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IT'S TIME FOR A 24/7 365 DAYS A YEAR ALL FOOTBALL SPORTSTALK NETWORK
- Thread starter Leebo65
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You could give Sirius NFL Radio a shot.
if they did that, i would not listen for one. building an entire network around any sport on terrestrial radio would be a disaster in my opinion. i get sick of all the football talk on fsr when its NOT football season (and even during football season) and i think that all sports networks should focus on the sport(s) that are in season at the time. maybe talk about another sport in its offseason when something big drops, but not 24/7.
if you haven't noticed, i'm not a football fan. but my statement doesn't have anything to do with that. i don't think there is a market nationally for one sport radio unless its on satellite.
if you haven't noticed, i'm not a football fan. but my statement doesn't have anything to do with that. i don't think there is a market nationally for one sport radio unless its on satellite.
One thing I like about Colin Cowherd is he knows where the bread is buttered. He talks a lot of NFL, College Football, NBA mainly around playoff time and some Yankee's and Red Sox(yuck)... America is ready for Football Talk 24/7 ALL YEAR LONG. You dinosaurs can listen to your Baseball talk on the locals.
I'm not sure if football talk 24/7 is the way to go since you would need to talk about other sports in the off-season, but I definitely won't bash the idea entirely. Football is the most popular sport and may have the most passionate fan base of any sport in the country. Even though I just mentioned about talking about other sports too (you can't ignore the NCAA tournament or the NBA Finals, for example), there are really lots of things about football to talk about year round:
January--Bowl games and BCS title game, recruiting (leading up to national signing day on the first Wednesday in February)
February--National Signing Day, the Super Bowl, off-season NFL trades and rumors and combine talks
March--More combine and draft talk and spring practice in college football
April--College spring games and NFL draft in full gear (no pun intended)
May and June--Perhaps the biggest lull of the year in football. Upcoming NFL schedules normally come out during this time and heats up a little in June as the June 30 trading/cut deadline nears
July--NFL training camps open in the latter half of the month
August--Preseason NFL and college practices begin
September-December--Need I say more?
If someone can pull this off, more power to them!
January--Bowl games and BCS title game, recruiting (leading up to national signing day on the first Wednesday in February)
February--National Signing Day, the Super Bowl, off-season NFL trades and rumors and combine talks
March--More combine and draft talk and spring practice in college football
April--College spring games and NFL draft in full gear (no pun intended)
May and June--Perhaps the biggest lull of the year in football. Upcoming NFL schedules normally come out during this time and heats up a little in June as the June 30 trading/cut deadline nears
July--NFL training camps open in the latter half of the month
August--Preseason NFL and college practices begin
September-December--Need I say more?
If someone can pull this off, more power to them!
Yeah this would have to be on some kind of model like NFL-TV or The Disney Channel, owned by the teams in each market. Maybe some out-of-market stations would pick it up, too. But I can't see many investors, no matter how much "intestinal fortitude" they had, wanting to invest in a startup radio network where the predominant focus is one sport. If listeners want to know that much about football, they already have blogs and podcasts and the internets to rely on.
the golden boy said:
This is more or less how Sirius NFL Radio schedules its programming (save for some of the college-only stuff). The May-mid-July lull is tough. A lot of repetition but no more than the local baseball talk. 18 hours of "why didn't the manager pull player-x?" or "was player-y on steroids" can be more than a little tedious too, no?
May and June you get a lot of talk on OTA's in the NFL and Sirius fills their time with interviews with rookies and free agents looking for jobs. Big time columnists like Peter King, Vic Carucci, etc play an even larger role during this time period on Sirius. Shows such as Moving the Chains fills its own time because it is so technical and educational. The question is, does the average fan want to hear talk about the specifics of the 3-4 DE 5-technique vs a 3-technique NT? I would assume the answer is no and that is a big part of what NFL radio would need.
Is it possible such a network is launched? Sure, but I wouldn't expect it.
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nutballgazette
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Networks like this will only be on Satellite Radio. NFL on Sirrus, MLB on XM/Sirrius and NHL on XM..No NBA Network. (Yawn)
quadraphonic said:
What he said.
An all football TV channel would have legs, even with NFL Network's carriage issues (and the quick death of The Football Network)--plenty of TV friendly content for sports fans. But a sports radio network dedicated solely to football? A niche inside of the niche that is sports radio (of which not all sports fans partake of)? Seems like you're just asking to throw away money.
I love football and there's something to talk about for 365 days, but not 24/7/365. Not nationally, anyway. One needs a breather.
I think local radio that knows what it's doing handles the local stuff and the big national stuff (like the Big Ben mess) well enough in the offseason. But there's lots of other stuff right now on the sports plate besides the draft.
I think local radio that knows what it's doing handles the local stuff and the big national stuff (like the Big Ben mess) well enough in the offseason. But there's lots of other stuff right now on the sports plate besides the draft.
Triple Fake Jerry said:
During the offseason, much of the talk would reliably devolve into 'Who was the greatest ______ of all time' arguments. How much of that would anyone be potentially willing to listen to for more than an hour or so?
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That actually sounds like some of the topics ESPN's hosts already cover.
Of course, it would end up "Top 12" because they hate to leave some worthy competitor out, and with a million codicils and permutations.
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kjl
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I agree with that, ESPN already has that.
Yes a 24 7 365 football radio, no please.
Yes a 24 7 365 football radio, no please.
NFL Network can barely sustain any watch ability outside of September through February.
NFL Network is like Versus during Stanley Cup Playoffs.
You know it's out there, but finding it is spotty at best.
And it's completely useless the other 6 months* out of the year.
*6 months is being very generous
NFL Network is like Versus during Stanley Cup Playoffs.
You know it's out there, but finding it is spotty at best.
And it's completely useless the other 6 months* out of the year.
*6 months is being very generous
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