As a mere lad i would, with my brother, listen to the Blackhawks as described by Lloyd Pettit...most Bears games weren't televised until, I dunno, mid late 70's so radio was an important outlet with the likes of Joe McConnell...the Bulls getting stifled year after year by the Pistons before the rings came, I always seemed to be listening and not watching...so radio has always been an important way for me to connect with the games, but that's just me

As a mere lad i would, with my brother, listen to the Blackhawks as described by Lloyd Pettit...most Bears games weren't televised until, I dunno, mid late 70's so radio was an important outlet with the likes of Joe McConnell...the Bulls getting stifled year after year by the Pistons before the rings came, I always seemed to be listening and not watching...so radio has always been an important way for me to connect with the games, but that's just me

It's surprising to me how little the Score ending local would affect me. For as much of a daily presence that B&B, Spiegel, Parkins, Rozner, and McNeil played in my life in the past, nowadays I listen exclusively to podcasts and the thought of listening to the Score never even enters my mind. Parkins and Spiegel is a great local show but I have no interest in the major sports and especially Chicago sports.

Daily commuter still. 35-40 min in car each day… with an endless queue of podcasts to listen to.

I recently had to drive a rental car for a three week duration.

That first drive, when I had not yet connected the car with my phone’s bluetooth, I set the dial to AM 1000. Three weeks later when returning the car, while disconnecting my bluetooth, I realized I had went the entire time without switching the car to AM or FM.

Maybe a terrestrial show podcast is occasionally included in my listening queue. My listening is all RSS-based podcasts or anything interesting that comes up on my YouTube feed.

we never had a TV, so the Blackhawks were the first sports I ever listened to on the radio. Cubs and Brew Crew a close second.

I posted a note on Audacy in the this show sux thread. They had a comment on the unprofitability of sports team programming.

I imagine the production costs aren't worth the juice with a couple thousand 54+ baseball listeners. Ad salesmen lie but ratings don't.

The CEO called the deals a “margin killer”. I posted the exact transcript quote in there. They will non renew the Cubs deal when it comes up.

Yes I could. If they can stay out of bk it would eventually rebound significantly. But the market is signaling a restructuring.

Not really my cup of tea.

Is CFMB already worth more than WSCR?

How many shares outstanding?

We can go in the radio station business.

You wanna fire Bernstein?

Is there any money in a locally owned single station anymore?

The underlying business is relatively healthy and has solid cash flow. It is just a case of too much financial leverage in building the empire.

From the conference calls a big problem is the decline in local car dealership advertising. It seems like the station is gorging on sports book gambling advertising. I doubt a single station would garner much of the gambling ad revenue. But I don’t know…