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I'm sure someone hated her that much. When you're that unstable, people get sick of you in a hurry. I've never worked with her but know a couple of folks who have. Not good...
> > Part of the hair cover up was a wig, she'd had some kind
> of
> > cancer, and lost hair. That said, the assessment of her
> > above is generally correct (although she was a reasonable
> > softball interviewer of some guests.) After Big 98, she
> was
> > eaten alive in NY- on air a few weeks, off to "retool the
> > show," back a couple weeks then blown out. She was
> > underwhelming at KSAN, and ended up in Spokane for a
> while.
> > The ink in the paper definately has her fingerprints on
> it.
> > Unlikely that Ken Kohl would put up with her.
>
> Indeed, "attitude" sometimes triumphs over talent in the
> radio biz. I had liked her at BIG, she struck me as the only
> outsized (no pun) "personality" on a station full of
> liner-readers. But then I thought that format was
> mis-managed from Day One. Around mid-'97 there was this big
> article about her in the Chron -- big color picture of her
> surrounded by muscle boys -- and she made all sorts of weird
> accusations about Live 105's Alex Bennett (her
> then-competitor in the morning slot). Said he'd made
> threatening obscene phone calls to her, which he vehemently
> denied. Seemed she thought stirring up an old-fashioned
> "radio feud" would be good press. But within a couple of
> months, BIG had switched formats and KITS had fired Bennett.
>
>
> She obviously convinced *someone* that she was going to be
> the next big thing/"female Stern"; she was off to NYC where
> she did indeed crash & burn. She seemed humbled when she
> returned to SF, and sounded pretty good on KSAN, I thought.
> But the rumor about her dying on 9/11 -- THAT was weird. Did
> someone really hate her *that* much?
>
> > Part of the hair cover up was a wig, she'd had some kind
> of
> > cancer, and lost hair. That said, the assessment of her
> > above is generally correct (although she was a reasonable
> > softball interviewer of some guests.) After Big 98, she
> was
> > eaten alive in NY- on air a few weeks, off to "retool the
> > show," back a couple weeks then blown out. She was
> > underwhelming at KSAN, and ended up in Spokane for a
> while.
> > The ink in the paper definately has her fingerprints on
> it.
> > Unlikely that Ken Kohl would put up with her.
>
> Indeed, "attitude" sometimes triumphs over talent in the
> radio biz. I had liked her at BIG, she struck me as the only
> outsized (no pun) "personality" on a station full of
> liner-readers. But then I thought that format was
> mis-managed from Day One. Around mid-'97 there was this big
> article about her in the Chron -- big color picture of her
> surrounded by muscle boys -- and she made all sorts of weird
> accusations about Live 105's Alex Bennett (her
> then-competitor in the morning slot). Said he'd made
> threatening obscene phone calls to her, which he vehemently
> denied. Seemed she thought stirring up an old-fashioned
> "radio feud" would be good press. But within a couple of
> months, BIG had switched formats and KITS had fired Bennett.
>
>
> She obviously convinced *someone* that she was going to be
> the next big thing/"female Stern"; she was off to NYC where
> she did indeed crash & burn. She seemed humbled when she
> returned to SF, and sounded pretty good on KSAN, I thought.
> But the rumor about her dying on 9/11 -- THAT was weird. Did
> someone really hate her *that* much?
>