(WSCR) According to a list compiled by Talkers Magazine, The Boers and Bernstein Show on 670 The Score was ranked the No. 16 most important sports talk radio show in the country.

The list, which compiles the “Top 100 Most Important Sports Talk Radio Hosts In America,” ranked shows on a list of “hard and soft factors.” Both ratings and revenue ranked highly, but the voters (Talkers Magazine employees and industry leaders) also looked at other qualities including courage, effort, impact, recognition, service and talent.

WFAN’s Mike Francesa was ranked No. 1.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/07/16/boers-bernstein-ranked-16th-most-important-sports-radio-show-in-the-country/

I've heard a few M&MD airchecks and thought they were pretty good, but it was Russo who carried it, to me. Solo Francesa is just dull and irritable.

I liked the time Mad Dog had the epic shitlosing over the Marlins beating the Giants. We need more of that here at 670, The Voice Of Measured Perspective.

The history of Yankee radio broadcasters is: WABC 770 (1939–'40), WOR 710 (1942), WINS 1010 (1944–'57), WMGM 1050 (1958–'60), WCBS 880 (1961–'66), WHN 1050 (1967–'70), WMCA 570 (1971–'77), WINS 1010 (1978–'80), WABC 770 (1981–2001), WCBS 880 (2002–present).

WE'RE??? WHO IS WE??? STOP IT WITH THE WE!!!

Speaking of New York sports radio, it's interesting to me that the Yankees have never had a super-long-term radio flagship the way the Cubs have.


All this time, I had thought that the Yankees were on WCBS since sign-on, figuring that since CBS owned the Yanks for a spell, they did so because they thought it would be a good programming idea the way the Tribune acquired the Cubs.

And the Yankees might be on the move again. There's talk that either the Yankees or Mets could be relocating to ESPN Radio's New York station, now on the FM side there. The Yankees/WCBS & Mets/WFAN deals expire after this season.

I know that financial constraints will eventually decide it, but it would make a lot of sense from a pure fan perspective for the Yankees to move to WFAN (which carries the Giants) and the Mets to move to ESPN (which carries the Jets), partially because the breakdown tends to be Giants/Yankees and Jets/Mets, and partially because it would consolidate the stations' respective identities as Humorless Old Know-It-Alls Telling You What's What and Brainless Bros Tweeting About Who's "Next."

ESPN Radio's New York ratings haven't been all that great, but the book is that their signal wasn't all that great either.

This is the understatement of the year. There are places in North Jersey from which you can see the Manhattan skyline and not get 1050.

It does make more sense for the Yankees to be on the Fan. It'd be pretty weird if the Yankee flagship were on the FM dial.

Not necessarily, CH. A handful of pro sports teams have made the switch to the FM side in recent years, not just in Major League Baseball. The SCORE's big voice guy did a promo going to a commercial break in which White Sox fans can actually listen to the games in FM quality sound by getting an HD radio and tuning into 104.3 HD2.

Yeah, but nobody has HD radio, so nobody cares.

We're talking about the New York Yankees, though. Call me old-fashioned, but the biggest sports team in America should be on a 50,000-watt clear channel.

Mike & Mike being in the top 10 of that list immediately destroys it's credibility.

They're not that great. Besides, Mike Golic's still fat.

What does Golic being fat have to do with anything?

Mike & Mike being in the top 10 of that list immediately destroys it's credibility.