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WHICH ONE BETTER?

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MR. JAROME_CALVIN

Which one do you all like better??

-ESPN Radio


-Fox Sports Radio


-Sporting News Radio


or

-Sportsbyline USA



Why and why not?




Personnally I like Fox Sports Radio because of Big Ben Maller, Deb Carson, and John Fricke is the best radio personally on there, I wish they had Hacksaw Hamilton on. So far that is whi I like Fox Sports Radio. I like ESPN Radio on Sunday mornings "John Kincade" is maddd cool, it feel like he's talking to you directly. He's on 7am-10am Eastern Time
Sporting News Radio is ok, to me, it sounds very much like Fox Sports Radio. I'd rather listen to either or.

Get this, of all shows on the radio "Sportsbyline USA" has a "Fish Talk" radio show. Of all shows. You won't catch me listenning to that, check out their site. If anyone, they can do much better than that. Sorry, but "Fish Talk"???



Your thoughts on all four networks?
 
Fox was much better with Steve Czaben in the AM and Andrew Sciliano (sp) in the Evening, I wish Ben Maller was on 5 days, Maybe he can replace the awful 4 PM Eastern show. Agree that Fricke is very good and they need to find a place for Chris Moore

ESPN has good shows but they are not caller driven so it can get boring at times,

Sporting news has some good people but they are on so few stations I really can't get a read on them

Sports By line main evening show is good I guess if it is still Ron Barr on it but otherwise don't know. I would rather listen to local shows in either New York and Philly that are local 24 hours 7 days and Boston local most of the day
 
thank you for your time and reply, I appriciate your good words here. How about anyone else? Your thoughts please. I also wish Big Ben Maller was on five days a week. I also like Chris Moore.
Yes, without the interaction, yes, ESPN can be boring at times.
 
LAUROJRM said:
thank you for your time and reply, I appriciate your good words here. How about anyone else? Your thoughts please. I also wish Big Ben Maller was on five days a week. I also like Chris Moore.
Yes, without the interaction, yes, ESPN can be boring at times.
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FSR's glory days were when they had this lineup in 2004.

MPOS, Bruno & Siciliano, Myers, Czaban, JT & Sedano.

I wasn't a huge fan of Mark Patrick, but I didn't dislike him. The rest I truly enjoyed.

SNR never had a glory day. I think they were best when they were the old One On One Sports back in the late 90's

Mariotti, P Brown, Spanier, Papa Joe Chevalier, Renshaw & Kemp.

All of them were very different. All brought something unique to the table.

Right now ESPN is the best product by far. M & M are not my cup of tea, but they appeal to the masses. Cowherd is arguably the best host on national radio. Van Pelt is fine (I think he & Colin are restricted by Disney) and their night time programming is adequate.

Though, I do think ESPN's best lineup was Bruno/Golic, Kornheiser, Patrick, Chuck Wilson and Todd Wright back 10 years ago.
 
How about Amy Lawrence on ESPN Radio? She's usually on Saturday/Sunday nights. What do you think of her. I enjoy listenning to her show, she is very well spoken, and does a great job. It's well worth the listen
 
LAUROJRM said:
How about Amy Lawrence on ESPN Radio? She's usually on Saturday/Sunday nights. What do you think of her. I enjoy listenning to her show, she is very well spoken, and does a great job. It's well worth the listen
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Amy Lawrence coud be the worst thing to happen to Sports Talk since Van Earl Wright
 
I agree with every line of SportsDotCom's assessments in his previous two posts. One-on-One was a very good caller-driven network as opposed to ESPN's interview
approach. Particularly, I liked Jay Mariotti on the weekends and Bob Kemp overnight. Kornheiser and Patrick were the best ESPN tandem ever, and ESPN at night is
"adequate". And Amy Lawrence is Amy Lawrence. However, as all "salesholes" know, the best show ever on a sports talk station was not a sports talk show at all.
It was Godly.
 
Amy Lawrence is well-prepared, but I have difficulty listening to her mostly because of the qualities of her voice.
 
I like Fox the best. I agree about Ben Maller and Andrew Siciliano. I was getting accustomed to Andrew. I didn't think he would cut it as a host, but being teamed with Krystal Fernandez made it work.

One On One/Sporting News used to be my favorite. I loved listening to Arnie Spanier and Kevin Wheeler. I also liked when Peter Brown was doing a daily afternoon show and even when Nasty Nation took over the time slot.
 
Add me to the chorus who LOVED One On One Sports, EXCEPT for Marriotti, who I always found to be the same cocky a-hole who knows little, as he is now.
The rest of their lineup was stellar and represented the best cast of National Sports talkies ever. I wish they had made it on 620 in NYC. I guess I was one of their few listeners here, and Football Fridays with Peter Brown was the best of the best, and one of the few sports shows ever that I was so into, that I was a regular caller.
P Brown, Spanier, Papa Joe Chevalier, Renshaw & Kemp- WOW!!!
 
One on One before SNR took over was great! Czaben in the morning with the beginnings of TOurnament of Babes was classic. I liked Mariotti and Nasty Nester. Papa Joe and Kemp. And Peter Brown had a way of stirring the pot to get conversation going.

SNR is a shell of its former self. Fox has made too many changes in the last 18 months. ESPN seems solid but dry.

We need a hybrid!
 
