Monthly Archives: March 2008
Cast Your Ballots Today
Make sure you get in your vote by 6pm ET in the quarterfinal match-up in the SMJ Sports Radio Madness host tournament.
The semifinals begin tomorrow!
Vote here.
Th Mainstream Media to Talk Blogs…Oh My!
Hats off to Multichannel News for this report on the next edition of HBO’s Costas Now.
According to he report, Costas will host a live program April 29th and tackle the topic of the changing sports media landscape. Included in the program will be a discussion of sports blogs and sports radio and their impact in driving discussion.
As you may know Costas was questioned a couple of weeks back on his perceptions of the new media and sports coverage. He later clarified his comments to Will Leitch at Deadspin.
I look forward to the program.
The Demise of Sports Radio…From the Inside
I apologize in advance for the local nature of this story, but I think it provides a good look into the inner workings of one sports media organization.
Earlier this month I wrote about the end of one of the sports radio stations in Providence. It is a David vs. Goliath story where Goliath wins out in the end. One of their personalities, Scott Cordischi, took time yesterday to detail his views as to why WSKO “The Score” ultimately failed.
Sports fans in Providence will appreciate the behind-the-scenes details. The rest of you will hopefully gain some insight into the ever changing world of how radio stations are run. As Scott points out it’s no longer driven by radio people or community interest but solely by the bottom line. Too bad.
What They’re Saying…March 21, 2008
Here’s what some of the sports media columnists from across the USA are writing about this Friday…
Michael Heistand from USA today has his reaction to that Sports Business Journal piece examining whether ESPN is really a boon for sports leagues. More specifically, he questions who the author of that Power Point presentation really is. Here’s our take from earlier this week.
Over at the Houston Chronicle, David Barron has some local sports radio news leading off his weekly piece.
March Madness coverage appears to be dominating the papers. Here’s what Bob Wolfley at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has to say about the interest in Milwaukee.
Mel Bracht at the Oklahoman has a look at analyst Bill Raftery.
In New York Neil Best at Newsday talks with the head of CBS News and Sports, Sean McManus, on the network’s preparations for the dance.
Bob Raissman at the NY Daily News gripes that many people are making money off the NCAA Tournament…except the players.
Richard Sandomir at the NY Times wants nothing to do with the tournament and instead focuses on the price of the seats in the yet to be completed new Yankee Stadium.
Dave Darling at the Orlando Sentinel has a story on the greatest games played at the old Yankee Stadium.
Phil Mushnick at the NY Post writes that as ESPN plans to provide early round coverage of the Masters, those plans do not include Chris Berman.
This is a day old but Teddy Greenstein at the Chicago Tribune has a piece about CBS’s Gus Johnson.
Ray Frager at the Baltimore Sun has media predictions for the Baltimore Orioles.
At the North County Times John Maffei has talk about the San Diego Padres radio crew.
More local baseball talk in the Montgomery Advertiser as Mike Tankersley discusses carriage of Braves games.
Todd Hoffarth at the LA Daily News looks at watching the NCAA Tournament games online.
Meanwhile over at the LA Times Christine Daniels has the story on yesterday’s USC loss.
Judd Zugland at the Minneapolis Star Tribune has a profile on CBS’s Greg Gumbel.
Back out west Jim Carlisle at the Ventura County Star talks about his Day 1 NCAA Tourney watching experience.
Barry Jackson at the Miami Herald has more local NCAA Tournament coverage…and another reaction from Bob Costas on his blogger comments from last week.
Jim WIlliams at the Examiner talks with CBS’s Billy Packer.
Enjoy a Maddening Weekend…and Happy Easter!
Turning Japanese
Sean McAdam of the Providence Journal has a wonderful blog post detailing the behind- the-scenes travel of the Red Sox from when they left Florida until they arrived in Tokyo. There are some photos too!
Sean does a great job in bringing you inside the Sox’ charter flight. Good stuff!
