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Taking away positives from the Lightning's loss on Friday

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FM 100 Means Music

1. With the Lightning eliminated, Jim Lighthall now has enough time to give out-of-market daytime baseball scores during his updates, something he didn’t have time to do on Thursday or Friday last week because he spent so much time talking about the Rays/Lightning and then cut to the live read instead of giving score updates.

2. Coast to Coast AM will no longer be pre-empted by the absurdly long Lightning Post Game Show.

3. No more annoying “Lightning Updates” during the 4:00 sports flash on 620, which again prevents Frank from giving updates on out-of-market sporting events.
 
Radio is informational, between the commercials that pay to provide that.

Jim Lighthall - or anybody else for that matter - gives information he thinks people want to hear. The more, the merrier.

Not everybody cares about the Lightning. Clearly, you are in that group.

The majority of the listeners to a local sports talk program want the local major sports scores and anything else pertinent. If the talk hosts are trying to fill the seats at the St. Pete. Times Forum, they will talk about the game with the hopes it will spill over to game time and fill the seats. You can listen to the radio feed at any of our sports venues.

I am in the group that would rather listen to Lightning post game than to C2C. When Rich signs off from Rays post game on 620/106.9, I'm gone.

Sports is as much - or more - radio than music, now. You can experience and re-experience it over and over, until the next game and it remains fresh because it's real. Nobody knows how it's going to end.

Sports is not background. Sports fans use it to form relationships and a common bond.

Music can be had for free or .99 on a download.

Go into the payoffs with national attention with your local pro sports team, and you bet you are going to have some hoo-hum pre-emptions.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
badjef said:
The majority of the listeners to a local sports talk program want the local major sports scores and anything else pertinent. If the talk hosts are trying to fill the seats at the St. Pete. Times Forum, they will talk about the game with the hopes it will spill over to game time and fill the seats. You can listen to the radio feed at any of our sports venues.

I am in the group that would rather listen to Lightning post game than to C2C. When Rich signs off from Rays post game on 620/106.9, I'm gone.

Sports is as much - or more - radio than music, now. You can experience and re-experience it over and over, until the next game and it remains fresh because it's real. Nobody knows how it's going to end.

Sports is not background. Sports fans use it to form relationships and a common bond.

Music can be had for free or .99 on a download.
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You went completely off the rails there in the second half of your argument, whatever it was supposed to be.
 
FM 100 Means Music said:
You went completely off the rails there in the second half of your argument, whatever it was supposed to be.
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Some might say, I am always running off the rails.
But, my point was, you didn't like the Lightning updates. I don't care for C2C. It is why those who make the decisions get paid the big bucks.

You can take all the statistics you want, but you are still going to annoy somebody with the choice of programming.

Since CC has the contracts to all the major pro sports broadcasts in Tampa Bay and they share those contracts on one station, there will be conflicts in fulfilling those obligations.

Don't think the Lightning updates are over...
There is always next year.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
It is not an ordinary occurrence for a team to go as far as the Lightning did in the playoffs, so I say bring on all the coverage and angles to the story possible. Many people on R-I.com have posted for years about the diminishing live and local shows out there. All of this programming that the OP mentioned is a great example of how there IS still plenty of local talk/coverage out there, at least when a team goes deep into the postseason.
 
This kills me to type this..and as a former sports anchor...I no longer wait for results at :20 :40 or :00 anymore. The previous anchor on 620 broke me of the habit between his "How ya doin' Tampa Bay?" and "Crazy, man, crazy" over the least little tidbit (and given that to this point, no one has picked him up, I may be in the majority on that..)...which resulted in little or no info on out of town scores. Why should I wait?

I have a smartphone that literally gives me pitch by pitch updates with applicable breaking news on potential no hitters or other alerts as they are available.

It's a low level carrier, but I get what I need.

It kills me...I no longer listen to what used to be my gig.

The Rays should add a score guy to Rich Herreras efforts. Let him do the anaylisis, and every :15 min or so of the post game, throw it to the guy for score updates.

What befuddles me is who in their right mind would take any of that alien tin-foil hat tripe seriously on C2C...unless I just don't get it...took me 4 months to understand Phil Hendries takes on life...hysterical stuff...but C2C...eeeesh...
 
I wonder how FM 100 would feel about an "absurdly long" Buccaneers postgame show on a Monday night (provided the Bucs had an "MNF" game) preempting MNF... ::)

Speaking of the Bucs... Deckerhoff will be back, it was just confirmed... Who's going to replace the vacancy left by the departed Scott Ledger, though?
 
preferably, as with my example with the Rays, at least two people. Traffic cop/analyst and scoreboard guy ( or gal ). Ledger was stuck with having to fill time and went on and on and on during some of those post game shows. A single voice over that amount of time,no matter how good he or she is, doesn't work.
 
I don't know... I've heard some Yankees postgame shows on the radio and it's the exact same format: person in the studio talks up game highlights, then hits on the rest of the league in a subsequent segment... Now, I know, football is apples and baseball is, well, green apples, but I suppose it's a "safe" postgame format if the "network" doesn't want to hire two or more people for the postgame or take calls, etc.
 
radioguy555 said:
Many people on R-I.com have posted for years about the diminishing live and local shows out there. All of this programming that the OP mentioned is a great example of how there IS still plenty of local talk/coverage out there, at least when a team goes deep into the postseason.
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That's the problem. There is too much "live and local" sports programming in this market. Let's keep those pink slips and cancellation notices coming as it means more coverage of national sports stories and less coverage of local teams that I don't care about.
 
DToTheJ said:
I wonder how FM 100 would feel about an "absurdly long" Buccaneers postgame show on a Monday night (provided the Bucs had an "MNF" game) preempting MNF... ::)
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Unless either the Kansas City Chiefs or St. Louis Rams are on MNF, I could care less.
 
So just so we have this clear, since John Q. Jagoff here happens to be from Missouri instead of Tampa, our sports stations should shy away from the more local-oriented coverage that is preferred by the VAST majority of listeners in the market so as not to disrupt his personal preference for teams no one else here gives a shit about - even when one of the local teams is in the midst of a deep and highly improbable playoff run.

FM 100, do you lock yourself inside of meat freezers and then complain that it's cold?
 
druidhillsradio said:
FM 100, do you lock yourself inside of meat freezers and then complain that it's cold?

Hahahahahhaha ;D
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I wouldn't laugh so hard, we all do it.

The human race is insane, by definition, anyway.

Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
 
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