1on1 was the only "entertaining" sports network I've heard.
Czaben, Renshaw, Wahl, Chevalier, Spanier back in the late 90s was the best sports radio day, overall.
Maybe it was more exciting because they were the upstarts. They weren't attached to a tv network and talking about it all the time, but that might also be why they didn't last. Who knows? They were funny, though.

These days, ESPN is waaaay too dry.
What I've heard of FSR only has a few highlights here and there.
 
sprtschick said:
One on One before SNR took over was great! Czaben in the morning with the beginnings of TOurnament of Babes was classic. I liked Mariotti and Nasty Nester. Papa Joe and Kemp. And Peter Brown had a way of stirring the pot to get conversation going.

SNR is a shell of its former self. Fox has made too many changes in the last 18 months. ESPN seems solid but dry.

We need a hybrid!
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That's what I never got. Why did FSR make so many drastic schedule changes in such a short amount of time? You look at the Jan 2009 lineup and the Jan 2010 lineup, and they're completely different except for JT The Brick who's now in overnights.
 
I prefer FSR because it's rooted mostly in Los Angeles and not NYC's hyper centric attention hub.
Don't know how FSR plays out nationally.
Don't care either.

The Petros & Money Show makes makes me laugh.
ESPN Radio has never captured my interest.

ESPN-TV is a whole other story but suffice to say it ain't pumping my 'nads either.
 
livingfruitvirus said:
sprtschick said:
One on One before SNR took over was great! Czaben in the morning with the beginnings of TOurnament of Babes was classic. I liked Mariotti and Nasty Nester. Papa Joe and Kemp. And Peter Brown had a way of stirring the pot to get conversation going.

SNR is a shell of its former self. Fox has made too many changes in the last 18 months. ESPN seems solid but dry.

We need a hybrid!
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That's what I never got. Why did FSR make so many drastic schedule changes in such a short amount of time? You look at the Jan 2009 lineup and the Jan 2010 lineup, and they're completely different except for JT The Brick who's now in overnights.
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Much of it was beyond their control: the sudden passing of former PD Andrew Ashwood, the arranged marriage between KLAC-AM and FSR (which allowed Ashwood's position to be filled - by KLAC's PD), and the mandated cutting of payroll across the board at Clear Channel. That we know.

But... making moves like, say, swapping Czabe for Steven A. Smith was outright unnecessary. That I have no clue as to WHY it was done at that point... they could have waited a year for everyone else to readjust to the new lineup, then pull off the switch, and achieved the same result.

As it is, PMS is forced into a bad position - their show became national pretty much by default (and were likely far more cheaper to air than Andrew Sicilliano/Crystal Fernandez). But the two of them are light years away from prime time. It's probably a good LA show, but is nowhere close to being a good national show. And the frequent "AM 570" references don't help.

Plus they keep Vic Jacobs and Chris Myers aboard for... what? Atmosphere?
 
Nathan Obral said:
livingfruitvirus said:
sprtschick said:
One on One before SNR took over was great! Czaben in the morning with the beginnings of TOurnament of Babes was classic. I liked Mariotti and Nasty Nester. Papa Joe and Kemp. And Peter Brown had a way of stirring the pot to get conversation going.

SNR is a shell of its former self. Fox has made too many changes in the last 18 months. ESPN seems solid but dry.

We need a hybrid!
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That's what I never got. Why did FSR make so many drastic schedule changes in such a short amount of time? You look at the Jan 2009 lineup and the Jan 2010 lineup, and they're completely different except for JT The Brick who's now in overnights.
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Much of it was beyond their control: the sudden passing of former PD Andrew Ashwood, the arranged marriage between KLAC-AM and FSR (which allowed Ashwood's position to be filled - by KLAC's PD), and the mandated cutting of payroll across the board at Clear Channel. That we know.

But... making moves like, say, swapping Czabe for Steven A. Smith was outright unnecessary. That I have no clue as to WHY it was done at that point... they could have waited a year for everyone else to readjust to the new lineup, then pull off the switch, and achieved the same result.

As it is, PMS is forced into a bad position - their show became national pretty much by default (and were likely far more cheaper to air than Andrew Sicilliano/Crystal Fernandez). But the two of them are light years away from prime time. It's probably a good LA show, but is nowhere close to being a good national show. And the frequent "AM 570" references don't help.

Plus they keep Vic Jacobs and Chris Myers aboard for... what? Atmosphere?
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I actually listened to Stephen A. Smith recently. I'll say this, it wasn't as bad as many out here made it to sound. Is he Czabe? No. Not even close. Steve Czaban is a radio professional.

Personally, I would have kept Czabe and put Stephen A. Smith's show in the afternoon. If you were going to get rid of Chris Myers b/c of duplication w/ Hartman then put Stephen A. there w/ Steve Hartman. Create an East vs West Coast show. I would probably listen to that over Doug Gottlieb and whatever SNR has on at that time.

If they had done that then there wouldn't be any issue IMO.

As I've said before, PMS is an excellent Los Angeles based show. Funny, irreverent, and interesting. It's just not a national show and as the post above says, "it's there by default."

Cost cutting was what probably saved FSR's immediate future and considering CC owns them it was mandated.

Is it the best programming? No. Necessary for survival. Yes.

Reality is this, for FSR to survive it has to do well in Los Angeles in both ratings & sales. Much like the ESPN chain of O & O's FSR's flagship needs to be the model for the rest to follow. Their model means that their shows will be LA-centric. Will that work? Time will tell.
 
good post and points, SportsDotCom.

I am still very irratated after all these months about Czaban being cut for SAS?!!?! ???
 
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