Can We Get Rid of Dennis O'Donnell?

[BadBucks]

He's awful...Wrong on yardage, misidentifies players, credits the wrong players for tackles, asks dumb questions and is way too much of a homer. Other than those comments, I guess he's ok....

[ninersrule]

There is a reason he is only a pre-season announcer. I don't think he is like Al Michaels or John Madden, but at least he doesn't talk crap about he niners like a lot of the other announcers in the league.

[pgtogo84bsxy]

There is a reason he is only a pre-season announcer. I don't think he is like Al Michaels or John Madden, but at least he doesn't talk crap about he niners like a lot of the other announcers in the league.

Dennis O'Donnell and Keena Turner are Bay Area CBS 5's football sports team. Unless things have changed, they will be the broadcast announcers for any Niners games televised locally, if it isn't a nationally televised game on Channel 5. Local Fox 2 used to be where the local Niners games were being aired, but I think that changed last year as I noticed more games on CBS 5. Only Nationally televised games are shown on fox.

Also, we have to cut him some slack as in preseason football, the announcers never know who the players are out there since alot of them are scrubs. Alot of the stats he pulls out are provided to him, so he's reading whatever the stats guy is giving him. So, he can't take all the blame, but yes, he is a 'homer.' Has has too much positive outlook to say all the time.

[FODY]

My biggest problem with the preseason team is that they typically miss calling almost an entire series because they're yappin' about something else, or Kim Coyles is busy asking about Tony Parrish's favorite yoga position or Bryant Young's favorite color or some inane crap...

[MtzNinersfan]

He's awful...Wrong on yardage, misidentifies players, credits the wrong players for tackles, asks dumb questions and is way too much of a homer. Other than those comments, I guess he's ok....

Dude tell me about it. That guy is AWFUL!!!

[IowaNinersFan]

If you think Dennis is a homer, then you obviously haven't watched the Faiders announcers. :help:

[Hopper15]

He doesn't annoy me as much as Keena turner so I don't mind him.

[pgtogo84bsxy]

If you think Dennis is a homer, then you obviously haven't watched the Faiders announcers. :help:

I don't actually pay attention to the Raider announce team. FYI, they need to sell out their home games for us to even see them on tv.

Maybe the Niners should hire the WWE's Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler to announce for us. That'd be a slobbernocker!! (inside joke to wrestling fans).

[kezar71]

He doesn't annoy me as much as Keena turner so I don't mind him.I don't care either way , but since you brought up Keena, there was a Dallas player hurt #93, and Keena goes" It looks like Ron Fields is hurt"... Nice!!!:two cents:

[FODY]

Maybe the Niners should hire the WWE's Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler to announce for us. That'd be a slobbernocker!! (inside joke to wrestling fans).
LMAO!!! 1st and goal from the 8... "Business... is about to pick up!", calling Denise York a "Jezebel", Lawler babbling on about Gold Rush "puppies"...

Actually, Starkey does a pretty good JR impression when he gets excited (his Catch II "He caught it!" call sounded an awful lot like JR's "Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold!")

/haven't watched in years
//need a Spanish announcers' table for Sopoaga to crash through...

[BigB_85]

I hope these guys aren't the broadcasters during the regular season.

[FODY]

I hope these guys aren't the broadcasters during the regular season.
Nah, we'll get the network's Flavor of the Week...

[llslindy]

what got me hot was when they are so busy kissing you know what of guests that they forget about the game. it looked like bryant may have hurt his hand on one pass and all they where talking about was how great haley was. who the f... cares.

[FODY]

what got me hot was when they are so busy kissing you know what of guests that they forget about the game. it looked like bryant may have hurt his hand on one pass and all they where talking about was how great haley was. who the f... cares.
Seriously! It's like, dude, are you even watching the game at all???

It's not just them, either. The producers spent so much time showing the historical clips that on one occasion they missed two plays because they were zoomed in on one of the Ring of Honor names at Texas Stadium. It's one thing if the announcers are off in Hardy Nickerson-meets-Steve Young land, but you can still see the action on the field. Hell, most of the time I've got the 107.7 broadcast going anyway. It's downright stupid when you can't even see the play because the hometown broadcast is stuck in Cowgirl fanboy mode.

