Have not listened to WSCR for years, but from what you read here it appears that they have not deviated from the stale presentation you can find everywhere else and nothing to differentiate themselves from the already saturated political fetish media.

Thank you for that nice compliment! Why would we want to talk / infer boring ass politics when we can talk about which cartoon characters we think might have fucked.

108 is appointment listening. You have a fun product

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So it sounded like they are going to do a variety of partners with Meatpants for the next 2 weeks while they get things lined up for the next show. Herron. Grote. Gabe were 3 names I heard who will be sitting in.

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I don’t listen enough to say this definitively but of those three, it’d have to be Grote. Herron is good in small doses and specific to the NFL. He’s like Black Mannelly. Ramirez would make for an excellent part time fill-in for a show I’d never listen to in the first place.

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Interesting if Spiegel is paired with a race baiter if his weight balloons with his history of dealing with stress through gluttony.

I did not get the sense that the permanent host would come from that group. Now they all maybe under consideration. But I think that is just the group that is going to help cover things. And there could be more than those 3. Those were the ones I remember them saying.

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I like Grote, but not sure he is an everyday host. I think he is perfect as a fill-in.

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Parkins kind of came out of nowhere, the next person could do the same thing.

Yeah I would say it is likely to be either someone out of nowhere, Goff, or just a reshuffling of things without hiring anyone else before it would be any of those 3 mentioned. But who knows.

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Bears talk is still the primary driver for local sports talk radio and that is where WSCR has fallen off significantly over the years.

The "Young Sportswriter" approach they took early on where they rotated hosts seems to make sense as your options consist of people that are limited in what they can bring to the table.

Goff, well we have been there and done that and they cannot afford to have anyone telling people to stop listening if you disagree with me, plus hot Bulls takes for a floundering franchise are not exactly in demand.

Grote, bad Bears thoughts, and that is all the people need to know. You often wonder how someone can sit there every single day at practice and still know nothing about football, seems he and Larry are the only two people in the known universe that can make that claim.

You could rotate people with different interests in different seasons, footbally guys on the now flaccid BEARS MONDAY (remember when that used to be fun) and to preview upcoming game.

They are in the same boat that horse and buggy makers were when cars became readily available, just trying to hold on for a few more paychecks.

bring in Olin

That might be the best route to go IMO. It might be nice to have a host in studio who Bernstein is afraid of.

The Bears are on the verge of potentially entering what could be a golden decade for the franchise. Even when they are bad, they are the true kings of this town and you want to be able to seize upon the opportunity if they are going to be good for some time.

If you go backwards and bring in someone like Goff, well prepare to lose to Waddle & Silvy again because that's what happened last time you had him around and talking about out of town basketball when all anyone really wanted was Bears talk.

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This should have already been done.

PARKINS: Right? So like, scoring more points than your opponent is good, right? And like, the Chiefs are good at scoring, right?
SPIEGEL: Is anyone going to eat these last 4 donuts?
OLIN: *PUNCH*PUNCH*PUNCH*PUNCH*PUNCH*PUNCH*PUNCH.

Lawrence on his small-business podcast "House of L" commented that he has become profitable on his Youtube page so he did thank his listeners.

He is unaware of any decisions that have been made on changes to the station, but will address somethings carefully.

Here goes:

- Congratulations to Danny Parkins for his FS1 job. It's perfect for Danny, he's with his guy Nick Wright and he'll do well. Lawrence has been talking to Danny about this the past few week and, per Lawrence, Danny has been asked to do a lot. Danny will be moving, that's a difficult thing to do, but this is what Danny has wanted. Lawrence hopes he enjoys the views and gives himself advice as he gives Danny advice. They are more similar than we are different. They worked their differences when they started, but Lawrence has always respected his talent.
- The White Sox Play by Play job was Lawrence's dream job. He was close to getting that job a few years ago and is now glad that he didn't get that dream job.
- Lawrence's creative side is trying to be fed. That's being creative by putting the podcast on Youtube or a new comic book concept. He's being fueled to pursue his comic books more.
- Lawrence is working on a local pilot that he's been working on for 2.5 years. It's in it's final stages of being approved. It's stressful, but exciting. It's extremely challenging from a creative standpoint. Originally, he just wanted to produce it. Then he was asked to host it. No other details were provided.
- Lawrence did a podcast recently about starting over in TV. He's not down on his luck. Lawrence saves money. He lives well below his means. No matter what happens, he's well, but he'll be sad if his career at NBC Sports Chicago ends in a few weeks.

