I assume you guys have noticed that lots of sports radio shows are now starting to air on tv. Most recently ESPN has been airing The Herd on ESPNU and Scott Van Pelt on ESPN2 but recently both were moved to ESPNEWS. So now on the ESPN Networks (counting mike & mike on ESPN2) there is a total 8 complete hours of sportstalk radio on tv. I see this as a current trend so I want to throw out to you guys will there ever be a tv network for Sports Talk Radio??
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Sports Radio on TV?
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RadioListener19 said:
1) You forgot The Dan Patrick Show (seen on DirecTV's Audience Network, Fox Sports Net, Root Sports, and Comcast Sports Net) and Yahoo Sports Radio's Tim Brando Show (seen on CBS Sports Network, formerly CBS College Sports)
2) No.
RadioListener19 said:
To me, it's far from a trend. It's really cable TV networks throwing up their hands and saying, "okay, let's just put a camera in front of one of our radio hosts and see what happens... we have nothing to lose." And in all truth, that is pretty much correct. ESPN2 could either air the upteenth rerun of last night's "SportsCenter" (or TSN's "SportsCentre"), a fitness show du jour, a billiards or golf dart tournament, or "Mike & Mike." What's cheaper and simpler to do? Clearly it's "Mike & Mike..." who are already on the radio network's payroll.
Dear God, there better not be a 24/7 TV simulcast of ESPN Radio or whomever. Seriously. It's too much of a gimmick and can't be supported on a continual basis.
It's clearly just a ploy to fill some programming slots and save some money. It would have to be a special situation/network/show/timeslot to do anything but be a time-filler.
On a smaller scale, there's simulcasts of sports radio shows on TV; WFAN has Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton in the mornings on MSG Network, and Mike Francesa in the afternoons on YES. I believe MASN still carries a couple of shows from WJZ-AM/FM, and Comcast SportsNet California has Gary Radnich's show from KNBR.
As far as a 24/7 simulcast of ESPN Radio on TV...don't give the mothership any more ideas.
As far as a 24/7 simulcast of ESPN Radio on TV...don't give the mothership any more ideas.
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ShawnHill1 said:
You can add WEEI's Dennis & Callahan on NESN and soon Felger & Mazz of WBZ-FM on CSN New England. IIRC CSN Northwest also carries some Portland radio programming live. The RSNs like it because they're trading on known properties that they don't have to develop and lots of breaks and therefore lots of inventory that they keep for themselves. It beats dealing with the ever decreasing rates for infomercials and the lack of inventory they get in programming from other sources.
MCarney said:
And CSN NE also carries Dan Patrick's show, so that'll be 7 hours a day of radio on tv...other than the ESPN networks, that must be the most amount of radio on tv programming for a RSN
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