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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Everything special about the Cubs is being ruined.

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What about traffic and weather on the 8's?

There's enough time between mound visits to fit that in.

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What's Felicia Middlebrooks look like with a Cubs hat?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Fat.

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

No, taking the money makes sense. That is a big step in becoming a market competitive team. They had been plagued with a corporate tv/radio contract that undervalued the product.

#theplanwillwork

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Hawaii (fuck) You

BR, that "fat" observation is evidence that you're sober. Get on with it. A warm Saturday is a terrible thing to waste.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Denis is right. The Cubs have been fucked under that WGN shit forever long as Tribune owned both. Now they get market value.

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Elections have consequences.

WGN is going to tank after this.

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

Wait,don't they still own the rights to the 1st season of
"The Andy Griffith Show"?

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the work of ratings juggernaut Bob Sirrott?

What is the deal with that show, anyway? Maryanne Murciano has lived here for 25 years, and was a newscaster. The whole "banter" schtick sounds like a nerdy guy explaining the nuances of chicago politics, sports, and culture to a mail order bride.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

It's meant to be cute radio. I get my fill of that during the week listening to Eric and Kathy 4 hours a day

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

It sucks. Replace Bob Sirrott with sinicalypse, keep Maryanne. That's appointment radio.

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I don't remember half the time if I'm hiding or I'm lost

With Extension 720 gone, Garry and Brandmeier banished to the margins of Chicago radio, and Nick Digilio having done every possible "what was your favorite Saturday morning cartoon" show, what is there to listen to on WGN but the Cubs and Hawks? WGN needs to bid on the Cubs like their station depends on it, which it does. Fucking John Williams back again, he's, as bigfan once described Hub, "low-fat soft-serve vanilla ice cream in a safety cone with extra napkins."

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So the deal is that the Cubs will only be on 780 while news programming continues on 105.9, unless the Bears are on, in which case they get 780 and the Cubs get kicked to 105.9. So if you were hoping that you'd get to turn your dial to Rod Zimmerman's cost-cutting move and hear the Cubs lose 100 games in crystal-clear FM audio, you're generally out of luck, and if you were hoping you'd get to hear the Cubs from far away while there's a Bears game on, I guess you're out of luck there, too.

Again, my objection to this isn't so much about the sentimentality of the Cubs and WGN (though of course it still is a part) so much as it's a poor allocation of resources across the Chicago radio dial. First of all, I hate that a decent FM signal in this market is being wasted on an AM simulcast. Commercial news radio doesn't need to be on FM (though NPR benefits from it for reasons I'm not going to argue until pressed), and it shouldn't be relegated to little old WCKG while the Cubs are on. Radio isn't like digital cable where your magic box finds the program you're searching for (and even then, witness this board's bitching about Hawks games getting kicked to CNBC). If you want news radio, you put on 780. You're probably old, so now you get angry and confused. All the while, WGN is left with nothing but the Blackhawks because their talk radio is run-out-the-door-with-your-hair-on-fire bad. It's just bad for the landscape.

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