Sports Radio running thread

Doug Gottlieb still employed? Yes?

Could have knocked me over with a ratings book.

 

I guess I'll blame Dan Patrick for pretty much every show now making the rest of the staff part of the show. How about lining up some interviews or you know "producing" the show instead of killing time with the host talking about your "bad beat," your fantasy football team or what you had for breakfast. And yes, it's quite apparent that there are more than a few hosts that don't spend a lot of time following sports, but are CONVINCED people tune it to hear about the minutae of their lives.
There is also a question if this is a result of the "podification" of sports talk radio, people just having general conversations about their lives (incredible to me how many podcasts don't apparently have "a plan" of what the conversation will be about.

 

Gary Dell'Abate begat McLovin

 

It's a tossup what's worse -- sports talk radio or consuming, completely voluntarily, sports talk radio.

 

My wife has Sirius in her car, which we take for long trips. So we listen to a lot of sports-talk radio on those trips, and it's generally awful. As infuriating as the DP show can be, it's head-and-shoulders (I think) above the rest; Rich Eisen is the only thing close. I like Neuheisel but the guy he's paired with is a complete and total moron.

OTOH, sports radio enabled me to hear reaction to Jimmy G's new contract from eastern Wyoming all the way to Oregon. It was wall-to-wall Jimmy G all day long!

 

Frank Isola and Brian Scallabrine on NBA Channel on XM have the most entertaining show in sports. Period.

 

You think this stuff is bad? Listen to 20 minutes of talkSPORT from the U.K. and get back to me.

 

The comedy channels on XM can be very funny, sometimes you have to jump around from station to station. no one on sports talk that knows anymore than what is already on the internet. If you follow a team or two during a season you can consume ‘news’ rather than listening to opinions that are I’ll formed and I’ll supported. Politics is the same way. But at least with sports sone callers are allowed to disagree with the host.

 

I just can’t deal with his voice. Stop yelling.

 

For some reason I quit listening to sports talk when Covid hit and haven't come back to it much. The local ESPN affiliate went away and was replaced by religious programming. There's the longtime guy-talk sports station that hasn't had much personnel turnover in 20 years, and there's the CBS rival that is a poor copycat of the other station — but they are the flagship of the local NFL and MLB teams.

 

I'm not a consumer of satellite radio.