Ameren promotes Karen Foss

Yeah, a big round of applause for the woman trying to waste our tax dollars on a nuclear waste machine. Here’s hoping you get canned right quick!

“Brand management”???? This company is a utility, a monopoly utility, and they’re worried about “branding”???? Maybe this new guy - Voss - will understand that all of the viewer loyalty Foss had from her 25 years at KSDK was flushed down the toilet the day she became the spokeswhore for AmerenUE.

The PR job wasn’t paying enough. After this last bid for a nuke plant failed, she wanted more money and to have more power. She was the highest paid person at KSDK when she left. How much will she make now? is it comparable to the KSDK job? What a waste of money.

At age 65, and my guess was a lucrative salary in the media, why does she even need to work? What makes her qualified to understand and execute brand management?? So, she is being rewarded for a unsuccessful ad campaign for the nuclear plant.

Hmmm………… you all sound jealous.

What a bunch of children. The only reason you are worked up over this is because Foss is locally recognized. The ONLY reason. You wouldn’t give a crap if it was some no-name executive. I’d like to see you “experts” explain why Foss should not have the right to a) a job, and b) a promotion. Can you give a coherent answer without sounding like a stereotypical internet putz? You know the type…all anger and no substance?

Catch up to Europe folks. Nuke Power is the way to go. In the 10 - 15 years it will take to build a new plant where will we be with other power generating sources? Still waiting to technology to catch up I’ll bet.

Karen Foss sold her soul to the corporate devil when she went to Ameren. They are a MONOPOLY. What is with the PR blitz?

“Can you give a coherent answer without sounding like a stereotypical internet putz?”

No, I’m the stereotypical internet putz. I’m just angry and jealous and hate life and everyone in the whole world. Also, I wear lots of black and cut myself.

I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for her and the company. She has excelled in the communications industry for many years. Why would you select someone who is not qualified? She definitely enters the job with distinctions. (Though I do miss her, Julius Hunter and a few other notable and distinguished personalities on TV!)

Magpie…thanks for showing such a high level of intellect with that response. Incapable of anything else?

We do need more plants, coal & nuclear. If you listen to the Sierra club, all they want wind & solar. Well, a California utility tried to build a solar plant in California, but the environmentalists wouldn’t allow it. Apparently, the plant would use too much water, threaten some tiny fish, …… As the old saying goes, you can fix a lot of things, but stupid you cannot.

SoCoBoy: It’s not that Nukes should not be a part of the energy equation. Instead we refuse to pay for the construction of the plant, as ratepayers, prior to power production and then pay Ameren their required profits for every KWhr produced once the plant goes on line. Ameren is an investor owned comapny that apparently wants everything up front and guaranteed.

She’s 65? Why doesn’t she retire? I’m not finding this to be “good” news. I find it unfair.

I think Larry Connors would have been more qualified, since he seems to enjoy taking a jolt of electricity.

Does this mean we won’t have to look at her saggy mug on television?

Magpie - you sound kind of scary. Seek help.

What a waste of good talent.

TV that is…unless she always wanted to be in “brand management” for one the the most hated companies in STL.

The only problem with nuke energy (besides the small chance of a meltdown) is that we have to transport all that waste through residential areas and find somewhere to store it. I find it very difficult to believe some of that waste won’t eventually wind up in someone’s water supply. And no, I’m not a fan of the idea of paying for Ameren to build another plant so they can charge me again for the electricity it generates! I really think wind power is the way to go. Aside from killing some birds, it is extremely efficient and wind blows almost everywhere. I saw a really interesting special on water turbines that are driven by the tide, but those would only be realistic for coastal cities.

Stu you want an intellegent response to why people are angry?
1. Tam Sauk 2. Ice Storm and lack of response by Ameren to trim trees which compounded outages. 3. Recent increases and then asking for further increases.

Hate to say it, but Foss is part of the team, she will feel the pain of the consumers anger.

I personally will not count on AmerenUE next outage and being a customer, purchased a standby generator in the event of another 4-5 day outage. The way they handled the Tam Sauk situation furthers questions about Ameren’s management philosophy.

If any of you have lived outside Ameren’s grid and received your power through one of the many Electric cooperatives of America, you can understand the animosity toward UE.

The only objection I have is it’s now going to cost me more for electric
some way, some how.
They could’ve contracted it out and saved me MONEY!

She gets a promotion for being such a great mouthpiece? Branding indeed. Ameren is a bunch of nazi thugs who want us to pay more and more. And Magpie- look in the mirror.