[Niner Jan]

That's why I keep the video, put the audio on MUTE to listen to Joe Starkey and Gary Plummer--because Joe doesn't miss a call!

I know the timing is 4 seconds ahead of the action on TV, but I'd rather hear the calls before I see them than MISS them entirely.

I've always had a gripe about MADDEN and also those 4 jokers who call the games (Brown, "Baldy", etc, etc)--ABC? They are so full of themselves that they spend more time talking about everything else BUT the game being played, that I quickly learned too switch to radio for the audio.

[arch]

Dennis O'Donnell and Keena Turner are Bay Area CBS 5's football sports team. Unless things have changed, they will be the broadcast announcers for any Niners games televised locally, if it isn't a nationally televised game on Channel 5. Local Fox 2 used to be where the local Niners games were being aired, but I think that changed last year as I noticed more games on CBS 5. Only Nationally televised games are shown on fox.

The niners definitely are still on Fox (channel 2) on a regular basis. If there is an inter-conference game, then they might be shown on the AFC channel (5).

As far as O'donnell, he seems ok to me since it's only preseason football. I like Keena Turner since he sometimes has insights into training camp. I kinda miss Bubba Paris for his unintentional comedic sideline reporting.

[Eng74]

Here is how to know which station your team is on (no matter who they are)
NFC vs. NFC on Fox
AFC vs. AFC on CBS
NFC at AFC on Fox
AFC at NFC on CBS
Monday Night (us Niner fans have no problem this year!) ESPN and your local ABC station if you do not have ESPN.
Sunday Night on NBC
Thursday (starting on Thanksgiving) on NFL Network

[Niner Jan]

O'Donnell is an employee of CBS--we don't have any say about his calling the games on TV; he is the sports reporter, I believe, on a regular basis. I think he is a Raiders' fan, but he is at least friendly talking 49er stuff.

Keena, at least, works for the 49ers, so he has connections with the 49ers since he is employed as a Alumni Coordinator with them.

During the regular season, 7 of the games are on Fox, two on CBS (San Diego and Oakland), 1 on NFL Network (Seattle) and 6 are marked "FLEX"--whatever that means. I'm going by the schedule magnet I got during TC.

[Eng74]

Flex means it could be on NBC Sunday Night Football. If it looks like the Niner game might be the best of the week NBC can take that game unless Fox or CBS has it and locks it in. They can each lock one game in during the Flex weeks. Also NBC has games that are assigned to them already but it has not been released to the public yet.

[Niner Jan]

Flex means it could be on NBC Sunday Night Football. If it looks like the Niner game might be the best of the week NBC can take that game unless Fox or CBS has it and locks it in. They can each lock one game in during the Flex weeks. Also NBC has games that are assigned to them already but it has not been released to the public yet.

Thanks, but...I still don't understand what channel the FLEX games are going to be on. Does that mean that if NBC SNF doesn't opt to show the game, it will be on FOX or CBS?

How do we know WHICH channel--FOX or CBS? This is too confusing to me. Why don't they keep things SIMPLE? :pullhair:

[49Faithful]

I dont like the fact that likes to talk about the raiders so much. He needs to go work for them.

[Eng74]

Thanks, but...I still don't understand what channel the FLEX games are going to be on. Does that mean that if NBC SNF doesn't opt to show the game, it will be on FOX or CBS?

How do we know WHICH channel--FOX or CBS? This is too confusing to me. Why don't they keep things SIMPLE? :pullhair:

If the 49ers are playing any NFC team the game will be on Fox. If the 49ers are on the road playing an AFC team it will be on Fox. If an AFC is playign in San Francisco it will be on CBS. The thursday night game @ Seahawks is on NFL Network. The Flex will be on NBC, if NBC wants to show that game because it is a better game (could mean playoffs etc.) than the one that they have scheduled (these games have not been released to the public so only the NFL, Fox, NBC, and CBS know the games).