Aveson is a Goner. But KRON Still Stuck in Eternal Banality; Thursday Open

THE WORD ON THE STREET? At KRON, now that Steve Aveson's contract won't be renewed, who's next? And where exactly is KRON headed? Eternal banality in my book.

So Aveson's dullness and vanilla wafer personality on the air landed him a goner. He is dull and dreary but seriously, J.R. Stone isn't exactly Mr. Excitement either. Stone isn't getting the coin Aveson got but you get my drift.

And while Grant Lodes is competent and average he's only rather ordinary. Doesn't exactly excite the senses (which is OK) but does he move the needle? No.

And that's KRON's problem; a boring, mismanaged, under-performing independent that likes to say it's the "Bay Area's News Station." Yeah, when you throw out the furniture store infomercials and the barrage of "People Behaving Bad" segments (which are OK, but not exactly worthy of the amount of runs they get).

Simply stated, KRON continues to be an albatross. They have good people. They have a few stars (Pam Moore, Radnich, Vicki Liviakis, Cathy Heenan, etc) and they even occasionally beat the competition every now and then. But a broken clock is right two times a day too.

The question: does anyone care?

That's what I thought.

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