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Phillies Spring Training games will be on 94.1

Looks like CBS is really serious about putting the Phillies on FM... Wow.
 
Slap in the face to Gargano + Macnow. Nearly all the preseason games start at 1 PM, just when Duh Cuz + Macnow start their show. They are banished to 610. Very telling. One would think at least in the preseason that they would have been able to keep their show on 94 WIP.

Speaks volumes where sports talk radio is in this city.Not worthy enough to supplant preseason baseball.
 
arggone said:
Slap in the face to Gargano + Macnow. Nearly all the preseason games start at 1 PM, just when Duh Cuz + Macnow start their show. They are banished to 610. Very telling. One would think at least in the preseason that they would have been able to keep their show on 94 WIP.

Speaks volumes where sports talk radio is in this city.Not worthy enough to supplant preseason baseball.
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Have to disagree. A real sports station doesn't offload baseball play by play to a sister station in a different format. After, what, 20 years? WIP finally doesn't do that. Play by play of a local team trumps talk.

If it were up to me, the game would be on 94 and 610, and not on 1210.
 
aindik said:
If it were up to me, the game would be on 94 and 610, and not on 1210.
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1210 would die a slow and painful death if they lost the Phillies. I agree that having the AM feed on 610 makes more sense but CBS is keeping it on 1210 to keep the station alive (that and I'm sure the Phillies wanted to keep their broadcast on an AM clear channel station).
 
aindik said:
Have to disagree. A real sports station doesn't offload baseball play by play to a sister station in a different format. After, what, 20 years? WIP finally doesn't do that. Play by play of a local team trumps talk.

If it were up to me, the game would be on 94 and 610, and not on 1210.
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WIP's roots are in sports talk radio though. Airing preseason baseball games in place of their #1 sports talk tandem speaks volumes.
 
arggone said:
WIP's roots are in sports talk radio though. Airing preseason baseball games in place of their #1 sports talk tandem speaks volumes.
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No it doesn't. The only volume it speaks is that they have a contract to air all Phillies games as the team's FM flagship station. I don't think as a flagship station you really have an option of picking and choosing which games you want to air.
 
arggone said:
aindik said:
Have to disagree. A real sports station doesn't offload baseball play by play to a sister station in a different format. After, what, 20 years? WIP finally doesn't do that. Play by play of a local team trumps talk.

If it were up to me, the game would be on 94 and 610, and not on 1210.
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WIP's roots are in sports talk radio though. Airing preseason baseball games in place of their #1 sports talk tandem speaks volumes.
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It's a station. It's SportsRadio. There are other stations with "Talk" in the name. "SportsTalk 980" in Washington DC comes to mind. But the format here isn't sports talk. The format is sports.
 
Whether or not the word "talk" was incorporated in the identity a quarter century ago doesn't mean the bulk of the programming hours are, indeed, sports talk. Stations with "talk" in their sports identity also carry play by play--it's a meaningless distinction to focus on the station nickname.

As for the "flagship" stuff--also meaningless. The contract is with CBS, not individual stations.
 
imhomerjay said:
Whether or not the word "talk" was incorporated in the identity a quarter century ago doesn't mean the bulk of the programming hours are, indeed, sports talk. Stations with "talk" in their sports identity also carry play by play--it's a meaningless distinction to focus on the station nickname.
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Maybe. In any event, all sports stations carry talk most of the day. Even on TV this is true. But live events trump talk when available.

imhomerjay said:
As for the "flagship" stuff--also meaningless. The contract is with CBS, not individual stations.
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I would be willing to bet the contract specifies individual stations because the Phillies want certain levels of signal coverage.
 
Agree that live trumps talk where it makes sense for a given station (and based on the teams we're talking about...it makes sense for instance for the Union or St. Joes to generally be on 610 while 94 sticks with the regular format).

As for "certain stations," had CBS not flipped an FM property to WIP, then the games would have been on 1210.
 
Thing is that link originally had the preseason games only on 1210. I actually posted about this a few weeks ago. So I assume WIP didn't plan on carrying the preseason games at first.

I don't think they should carry all the games. Maybe first game, & weekends but during spring training all the games are at 1:00. Your preempting the core of your programing about 15 times in one month, for games that aren't even gonna draw normal ratings. It will be the end of July before regular season baseball interrupts WIP mid-day (not counting weekends).
 
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