You kids are too young to remember the 1980′s, but this is exactly what it looked like.
Exactly…
Note TSV (triangular side vent) windows and tiny, tiny (by today’s standards) stock wheels:
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Don’t ever change, BMW 3-series E30.
As seen in the West Bay on a dread sunny day.
(You certainly couldn’t call it Inclement Street yesterday, that’s for sure…)
I know, but I won’t tell you.
Now, who at KNTV NBC Bay Area Channel 3, Channel 11 thinks that popular METEOROLOGIST Christina Loren is part of something that is “bridging the gap between the way other big markets present news and how we do it in the Bay?”
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Again, IKBIWTY.
But, one might get the feeling that certain person(s) at KNTV want to shake things up ’round here.
I’ll tell you, I don’t look at the KNTV ’cause my rabbit ears can’t pull in the signal from Down South, but that ad campaign they put up last year was jarring, it seemed like something not very bay area at all.
We’ll see how it goes…
Let’s see here, our first video is what popped up after I linked to the internationally-famous NMA joint about Twitter extortion in the Mid-Market area the other day.
Now, compare and contrast with KNTV, the closest thing the 415 has to an NBC affiliate.
Cue the young boy and… action:
Controversial, and
I’ll tell you, my rabbit ears (avec free govmint digital cable converter box) couldn’t even dream of picking up the KNTV from all the way down in San Bruno or wherever, so I never see the Channel 3.
But lots of you do, apparently, based upon all the recent fuss about newly-installed meteorologist Christina Loren.
“I enjoy the NBC news in the morning, but as soon as that bulging self-promoting common tart of a meteorologist appears with her forced Good Morning, I just can’t wait to change channels for the duration. I would have thought NBC would have been more concerned with professionalism in their meteorologists than with this very poor image that it presents daily. And then to add insult to injury, she turns up this a.m. with a hat, supposedly, I suppose, to be in the spirit of the royal wedding – what an insult!”
Exhibit A, the “insulting” hat in question:
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Now, with an opposing viewpoint, here’s the wedding hat minority report from Christina’s FaceBook fans:
O.K. then.
Comes now Rich Lieberman, who’s not infatuated with “The Hottest Weather Woman On The Planet,” not in the least, why would you even think that, to post an interview with CL, who ably strives to stay AOM, Always On Message, about being AAMF, All About My Forecast. See?
All right, it’s time to sign off with all the banal slogans used by KNTV over the recent decades:
TTFN!
[UPDATE: OMG, Christina Wears a Hat! Controversy ensues... And, does Christina think that Bay Area women are generally "unkempt?"]
People are still upset about the San Francisco Bay Area* NBC affiliate’s new “weather girl.”
Anyway, here’s the comment from Katrina from yesterday:
“Christina Loren is really disturbing to watch. Today her white shirt is busting (pardon the pun) at the seems. Aren’t we done with this kind of sexiest marketing? I no longer want to watch this morning show due to this clueless barbie doll projection of a wanna be women.”
I’m trying to see the problem here, if this is the right video snip.
Seems as if a lot of people complain about her (cause man, some of her promotional videos were over the top), but it also seems that Channel 3 has toned things down a bit lately, for what that’s worth…
(If there’s one thing I can’t stand for, it’s TV weather. They’re spending like three minutes telling people something that should take three seconds, IMO. Oh well.)
*”San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco” in that precise order – that’s the priority of KNTV, per some of the people that work there.
I’ve seen woise.
Genuine San Francisco hail:
Hey, wasn’t it supposed to snow last month or something?
Look what’s falling on San Francisco this AM.
It’s hail! Newsworthy hail. (Run for the hills, Ma Barker.)
Or snow, some people call this kind of thing snow.
But not area Kiwi jodiolson. She knows the score:
“Simultaneous sun and hail in SF. In New Zealand, they call these sun showers.”
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And here’s how it looked in the SoMA, per Bluoz
(Thank Gaia I don’t live in Chicago or someplace….)
This was the scene today inside the studios of KGO-TV ABC-7 as caught by the ‘Berry of lovely reporter Amy Hollyfield.
Is that Eric Thomas and Mike Nicco? Why, they look like a couple of bloggers hanging about in their underwear or PJs or whatnot, huh?
Une tranche de vie:
Uh, the 1970′s just called – it wants its telephones back.
And the 1980′s called – it wants its tiny Sony monitors back.
And the 1990′s called – it wants its desktop PCs back.
Anywho, keep up the good work, KGO!
See?
I’m speechless.
I understand where you’re coming from, KNTV, but I think you’re taking things too far.
For some reason NBC’s “beautiful” San Jose affiliate sees fit to advertise itself on Market Street, San Francisco, USA
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Remember when San Francisco had the NBC? I do.
Remember when rabbit ears could get you more than two channels* (5 and 7, most of the time)?
*My decades-old Trinitron idiot box (circa 1990, Euro design from Sony, 32 incher) is down to just two channels these days, and there’s nothing on. Kell domage.
