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Sinatra trumps Major League Baseball...

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NickGerard

....in Philadelphia, at least.

While visiting family in South Jersey last week, I attended a couple of Phillies games at Citizens Bank Park (one of the coolest parks in the majors, in my opinion!)

I noticed that on Friday evening, the game was on WIP, instead of the Phils usual home of 50 kw WPHT. My brother explained that WPHT didn't want to pre-empt Sid Mark's "Friday With Frank" - the venerable 2 hour Sinatra show, so the Friday games are always carried on the sister station.

For once, a standards program is given priority and not brushed aside for something else. A radio station has said that Sid Mark's weekly gem is more important than a major sporting event. Isn't it interesting that this little nod in favor of our much-beleagured format has come on a talk station, of all things?

Bravo to Sid Mark, and bravo to Philly's "Big Talker" WPHT!

Nick Gerard

p.s. WIP's image voice guy needs to learn to say "double-you" instead of "dubby-ew!" Ken Garland must be rolling his eyes up there in radio heaven!
 
> p.s. WIP's image voice guy needs to learn to say
> "double-you" instead of "dubby-ew!" Ken Garland must be
> rolling his eyes up there in radio heaven!
>

we had a boss who used that as a focus for me early on. new englandahs have some wicked bad accents, and the dubbayew thing, too. i had to practice in my kah, up and down the highway, over&over again... double-you, double-you, double-you, double-you... well, aside from being a fine station, for a time i was thinking of moving west.

and God Bless Sid & Sinatra. nice to know some things in life are more important than, well, other things. ;-)
 
> > p.s. WIP's image voice guy needs to learn to say
> > "double-you" instead of "dubby-ew!" Ken Garland must be
> > rolling his eyes up there in radio heaven!
> >
>
> we had a boss who used that as a focus for me early on. new
> englandahs have some wicked bad accents, and the dubbayew
> thing, too. i had to practice in my kah, up and down the
> highway, over&over again... double-you, double-you,
> double-you, double-you... well, aside from being a fine
> station, for a time i was thinking of moving west.
>
> and God Bless Sid & Sinatra. nice to know some things in
> life are more important than, well, other things. ;-)
>
The Phillies entire schedule should probably be on WIP. 1210 must be making a pretty penny on the Sinatra show. I can't imagine this arrangement being acceptable anywhere else.
 
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