Congratulations Karen. Most people at your age would be taking the retirement route and calling it a career. The whiners on this forum would complain even if they got free electricity.

I hope that Illinois approves the nuclear power plant and then changes Missouri twice the going rate to purchase it. Then I guess we will see who cries foul! I guess Missouri is filled with Don Quixotes.

Maybe she was jealous of Bob Richards making more money at Good Morning America.

I was never a fan of the Foss when she was a “reporter” and am even less of one since she became the “face” of ameren whooeeee.

Good, now maybe they can hire Deanee Lane as their spokeswoman and Ameren can become the KSDK Anchorwoman Retirement Club.

Customers and well qualified individuals need not apply.

Good, now they can hire Deanne Lane as their spokeswoman and Ameren can become the KSDK Anchorwoman Retirement Club.

Customers and well qualified individuals need not apply.

Wow, maybe she needs more plastic surgery? This needs to be investigated. But the media in this town will serve softballs and say it’s well deserved.

No way she is 65 years old. She looks very nice and hot in the picture. She is a very smart lady and will do a great job for her new company.

Not to be off topic but Bob Richards did not go to Good Morning America from KSDK (as a weatherman). This has been a big misconception in STL and it just stuns me that people don’t remember as to what really happened to him. He committed suicide by steering his plane into the ground at Chesterfield Airport. He had been having an affair that ended badly, and he began stalking the woman (even though he was married with children), “barnstorming” her home with his small plane and leaving harrassing message on her answering machine. She succeeded in having a restraining order put against him. It was all over the news when some local dj aired the phone messages on air and he then killed himself. A synopsis is on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Richards_(meteorologist)
You can also check stlmedia.net for more details.

As for Karen Foss, I can’t judge her for getting a promotion for doing her job. I am not thrilled with Ameren, but with so many cuts in local media at least she found a job.

Bob Richards was the one who killed himself in a small plane over some woman - he’s not on GMA! It damn sure wasn’t over Karen Foss! I agree with that saggy mug comment - she is getting long in the tooth!

They have to report her salary in their annual report or somewhere in their SEC filings - can’t somebody dig it up?

Wait a minute….Bob Richards is on GMA? Now THERE’S big news, seeing how it would involve a resurrection.

A better headline would have been “Foss’s Boss is Voss”. Anyway, long live the Ameren Empire.

Bob Richards had to be an icon. There can’t be a single story about KSDK, directly or not, without mentioning that Bob Richards is still among us. How many can attest that they have seen him lately, on television, or on the street? If you have, ask him how Elvis is doing?

I wonder how much she will make? I wonder how many people at Ameren are pissed that she walked in and 2 years later was made a senior vp? Did she sleep her way to the top?

LOL you people are tripping! Karen Foss is one of the few that has made a successful transition away from the TV screen. That you hate that is pathetic.

Mike - sold her soul? Right, she worked at KSDK for free tackling all the real issues like whether or not a community should have a requirement for brick fronts on new houses. Get a grip.

Beth - What, unfair because she has had two careers and the drive to make it happen? What in the world is so unfair???

In ten years we will still have coal-fired plants producing our electricity and CO2 instead of a nice new nuke plant doing the same thing sans CO2. Unreal.

I am constantly amazed at the lack of comprehension displayed by people when it comes to business, promotion, and compensation. Thanks for holding the torch up high again some of you…LOL.

i here the promation was due to putting solar panels on billbroards across the state.

Congratulations on the promotion, Karen! It’s great to see someone make a very sucessful second career of it.

The ignorance on this board is astounding. I get the feeling that many of you never even take the time to write Karen a quick thank you letter celebrating her awesomeness. Perhaps a quick review of why she is so integral in our daily lives will help stir some praise:

http://thefossbewithyou.tumblr.com/

We need to find other things to complain about. AmerenUE promoting Karen Foss has absolutely nothing to do with us. Who cares? Sure she was on Chanel 5 for like 80 years, and was the PR person for a utility company prior to getting promoted. Does it really matter? She’s 65. Let it go!

VP? From news anchor to some gravy job and now she is a VP? I really do not know her executive management background but I am sure there were plenty of other’s at Ameren with advanced degree’s and more knowledge of that industry that some sophmore on the job?

Must be nice.

Magpie…
I thought all you libtards worshiped the Europeans. The nations of Europe have been dominated by nuclear power for decades. So Magpie, are the Europeans killing the planet with their over abundance of nuclear power stations? Or, are they saving the planet by not producing Carbon emissions via fossil fuels?

