does Illinois Media School have any up & coming talent ?

Parkins was enough of a star to parlay his local radio gig into a 7 figure TV deal so yeah I'd say he was a star. He did in a little over 5 years what Dan Bernstein failed to do in a 30 year career.

Parkins jumped ship from radio when he got that opportunity because he knows it's on the way out.

Parkins was enough of a star to parlay his local radio gig into a 7 figure TV deal so yeah I'd say he was a star. He did in a little over 5 years what Dan Bernstein failed to do in a 30 year career.

Parkins jumped ship from radio when he got that opportunity because he knows it's on the way out.

Parkins is not making 7 figures doing a TV show that nobody knows exists.

Radio's obviously in bad shape, but linear cable TV? I expect it to die slowly, then all at once. It's not hard to imagine some executive at Disney waking up one day and finally asking "Freeform: why is that a thing?" and then a whole bunch of these cable channels just disappearing.

There won't ever be a star on sports radio period. Any potential star will go right to podcasting where they have full create control and no boss who will fire them for reasons various Score personalities have been fired. Plus, there is far more money in podcasting now if you're good at it than in radio.

See Dan Katz and PFT. 20 years ago they'd be nationally syndicated in radio.

There's plenty of good sports talkers out there, they're just all podcasters.

So, maybe I'm in the minority...

I sometimes listen to the Score later at night at there's a guy named Bart Winkler (I think)...bottom line is that he can talk about most sports, drive a show and handle calls without much difficulty...and here's the surprise-it really isn't about him. He takes multiple calls from listeners from all over the country, and it tends to be engaging.

Why is this this shit so hard for this group at 670 to replicate. I feel like that's what started years ago, and from there grew personalities...and then it became personalty driven...and that dried up when the personalities left.

I just drive sometimes late at night and it's pretty good sports radio. That shit shouldn't be so hard.

So, maybe I'm in the minority...

I sometimes listen to the Score later at night at there's a guy named Bart Winkler (I think)...bottom line is that he can talk about most sports, drive a show and handle calls without much difficulty...and here's the surprise-it really isn't about him. He takes multiple calls from listeners from all over the country, and it tends to be engaging.

Why is this this shit so hard for this group at 670 to replicate. I feel like that's what started years ago, and from there grew personalities...and then it became personalty driven...and that dried up when the personalities left.

I just drive sometimes late at night and it's pretty good sports radio. That shit shouldn't be so hard.

the revisionist history on this topic always makes me laugh.

I find the Bart Winkler Show patently retarded.