Sports Radio running thread

KFAN in Minneapolis has what they call a "talkback line," which is to say people can digitally record takes on their computer and then submit them and they're played. Guessing that's a lot easier to screen and direct traffic than phone lines.

Also, KFAN has made a mint on including game bits in which the personalities are competing against each other. The morning show has The Initials Game on Fridays in which a handful of the cohort and invited guests do this remarkably simple and popular contest. They've turned a home version into a successful Kickstarter and the mid-day show does a radio version of Password that has caught on to a lesser extent.

 

I look at what you term "mailing it in" as laid-back. He's in his comfort zone with that show right now, I believe.

 

I have never heard a sports talk show that was better as a solo act. A solo host will launch into long, rambling and repetitive monologues.

It also leads to members of the production staff becoming de facto co-hosts. The problem with that is then the flow of the show becomes very choppy as the staff members jump in at unexpected times.

 

Totally disagree. I live in LA and I turn to KNBR stuff online to listen to the hosts and guest *talk sports*. And they do. And I don't follow a single Bay Area team.
The Wednesday segment with Steve Young is must listen stuff, even if you are a pro football fan in Florida or New Jersey.

 

It is hard to imagine how bad this show is unless you actually listen. It is just one part of my overall hatred of Arte Moreno (this is a Moreno-owned radio station). Absolutely zero effort put into making a quality show. Cheerleads for the Angels and says stuff like "Are you a Halo Honk?" and "Get your Red on!"

 

I heard Amber Wilson over the summer, she only pauses long enough to take a quick gasping breath while she's yammering. It's actually distracting.

 

The only shows I genuinely like are the Dan Patrick Show and Two Pros and a Cup of Joe. The latter actually got me to like Brady Quinn, and Lavar Arrington is quite good. I listen mostly on my way home from work. On the way to work on Sundays, the FSR hosts are terrible - chucklemonsters who rarely talk about sports and prefer to find themselves more interesting than what went on in the NFL. How tough is it to reach out to various local reporters for injury updates, locker room reactions etc?

 

You say that like it’s a bad thing. It’s not.

If “sports talk” were more about the people making and analyzing the news and less about “Norm is driving in Hoboken, and he’s got some thoughts about the Jets,” that would be a great improvement. The first thing they could do to improve the format would be to shitcan the callers.

 

“More of me and less of you is a good thing” was one of Rome’s lines for years. He also indirectly ripped his old Smack Off champ JT the Brick, who boasted about taking “more calls than anyone”.

I don’t mind callers on a post game show, and they are always more interesting after a loss. The callers also seem less crazy to me than the regular callers, who all try to have a nickname like “Iron City Joe” or “Pure Renfrew Red”.

 

Guys like those who called into Rome were the precursors to say-whatever-I-want-cuz-everyone-cares land of social media. There was a prominent one in Boston, “Butch from the Cape,” who became a minor celebrity because he was on WEEI twice a day. When “Butch” croaked everyone found out he was a horrible guy who’d swindled folks out of money and did some time.

ESPN Classic - Speers relished taunting Boston fans

 

There's a guy on our local show "Dave from Tumwater" who has become a minor local celebrity of sorts. He's actually pretty damn smart (a Lewis & Clark scholar) and a nice guy who does have interesting things to say quite often.

I've co-hosted this show numerous times. It's actually pretty fun.