willie Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 I'm having a slow day and so is the board so has anyone listened to the new "look" fans radio. New management wants to turn the station into guys radio and so far its been pretty rough. They are going to run out of TV and Movie critics to interview pretty quickly. Maybe Bonwich can get a food gig on how to grill hot dogs. Ramsey and Claiborne weren't bad at it because they are use to shooting the breeze about TV and stuff. The morning drive guys were just terrible. Maybe new management will replace half of these guys . Tony Kornheisers non sport sport show was great because he was an interesting guy. I'm afraid most of their guys aren't very interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RecCenterRat Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 Where is Frank Cusamano these days? Is he still on the radio? I'm stuck in Chicago, and a little behind on things. Instead, I have to listen to Mariotti, who actually rips Cubbie fans quite often. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted May 28, 2004 Author Share Posted May 28, 2004 Frank does a mid day show that I never get to listen to. Management must have gotten to him because according to Bernies Pressbox he did a segment on why people get divorced. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 today and it was terrible. I started flipping around looking for sports talk on other stations. Granted the new format may get some guys that are only casually interested in sports but they are going to lose the diehards like me. The only good thing about them not talking sports was I didn't have to hear about hockey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 yes even frank's show has sunk to the depth's of a bad batchelor party. it is just pitiful. who is the genius that decided we wanted to listen to this stuff. ocassional remarks and short discussions are one thing, but non-stop man show is not why i tune in 590 or 1380. it is actually painful to listen to imo. i hope they would at least take this off of frank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billiken_roy Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 but the bad is that it makes the likes of mckernan the star instead of frank who it is plain to hear is uncomfortable with this b.s. frank, put your show back on course. if mckernan and kline dont want to talk sports, do it by yourself or find someone else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willie Posted May 28, 2004 Author Share Posted May 28, 2004 This morning they were talking about White Castles. Now I like an occasional Castle but I don't know how you can spend a whole segment talking about Castles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slufanskip Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 So ... it seems we need another email campaign ... Official Billikens.com sponsor of H. Waldman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshoe Posted May 28, 2004 Share Posted May 28, 2004 They were talking about using white castle burgers as stuffing for turkeys. How do you think that would compare to your fried turkey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aj_arete Posted May 29, 2004 Share Posted May 29, 2004 be back on the local sports talk scene. I'd enjoy getting hung up by him again on a regular basis... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
courtside Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 The problem is that it is HARD to be funny and entertaining on the radio. Ramsey and company are not funny. Kornheiser was unique in that he combined sports with other things and kept it all in a higher end intelligence level. Too many shows across the country are trying and failing. I read Ceasar's article on tips for radio shows the other day. While I usually disagree often with Ceasar, it was pretty solid. If you are going to be a sports radio program, get off of your bleep and get into the locker rooms, get info, interviews with the big folks, go to games, and watch them nightly...it is their job. I travel quite a bit, as for the guy in Chicago,(often there) ...I feel for ya because you would think in the nation's 3rd largest market, radio would be better. Jay Mariotti is like a grade schooler getting a shot at the big leagues. He is so overmatched. Most people in Chicago listen to 670 the score, which is 100% local programming. ESPN 1000 is going more and more that rout adding Mariotti and a few others....making it difficult to get national programming through there. You can get away with a lot of tunnel vision local programming in places like St. Louis, but I am not so sure in big cities with a lot of transplants from everywhere. Besides every other word through there is St. Louis sucks, or "hated St. Louis" or it is a nothign city cow town. They are obsessed with hating St. Louis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobile-iken Posted May 30, 2004 Share Posted May 30, 2004 The Ticket 1310 in Dallas is VERY entertaining. If any of you ever get a chance pull them on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillikenTX Posted May 31, 2004 Share Posted May 31, 2004 The Ticket in Dallas is horrendous...about 90% of their act is nonsense, grego and rhino the hardliners are only knowledgable on the Cowboys and thats about it, they are completely worthless for any other sports news or opinions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobile-iken Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I was referring to the guys in the morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schasz Posted June 1, 2004 Share Posted June 1, 2004 I have now lived in 3 decent sized markets. When I left St. Louis in '96 KMOX was still the Mighty Mox and now even though they have the gazillion Watts, I am not too sure that is still the case. KFNS was and apparently still is pretty much a JOKE of an all sports radio station. Since my departure there have been some new additions that do sports and I will bow to you locals as to how they are doing. Seattle had a pretty decent all sports radio station who had a very entertaining morning guy by the name of Mitch Levy who always had good guests of national stature and he was funny to boot. The guys on later in the day while not as good were at least informative. Then we get to Tampa and they have a couple stations that try to do an all sports format and neither is very good as they have to say the least p!ss poor radio talent who are boring to say the least. The one radio station is so bad that they have went to an almost exclusive ESPN feed and they just recently lost the Bucs who are the flag ship pro sports franchise in the area to the other all sports station. If Caesar's take was that most of the all sports radio guys are lazy then I'd more or less buy into that sentiment...at least from my experience in these 3 markets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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