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NBC Sports Radio will no longer be distributed by Westwood One as of March 31, may be

Truthfully none of these networks are very strong. The stations that use them don't do much local promotion.

The other thing is the CBS Sports Radio Network will be changing its name at the end of the year.
 
NBC Sports Radio is no longer a 24/7 network. It supplies brief sports updates to stations but only has a few full length shows. I'm not sure where it can be heard other than a few sports stations around the country that use it to supplement a 24/7 network. And it supplies updates tailored to Bloomberg Radio.

The 24/7 Sports Networks....

--ESPN
--Fox Sports Radio
--CBS Sports Radio (now owned by Entercom and soon to change its name)
--SB Nation Sports (formerly Yahoo, Sporting News, One on One)
--ESPN Deportes (Spanish - disbanded last year)
--TUDN Radio (Spanish - formerly Univision Sports Radio)

NBC had a good product. In some markets such as Phoenix and Las Vegas, there were four all-sports stations and NBC Sports Radio was heard on one of the stations. But that wasn't enough.

ESPN got there first, years before the others. Fox was second. And then CBS and NBC arrived at the same time in 2012. But CBS Sports Radio was backed by Cumulus, which uses it on most of its sports stations. NBC had no such deal and was all but disbanded last year. SB Nation has always been content to be heard in Houston on a co-owned station, and be the last sports network among affiliates around the country.
 
I enjoyed NBC Sports Radio, thought their presentation was good and the hosts I heard were very good. Here in Seattle it seemed to be a fill-in network, although when it started up around mid-decade a few years ago there were some stations (AM band rimshots, DX stations) that seemed to run it all night.
 
SiriusXM used NBC Sports Radio as filler for several years, finally giving it its own channel (205 on the XM side) not long ago. Now I guess it will be replaced with the familiar looped announcement telling of the channel's removal from the service and where listeners can hear similar programming.
 
NBCSR mostly killed itself when they canned their 24/7 operation. The third or fourth sports station in a market is almost definitely looking for a set-it-and-forget-it network, and NBCSR was no longer that when they became a 12 hr a day 5 day a week operation.
 
PTBoardOp94 said:
NBCSR mostly killed itself when they canned their 24/7 operation.
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Exactly. The writing was on the wall. The network was originally set up in 2012 before Westwood One was bought by Cumulus. When that happened in 2013, Cumulus already had the CBS Sports Network deal done, with all of the CBS and Cumulus radio stations. So competitively, NBCSR began at a disadvantage within the company. Of course this was at a time when Westwood One was distributing news networks from CBS and NBC. Now both of them are gone. NBC News Radio is with iHeart/Premiere and CBS News Radio is with Skyview. All of these various news and sports networks were primarily services for AM stations. With AM in decline, they make less money.
 
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