Monday, September 8, 2025

Exclusive: Burkhart Quits KCBS; Pissed Off Anchor Heads to San Diego; It...

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  1. Go away Burkhart, I want my news straight-up, no commentary. Needed to keep his fingers off the scale, confirming ICE activity that is unknown to public otherwise should have got him fired. I 110% support LEGAL immigration.

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    1. It should have landed him in prison and KCBS forfeiture of license by the FCC. This guy is an idiot. I mean. Just look at him?

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    2. Did he get inside knowledge or was he just reporting what was printed for him?

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  2. Rich you should do a broadcast about ktvu’s 49ers post game show (“The Point After”) It was beyond atrocious. Frank Mallicoot and fangirl extraordinaire Bailey O’Carroll anchored with Joe Fonzi relegated to a minimized role. The entire show was pretty much Frank cutting off and talking over Bailey, and when Bailey did make points they were void of any insight.

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    1. Did you catch the pregame show? It wasn’t even a real KTVU production. It was basically a straight simulcast of the Seattle Seahawks pregame show off the Fox station up there, with a couple of awkward Bailey cameos dropped in. I actually had to check to make sure I wasn’t watching the wrong channel. How in the world did we get here, where the Bay Area’s Fox affiliate can’t even be bothered to put on its own pregame show for the San Francisco 49ers? It’s embarrassing.

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  3. ICE are all over the media. The spanish language stations are flush with info. All you get on KCBS are thee paid Kristi Noem ads.

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    1. FCC should yank the license of all Spanish stations...get that garbage off the airwaves.

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  4. Jenny Seelig is as useless as a dick on a priest. A female version of that clueless bootlicker Lee Hammer.

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  5. Rich don't be sure he's going to physically go to San Diego to do that show; many iHeart and Cumulus talent are doing their shows from home "studios" now. He may be going no further than his den.

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    1. Burkhart's case, backseat of a car

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  6. Rich don't be so sure he's moving to San Diego to do this job; many iHeart and Cumulus talent now originate from home "studios." It's the latest trend. He may be going no further than his den.

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  7. Maybe let AI take over KCBS.

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  8. The Program Director Cliff Albert has run the operation as News Director/PD for over 30 years. Cliff doesn't put up with crap. It's pretty straight forward...just watch the "bay area talk" or other ba comparisons. People are too busy to care about the ba.

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  9. Good information Rich. Bret is already listed as a co-host with Veronica Carter on the morning news at KOGO. Now track down Jon Bristow, who we chatted about on the phone last week. Perhaps he's entered into an exciting career as an actuary?

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  10. Recently when a small business jet crashed into navy housing complex in San Diego...
    The reporter from KOGO did a in-studio live report, where she told listeners how the whole newsroom "saw the flash" of the crash (at 04:30) in the KOGO newsroom. She gave the report in the 6:00am block.
    Great huh?
    The problem is that the KOGO/I Heart Media studio cluster is less than 2 miles away from the crash site. I guess KOGO can't afford cellphone hours or even mileage when 6 people are killed, and a bunch of navy families lose their homes.

    I'm sure it will all be better now with Brett!

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    1. @ harold it wasn't the mileage or the cel hours that stopped them it would have been staffing (or lack thereof): If the people on duty had left the building to report on the crash, there would not have been a warm body to push the button to put them on the air back at the studio. It's not like iHurt Radio is going to pay reporters to sit around in case something happens. Radio news rooms cannot respond in real time any more, especially at 4 in the morning. The golden goose has long since been cooked.

      In a similar vein: if anyone thinks that the Emergency Broadcast System will be of any use when the 'big one' hits, you haven't seen the convoluted mess of delicate automation that it relies on now. Even if it did work in automation, there wouldn't be anyone there. They schedule the EBS tests during business hours now so they won't fail.

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  11. Great to hear KCBS still running (as of 9/11) Brett Burkhart voiced commercials for eye surgery. :)

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