KGO needs to inject some good fundamental zip into its programming. The sameness is jarring and quite frankly, boring. There's a certain rigidity to what they put out and it hasn't been working for well over two years.
**Barbara Simpson, the ex-KTVU anchor turned ultra-conservative weekend talkie on KSFO has been substituting for morning vacationer, Brian Sussman.
I tried to listen to Simpson, whose grating monotone voice was like listening to a DMV clerk in Fresno tell me that I needed to fill out certain paperwork.
Not that I really wanted nor cared what Simpson says because ever since leaving TV, Simpson has gone off the political deep end, and I'm not the only one who feels that way.
**TV assignment editors, listen up. Must the same old, trite typical day-of-the-mill "interview", people -on-the-street in the Castro sound actuality re: Prop 8 be aired daily? Its not as if we already know that most gay people, one would assume, would be anti-Prop 8, sort of a given.
Maybe, and shocking enough, a visit through some of the other hoods to get a more varied opinion, or would that require thinking and, oh, I don't know, a bit of topical edge?
The viewers might enjoy some depth now and then.
**I'm really liking FP Santangelo more and more every day, particularly on KNBR, where he seems less loose and gives out some very insightful opinion nightly; I also like him on Com cast SportsNet, but he needs to relax and 86 the robot look. I wish he'd just think he's on radio and come out and say what's really on his mind.
A good take, by the way, which Santangelo thought was absurd: the idea that, perhaps, Tim Lincecum's dad, should be summoned to help out his kid.
Sounds like something originating from the Giants booster club.
