JohnKirk wrote:
I liked CLTV "Sports Page". I like the roundtable sports talk show format. Who can forget The Sportswriters" with Bill Jauss, Bill Gleason, Ben Bentley, Joe Mooshill, Lester Munson, and Rick Telander. Well, ok...with the exception of Telander, this was a great show.
John Roach, the man who also produced the short-lived "Jim Shorts Cavalcade of Sports For You", was also the guy who produced the "SportsWriters on TV" for the former SportsChannel and FOX Sports Net Chicago. Interestingly enough, Gleason created the radio version of the "SportsWriters" show on WGN Radio Sunday afternoons way back in 1975. While the radio version that aired on 720 AM & briefly on ESPN Radio 1000 covered Chicago's teams, the one that aired on SportsChannel & FSN covered more of a national scope, complete with the cigar smoke and the dim lighting above the table. Last but not least, moment of silence please for Ben Bentley...Thank you.