Internal Mush at Bay Area TV News Stations; KCBS Crap: 7 Minutes of Actual News in One Hour; ABC7's Dan Noyes Scary Bike Ride in SF; Greg Papa Ego Run Amok After 49ers Victory
LOTS of internal misery at ALL BaY Area TV News stations--most of it will come to a head at ythe end of the month. And it won't be pretty. It never is.
*KCBS the other morning: take away all the ads, weather, trafic/sports and you had 7 minutes of actual news --in an hour! 7! minutes! Of course, some people would cheer because listening to KCBS these days? Ads are a welcome relief.
*As I surmised, the ABC/Nexstar deal has a lot of issues to deal with, mostly doing with the deal itself, which is basically a trial balloon..
*Gives new meaning to, when the lights go down in the citay...
*IF YOU LISTENED to KNBR the morning after the 49ers victory, it almost sounded as if it was Greg Papa who won the football game.
Papa and his pretentious football jargon geek is simply unlistenable and murky; a case of ego and personal chaos run amok. I can no longer listen to the radio account --the TV net broadcasters have a much better call and minus the HIDEOUS Papa TD call, a total ABOMNINATION!
Frankly, aside from the few minutes of national and one minute of local at the top of the hour, I never hear much on KCBS beyond awful ads, traffic and weather. And the traffic reports are useless: they miss half of what's going on out there. Most of the time they will zero in on one thing they know about and ignore everything else. If you have a phone you can get much more relevant information.
I finally agree with you on something. Papa's TD call is a "total abomination". I thought it was an unwritten rule for team announcers to NEVER use the team's city name to call a score. You do not say, "Touchdown Minneapolis". You say "Touchdown Vikings". Can someone please make him stop?
No SF native has ever said SAN--FRAN--CISCO! It's more Sanfruncisco. Papa is a pompous ass and a carpetbagger. I will take Ted Robinson every time over Papa.
Where is it written that a sports broadcaster needs to be “native” to the city for which they broadcast? Never mind the fact the SAN-FRAN-CISCO 49ers play 40 miles south, two counties away.
Guess that means Kruk, Kuip, Randy Hahn, Ted Robinson, and others should’ve never been hired by local teams.
Re: Anonymous 10:03AM In my original post, 9/23 2:52PM I specifically said "TEAM" announcers. They are hired by the team, paid by the team and announce for the team. I find Greg Papa's over exaggerated use of the name of the city in his touchdown calls to be irritating and annoying. I do not care where he is from, where the 49ers play, how many counties away their stadium is or in what direction.
I just think Touchdown 49ers has been used so often for so lon greg's massive ego had to come up with his own unique call..his call does sound forced and contrived..G pop and T rock,3 and 0 bro
KCBS has “Traffic and Weather Together on the 8’s”. They buried the sports, stock exchange reports somewhere. When I am driving, they are the go-to station. The Kars 4 Kids baloney is as old as Abraham, and likely as tough as an old boot. “Now accepting precious metals, diamonds, valuable paintings, and vintage porn!” KCBS, anything for money…
I don't like to see anyone be the victim of gang violence, OR violence of any kind, but feeling sympathy for Dan Noyes is a tough sell for me. He did a couple of hit pieces on the SFFD that were totally unwarranted.
Hi, Rich, I am watching Natasha Zouves anchoring solo on News Nation. She is still gorgeous, reading the teleprompter smoothly, interacting with field reporters and transitioning between stores easily.
You are right on with your Papa thoughts, the guy is beyond arrogant. His touchdown calls are ridiculous. His calling all the players by nickname as if he is one of the guy’s is pathetic. Continually calling plays by names used on the field as if most listeners can relate to specific plays in that way I know your not a John Lund fan, but I find Lund far more enjoyable to listen to when he isn’t worrying about his fake laughing at Papa’s 6th grade sex or drinking reference’s. Seriously guy’s the only ones who think your funny are back at their middle school during your show Papa I have no doubt you are an intelligent man, gifted with being able to do radio and TV, but the guy’s I like listening too are the ones who do it without trying to make themselves the focus
Dan Noyes is lucky the kids were scared of being videoed for Ch. 7. The group of them could have beaten Dan up and stolen his phone in addition to his bike.
Let’s cut to the chase: Papa is a Pompous Ass who uses garbled jargon to cover his lack of simple straight play by play. Me thinks his focus on the A-Gap is insider code for “small wanker”. Instead of saying “halfback X up the gut”, he will erupt “handoff to Kaputnik, stutter step through the nine-hole!” (for a 2 yard gain on 3rd and twelve). Good Lord, is he capable of just calling a game without all the needless buzz words that add nothing to the call? Last night on MNF K Harlan said a halfback “machete’d his way through the d-line”. Simple, straight-forward, descriptive, game calling. We understood the action.
