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Author:  RodeoVann [ Fri May 04, 2007 7:01 am ]
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CSFMB gets a message in Ted Cox's column today.

WMVP pulls even and makes move to improve

By Ted Cox
TV/Radio critic
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007


Monday was a very good day for all-sports WMVP 1000-AM — in part due to its own actions, in part due to news from outside the station.

On the one hand, it finally pulled the plug on Sean Salisbury and Steve Rosenbloom. They were gone, replaced from 9 a.m.-noon by Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman. Instantly, the station sounded better.

On the other hand, it found itself tied with all-sports WSCR 670-AM in the winter Arbitron ratings. It came with the stations on even footing without the Score running play-by-play — unless you count the Blackhawks as a handicap, a not unjustified position.

“If you look at the numbers, this is the first time there was really no play-by-play at either station,” said WMVP program director Justin Craig. “For the most part, this is straight personality.”

WMVP didn’t catch the Score so much as the Score suffered more from post-Bears depression. The Score dipped from a 2.0 percent share of the overall audience 12 and older to the same 1.5 share WMVP had in the fall and held over the winter.

“What I like is we didn’t take the bigger fall that everybody else seemed to,” Craig said.

Both stations were up from a year ago overall and in their target demographic of men age 25-54. “The station is very healthy,” said Score program director Mitch Rosen. But there’s no denying that, if they tied overall, WMVP had the far prettier sister, especially as it led 3.7-3.2 in the target demo.

The Score figures to get a bump from the Sox in the spring book, which made it time at WMVP to end the experiment in listener endurance that was Salisbury & Rosenbloom. They had a year to win over listeners, and they finished 14th in the demo with a 3.0 share. The Score did a 3.3 in the same time slot.

The fear among listeners — and a common refrain on the Chicago Sports Fan Message Board — was ESPN had too much invested in Salisbury to move him out of Chicago, no matter the results. Craig, who came to Chicago from ESPN Radio in Bristol, Conn., figured to be a company man.

Craig nixed that thinking with Monday’s move. “They’re very supportive and they offer us a lot of resources,” he said of the ESPN Mothership, “but they’re not telling us, ‘You must keep him on.’æ”

Craig attributed much of the move to Salisbury’s need to spend time with his ailing father.

“My priority is always family first,” Craig said. “If you’re happy with your family or you’ve got good things going on with your family, you’re going to perform better. So it just made sense.

“They had a year,” he said, “and it was time for him.” Salisbury will contribute to WMVP’s Bears coverage this fall.

Craig also made it clear he likes a “comfortable listen,” something Dan McNeil’s afternoon show and the syndicated Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic in the morning both have.

Mac, John Jurkovic and Harry Teinowitz returned to No. 1 in the men 25-54 demo with a 4.8 share, topping the Score’s Dan Bernstein and Terry Boers’ 3.7. Mike & Mike did a 4.6 to Mike North’s 3.4. Add to that Waddle & Silvy are already more comfortable for listeners than Salisbury & Rosenbloom ever were.

“Tom Waddle and Silvy have really gelled,” Craig said. “I was brought in to deepen the bench, and it’s about finding the next one, finding the stars. I think Tom is a star.

“He’s just so likable,” he said, “and he knows his sports, and he’s so well-respected.” As for Silvy, “He’s the driver,” the radio pro who must push things along when needed.

If that positions WMVP for better things, Rosen took it philosophically at the Score, saying, “It’s a compliment that they’ve changed their midday show three times” in the last year and a half.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 9:35 am ]
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Sweet....
8)
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 10:48 am ]
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i can picture it Nas....what movie?
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:00 am ]
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oh well. i thought there was a movie.
Author:  Beardown [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:05 am ]
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Wow!! We made the paper!! Do you know what this means? Do you know?

It means absolutly nothing. LOL.

Still. 2nd or 3rd time this board has made the paper. Plus Mac mentions us a shit load.

I guess it means that with the exposure Big Fan can up the rate for any ads he puts here.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:06 am ]
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actually Beardown,
i'm pretty sure this is the first time the board was mentioned by the complete name in a paper.
Author:  The Original Kid Cairo [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:08 am ]
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Quote:
Mama I made it

It's my favorite song on the album.
Author:  Spinnin' Bucket [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:23 am ]
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Quote:
Mama I made it

*Spmack will know where that came from*


I thought maybe it was from the days of Deion Sanders doing highlights on the CBS NFL show…

“Look mama I’m in the paint!”
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:31 am ]
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i'll agree to mentions.
but not Chicago Sportsfan Message Board, mention....
Author:  sportsfan [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:42 am ]
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Teddy once wrote after the spat:

"In his Redacted post, McNeil wrote: "There is no double standard, no need for me to check my ego at the door. What needs to happen is for our management team to stand up and directly establish ground rules and definitions of roles. I am optimistic they can do that ... I have learned to live with on-air idiocy, but there are things that occur behind the curtain [that] none of us, not just me, will accept."
Author:  Beardown [ Fri May 04, 2007 11:48 am ]
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Ted is kind of a rare name now-a-days. It's a coincidence that both are media columnist in two different Chicago papers. Cox and Greinstein.

Murph Voice - Do you think the Teddy's are reading?

Hawk Voice - Yessss!!

What does it mean?

B&B voices - Nothing.
Author:  doug - evergreen park [ Fri May 04, 2007 1:40 pm ]
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oops...
my bad again.

0-2 today.
Author:  spmack [ Sat May 05, 2007 12:30 am ]
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Nas - Oh My God is my favorite on this latest album


And the board got mentioned a few years back in a Cox column...I think it was around Jan or Feb of 05 before the big crash that erased all of the content from the board...the only thing that survived were the first 15 or so names in the profiles, that's why I'm one of the few "proud" members since June 04..
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