Why is Ticket 760 ratings so low?

[jhr4]

Does no one listen to sports talk any more? I know my radio will be stuck on 760 this weekend on the NFL draft. I gues they will cover it again this year.

 

[daypart2]

Ticket 760 is a ratings flea because the station doesn't carry the two sports teams that SA really cares about, namely the Cowboys and the Spurs.There are also limitations to that signal.

 

[radiotex-]

What part of the San Antonio Market does the 50,000 watts not cover? Granted 1000 watts at night doesn't do it any favors but really, limited signal is not a problem. Limited contenet, however...

 

[daypart2]

What part of the San Antonio Market does the 50,000 watts not cover? Granted 1000 watts at night doesn't do it any favors but really, limited signal is not a problem. Limited contenet, however...

My incomplete point was that the nighttime signal rules out putting Spurs games and Cowboys games, a handful of which each year are on at night, on The Ticket.

 

[jhr4]

What part of the San Antonio Market does the 50,000 watts not cover? Granted 1000 watts at night doesn't do it any favors but really, limited signal is not a problem. Limited contenet, however...

My incomplete point was that the nighttime signal rules out putting Spurs games and Cowboys games, a handful of which each year are on at night, on The Ticket.

The nighttime signal sux. I can hardly get kvet-am even only 30 miles out of Austin.

 

[screamformelong]

First of all, their local on-air talent is awful. David Chancellor may be decent on TV, but on the radio he is just shrill and annoying (emphasis on the Shrill....he makes Howard Dean's "take back the White House" rant sound subtle by comparison most of the time). Charlie Parker and his hippie burnout schtick are laughable. Much like Chancellor, his sports knowledge of anything beyond the Spurs and Cowboys is non-existent. Unlike Chancellor and Parker, Walter Pasacrita and Jeff Vexler at least do a little (very little) research and possess a modicum of non-Spurs/Cowboys knowledge, but they are just plain boring...and annoying. And I don't know why Lundy forces himself and his lapdog Peter Burns on the listening public, other than to feed Lundy's ego. Their NFL draft show last weekend was a complete joke, consisting of little more than an interminable bit where they recited the idiotic rules to a "Draft Drinking Game" they stole from SportsByBrooks.com. It's a shame KGNB 1420 only carries 3 of Tony Bruno's 4 hours in the morning, and that their signal barely reaches San Antonio. Otherwise, I can't imagine anyone listening to Parker's drivel instead of the highly-entertaining and knowledgeable Tony Bruno.

 

[daypart]

Charlie Parker and his hippie burnout schtick are laughable. Much like Chancellor, his sports knowledge of anything beyond the Spurs and Cowboys is non-existent.

I almost fell out of my chair the other day when Charlie admitted he knew little about NBA teams other than the Spurs. The syndicated morning sports talk shows don't spend much time covering the teams SA cares about. Instead, you get a big dose of discussion of the Lakers and the Yankees. In Bruno's case, any team from Philadelphia gets a lot of play. I think the Clear Channel braintrust must have decided that you have to be provincial to get ratings out of sports talk here during drive time.Listening to Joe Pags, who is on opposite Chance and Charlie on the Blowtorch, it's clear that he doesn't know much about the Spurs. But at least he has absorbed enough to ask good questions.

 

[SpursKitten]

Charlie Parker and his hippie burnout schtick are laughable. Much like Chancellor, his sports knowledge of anything beyond the Spurs and Cowboys is non-existent.

I almost fell out of my chair the other day when Charlie admitted he knew little about NBA teams other than the Spurs. The syndicated morning sports talk shows don't spend much time covering the teams SA cares about. Instead, you get a big dose of discussion of the Lakers and the Yankees. In Bruno's case, any team from Philadelphia gets a lot of play. I think the Clear Channel braintrust must have decided that you have to be provincial to get ratings out of sports talk here during drive time.Listening to Joe Pags, who is on opposite Chance and Charlie on the Blowtorch, it's clear that he doesn't know much about the Spurs. But at least he has absorbed enough to ask good questions.

He's only absorbed with himself and if you haven't noticed he's kissing major Fox butt to try to get in with them. He talks too fast and he's starting to get the "Jeff Bolton" ego. I cant stand listening to him any more. IMO