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Speculation about Sporting News Radio

I added a post on that thread, but to summarize, it sure would shake things up if SNR became CBS Sports Radio--giving CBS a one-two punch in Houston with 610 and 1560. Maybe 610 stays mostly local while 1560 is mostly network? Would Gow sell 1560 to CBS? (they are still under the market cap.) And would it kill off one of the format competitors here?

Interesting read on the Cleveland board.
 
If SNR goes to CBS, that means The Fan in Dallas would switch to it and The Ticket would either have to switch to Fox Sports Radio overnight or replay a couple of day shows.
 
Here's my understanding of it...

When whatever millionaire/billionaire (Paul Allen?) sold off The Sporting News, it went to the American City Business Journal people (Houston Business Journal and others). They didn't want the radio network, they just wanted the newspaper.

Clancy Woods got the network as Mission Media Group, licensing the name "Sporting News Radio" from ACBJ. Gow bought into Mission, Clancy got out. (I'm assuming Clancy got paid, because that's how he rolls.)

In addition to the teaser promos about August 1, you'll notice that the Sporting News name has all but disappeared from the network.

If CBS wanted to launch a sports radio network, they have all the resources in house. They don't need to buy out David Gow. But they (or anyone else with a decent brand such as NBC) could license their name in the same fashion that Fox has done with Premiere.

I don't know if Gow has licensed another company's name or whether he's created his own new brand, but it's a safe bet that the rights to use "Sporting News" go away at midnight on Monday on his network.
 
Considering how CBS rebranded its "College Sports" cable network (dropping the "college" - though they certainly are no flunkies, by any means), I wouldn't be surprised if they rebranded SNR under the CBS umbrella, also.
 
In Barron's column today 610 and 1560 are bidding for the Texans rights next season, so doubt something like this would happen, but you never know the way Gow changes things every month.
 
It's no contest. KILT has the advantage of having an FM signal to also broadcast the Texans games on when they play a late evening game, which, according to the Texans schedule occurs at least five times during this coming season. KGOW can't offer those games to a very large audience with that pitiful nighttime signal they have.
 
Interesting. Yahoo definitely isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think sports. It's barely a name that comes to mind when I think search engine anymore.
 
What I'd like to hear about is the negotiation over the logo, which carries the line "in association with Gow Broadcasting." Was it one of those cases of include it or there's no deal, or was it we'll throw it in if you take this price? Those who know David Gow may already have an opinion.
 
Mediafrog+ said:
Still not sure if there's room for a third national sports network, regardless of branding.
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As the one who first brought up CBS on that Cleveland board thread...

I don't get the idea CBS is looking to start a third 24/7 sports radio network. The rumblings I've heard would have them start a national late night/overnight show to service their own sports radio stations, much like "Overnight America with Jon Grayson" from KMOX/St. Louis is heard on some CBS news/talkers late at night.

Someone who replied to me took the speculation further.

As for Yahoo, they have made quite an effort hiring sportswriters for their sports website. Many of those people will appear on YSR.
 
Strangely enough, even though Yahoo basically sucks as a search engine now, they have built a huge network of content providers over the last few years. They have a large news and entertainment department and now it looks like they are beefing up their sports providers too. It will certainly bring new exposure to the network through the Yahoo web pages.

I'm not so sure about the whole Yahoo! branding on SNR though. Seems a little... childish? I don't know, maybe it will just take a while to get used to.
 
wow, what a great salesman Gow is. To take his dog with fleas and tease the internet geeks that they can actually get laid if they own their own radio station...and it worked. Is Gow related to Mel Karmazan in any way, this deal smells like Mel.
 
Yahoo! has been maintaining a series of sports blogs for awhile (e.g. "Shutdown Corner" covering the NFL). As a previous poster mentioned, these bloggers will most certainly be appearing on a regular, if not semi-regular basis, on Y!SR - kinda like how ESPN and FSR has their own people on their radio networks quite often...

radiogooroo said:
...Yahoo definitely isn't the first name that comes to mind when I think sports. It's barely a name that comes to mind when I think search engine anymore.
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I suppose, due to the latter, they're fixing the former so that you do think of them when it comes to sports (while conceding to Google).
 
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