What's happened to KYW's sports?

[BlueHen]

This morning there was no mention of how the Phantoms did against Chicago in the first game of the Calder Cup finals. Jeez, instead I got to hear that Donovan McNabb and Terrell Owens are talking and not feuding.

I can remember years ago during football season they used to give quite an extensive reading of the college scores in the :45 spot. These days, they barely give the Top Ten major teams and a few of the locals. The best college coverage has to be WDEL's Saturday afternoon shows with Len Holmquist. They even give the scores of the Top 25 in I-AA in addition to all the locals in Divisions II and III.

 

[John1]

> This morning there was no mention of how the Phantoms did
> against Chicago in the first game of the Calder Cup finals.
> Jeez, instead I got to hear that Donovan McNabb and Terrell
> Owens are talking and not feuding.
>
> I can remember years ago during football season they used to
> give quite an extensive reading of the college scores in the
> :45 spot. These days, they barely give the Top Ten major
> teams and a few of the locals. The best college coverage has
> to be WDEL's Saturday afternoon shows with Len Holmquist.
> They even give the scores of the Top 25 in I-AA in addition
> to all the locals in Divisions II and III.
>
In the 1960's-70's KYW used to give seemingly endless reports on horse race results at night, every track, every race. I guess with WIP as sister station they feel they can now give less sports details, as people really interested can tune there (not to mention internet and ESPN access).

 

[ixnay]

> In the 1960's-70's KYW used to give seemingly endless
> reports on horse race results at night, every track, every
> race. I guess with WIP as sister station they feel they can
> now give less sports details, as people really interested
> can tune there (not to mention internet and ESPN access).
>

When giving the race results, KYW would sometimes say, "...paid $20.00, $7.50, $7.50, that price OK," whatever "that price OK meant/means. Anybody know?

ixnay

 

[deepstblu]

> When giving the race results, KYW would sometimes say,
> "...paid $20.00, $7.50, $7.50, that price OK," whatever
> "that price OK meant/means. Anybody know?

The payoffs were for win, place and show bets in that order. Usually the win bet paid the most, place less and show the least, but occasionally some quirk in the amounts bet would result in the show bet paying as much or more than the place, or place as much or more than win; they'd say "price OK" to verify that it's wasn't a typo from the wire service, the results had really come out that way.

 

[hykos1045]

I can often recall thinking when they say "That's sports" saying, NO, THAT'S NOT SPORTS, THAT'S NFL AND WPGA! WHAT ABOUT THE DOZEN SPORTS IN BETWEEN, LIKE BASEBALL!

 

[BlueHen]

> I guess with WIP as sister station they feel they can
> now give less sports details, as people really interested
> can tune there (not to mention internet and ESPN access).

If radio today has any concern over losing its audience to all the other mediums available, this is the attitude that could put another nail in the coffin.

Speaking of WIP, I gave the morning show a listen 3 or 4 months ago, and it sure wasn’t sports I heard on there either. Debbie (Deborah ?) Gibson was the on-air guest and the topic was her appearance at a local theatre and posing in Playboy. (Well, maybe it was sports!)