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@Mike (in boston) – Totally fair enough re preferring an athlete in the booth. I did love Jerry and Alan Ashby as a pair, and also really enjoyed the one (?) season of Jerry and Jack Morris. But I do prefer the […]

Thanks for the read!

Personally, I think Wilner and Wagner are a refreshing pairing. I like them. I think having an ex athlete on a broadcast is greatly overrated, as their experience playing doesn’t necessarily […]

Just want to throw this out there – in a time where basketball is rapidly gaining in popularity in this country, and both TSN and Sportsnet presumably would like to diversify a little bit – why hasn’t either […]

Totally agree on the Dome. They might have two full seasons with no baseball being played there (who knows what the plan will be for 2021). Absolutely no excuse not to address the stadium issue in this time. […]

I imagine that Canadian sports media’s lack of diversity isn’t helped by the fact that hockey is so heavily covered here, which has an overwhelmingly non diverse player base. I think it’s important for hockey to […]

Regarding Bobcat – so they fire Bob with a year and a half on his contract, pay him not to work for a year, have no obvious replacement in line for a legacy show, air a TV simulcast in his place, get crushed in […]

Because we wrap hockey up in the flag as “Canada’s game”, it leads to issues like this being overlooked. They’re just “good Canadian kids”. So much of the hockey media in the country seems only interested in […]

Also – is Max Kellerman really all that wrong? None of the US sports podcasts I listen to talk hockey at all.

I know it has its fans but I’m not sure it’s a national point of conversation there like football, bas […]

According to this tweet, 590 got a 0.6 and TSN a 0.3.  Woof. I realize that’s not broken into M25-54, but still.  

At a 0.3, if Overdrive did comparatively well, then the rest of the lineup must be barely reg […]

radio ratings in a warped time: Indie88 now clearly ahead of 102.1 the Edge … Q107 pulled ahead of Boom 97.3 (as younger music stations faded in routines) … talk radio gains inevitably abound — but the two sports stations combined get under a 1 share overall pic.twitter.com/jFQJyyMcaT

— 12:36 🌯 (@1236) June 3, 2020

I think bob may have more success than don, podcast wise.
For one Bob is 20 (?) years younger. And also Bob is used to driving a talk show.  It’s definitely less of a stretch to put Bob in front of a microphone al […]

Just wanted to say the podcast you did with Don Kollins was fascinating. He really seems unimpressed with the current lineup, and the general way The Fan has been playing second fiddle to Sportsnet TV. […]

I don’t think I’d like to hear TSN or The Fan be national all day. And I definitely did not enjoy having a national show in the drive home slot on The Fan (was sick of daily Oilers/Canucks segments on Tim and […]

Thanks for the post. Hope everyone is healthy and staying safe.

Sports radio obviously hardly matters at a time like this, but I wanted to give kudos to Writer’s Bloc. Funnily enough, I think the past couple […]

Also, if it’s alright to shout out another site in the comments here – I listened to a great sports media chat with Toronto Mike and Mark Hebscher here. I’m sure anyone who reads this blog would enjoy it: […]

Fantastic post – thanks! First off – I’ve never been an Overdrive guy, but definitely have to give them credit. They’ve stuck with it and developed a good show that people like. You’re right that it’s very […]

@MontfromLondonOnt

“The CBC is a perfect example of abuse of the quota system(affirmative action)and the dreadful results – None of the clowns on the CBC could hold a job in the real world”

CBC Radio 1 is the h […]

Great post.
Sportsnet is very lucky that Dan Shulman is from Toronto and appears to want to work here, because he is one of the best play by play guys in any sport. So based almost on him alone I find it hard to […]

Yeah I’m really noticing a local sports radio void without McCown. It’s a matter of personal preference, but I’m not really interested in ‘lets dissect last night’s Leaf game’ kind of sports radio, but loved the […]

@ChristopherClinch – yeah. Bob has one or two declining books maybe? But was still beating Overdrive. And given his track record, you don’t cut bait on him for just … winning by less? Not saying he wasn’t […]

@mikeinboston – it’s true that Bobs ratings dropped, but aren’t we talking about one or two books really? And ratings are supposed to be more about long term trends? I’m not saying Bob could keep crushing every […]