I know some of the sports talking heads realize massive cuts are on the horizon if sports are not played this summer and fall. Do you think a vast majority really have any idea what will happen to the entire industry? Really is no reason to have sports radio or TV if we are not gonna see sports until 2021.

They get it. They see the ratings. They know how advertising is impacted. They have seen the job and salary cuts already. It’s all pretty obvious.

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Its a fact that some good is going to come out of this corona virus.

I'll take it one further, if football doesn't come back they are facing massive cuts.

It will be national shows for everything but the national drive times for both stations

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If there's no NFL then that's it for almost all of them. I dont even think ESPN could survive.

i am not a fanatic but i'm way more than a casual sports fan. I watched sportscenter for the first time in literally months. I have not listened to sports talk radio in months. for me both of those used to be a daily occurance. I think they all know i'm not a corner case. Dark times are coming if these leagues start postponing.

I have enjoyed ESPN’s UFC stuff. Watched another four fights last night. Just something live to chew on while we wait for the rest of the stuff to get going. I prefer boxing over the UFC, but I’ll give Dana White credit for filling the void. His product has been impressive.

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Bigger fear would be how many people might realize they can live without sports or at least cut way back on consumption and how much that demo might grow the longer we are forced to live without it.

i just switched over to the stock market. i'm no davy day trader but my degree is in finance, and i'm a pretty boring index investor as i was gifted jack bogles book when i graduated and thats by golly the way you do it. But i'd been listening to the TDA network instead of sports and watch market daybreak on bloomberg all night long now. I now try and talk about fiat currency, executing iron condors and quantitative easing with other dudes instead of sports. its not going well.

as long as we get rid of everything fun in life this virus wont be a problem at all.

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I watched last night for the first time as well, then watched the last two matches this evening. I liked the empty studio, it reminded me of Bob Luce Wrestling. I will watch again.

I've also been watching some Serie A and EFL Championship matches since all I have is ESPN+ (and mlb.tv). The British guys doing the Italian soccer remotely have been a surprisingly good listen.

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Do any of these guys really have any other skill sets? To me it's kind of why there's not a real connection from the WSCR hosts to the general listening public. It seems every host has a personal maid and 'calls the guy' whenever there is a home improvement problem they have to deal with. Does anybody at the Score clean their own gutters? Change their own oil? Comfortable with going up to the 3rd rung on a 6-foot ladder?

Mac fishes but also not going down to the local river and instead expeditions up to the cabin. It seems these people who have been getting paid ungodly amounts of money to talk sports for 4 hours are going to get a dose of real life* and frankly, it's what the industry has needed.

*If there's no sports.

Exactly. There are so many other entertainment options these days that people can easily find something else to occupy three hours of their time when they would have otherwise been watching a game.

Summer is always the downtime for sports since you can do other stuff. We will see about it in November.

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Here in Raleigh, the relatively new 10a-noon show got sent on "summer vacation" and they are playing the first two hours of DLB instead. I assume that it the ACC & SEC don't start football, that will become a permanent vacation. They also got rid of any local weekend programming, so they are only running local noon-6:30pm plus whatever Hurricanes games are back in August.

The midday host (whose been in the market ~20 years) is up front about talking about all the jobs away from the teams themselves, including their own. In a market with three D-I teams, September and October Saturdays are critical to a ton of businesses including many of their sponsors. No local games means no local sponsors and eventually no local shows.

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It will be interesting. The general environment will obviously have an impact as well as there is the social aspect involved with enjoying the games that doesn’t exist if we are in lock down 2, electric boogaloo. If Pro football doesn’t start I can very easily see myself drift away from it completely but that’s been something that has been happening over the years of bear suckage and family obligations anyways.. so covid will just finish off thst a year or two faster, like it did my to my wife’s great aunt.


I do miss baseball though and I know many will feel the same about football.

I like UFC also but every now and then I'm embarrassed to be watching it. Ferguson/Gaethje...or women pummeling each other.

Ferguson, was that the big mismatch where the one guy got taken down early each round and had no chance of escaping? It should have been stopped in the first.

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No, Stand up backyard fist fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95gC0Zbw3qw

I have not listened to any sports talk radio live, watched sportscenter, etc since the virus. Just no desire.

Only time I will listen to a podcast is if someone says something on this board about a show. Then I will check it out.

Locally, what interest do I have I listening to Waddle talking about quarantine stuff or Mac/Parkins for the 1000th time talking doom and gloom, movies, etc.

I feel bad for them for I know they want sports, gonna be tough, esp if no football.