Not sure if it was some computer glitch, but right after the third overtime of the Notre Dame-Lousiville basketball game was completed at 12-Midnight Saturday night into Sunday morning, WSAI's coverage via the Louisville Network dropped out. There was some dead air and then programming began from the Fox Sports Network. WSAI never went back to the game which went five overtimes before Notre Dame won it 104-101. Listeners would have to have turned to WHAS out of Louisville or to WLS from Chicago who is on the Notre Dame Network. I guess no one at WSAI was listening.
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WSAI Drops The Ball
- Thread starter Cincinnati Kid
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Clear Channel of Cincinnati should be ABSOLUTELY ASHAMED of themselves. Fortunately, I saw this game on ESPN....the WHOLE game. ROBOT radio has proven itself time-and-time-again to be NOT reliable. WSAI was certainly NOT serving the public interest in this case. I wonder how many people tried to call the station when this happened only to reach a recording..!
Is Clear Channel so cheap they can't afford to have a $10/hr board op on duty?
I think the answer is obvious....
Is Clear Channel so cheap they can't afford to have a $10/hr board op on duty?
I think the answer is obvious....
KR4BD said:HafDawg said:The bigger question was, was anyone listening to U of L basketball in Cincinnati at Midnight?
UL was playing NOTRE DAME...who DOES have a following in the area.
I live in Cincinnatti and am a HUGE Louisville Cardinals fan. We have more than you know. GO CARDS!
To follow up..........and it is nice to see the responses to the post.
I would assume that Louisville does have fans in the Greater Cincinnati area and there is interest in the Cardinals or WSAI (and sometimes WCKY) would not be airing their basketball & football games from their network. While many would have been watching the game on ESPN, I'm sure there were some who were tuned in on radio at that hour (late, of course, because the game had gone through three overtimes and was headed for a fourth and finally a fifth). Obviously I was. Somewhat ironically, when the feed from Fox Sports began, the announcer there was excitedly talking about that game and it going into the fourth overtime. Just wondering if ownership is yet aware this morning that this happened? Apparently "Heidi" is alive and well and living in Kenwood.
I would assume that Louisville does have fans in the Greater Cincinnati area and there is interest in the Cardinals or WSAI (and sometimes WCKY) would not be airing their basketball & football games from their network. While many would have been watching the game on ESPN, I'm sure there were some who were tuned in on radio at that hour (late, of course, because the game had gone through three overtimes and was headed for a fourth and finally a fifth). Obviously I was. Somewhat ironically, when the feed from Fox Sports began, the announcer there was excitedly talking about that game and it going into the fourth overtime. Just wondering if ownership is yet aware this morning that this happened? Apparently "Heidi" is alive and well and living in Kenwood.
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excinciradio
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Louisville pays to be on the air in Cincinnati. That's the ONLY reason that broadcast airs on a Cincinnati station.
excinciradio said:
I think the folks at U of L are then due a little credit on the account.
Sorry I don't recall The Irish in a Final Four in my lifetime...
NDXUFan said:You are right, GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KR4BD said:HafDawg said:The bigger question was, was anyone listening to U of L basketball in Cincinnati at Midnight?
UL was playing NOTRE DAME...who DOES have a following in the area.
I stand corrected... They have been to one final four in school history 1978. Louisville went to four in the eighties alone. And won two national championships. We also won our bowl game this year unlike the Irish who where blown out!
cardradio said:Sorry I don't recall The Irish in a Final Four in my lifetime...
NDXUFan said:You are right, GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KR4BD said:HafDawg said:The bigger question was, was anyone listening to U of L basketball in Cincinnati at Midnight?
UL was playing NOTRE DAME...who DOES have a following in the area.
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excinciradio
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The Cardinals success on the court or the field really doesn't matter. There are no local advertisers clamoring to be in a U of L broadcast on either 1530 or 1360. In fact there are no local avails in the broadcast. The only reason they began airing in Cincinnati is because of a major f-up by the CC market manager at the time in Louisville. The only reason they remain on is they pay CC to air the games. There may be some Louisville fans in this market but not enough to justify having them on the air. If it was simply about fans in the market they would have had Ohio State on the air long before they aired the Cardinals.
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