tuned wrote:I think the board op that went to the can and left Karels mike on is 100% to blame and should have gotten fired but Karel shouldn't walk the plank.
In this case, Karel is 100% to blame for his own demise. He's not actually at KGO, he does his show from his home in Santa Monica and uses a Switch 56 to give him studio quality.
KGO's "local" news in the evenings, overnights and weekends originates from the Metro Traffic studios in San Francisco.
Karel instructs his board ops to leave his mic hot during newscasts so he can jump in and kibbitz with the newsperson..
I always thought his interrupting the newsperson took away credibility from the cast and sounded somewhat idiotic, but I guess the programming people at KGO know better.
Look where Karel and his op ended up.