Percentages of total power by Nuclear fission power plants:

France - 80%
Sweden - 45%
Germany - 30%
Great Britain - 40%
United States - 15%

How many wind turbines would it take to generate the power of a small nuke plant like Callaway? Answer: 795 (continuously spinning)

1 Large wind turbine - 1.5 megawatts | Callaway nuke plant 1190 megawatts

Magpie - Where would you like to put 795 turbines in Missouri to make up the power production of a nuke plant such as Callaway? And your brothers-in-arms PETA will be livid at your decision!!! How many of Owls, Eagles, Hawks, Ducks, Geese, and other birds will be sacrificed to the wind turbine God? (we could donate the chopped up birds to homeless shelters for food)

Love Karen, smart, talented and a beautiful 65 year old. But her dealings with Ameren have zero effect on my feelings for them….and it may just taint her image a bit. What Ameren should do is promote the members of the Missouri Utility Service Commission, , because they’ve help raise more money for the monopoly over the past three years than anybody. They were formerly known as the Missouri Public Service Commission but since they aren’t voted in by the public, or seem to serve them in any respectable or consistent way, I think the new name fits them better. The public needs to vote on these people or there is zero accountability for their utility bias stance on almost any increase a utility asks for.

There are many folks who can’t pay their electric bill–or struggle to pay it every month. Why should their money (and ours) go to pay the salary of an overly compensated PR hack for a monopoly utility? What value is Karen Foss really adding for any of us rate-payers?

wow!
big surprise!!!!!!!

typical midwestern nepotism.

have people seen THIS:
http://thefossbewithyou.tumblr.com/post/101219530/foss-the-wicked-witch-of-midwest-electric

Oh great - the Foss lovers are posting. Just what we need. Listen, I hope you guys aren’t a bunch of libtards. You’re probably just a bindle of Granite City drop outs. If you want the real story about Foss, there’s only one place to go:
http://thefossbewithyou.tumblr.com/

…And this is news because…

Yeah, OK, has her real hair grown back in yet or not? That’s the news I want to know.

The hiring Ms. Foss is an obvious attempt by AmerenUE to help sell the public a dangerous bag of goods. Get someone good looking, that has credibility with the public, and who can tell a good story, and you’re on your way to successfully brainwashing your target audience. Its one thing if your talking about a coal or gas fired power plant. Who wants one of these plants in your backyard? Sure they’ve got a level of danger, but nothing even remotely as dangerous as a nuclear plant. Why would anyone even want to be on the same planet with one of these? They’re all ticking time bombs. Sooner or later there will be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island incident and the world won’t be so lucky. And even if its not an inconceivable accident that causes the release of radiation, it’s a sitting target for terrorists. Even though the experts never released their findings, it doesn’t take a genius to know we were and still are all exposed to some amount of the radiation from those disasters as the radiation circled the earth as radio active fallout. Did you know the land around Chernobyl won’t be safe for approximately 10,000 years. Who needs an actual atomic bomb when you’ve got nuclear plants all over the country, and the nuclear plants radio active waste that is just as prime of a target? Does it really make sense for the US to try to promote world wide nuclear weapon disarmament and then approve the build up of more nuclear plants on our own soil? Lets just keep perfecting other sources of clean green methods of power generation. Once we open the doors to more nuclear the clean green power generation movement will die out, just as it did when oil prices fell and SUV movement was promoted by the car companies. We better wise up before these power company monopolies take over our brains. There is a reason they want nuclear, it’s a lot cheaper to generate power. It makes the big guys look better and increased their salary and bonuses when they make big profits. If a catastrophe occurs, it will either be blamed on human error, or a mechanical failure that wasn’t conceivable. The company might have to pay a fine and some amount of monetary restitution, but they won’t go out of business, they are a monopoly, and we need power companies. The fines, restitution, and rebuilding will just be passed on to the customer’s in future rate hikes. AmerenUE doesn’t have anything to lose by building an unsafe dangerous nuclear power plant, if it runs without incident they make tons of money, if it melts down or getas blown up, surviving customers will rebuild another plant with their rate hikes. Follow the money, because its always about the money.

She was a “Television journalist”, a news anchor. In what upside down world does that make her qualified in brand management? I can see media relations, after all those years in front of a camera she’s obviously comfortable talking in front of them. Brand management though? Really? Since when does she have a marketing degree?

