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Frank Sommerville

lizard said:
Anyone remember when Fred Van Amburg changed his name to Van Amburg?
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I loved his stuff with David Lee Roth, but not so much with Sammy Hagar.
...oh, wait...
 
WoodsChick said:
And Dialing For Dollars!
"9 from the top, Pat!"


BayAreaChick
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Pat Iforgothisname. He adapted and did the weather. Very nice man. Became distinguished when he grew that Deerhunter Deniro goat.
 
lizard said:
Pat Iforgothisname. He adapted and did the weather. Very nice man. Became distinguished when he grew that Deerhunter Deniro goat.
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:laughing Yep! Pat McCormick

And he did Charley and Humphrey, too.
 
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Bob Wilkins/Creature Feature, ftw.
 
Bay Arean said:
Because I grew up in Martinez and pre-cable, we watched Creature Features on Channel 13 from Sacto, I think. It did move to 2 but the "placeholder' of the show is that KOFY still shows a Saturday night movie with a weird host and commercial interrupted lame scary movies. I can't believe it's lasted, it has some weird fake-English goth guy now, but its definitely the old Creature Feature formula. For a while they had that Vinnie guy from radio.
I think that KOFY got his rocking chair initially on the set. It's been a while.
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I think you're talking about Svengoolie.

His schtick is a bit much for me but I have a soft spot for cheesy horror movies and every now and again he delivers with a classic.
 
I remember when Bill Martin was on Channel 50 out of Santa Rosa.

In any case...I need more Gasia in my life.
 
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Legend.
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He was so young when he started out that he reminded me of a high school kid in an oversized suit smoking the cigar to look more grown up. And all those years passed....We had a few young conservative types like that at my high school, I think he might have been their hero. The dead-pan thing, it was pretty awesome....The fact that anyone ever pitched the idea and made it to a show is what makes it kind of legend....not sure if there was a precedent elsewhere or what..

But I must point out that we only had three stations in Mtz at the time until Televents cable came in so, basically, you tended to watch pretty much the least objectionable if not entertaining thing that was on. I think the two other stations had regular movies in that time slot. This was before SNL etc. In those days, you might end up staying up late enough to see the test signal. I think it was around 1 am for a while.

I know, geezer talk.
 
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wazzuFreddo said:
No, but they play plenty of Fox News national stories on the local newscasts.
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Yeah, fair enough - but I heartened to see that the Fox affiliates are not “Fox” anymore...I do wonder why Disney doesn’t rebrand them though..no idea.
 
As usual im a little to this thread but on topic:

Somerville has been having personal issues bleeding into his character for a while now. Not just his self perceived blackness. It came to a head when he was clearly drunk on camera. Took a break and then set him self on fire(figuratively) likely on purpose as he knew his time and relevancy was expiring fast. He’s a Porsche guy from Orinda and never been to my shop so fuck him (kidding). Tough to see someone self destruct right in front of you

Leslie Griffith said my name on air one time after I won some swim in the bay! I was over the moon! One of my customers lives in the house she designed and built but sold when she moved on. I still get a kick out over delivering cars there.

Malou was paired with Mike Rowe who went on to bigger and better things. I met him doing some gig shortly after starting his own thing. He said someone always came up to him and asked where she was and when she was going to be joining him. He seemed genuinely slightly peeved.
 
billswim said:
As usual im a little to this thread but on topic:

Somerville has been having personal issues bleeding into his character for a while now. Not just his self perceived blackness. It came to a head when he was clearly drunk on camera. Took a break and then set him self on fire(figuratively) likely on purpose as he knew his time and relevancy was expiring fast. He’s a Porsche guy from Orinda and never been to my shop so fuck him (kidding). Tough to see someone self destruct right in front of you

Leslie Griffith said my name on air one time after I won some swim in the bay! I was over the moon! One of my customers lives in the house she designed and built but sold when she moved on. I still get a kick out over delivering cars there.

Malou was paired with Mike Rowe who went on to bigger and better things. I met him doing some gig shortly after starting his own thing. He said someone always came up to him and asked where she was and when she was going to be joining him. He seemed genuinely slightly peeved.
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ha about Rowe!!! But you know, it illustrates that thing, the giant white patriarch guy paired with exotic Asian beauty gal. For the longest time, there weren't any Asian-American MEN on these broadcast as show anchors. Not sure there are yet as anchors unless I'm forgetting somebody. John Sasaki used to have weekend duties at 2 but he works for the school district or something now. Raj Mathai has certainly stepped up from sports to general and that's cool, as far as South Asians. It's painful to bean count but you know the companies themselves are playing that game in their own way, trying to cater to what they PERCEIVE the public wants. I just thought it was absolute BS that we had these female anchors IN THOSE DAYS but no guys, as though their Asian masculinity would somehow screw up the stations image with the public.

Oh, I found it: Richard Brown and Terilyn Joe. Richard Brown was pretty much the whitest guy (yes, he was Canadian) who ever came on our local news and his co-anchor was Terilyn Joe, making my point. He even made Van Amburg look ethnic.
 
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On that note I think Da Lihn is going places. He’s fearless
 
Bay Arean said:
He was so young when he started out that he reminded me of a high school kid in an oversized suit smoking the cigar to look more grown up. And all those years passed....We had a few young conservative types like that at my high school, I think he might have been their hero. The dead-pan thing, it was pretty awesome....The fact that anyone ever pitched the idea and made it to a show is what makes it kind of legend....not sure if there was a precedent elsewhere or what..

But I must point out that we only had three stations in Mtz at the time until Televents cable came in so, basically, you tended to watch pretty much the least objectionable if not entertaining thing that was on. I think the two other stations had regular movies in that time slot. This was before SNL etc. In those days, you might end up staying up late enough to see the test signal. I think it was around 1 am for a while.

I know, geezer talk.
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I used to see Bob Wilkins all over the Bay Area, the most notable sighting at a Star Trek and Sci-Fi convention in the mid-70's at the Oakland Auditorium (uh, not that I used to go to those things or anything...) He was pretty much in character and was kinda snobby. Guess he wasn't into a bunch of nerdy sci-fi geeks :dunno


NotANerdyGeekChickISwear
 
WoodsChick said:
I used to see Bob Wilkins all over the Bay Area, the most notable sighting at a Star Trek and Sci-Fi convention in the mid-70's at the Oakland Auditorium (uh, not that I used to go to those things or anything...) He was pretty much in character and was kinda snobby. Guess he wasn't into a bunch of nerdy sci-fi geeks :dunno


NotANerdyGeekChickISwear
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Irony much? He was the original wearer of the Nerd Goggles...the original geeky guy. That's funny! Now that I think of it, he would mention going to those things on his shows and occasionally have guests, I guess the impresarios of them or something to hype the "cons" of all sorts. He was geeky here, but probably was like normal for Ohio or somewhere in the Great Midwestern Passive Aggressive Zone.
 
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billswim said:
On that note I think Da Lihn is going places. He’s fearless
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I like him a lot. Just a man doin his job. And if you don't like a little Southeast Asian (Viet?) guy with a slightly high voice and Anglo-unusual first name, well, too goddam bad. Bravo to whoever hired him and didn't tell him to get a "regular" name. But Thuy Vu preceded him in that.
 
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