WGN Radio and The Chicago Cubs
I'm having a hard time accepting WGN radio giving up the rights to broadcast the Chicago Cubs. Sort of like it's not over until the fat lady sings but she is warming up.
Baseball has its roots in radio. Before television the games were broadcast on the radio and often the announcers used sound effects because they were reading wire reports for away games. Then it became possible to broadcast games on the radio from everywhere on both the radio and TV. And now I have a hard time counting all the different ways all the different ways you can follow the Cubs or just about any baseball team.
If you own a radio station on the AM band you are probably looking at a shrinking audience and an increasingly older audience that may have the radio on for company. Lot's of folks used to listening to you during drive time are retiring and retreating to daytime TV, and dinner at 5:30. And in most places the game from the night before is replayed in the afternoon so you can see it if you have some time to kill between doctor appointments.
Personally, in Miami, I listen to baseball in the evening on the radio and the announcer and I converse like I did when I listened to Vince and Lou and did homework.
Baseball has its roots in radio. Before television the games were broadcast on the radio and often the announcers used sound effects because they were reading wire reports for away games. Then it became possible to broadcast games on the radio from everywhere on both the radio and TV. And now I have a hard time counting all the different ways all the different ways you can follow the Cubs or just about any baseball team.
If you own a radio station on the AM band you are probably looking at a shrinking audience and an increasingly older audience that may have the radio on for company. Lot's of folks used to listening to you during drive time are retiring and retreating to daytime TV, and dinner at 5:30. And in most places the game from the night before is replayed in the afternoon so you can see it if you have some time to kill between doctor appointments.
Personally, in Miami, I listen to baseball in the evening on the radio and the announcer and I converse like I did when I listened to Vince and Lou and did homework.
Yesterday, I commented on a FB friends discomfort with the moving of the Cubs to another radio station and the upcoming remodeling of Wrigley Field. I think my comment came out about as ass backwards as possible. I think I would trade Wrigley Field for the Cubs making the World Series.
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