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One guy who gets it

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FreddyE1977

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Kudos to 1250 ESPN's Tab Douglas, for declaring his weekend show to be "a LeBron-Free Zone".
Here's one guy in the local sports talk market who gets it (if only on a part-time basis).

Tab has been around town long enough to realize that Ralph Conde used to draw a bigger share
on the old 620 talking Connellsville and Southmoreland H.S. football than you can get in this market
with a steady diet of NBA talk.
 
I know the national morning show was pretty much wall-to-wall LeBron, but how about Stan & Guy and the Drive? I can't imagine they were spending any real time on it....if ESPN wanted that, they would have kept Cowherd on....
 
The LeBron story was bigger than just "NBA talk." There were a lot of angles, some of which could be applied to Pittsburgh, where big name free agents have fled the Pirates. The NBA has a salary cap, yet that didn't stop a star player from leaving. Could that be a problem for the Penguins? People profess to be turned off by the ESPN show making the announcement, yet it got big ratings.

Beats the hell out of discussing, "Who do you think would be good wingers for Sidney Crosby" in the middle of July.

If Tab really "got it," he'd find a way to make the story relevant to local fans rather than dismissing the topic out of hand.

BTW, Ralph Conde knew all his callers by name. Not sure how big that "share" was.
 
Somehow, I think making a story about LeBron relevant to an audience in a town that has rejected pro basketball rather resoundingly would be about as easy as getting an audience of Yinzers enthusiastic about pro rodeo. What I have to wonder is why anyone who was skilled and talented enough to get a Pittsburgh audience enthusiastic about an NBA player would still be working on an AM station in Pittsburgh.
 
I think their lowpoint was still when Joe Starkey spent an hour interviewing the co-inventor of the
Wiffle Ball around the All Star Break.
 
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