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New york islanders

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The Islanders need to be on NYC radio this season. They don't belong on some college station IMO. To me it doesn't make sense. Stations like WOR or WABC should be airing these games.
 
I mean the thing is that there just isn't interest in the Islanders. I say this as a die hard hockey fan. It's hard enough to draw a large fan base and a large enough listener base when your hockey team is good. The Islanders' fans don't even think the team is good. When you're the THIRD hockey team in a region after the Rangers and the Devils, you're lucky to have your games on the air at all.
 
Keep it the New York Islanders ,with the Nassau Coliseum being refurbished (for what the Isles are Brooklyn-bound anyway) which team(s) would move in? an Arena Football team (great Idea IMO)
 
Nobody outside of Long Island cares about the Islanders, so there is no reason for them to be on a big NYC station- where half the coverage area would be NJ, Westchester, CT etc. that have no interest in the team.
 
For quite a few years, the Islanders did have a New York radio flagship station.

The best hope for the Isles might be if Clear Channel gets the broadcast rights for the New York Mets baseball team and decides to flip one of it's existing New York stations to all-sports, making the Mets the centerpiece of that station.

Such a station will want the Isles to provide year-round local pro sports play-by--play, even if they had stayed out in Uniondale.
 
ansky212 said:
Nobody outside of Long Island cares about the Islanders, so there is no reason for them to be on a big NYC station- where half the coverage area would be NJ, Westchester, CT etc. that have no interest in the team.
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That may very well change with the move to Brooklyn, where the Isles have a lease through 2040.
 
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