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What are Pittsburgh's Biggest Radio Failures?
- Thread starter F.M.Hertz
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I'm tellin' ya, Phil- sports and Pittsburgh go together like a turkey and Thanksgiving.
It simply boggles my mind that the powers that be were so shortsighted that it took so many years for even a smaller station to adopt the format, and 11 years after the format debuted for a larger station to adopt it.
I appriciate people posting the mindset of the radio execs at the time, but all it has done is to show just how backwards the thinking was back then.
It simply boggles my mind that the powers that be were so shortsighted that it took so many years for even a smaller station to adopt the format, and 11 years after the format debuted for a larger station to adopt it.
I appriciate people posting the mindset of the radio execs at the time, but all it has done is to show just how backwards the thinking was back then.
Pratte4Life said:I'm tellin' ya, Phil- sports and Pittsburgh go together like a turkey and Thanksgiving.
And yet The Fan has now had two months of major decline during football season. WBGG is only up .1, so Fan listeners aren't going there.
Yes, that 3.7 rating really stinks for a sports station.
Boss, of course, never sees the glass half empty. He sees the water as potentially contaminated.
Boss, of course, never sees the glass half empty. He sees the water as potentially contaminated.
Pratte4Life said:Yes, that 3.7 rating really stinks for a sports station.
Boss, of course, never sees the glass half empty. He sees the water as potentially contaminated.
No, in this case he's got a point. That's an alarming loss at at time of year when the format should be peaking.
I still think political talk has pulled some upper demos away, and people are getting tired of shows that stink.
PITTSBURGH'S MAN STATION...93.7 THE ZONE!!!
ksradiogeek said:PITTSBURGH'S MAN STATION...93.7 THE ZONE!!!
You're kidding, of course?
Parttimer said:No, in this case he's got a point. That's an alarming loss at at time of year when the format should be peaking.Pratte4Life said:Yes, that 3.7 rating really stinks for a sports station.
Boss, of course, never sees the glass half empty. He sees the water as potentially contaminated.
I still think political talk has pulled some upper demos away, and people are getting tired of shows that stink.
I have to agree. The basic idea is good, the investment shows, but the talent sometimes leaves something to be desired. Some of the hosts never will be household names, some may never deserve to be household names. (Not everyone. Bob Pompeani, Eric Hagman and the Post-Gazette writers, for instance, make the Fan listenable.)
Guys, Boss has been known to relish in delivering doom and gloom, hence my comment, but here's my point.
3.7 for a sports radio station is still pretty good. And if you read Boss' statement, he seems to indicate it is not, and that this indicates Pittsburgh is not a good sports talk town.
This is not to say The Fan is the perfect station, beyond criticism, or that all the hosts are the second coming of Myron Cope.
But the 6.0 was close to a record for a sports radio station.
Is the 3.7 a sign of the station's and format's demise, or simply the fact Ted Williams followed .406 up with .356?
3.7 for a sports radio station is still pretty good. And if you read Boss' statement, he seems to indicate it is not, and that this indicates Pittsburgh is not a good sports talk town.
This is not to say The Fan is the perfect station, beyond criticism, or that all the hosts are the second coming of Myron Cope.
But the 6.0 was close to a record for a sports radio station.
Is the 3.7 a sign of the station's and format's demise, or simply the fact Ted Williams followed .406 up with .356?
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