From time to time, I’ll read the comments section. I usually regret it since I seldom read anything worthwhile. After reading, I generally go throw up and vow never to read the comments section again. I’ve really got to learn to stick to my guns. I hate throwing up.

I thought she was dead?

I agree with Tigger. I think you all are jealous. Get a life and mind your own business.

Why does a company that already has a monopoly need to do any type of advertising at all? It is because they need to bamboozle taxpayers into funding more projects that will eventually lead to higher costs. They are like every other corporation that exists-the sole purpose is to make more money.

They know that now is the time to jump on the bandwagon for new facilities as the costs of stand alone electrical systems, such as solar and wind are growing in popularity and coming down in cost.

I pay $2400 a year for electricity currently, and can and will install a solar/wind system that will be an initial outlay of about $22,000, but will pay for itself in less than 10 years. It is warranteed for 25 years.

Congratulations to Karen Foss on her promotion. I’ve been a Karen Foss fan for many years and believe she did an excellent job as a reporter. It looks like she does everything with excellence.

Well, she was horrific on Channel 5 when she was there reporting the news. I never did care for her. Glad Ameren has her in the stupid commercials. Hope she isnt’ getting paid too much for that.

Personally I do not care for Ms. Foss, nor will I ever care for her. Just happy to see her off the airwaves.

George

Karen can read a teleprompter better than many other talking heads.

I have just one thing to say about this. Karen Foss is one S.I.L.F. Does that make me a bad person?

Currently, AMEREN peddles excess electrical output to other grids to
the tune of $600-million. I suspect they’re planning for the future,
alright. In a few years with our economy tanking, everyone’ll be so
damned depressed, we’ll be lining up at psych-wards begging for ECT!
(Electric Convulsive Therapy). That, alone, will place such high
demands on Ameren’s output capability, it’ll easily justify not
one, but at least two more nukes!

Foss’s future looks brighter than the cooling towers glowing over
Fulton, Mo.

Upfront and guaranteed. Interesting. Like the way you pay for your power. Interesting. You get it, then you pay for it. PR id apparently very needed for Ameren as there seem to be so many oblivious consumers. It truly is frightening.

Oh Brett, you are the perfect example of what I was talking about when I said oblivious consumer. We pay really low rates, so you need to think about your usage. Also, I don’t know how much you have looked into the windmills, but I think you will find that Missouri ranks near the top for states least likely to benefit from wind power.

theRealStraigjtTalkExpress, you are an amazing dolt. Seriously, I think you are one of the most illogical people to have ever graced the P-D blogs.

Gas and Coal are safer? Add up the number of people that have died in mines and on oil rigs and see what you get. How about the amount of acid rain that fell in the northeast from the sulphur in coal. Hell, just look at the number of animals that died THIS YEAR from the left over slop by the Exxon Valdez (That’s right, this year. MSNBC.com just had a story on it last month). Look at the number of sinking and collapsed areas in the country built over old mines (again, a story just last month, this time in the Post-Dispatch). Don’t forget all the coal miners with black lung disease or cancer.

We need our energy to run the world, but the planet has paid an incredible price for it. The air, the land, the water, people, animals, plants, every single group has felt the affects. And you are worried about what COULD happen? LOL!

Nuclear is safe, efficient, and there is plenty of it to last a long time. It won’t take counties worth of solar panels or wind turbines either. Get out of the 80’s MTV video genre and enjoy the smell of sweet reality for a change…

Quick, someone call Deane Lane and let her know that there is an opening she is qualified for at Ameren !!!! Karen Foss’ old job is open. Pretty sure it pays good and is a SWEET deal.

Why does a MONOPOLY pay out money for advertising? Why would they need to spend money for a PR department. Isn’t this an unnessary expense that should be taken into consideration every time they ask for a rate hike.

Bet she’s the Devil in Prada. Creating Memo after Memo, talking down to the little people (like she does to the public). Throw her to the curb, not too hard so as to scuff her Gucci’s but hard enough so the rest of Ameren gets the message that the propaganda “ain’t wirkin”.

she was bad news as soon as she took a job with those crooks. she is a talking head. a degree in engineering? BA? nope, just blabla. they had a bad image and she was hired to try to turn it around. what a joke

My my my. This ex talking head didn’t make enough rightous bucks reading an Obama prompter,now we have to see some of our rate billing go into her purse. Jeese,what a joke she and the utility are.

Yes,I know,I spelled righteous wrong,my bad.