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ESPN Affiliate?

Lord that talent out of Tampa is weak. Colin Cowherd was really missed today. And Rome looks like he could bolt 740 with his new deal. But that transistion from ESPN to whatever crap that is called, makes 1080 sound weak.
 
Remember, Disney also has the wherewithal to buy an Orlando station outright to clear its ESPN Radio programming. And why not: it's where their Magic Kingdom is located, and we can't have an annual ESPN/Disney World synergy fest without an ESPN Radio outlet in O-Town. ::)
 
DToTheJ said:
Remember, Disney also has the wherewithal to buy an Orlando station outright to clear its ESPN Radio programming. And why not: it's where their Magic Kingdom is located, and we can't have an annual ESPN/Disney World synergy fest without an ESPN Radio outlet in O-Town. ::)
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Frankly I've never understood why that didn't happen years ago... you'd think they would want to control how their product is handled in such a high visibility market, even if the local revenue potential is rather limited. They bought a 50,000 watt blowtorch for Radio Disney, yet they let a minor league operation on a crappy signal have ESPN (of the two, the product with a much larger audience).

They might just be waiting for 740's notice period to drop Fox Sports to pass, or they might have a purchase in the works that hasn't closed yet.
 
They also might put it on 990 - why buy anything when you already have an under performing signal?
 
Re: Too funny

So now instead of dividing a 1 share in the ratings between 3 sports stations, Orlando will now be dividing it between 4 sports stations. Thst's too funny. And this town only has one pro team and one college sports franchise (UCF). I pointed out in an earlier thread, New York City has only 2 sports stations and 9 pro teams in the metro area. Anyone know yet if it's cox paying for ESPN to be on 580 or is ESPN paying cox to be on there?
 
Regarding WDBO AM 580 suspected of going ESPN, why not? They are trusting PPM (people forgetting to carry their meters) saying the FM is carrying the most audience. But, if anyone wishes to do some homework with a call to Arbitron with your own tests on AM receivers in noisy areas, it is very evident AM radio has to play very loudly and with very minimum phase-to-carrier noise floor.

So kiss the 80 year old AM signal with your overblown Cox Atlanta signature "DEPEND ON IT" over to FM where 3-4 days a month you cannot hear the former Classic Rock-FM due to propagation terrestrial inversions. Not to mention nobody there can hear how bad pre-distorted voices and sloppy satellite feeds sound on that illogical digital compression combo scheme between Ibiquity and the complex digital processing and routing.
And yes, Cox is showing it's family-value-less liberal stabs at the attempt to restore a moderate Conservative to the White House. These are the right old Atlanta families with money showing what really matters to them- maintaining control of the landscape.
We shall see in a few months if the AM vanishes just how HOT only FM is without consistent conservative programming. How many different ways can you air outdated, useless traffic info any longer.
FM basically is NOT the savior of free radio, especially in spread-out markets in Florida because of overcrowding, tropospheric-inversions and clue-less management decisions.
 
Speaking of sports, someone needs to blow up that crap Citrus Bowl and build a new one on the other side of town..... ;D
 
At least 580 covers the entire metro. At night 1080 fades 8 miles from their stick, 810 is fragmented day and night, and 740 even with 50K does not cover the entire metro at night.
 
Could Jerry O'Neil be bringing his 20 years of O'town sports talk experience to a station he can be heard on? Regardless, we live in a state with 3 NFL teams, 2 NBA, 5 major colleges (of which usually 3 are top 25), incredible high school football. There's plenty of subject matter to talk about ... it's matter of getting a voice people want to hear. Get Pat Clarke back on the air 3 hours a day ... he'd pull in as much as Colin.
 
My guess is this is almost straight ESPN. If there is any local talent it will be in the afternoon and will likely be someone young enough and dumb enough to come in for $40K.
 
Excellent move by Cox. They can run ESPN 24/7 and I bet AM580 will still have more listeners than 1080 and 810 combined. No way will those 2 stations be able to compete. As for 740, it's got local talent, a signal on par for the most part in the metro with 580, and simply "heritage" in the market when it comes to dial position. Also note that they're holding the flip till AFTER the Presidential election on November 6th... a month from today I might add.
 
robbie roundhouse said:
My guess is this is almost straight ESPN. If there is any local talent it will be in the afternoon and will likely be someone young enough and dumb enough to come in for $40K.
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$40K? I know a sports station in town that used to have Ed Tyll and Shannon Burkle on that's trying to get away with paying major talent far less than that....
 
I would wager that there are fairly few $40K air talents on anywhere in Orlando at this point.
 
What "major talent" does WRSO have? You mean Doc on a sports station?
 
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