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SO WHAT DOES THE X DO?

P

Parttimer

So does the X stand pat as a hybrid music/sports format, or did CBS give them a 30-day window to make a pre-emptive strike and move the station to all sports?
 
Seems like they're doing pretty well as-is. Plus with the restraints they have on Madden -- no live calls, a producer hovering over the dump button, they get the benefits of his presence while minimizing the risks.
 
I agree. Why over-react to something that may have little effect on them.

With The Fan and ESPN both targeting the 24/7 sports listener, they could easily just cannibalize each other's listener base. In part in may depend on factors such as Pitt basketball and the Penguins making long playoff runs, otherwise the local sports market is dead until the Steelers go to camp next summer.

Maybe The Fan could make a splash by having a live reporter at the Daytona 500.
 
Madden's success on The X is intruguing to me. When he went there, I thought it wouldn't work -- too much music for the sports fans, too much sports talk for the people who want music.

But somehow it's working, even though it's apparently taken audience away from WDVE, which CC doesn't want.
 
Suck?

Oh, that wasn't the question you were asking. They need to pick a side because the music they're playing (or rather ostensibly playing) just doesn't fit w/ the amount of sports they're broadcasting.
 
Parttimer said:
So does the X stand pat as a hybrid music/sports format, or did CBS give them a 30-day window to make a pre-emptive strike and move the station to all sports?
Click to expand...

I've been wondering about that since the rumors started.

C.
 
While I won't bet money that they will take the X all sports, I think some sort of realignment of the CC cluster is in the works, and that somehow Baumann's quiet exit from DVE is part of it.... he may not really be gone from CC.
 
I suspect the X is too successful to go all-Sports, plus they need it to protect 'DVE. Don't ever for a minute think
whatever happens in that building isn't ultimately about 'DVE.

C.
 
The X witch has plenty of potential to grow will neaver get the chance to do so. It will always be second fiddle to WDVE.
 
Does anyone see 970 surviving this? Maybe they spend so little on it that it won't matter, but it seems they might be better off to go another direction, even if it was all off the bird.... Maybe Imus, Stephanie Miller, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes... find ways to use Bendel on DVE, the X or 104.7... if they let Rome go he'd probably end up on 93.7 but not live. If 104.7 can run conservative talk all day leading into the Pirates, this doesn't figure to hurt the Dave Wannstedt Show or Duquesne Basketball a whole lot.
 
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