- Sometimes you think the places you think the places you're trying to get to is the end game, but it's often not what you think. Lawrence saw a job description a few weeks ago for something he liked, and he may pursue it in the future when he's teaching, but wouldn't reveal what this job was.
- There is a gap at the station with Danny's departure.
- There are things being floated with Lawrence....bring in someone in? promote someone? split Lawrence and Dan up? All kinds of things that could happen that Mitch and Ryan are working through.
- What about Dan and Lawrence moving to afternoons? Imagine drive time as 6-10AM, afternoon drive is 2-6 PM..for radio, your most captive audience is drive time, people in cars. You want to be as entertaining in those area's, your best shows in these spaces. It used to be this way....but over the last 10 years, the concept of drive-time is different and that's because people can listen to the show anywhere with streaming, people at home working, etc....it's a different time now for Lawrence. Dan and Lawrence (and Leila) are mid-day hosts that they are categorized in. They are the 3rd most popular mid-day show in the country (or whatever), but there isn't much difference in cumulative listener audience from morning, mid-day or afternoon/drive time....however there is some prestige about hosting in a drive time.
- Dan and Lawrence has performed very well
- They will continue to do well in whatever time slot and he would love to compete against Waddle/Silvy who do a great job, but ESPN 1000 aren't in the Nielson any longer so he can only compare their show to Parkins/Spiegal.
- Nobody has said anything to him about the direction, but he has been asked. If the show were to be moved or split up, they wouldn't do it without taking your temperature (not permission). If they wanted Lawrence to do a show with someone who he had a beef with, they wouldn't do that unless they thought it would be great. Lawrence and Dan can give opinions, but the management will make final decisions.
- Lawrence....isn't interested in drive-time because that's not what he's trying to achieve. If he spends the next 5 years in mid-days, he won't feel like he was cheated. There was a significant difference though in moving from nights to mid-days. After 7PM, the audience for a sports station goes way down unless there is a live sports on. His show did generate a really good audience though when it was on at night.
- If Dan and Laurence have 200K mid-days and Danny/Spiegal have 250K in afternoons, and Mully/Haugh have 250K in mornings, night time for Lawrence was 75K of people tuning in throughout the show. There is a difference in compensation as well. Lawrence got a major raise moving to middays, but he was hitting bonuses and doing well at nights, but a decent bump for moving to mid-days. He thinks he would get a decent bump moving to afternoons, but he sees the time slots as similar now and that doesn't "drive him". He doesn't need to be the morning/afternoon show as long as he's on the air during the day although being on at night is nice because of the lack of oversight.
- Lawrence does want a Marconi?? award though.


So, nothing new in his podcast except he will do anything, but isnt' being asked and it's not that important to him and he's a radio expert.

tl,dr

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Larry is something. He is already setting things up where he can claim he had no interest in afternoons when he gets passed over or he gets separated from Bernsie.

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In Larry's mind, he would be hosting NBC Nightly News from Rockefeller Center, but he turned it down.

He might be more delusional than Beardown.

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“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

Even to go with Olin Kreutz would be to go backward inasmuch as he's a significantly dumber version of Patrick Mannelly. Maybe "enlightened sports talk" is threadbare at this point, but caveman sports talk doesn't sound very appealing, either.

At this point, Mitch is probably thinking of superserving his existing listenership rather than trying in vain to expand it, which means bringing back Goff after deCastro swooped in and fired him.

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I couldn't disagree more strongly. Olin may not be as erudite or as polished as Mannelly, but he strikes me as being more intelligent and is definitely more entertaining. And there's absolutely no question that he's a far superior football analyst to Mannelly. I don't think he has the breadth of knowledge to be successful as a full-time host, but there's no one currently on the Chicago media landscape who is a better listen than Olin when it comes to discussing the Bears--except, perhaps, Dan Wiederer, although the two are difficult to compare for obvious reasons.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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Nothing new?

I now have to add Sir's production company to the list when estimating the salary from his many ventures.

Let's guess the show he has been producing for 3 years:

an nerdy but hunky radio host in a big midwestern city is feeling down after a big life change. He is comforted by a beautiful female friend. They start out watching Marvel movies and going to comic cons together. She sets him up on dates with her friends and while he has a series of highly passionate relationships, the sex is incredible for the women but feels empty to him. One night, she sees him without his glasses on and realizes what she has been missing all this time...she is in love with her best friend!

The content was a little too racey for Ch. 9 as Sir has a few full frontal scenes so he is shopping it to cable.

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Yes you did.

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No I didn't

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Anthony Herron and Spiegel are a brutal listen.

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How much did Goff have to pay the SunTimes to promote him as the only real option to replace Parkins?
Agrest’s columns are nauseating. With ratings already declining, why would the Score rehire Goff?? Just to destroy the station. Goff brings nothing to the table except he used to work there, told people who didn’t agree with him they were racist and told them not to listen. What an idiot. He knows the NBA, but the NBA is not relevant in Chicago. They should hire Goff to produce the midday show.

Indeed

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Has it been decided if Goff is going to Reinsdorf’s new network? If not, has to be decided soon. Bulls start in October. I’m sure they want their people set up well before that.

If not, then Goff will need the SCORE again. Despite him saying he makes a lot from his podcast, we all know that’s not true.

The Range Rover Repo Man made more from repossessing Goff’s SUV than Goff makes from the podcast.

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