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Bulls on FM!!! WCKG

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Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on WCKG!! A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard on Infinity Radio Stations.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by RadioPerson on 10/17/05 07:54 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on WCKG!!
> A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard on
> Infinity Radio Stations.
>
Wow, ESPN really dropped the ball on all these games! WOW! How could they let all that happen?

This brings WCKG closer to changing to Spike Radio! <P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by ZelenRecords on 10/17/05 09:44 PM.</FONT></P>
 
> > Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on
> WCKG!!
> > A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> > Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard
> on
> > Infinity Radio Stations.
> >
> Wow, ESPN really dropped the ball on all these games! WOW!
> How could they let all that happen?
>
> This brings WCKG closer to changing to Spike Radio!
>
I wish that they were going wscr or some other am station that way I could listen to them from were I live.
 
<font color=3333ff>FM talk and sports in a major market is such a waste. AM is for talk. FM is good for music. Wasting a FM signal for talk is just wrong.
</font>


> > > Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on
> > WCKG!!
> > > A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> > > Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard
>
> > on
> > > Infinity Radio Stations.
> > >
> > Wow, ESPN really dropped the ball on all these games!
> WOW!
> > How could they let all that happen?
> >
> > This brings WCKG closer to changing to Spike Radio!
> >
> I wish that they were going wscr or some other am station
> that way I could listen to them from were I live.
>
 
> Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on WCKG!!
> A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard on
> Infinity Radio Stations.
>


Not to be too synical, but where di ou get this information?

Never mind: Just read Ed Sherman's article.

BAD move by the Bulls unless they intend on having a LOT of affiliate stations. They would have been better off with The Score.<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by AtHomeBoy_2000 on 10/18/05 03:39 AM.</FONT></P>
 
> BAD move by the Bulls unless they intend on having a LOT of
> affiliate stations. They would have been better off with The Score.

The Score's plate is full as it is, with the Black Hawks, Sunday and Monday Night Football, & NIU sports currently, and the Sox starting next season. They really don't have room for the Bulls and Infinity probably didn't want to interrupt the news format on WBBM (the Bears aren't that big an interruption).
 
> > Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on
> WCKG!!
> > A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> > Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard
> on
> > Infinity Radio Stations.
> >
> Wow, ESPN really dropped the ball on all these games! WOW!
> How could they let all that happen?

No kidding. WMVP in 2006 will be nothing but a cesspool of boring national sports talk nearly 24/7 aside from the Mac, Jurko and Harry show. Looks like the Score is not the doomed sports station in the market after all.
 
>> Just thinking, were the Bulls ever on FM in their early
>> days with Jack Fleming or Jim Durham?
 
> FM talk and sports in a major market is such a waste. AM is
> for talk. FM is good for music. Wasting a FM signal for
> talk is just wrong.

No, FM is for talk when the target demo uses FM as their primary medium. AM is for music when (much older) demographics use it as their primary medium. I will contend that hot talk formats can work to a lesser degree on AM (http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/1999/12/06/newscolumn1.html), but it requires a lot more effort (and in the linked case, Leykis had previous success on KXL-AM).

With the advent of iPods, satradio, and the like, markets don't need tertiary or even secondary stations for the same format. What happens to the extra bandwidth? And when the AM band gets shafted with BPL, IBOC, etc., it will likely eventually become a complete dinosaur. Hence the creation of FM multicasting to reduce niche formats on primary channels.
 
> > > Effective in 2006, The Chicago Bulls will be heard on
> > WCKG!!
> > > A 4 year contract has just been signed. This means the
> > > Bears, Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox will all be heard
>
> > on
> > > Infinity Radio Stations.
> > >
> > Wow, ESPN really dropped the ball on all these games!
> WOW!
> > How could they let all that happen?
> >
> > This brings WCKG closer to changing to Spike Radio!
> >
> I wish that they were going wscr or some other am station
> that way I could listen to them from were I live.

I think you mean WHERE :)
In any case, I'm in the same boat here in central Ohio. This stinks! Even when the Bulls weren't good I still listened to as many games as possible. I guess this means I'll be signing up to listen online.
 
> >> Just thinking, were the Bulls ever on FM in their early
> >> days with Jack Fleming or Jim Durham?

If I remember right, WIND-560 was their radio home for many years.
 
> >> Just thinking, were the Bulls ever on FM in their early
> >> days with Jack Fleming or Jim Durham?
>
I'm wondering the same thing. I do remember them on WIND in the 1970's. Then, there were several years that I could not find them on the dial. Because I live in Milwaukee, I wonder if they went to F.M. during those years. So, does anyone remember where they were between WIND and WMAQ? I know that after some years at WMAQ, they went to A.M. 1000. Then, it was back to WMAQ before returning to 1000.
 
> > >> Just thinking, were the Bulls ever on FM in their early
>
> > >> days with Jack Fleming or Jim Durham?
>
> If I remember right, WIND-560 was their radio home for many
> years.

The only major pro sports team on an FM station in Chicago on a regular basis I can think of was the White Sox on WEAW-FM (now WOJO Que Buena) in the early 70s, about the time that Harry Caray came to the Sox. IIRC, even though WEAW covered most of the Chicago area, the games were also put on WTAQ in LaGrange and WJOL in Joliet for diehard AMers.

And there are incidences of major pro sports on FM radio in other markets--the Cowboys on KVIL immediately comes to mind.
 
> And there are incidences of major pro sports on FM radio in
> other markets--the Cowboys on KVIL immediately comes to
> mind.

The Packers are on WIXX FM in Green Bay
 
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