and quit whining. Oh right. No other station will hire you. TRUTH.
DeleteDear Truth
DeleteI’m Young, Beautiful, Proud and with my Babe on the golf course today where are you?
You are an apologist for management mediocrity! Loser!
What about Steve Paulson? Can he do the weather at night?
ReplyDeleteSend him to retirement
DeleteI also like Bill Martin. He knows his stuff and delivers it in a conversational manner, easy to understand. He doesn't just give a forecast filled with statistics, he teaches you how the weather works. He's nuanced. He's normal. Bill Martin is my favorite tv meteorologist by a long shot.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Horton can't even pronounce her own name. Perfect. I dunno Los Angeles is pretty competitive. Not sure she'd cut it there. I have a feeling she'll be here for a good long while.
ReplyDeleteOlivia can't pronounce a lot of things
DeleteOH MY GAWD! Such a hater. At least I know my geografee. I bet you can't even find Yo-say-might Park on the map!
DeleteI’m a huge Olivia Horton fan, the show is fluff but it’s cute in an endearing local kind of way. But how is she going to do well in L.A. carrying Jesus on her sleeve constantly and mentioning her husband in every other instagram post? You can’t dress provocatively and show off those beautiful assets then tell everyone how you belong to Jesus and the brother. Come on the audience needs a fantasy. Am I wrong!?
ReplyDeleteIt came up during some chit-chat between the anchors and Bill that he is really into making his own beer; he's own of those Home Brew dudes. This could explain the mumbling and other verbal disfluencies, especially if he's drinking every day.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Horton is so clearly on to bigger and better things, it's not even funny. Possibly the greatest combination of looks and broadcasting talent I've ever seen.
ReplyDeletepronounces "important" as "im-poor-unt"
DeleteSarcasm? “Greatest” “ever”? Even Horton would scuff at such hyperbole or as she’s pronounce it: “hypuuuRRRHboleyiiieee”
DeleteBill Martin knows weather well enough, but he is perhaps the most inarticulate anchor of any kind I have ever seen. He makes me a little crazy sometimes! He gets all tangled up in his sentences, I can’t make sense of what he is saying sometimes. He’ll begin a sentence and midway through it seems to lose the thread and starts something else. Worst of all I can’t even figure out what he is forecasting half the time. He’ll say something like, “The rain will stop on Monday. Maybe it will stretch into Tuesday…or Wednesday. Possibly even Thursday. Mmm, a slight chance of a few showers into Friday.” WTF? My god, what IS IT? Can you make up your mind about anything? Thanks, I think I’ll just look for the weather on my phone.
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