Curious Hair wrote:
How far out-of-house? I don't want some guy from Atlanta to come here and tell me how much better the Braves and Falcons do everything, how rude we are, and why college sports are so much better than the pros. A guy like that would last like, what, a year, give or take?
But in all seriousness, barring a few sportswriters (Steve Rosenbloom is an Angeleno, I believe), I would like for my sports talk personalities to be from the area. Radio has become so sterilized and deracinated over the last 20 years. In a world where traffic and weather reports for Milwaukee are being delivered from a guy at a cubicle in Fort Worth, to have local people talking about local sports is the least I can ask for. Is this provincial? Yes, but that's kind of the point of sports. There are roughly ten million people in our tri-state area. If we have to look beyond those ten million to find people who can talk about the Chicago Bears with adequate eloquence, we're doing something wrong.
Well said. RIP Michael Holley. The other problem is that there are now 3 stations, so the shallow talent pool is even shallower. You could make a pretty good station if you combined them into one and trimmed the considerable fat.