Clean house of all SJW. Keep hosts political views to themselves. [size=150]More hosts with an actual sports background listeners can relate to[/size]. Have a more diverse group of on-air talent (56% Jewish now). Have a show hosted by all females. Talk about data, but don't worship it as a god. Bring in guests who aren't Cubs shills, like is done with Bears guests. Bring old-time Score hosts back as guest hosts or guests. No gambling bs. Audacy has a channel for the addicts. More Chicago players from the past as an occasional guest. Les has to go. I've got quite a few of his screw-ups recorded to hold me over. Bring an overnight host in who's not a clown. No endless monologues by hosts. Keep the shows livelier. More weekly bits. Have a big party for the SJW on their way out.

North was a great hire because he related to the regular fan. Parkin's doesn't even want to take calls and is 100% not relatable with normal sports fans.

Mully and Silvy

North and Bernstein

Goff and Hood.

I'd listen all day. The politics doesn't bother me as long as the point is made and then they move on.

Parkins and Spiegel is the best sports show in Chicago so no change there. Pair up Bernstein and Rozner. That was a great pairing when Boers was out. Rozner keeps Bernstein in check which is vital to any partner he has. Two shows is enough to keep me happy. I already don't listen to the morning show and Holmes so I wouldn't care about the rest of the lineup.

North didn't take calls at the end either.

There is no rebuilding the Score. The way people consume sports has changed over the past 29 years. No reconfiguration of on air talent is going to change that

Mornings - Mac, Jurko, and Spiegel

Middays - Bernstein and Rongey

Afternoons- Big Cat, Silvy, and Cutler

Overnights - Les

Parkins & Spiegel are at their best talking about light fun subjects like what they did on their weekends. Tolerable also with good guests. They're at their worst when it's them together only, talking about sports. It's like 2 guys who never worked construction a day in their lives, talking about building houses.

sadly, I agree

I listened for about 40 minutes yesterday driving between O'Hare and my father's place. S&P had a good conversation about callers. Danny was against them because anybody willing to sit on hold for half an hour and not just text or message through twitch was likely to have a useless thought. Matt was far more caller-friendly and mentioned that he still takes Stan from Bellwood's calls every Sunday. Matt did bring up that it takes a strong producer to filter out calls, and so Danny did give Shane permission to only let callers through who impressed him.

Callers or no callers has been a recurring discussion here with people making good points on both sides. But the discussion really focused the point: great callers add to the shows, everybody else should just comment on twitch.

The reason I'm posting this listening experience in this thread is that formats such as twitch and its inevitable successors are the future. AM/FM/SiriusXM are for people who live in rural areas with lousy broadband, less and less people who commute regularly, and tradesmen, salesmen, delivery guys, etc who drive for a living. The people who could listen at their desk or workshop and might be an interesting caller, they can just stream twitch now and pop their thought into the fracas. So the remaining callers are just the dumbasses like the guys Vito somehow listens to overnight.

This is a wild change from say 1978, where you pretty much had to spend a dime to call SportsPhone to even get a basic Bulls score.

So the question for a 670 rebuild is: is it more profitable to aim for the tradesmen and delivery guys, or is it more profitable to aim for the twitch and podcast crowd and just simulcast to the drivers?

I listened for about 40 minutes yesterday driving between O'Hare and my father's place. S&P had a good conversation about callers. Danny was against them because anybody willing to sit on hold for half an hour and not just text or message through twitch was likely to have a useless thought.

I listened for about 40 minutes yesterday driving between O'Hare and my father's place. S&P had a good conversation about callers. Danny was against them because anybody willing to sit on hold for half an hour and not just text or message through twitch was likely to have a useless thought. Matt was far more caller-friendly and mentioned that he still takes Stan from Bellwood's calls every Sunday. Matt did bring up that it takes a strong producer to filter out calls, and so Danny did give Shane permission to only let callers through who impressed him.

Callers or no callers has been a recurring discussion here with people making good points on both sides. But the discussion really focused the point: great callers add to the shows, everybody else should just comment on twitch.

The reason I'm posting this listening experience in this thread is that formats such as twitch and its inevitable successors are the future. AM/FM/SiriusXM are for people who live in rural areas with lousy broadband, less and less people who commute regularly, and tradesmen, salesmen, delivery guys, etc who drive for a living. The people who could listen at their desk or workshop and might be an interesting caller, they can just stream twitch now and pop their thought into the fracas. So the remaining callers are just the dumbasses like the guys Vito somehow listens to overnight.

This is a wild change from say 1978, where you pretty much had to spend a dime to call SportsPhone to even get a basic Bulls score.

So the question for a 670 rebuild is: is it more profitable to aim for the tradesmen and delivery guys, or is it more profitable to aim for the twitch and podcast crowd and just simulcast to the drivers?

A guy watching people talk on the radio is somehow higher up the hierarchy than a person who calls? That logic is lost on me.

Link, Chet did take a limited amount of callers but rarely open lines. Chet took a few callers with questions for some of his guests. I remember Jeff Torborg being one of them when he was managing the White Sox while waiting for Frank Thomas to come up.

When was the last time 670 let people call and ask Boomer Essiason a question?


That's because you still consider it radio. Radio is just one delivery mechanism. Podcasts are another. Having the show open in a window using twitch and being able to comment is a third.

Link, Chet did take a limited amount of callers but rarely open lines. Chet took a few callers with questions for some of his guests. I remember Jeff Torborg being one of them when he was managing the White Sox while waiting for Frank Thomas to come up.

When was the last time 670 let people call and ask Boomer Essiason a question?


That's because you still consider it radio. Radio is just one delivery mechanism. Podcasts are another. Having the show open in a window using twitch and being able to comment is a third.