ESPN pay cuts?

How does local sports work in smaller markets? In Boston the pro teams are covered nationally while sports radio and the RSNs dominate otherwise. There is no interest in college or high school sports, so the local stations have nothing to focus on.

 

The weirdest one is living in the Indianapolis market and getting IRL talk year round. A sport that I paid attention to once a year, ai suddenly receiving nightly updates once I moved here.

 

I find it interesting that the Star still is all over the IRL, but no Gannett paper is covering NASCAR regularly.

 

I only went to grad school in Indiana and it was along time ago. But at that time it seemed to me that the state was run by various small, overlapping circles of men whose family had lived their for generations. There was a great deal of emphasis on consensus and collegiality. That is not entirely a bad thing. But it seemed to be a hard place to break into.

 

The Pulliams and Quayles come to mind.

 

Not the Magic Kingdom under Disney ownership these days. https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/espn-scraps-keyshawn-johnson-jay-williams-max-kellerman-radio-show/

 

Their show was very meh.

 

Thanks for sharing.
Keyshawn? Four years, $18 million? WTF!?!?

 

You're being too kind.

 

Anything with Jay Williams was going to be meh. Kellerman has a good personality and energy for mouthing off about sports, but I've never heard him say anything interesting.

ESPN has had some good radio shows, but they all were midday stuff and all a little off. Probably didn't move the needle.

 

I think ESPN radio is suffering from the general decline in radio listening and advertising, especially AM radio. My impression is that a lot of the ESPN affiliates are on AM. Very few AM stations get a rating above a one.