NBC Sports Radio and the powerful CBS Sports radio debuted this week in time for the NFL season, taking the fight to ESPN and the struggling Fox Sports Radio and Yahoo! Sports.
Few people come here looking for sports talk, so my real life job takes precedence over straightening out which station is carrying which network.
CBS Sports is only rolling out a one minute radio feature this week. By the end of the year, they expect to have a 24×7 network – a combination of some of their regional hosts and perhaps Jim Rome.
Since local sports talk is mostly “Homer” talk rooting for the home team, I don’t know how you translate that for a national audience without losing the local audience.
Interestingly… I came across a little tidbit a month or so ago that 1990s sports-talk icon The Fabulous Sports Babe, who’s been in and out of local radio the past few years, just HAPPENED to land an overnight gig at CBS Radio’s Tampa Bay station (where she’s been based since getting laid off from her last gig in 2001). Now why would you put a woman with a pedigree like that on overnights? Only if the eventual plan is to go national.
Now the question is who else will end up on the network. I have a few names floating around…
I just discovered tonight that Fox Sports has a new female host Amy Van Dykes. Tonight’s episode was her calling her sister and talking about why they won’t allow their sons to play football since they could get hurt.
Man, Fox sports is so annoying! You can’t even get scores! ESPN just sux!
I havn’t listen to sports radio since I found Alex Jones : )
LOL
Parrott
If I was forced to listen to Sports Radio, I would choose Fox Sports, because they don’t give scores and don’t talk about sports.
You so Funny, Art : )
Glad you’re Back !
Parrott