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No Browns on radio in Dayton for 2013 season

Cincinnati Kid said:
I spoke to Mark Neal of WING this morning. He advised the station is waiting on a contract from the Browns, but seems confident things will be worked out. He did note that if there are conflicts from Reds games this season, WING would air the Reds because of already-made agreements. He pointed out that the Browns' opening game with Miami on September 8 could be carried since the Reds' game with L.A. on that date will be at night ("Sunday Night Baseball"). Mark showed a real understanding of having the Browns radio coverage continue in this area.
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Good to hear! I figured Reds were going to take priority just because they had an agreement with them first. At least we will be able to hear Browns games this season and hopefully many many more.
 
schmave said:
I'm not interested in carrying on a fight that continues to take this thread farther afield from the original point. I know what I know, and you know what you know. But you cannot be serious trying to tell me that comparison from the late 1990s still rings true.
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You can think what you want, but this thread says it all:

http://www.redszone.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2637075

It says about 20,000 homes in the Columbus DMA tune into Reds games on TV (out of 930,000 homes in the DMA). Really? And you think the Reds are really popular around here?

That same thread says 11,000 homes in Indy watch Reds games ... And that's out of a million plus homes.

I don't know the Indians numbers, but I am certain they draw more than 20,000 homes.

Indy numbers confirmed here:

http://www.ibj.com/local-fox-sports-tv-ratings-of-reds-games-soar/PARAMS/article/22560

I still submit that the Reds were only popular here so long as Reds games were a staple of Avco programming in a three channel market. Once the larger than life exposure ended, so did their source of fans. It also explains why Reds fans skew older.

Nobody's telling you who to Bea fan of, but the idea that the Reds have some big following here is laughable.
 
P.S. This discussion is not as off topic as it might seem at first blush because it shows that the further you get out from a team's home city, the quicker fans following your teams drop off. I think this is especially true when it comes to a provincial city like Cincinnati that doesn't have the best marketers working for their teams and that has a.mentality whete they really don't bother reaching out to other cities in their home state.

Just my opinion.
 
I get it. Let's just agree to disagree. This is getting way, way more drawn out than I intended when I made my original simple point.
 
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