Frankly, aside from the few minutes of national and one minute of local at the top of the hour, I never hear much on KCBS beyond awful ads, traffic and weather. And the traffic reports are useless: they miss half of what's going on out there. Most of the time they will zero in on one thing they know about and ignore everything else. If you have a phone you can get much more relevant information.
ReplyDeleteFrankly KCBS is useless.
You said it
DeleteFrankly I'm sick of the word 'frankly'.
DeleteCould you imagine have the name Frank Lee? frankly no
Delete@1:06 Love your humor!
DeleteI finally agree with you on something. Papa's TD call is a "total abomination". I thought it was an unwritten rule for team announcers to NEVER use the team's city name to call a score. You do not say, "Touchdown Minneapolis". You say "Touchdown Vikings". Can someone please make him stop?
ReplyDeleteNo SF native has ever said SAN--FRAN--CISCO!
DeleteIt's more Sanfruncisco. Papa is a pompous ass and a
carpetbagger. I will take Ted Robinson every time over Papa.
Where is it written that a sports broadcaster needs to be “native” to the city for which they broadcast? Never mind the fact the SAN-FRAN-CISCO 49ers play 40 miles south, two counties away.
DeleteGuess that means Kruk, Kuip, Randy Hahn, Ted Robinson, and others should’ve never been hired by local teams.
Re: Anonymous 10:03AM
DeleteIn my original post, 9/23 2:52PM I specifically said "TEAM" announcers. They are hired by the team, paid by the team and announce for the team. I find Greg Papa's over exaggerated use of the name of the city in his touchdown calls to be irritating and annoying. I do not care where he is from, where the 49ers play, how many counties away their stadium is or in what direction.
I just think Touchdown 49ers has been used so often for so lon greg's massive ego had to come up with his own unique call..his call does sound forced and contrived..G pop and T rock,3 and 0 bro
DeleteKCBS has “Traffic and Weather Together on the 8’s”. They buried the sports, stock exchange reports somewhere. When I am driving, they are the go-to station.
ReplyDeleteThe Kars 4 Kids baloney is as old as Abraham, and likely as tough as an old boot. “Now accepting precious metals, diamonds, valuable paintings, and vintage porn!” KCBS, anything for money…
I don't like to see anyone be the victim of gang violence, OR violence of any kind, but feeling sympathy for Dan Noyes is a tough sell for
ReplyDeleteme. He did a couple of hit pieces on the SFFD that were totally unwarranted.
Hi, Rich, I am watching Natasha Zouves anchoring solo on News Nation. She is still gorgeous, reading the teleprompter smoothly, interacting with field reporters and transitioning between stores easily.
ReplyDeleteYou are right on with your Papa thoughts, the guy is beyond arrogant. His touchdown calls are ridiculous. His calling all the players by nickname as if he is one of the guy’s is pathetic. Continually calling plays by names used on the field as if most listeners can relate to specific plays in that way
ReplyDeleteI know your not a John Lund fan, but I find Lund far more enjoyable to listen to when he isn’t worrying about his fake laughing at Papa’s 6th grade sex or drinking reference’s. Seriously guy’s the only ones who think your funny are back at their middle school during your show
Papa I have no doubt you are an intelligent man, gifted with being able to do radio and TV, but the guy’s I like listening too are the ones who do it without trying to make themselves the focus
Dan Noyes can kiss my ass.
ReplyDeleteOk, Reggie
DeleteDan Noyes is lucky the kids were scared of being videoed for Ch. 7. The group of them could have beaten Dan up and stolen his phone in addition to his bike.
ReplyDeleteGreg's TD call takes longer then some plays.
ReplyDeleteThat's the reason on why I can't listen to him. Not every word is a hundred syllable's
DeleteDumbest touchdown call in the history of touchdown calls.
DeleteLet’s cut to the chase: Papa is a Pompous Ass who uses garbled jargon to cover his lack of simple straight play by play.
DeleteMe thinks his focus on the A-Gap is insider code for “small wanker”. Instead of saying “halfback X up the gut”, he will erupt “handoff to Kaputnik, stutter step through the nine-hole!” (for a 2 yard gain on 3rd and twelve).
Good Lord, is he capable of just calling a game without all the needless buzz words that add nothing to the call?
Last night on MNF K Harlan said a halfback “machete’d his way through the d-line”. Simple, straight-forward, descriptive, game calling. We understood the action.
Greg Papa calling 49er play, is nothing more than ressurecting Joe Angel's Giants games.
ReplyDeleteAngel went on to call Orioles games and people there loved his "You can put it in the win column". There is no accounting for taste.
DeleteSure beats adios peolota
DeleteDan Noyes broke the story on those shithead cops in San Rafael, I'm sad to see this happen to him.
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