As we and I , shit on the guy enough around here, have to give him credit where credit is due.

Getting the Cubs rights on WBBM-CBS is a REALLY strong move at this point. You didnt get them at the end of being good, you got in at a perfect time. I expect Zim to ride this wave for the next 5 years...might carry WBBM and WSCR for years to come.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Yes, but they also lost the Blackhawks to WGN just before the Hawks resurgence. Obviously the Cubs are a bigger get though.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

jesus, hockey on the radio ???

True, but have to give Johnny McDough the credit for that. He knew that a greater demographic exposure would make them a bigger sell. He knows sports fans or coming or not coming, based on winning, but winning and being exposed on Eric and Kathy makes you HUGE money....or WGN

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

He must be sweating the dropping averages of Bryant, Rizzo, Soler and Russell right now.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Don't knock it until you have tried it. Especially when there are no other options. I listened to, and fully enjoyed, the last few moments of the Hawks big 2010 game 5 overtime win vs Nashville, while sitting in my car in a Home Depot parking lot in the Wisconsin Dells.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

there are always other options

It's not a good move until Beardown says it is.

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Uh .... for home games that's all there was in this town for forever (and, for a few years, pirated satellite tv to at least get the opposition feed for home games which at the time was nice).

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Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness.
- Henry George

Yes, hockey is just awful on the radio, same with basketball. There's just too much action to describe at once.

Baseball is the easiest to digest, and at least there's a 30-40 second break between plays in football to break down what just happened on the previous play.

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As a Yute, I listened to playoff hockey on the AM radio...Foley did abot as good of a job as possible

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

yup, no incentive to change the lineup for years. Perhaps just letting Terry retire and doing solo-Bernsy. Saves tons of $, stays lazy and unimaginative, that's good management Zimm.

...and thats the downside...I can only imagine Bernstein daily dropping suggestions off at Mitch and Rods offices of segments he would like to start working on...Bernstein and Bryant, Dan and Tom, Dan's look into the economic impact of the Wrigley Field expansion " A Special Report" of which his son will need to take BP in the new Wrigley for the effect,

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

He's been sweating the dropping averages of The Cell's attendance for years.

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Baseball > hockey > football > basketball as far as radio pbp. Death is too good for the people who put NASCAR and golf on the radio.

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Nascar is great on the radio...& I don't mind golf either. I you're a fan you're a fan.

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We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Didn't the Blackhawks have to pay WSCR to air their games? I imagine the White Sox are approaching a similar fate.

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The hawks were paid seven figures by the Score when the station had to assume the contract with the frequency change from 1160 to 670.

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Was that a one-time thing with the Blackhawks brokering the time thereafter? I remember constant references to Blackhawks coverage superseding everything else (2005 Sox unofficial postgame, Doug and OB) because they were buying the time.

My guess would be that Cumulus is either paying a rights fee or doing some kind of profit-sharing agreement (the Blackhawks had or may still have this with WGN), but there's no way He Who Closes Business Deals is resorting to brokered time.

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I think it was 2 year deal of the Hawks PAYING to be on the air...thus paid them to leave.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

But they didn't leave, they just went from WMAQ 670 to WSCR 670. They didn't leave until 2008.

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And the original deal when the frequency changed was to pay 1.1M a year to the hawks...Thanks Lorna Gladstone

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When was that deal signed? WMAQ signed off in 1999, so the Blackhawks were entering their third year of being completely awful.

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