KPIX CBS 5 News

Yesterday the news featured the valley fire which is certainly awful but what about the Butte fire? Many were displaced there as well.

Who is that strange, black haired cartoon character on the 5 o’clock news? The eyelid job exaggerates what should have been left alone in the first place. Poor lady!
Any class this station ever had left when John Kessler and Sydney left. I miss them terribly and have boycotted the station since their departures.

This station ran an erroneous and blatant lie about a rookie Oakland police officer (white) aggressively (and with the suggestion of racism) handled a reported possible robbery at an Oakland fire station. Keith Jones (and this scum bag had his kids lie as well) is an Oakland fire fighter, returning from a raiders game with his two kids. Found the fire station open, police were called and responded. This fire fighter lied (race baited) and KPIX ran his story. Turns out the cop had a body camera, and handled the issue perfectly. Where is the Apology! Where is the story about this lie?! No racism, no story. This stinks. You idiots wonder why no one trusts the media. Boo and hiss.

I think this is the show with Ken Bastida. I just love how he wiggles his butt when reporting the news, like he has a little vibrator that he’s adjusting. He used to do it only when he reported on good news, but now even while reporting murders and child abuse he wiggles his butt in the chair and has a little smirk on his face. He is so cute!!!

Why do CBS/​KPIX continue to pretend that Grammy coverage is live? Do they think viewers are stupid? It is live to East Coast and mid eastern U S states, not western U S areas, including our own Bay Area. Stop lying KPIX… tell the truth. We see the Grammys after the eastern areas of out country because we do not count. The music industry does not respect West Coast consumers.

Yesterday Ken Bastida made some smirking references to Coit Tower and Lillian Coit. I emailed the head of the newsroom to express my displeasure. I received a self-​serving reply apparently from Ken Bastida, denying that he made any innuendos about Lillian Coit, and seemingly denying his obvious implication that Coit Tower was a phallic symbol (I realize that we have Alfred Hitchcock to blame for that). He lack of personal accountability is more than troubling. What little respect I had for KPIX has completely evaporated. In an effort for full disclosure, I admit that I was a huge fan of Kessler-​Kuhara, and angry about how they were terminated. KPIX seems completely broken without a clue about how to resurrect their reputation.

John Kessler, Sydney Korara are missed. Oh well. that’s in the past,., I decided today I can’t watch (DVR it) any more because of Elizabeth Cook…
She tells me that «Police respond to a shooting and all heck breaks loose.»
All heck? All Heck?
Are we in grammar school? Either say «All hell.» or use an entirely different grown up phrase please.
Nice, Attractive young lady. But she tells a story, reads the news like it’s her turn to read her homework to the class.
Awkwardly cheery when it’s inappropriate. Emotional sing song delivery. What happened to Juliette Goodrich? She was a trusted and intelligent newsperson.
I’ll go back to the casual living room chat style of KRON, which has really grown on me.

This review for KPIX isn’t about the programming, but for a tour that I recently took of the studio and newsroom during their six o’clock newscast. I received the tour on account of a winning bid at a charity auction.
I found a spot to park on Vallejo Street half a block from the studio, so it was an easy walk. We went into the lobby, and told the security guard we were here for the tour. He led us to the elevator, pushed the button to select the floor, and up we went.

Our tour guide greeted us as we got out, and our first stop was the newsroom, full of people working on stories for the newscasts. Then we went over to an area with a multitude of video signals coming in from many sources such as traffic cams, internal video and other stations. There is even one cam that shows nothing but the white house.
Then we went into a room where all the decisions are made as to how the broadcast will look. Here they add in graphics, video or whatever is needed simultaneously to what the anchors are saying to create the professionally looking broadcast that you see at home. As an example, weatherman Paul Deanno is really standing against a green background in the studio, but in here they project various weather graphics in as the background.
We had to wait about five minutes until the newscast was over at seven to enter the studio, as Elizabeth Cook and Allen Martin were just finishing up, and we wouldn’t want to disturb them. But we did get to watch Elizabeth Cook do some promos for the later newscasts, and had an opportunity to chat with her afterwards.
We also saw the sports room, a studio under construction and the break room, as well as the great view that they have of the bay. Everyone we met was genuinely friendly and willing to answer any questions we had.

I haven’t watched KPIX news for awhile and happened to tune in. well forced to since it was my host’s TV. Its gotten worst. Just give me the information. If I want your personal comments, I’ll tune in to a talk show. They carry the «happy news» format. too far, content is so so. Their idea of an important news story is a cat getting caught in a tree.

