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950 would work if...

If they did it right 950 ESPN would be a real #2 like the Mets are in NYC to the Yanks, now they are the Camden Riversharks to the Phillies.

Has anybody else heard how tired and old WIP sounds. Sadly, PEN is trying to win a varsity game with some JV players.

Mikey Miss, great hire and its worked, goes to show, bring in talent, that LIKES the teams and get ratings, he like the teams and it comes across and people want to talk to him b/c the like that he likes the team, he has passion about the teams, b/c they are HIS teams.

Harry and Jody...they dont mesh a little bit. Tough listen, no ratings, neither cares about the teams here. No passion. Jody, "Do me a favor" You sound like you've mailed it in already, just clear some cap space and let them get some fresh talnet in here. Harry, seems like a nice guy, but not market 6 material, give an opinion once in a while, dont be so close to the vest.

Tirico and Van Pelt...thats an embarassing show in a sports town like Philadelphia, an absolute joke.

Dan Schawartzman - PEN cant be serious with this hire, he is a wanna-be New Yorker. He HAS to have photos of the PD.

Get Philly host...Mikey Miss, likes Philly teams, people listen.

Harry and Jody, neither are Phily fans and it shows, no passion for the teams. Dan S., it sounds like he doesnt want to be in Philly. Nobody listned to him on 920 and their still not.

Put Philly radio hosts on, guys on like the teams and have the passion, and the station will be fine.

6-9 Mike and Mike are fine.

9-1 - Jody isnt getting it done and he is costing you to much money. Nobody in the demo PEN remembers his glory days on WIP, his show is tired and he sounds like he wants to be anywhere else. Get a team that sounds like its having fun with guys who are Philly fans. I want to listen to a guy who is hurting as much as I am when the Eagles lose...not a guy who just watched the game cause he had to.

3-7 - Mikey Miss - Imagine is numbers if he had a lead in

What they should do...

6-10 - Mike and Mike - You can bring in any top sports radio show in the county...its not going to work here. So this will do, dont waste money on a battle you cant win.

10-3 - (Get rid of Jody salary and you can afford 2 talented guys, I know you can find two guys, at 50k each and your saving money and getting a better show) If tired old Macnow and Gargano can pull a 10-3, so can PEN. get a good young team, that has passion for the teams, someone with energy and that sounds like they want to be in Philadelphia.

3-7 -Mikey Miss - Give him a lead in and watch the numbers grow

7-10 - I would try to get Jolly here, does a solid job good night guy.

10-1 - Bruno is fine. If your budget is tapped out


WEEKEENDS....PLEASE, GIVE US LOCAL WEEKENDS...PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE. (Maybe there is room for Dan S an Harry here)

This format can work, if you run it right...Sports in Philly its about about the passion and how that comes across. Mikey Miss has it, he gets numbers. The others dont, they get no ratings. simple as that.
 
If by Jolly you mean the totally annoying unlistenable begging for callers unreasonable and unfunny Paul Jolivitz you've lost credibility in my book. Do you really think J Mac is that bad? I think Harry M doesn't fit with him well but I think Jody is fine.
 
Per Michael Klein, some of what was called for above is happening on March 16: Tirico will be gone, they will pick up the last hour of Mike & Mike and Jody and Harry will shift to 11-3. But instead of extending the midday shift to 10-3 they're taking the last hour of Colin Cowherd--which should prove to be a brutally awful choice. A college football-centered (and by "college football", I mean the SEC and the Big 12--the only college football that really matters in ESPNland) Texan will be a massive tuneout in Philly.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/the-insider/950ESPN_to_revamp_lineup.html
 
Rick,

- I agree, why go 11-3...I actully like Cowherd, but not for Philly, Philly isnt smart enough for him. And yes, to much college football with him.

What they should have done if they didnt want to bring in another show is go :

Jody and Harry from 10-2

Mikey Miss from 2-7

At least your local right through the day and Mikey Miss gets on 1 hour before Eskin
 
They're phasing out Tirico's show on the ESPN Radio station in New York, too. Cowherd will replace him, though he will air in early afternoons.
 
...if it were 50,000w omnidirectional 24/7, and they had left Jim Nettleton alone to program. It isn't, it won't be, and they didn't.
 
For 950 to succeed they need more local. The reality is, in this economy that will not happen. Not any time soon. I would agree that they need to be Philly guys and not some 2nd rate guys from other northeast cities.
 
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