Thanks for putting out a really good HD signal over the air! I am in San Leandro and use my antennae to receive you guys. I wish all the channels had a good signal (Channel 11, NBC recently must have cut theirs cause I can’t get it anymore)

Most of the reviews here make sense… even though I disagree with more than half of them. The following opinions are, well, only my opinions.
KPIX-​TV is a network affiliate. Its news crew delivers breaking and ongoing coverage of regional, national and international topics.
Channel 5 has Paul Deanno – the best weatherman in the universe. CBS Evening News put him on the spot just a few months after he took the job with channel 5 last year and he was flawless on network TV. The affiliate’s executives must’ve known off the bat that they had the world’s No. 1 weatherman, because they signed him as the chief meteorologist in practically no time. He won an Emmy in 2010… boom. And Roberta still rocks.
Ann Notarangelo is the station’s best anchor.
You can tell Ken Bastida knows what he’s doing; he’s comfortable on camera. Whether anchoring a newscast, driving a car in bumper-​to-​bumper traffic or walking into a liquor store on live TV, Ken Bastida is an excellent journalist.
Kiet Do is inconsistent; he hits or misses his stories. The story on a woman who breastfed her baby and posted a picture of it on Facebook, for example, focused on why Facebook took the image down… but in the end, Kiet said CBS 5 «couldn’t show» the image. In other words, he said the station censored the image after he did a story on why Facebook censored the image. Whoops.
Co-​anchor Elizabeth Cook is beautiful and invaluably passionate about her job, but needs significantly more experience on camera to be as effective as Juliette Goodrich.
I’d like to see Juliette Goodrich on the evening news more often.
I miss Dana King.
Allen Martin needs to crack more jokes. He’s too nice.
Vern Glenn needs to stop yelling at me. He says: «How ’bout those Warriors, eh?! Playoff bound, eh?! Eh?! Eh?!» He seems really into himself.
I think plenty people forget that just like them, journalists sometimes make mistakes. Still, chances are any journalist who makes a mistake never foreclosed on a homeowner. Journalists are righteous role models: They passionately seek the truth. And I bet that 99.9 percent of them love their jobs and don’t do the work for the money.
Do you love your job more than your salary? Journalists deserve more respect.
Disclosure – I work for
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I am saddened by the fact that you continue to show the face of the Aurora CO murderer and have NOT been concentrating on the victims. This just shows that you are more interested in seeing yourselves on television and don’t actually care about other human beings. The noon news is really a bad show, please take a look at it from the outside. It actually gives me the creeps.

Geez, what is happening to the KPIX morning news? Lead anchor Malicoat still can’t project any personality, although he and Grace Lee tried to put on a jolly, lighthearted façade shortly before Lee left. Griegos seems to be professional and personable but with Malicoat steering the broadcast vibe, it’s hopelessly stuck in boring AND stuffed shirt mode.
I know lots of people don’t like Wenger. I happen to but obviously she’s not getting a following and so probably will not get any anchor char at KPIX in the future.
The new morning reporter, Cate C. (can’t recall the last name): KPIX’s news director needs to get her off the air. Her reports are oftentimes incomprehensible: repetitive, nonsensical, usually tongue tied, sometimes littered with malapropisms. Does she or the news director ever listen to what she says!!!
Such an embarrassment!

This station has gone from bad to worse. I refused to watch it any more after they let John Kessler go and now I hear Sydne’s gone too? It’s gone from informative and cheery to bland, colorless, and nondescript. No wonder the ratings are horrible. If you’re employed there, better watch your back.

I’m a fan of CBS 5 Early Edition during the Kessler-​Kohara days. I love both of them, especially Kessler, have this relaxed feeling while delivering the news and his good humor. It’s sad to see both go… that station and all of CBS News, including the Early Show and the CBS Evening News is being too corporatized. Katie Courie is gone and Harry Smith went away with the Early Show as well. The thing that is good about this station is the evening newscasts, especially Dana King and the Eye on the Bay show. The news program being too corporatized (–2 stars)

As of June 10^th, 2011, the other shoe dropped. Sydnie Kohara has moved on from the morning news to where ever. Found it posted on the KPIX page on Facebook, thanks for that. Without Kessler and Kohara, I’m moving on. Nothing to see here.

I used to watch John Kessler & Sydnie Kohara every morning on the Early News. I was so disappointed that the let John go & hired a very bland replacement. I used to enjoy having the news on as I got ready for work but I no longer watch channel %.

Would someone PLEASE give Roberta Gonzales a raise so she can have that mole removed? She should really give her weather casts off camera. In the mean time, both Dana and Ken need to wash that grey out — neither of them have any journalistic legs to stand on so they should at least be presentable.

I like the local programming this channel has like «Eye on the Bay», but I hate how their news programs – especially the evening news – tries to scare you with the teasers. Seems like they’re always saying something like, «what’s in your cupboard that could cause cancer??» I don’t need to hear things like that, especially when we usually learn later that there’s no cause for alarm. And then there’s the weather with Roberta Gonzalez who recently talked about severe weather in Maui and showed a picture, same day I spoke to my friend who was vacationing there and he said the weather was beautiful. Annoying, I’d rather just go to
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Like most Bay Area stations, channel 5 is bad. But it will always hold a special place in my heart because my friend and former roommate Bertha was obsessed with Ken Bastida. OK, she wasn’t really obsessed with him, but she loved his name, and when we would watch the news together and he would come on and introduce himself, she would say, «Hello, Ken Bastida. How are you, Ken Bastida? Look, John, it’s Ken Bastida.»
I really miss Bertha and her Ken Bastida comments. Oh, and according to Wikipedia, which is never wrong, Ken Bastida once read the teleprompter incorrectly on air and reported that his co-​anchor Dana King was not in the studio because she had been «murdered and set on fire while celebrating his birthday.» That’s pretty funny.