Check this out, sportstalkcleveland has been around alot longer than Webio. Why all of the ass kissing when Webio began?? This concept has been around for a while. See below for the wikipedia info on this site. Who are you crappin' Mike North!!

sportstalkCLEVELAND.com is an internet-only sports talk station in Cleveland, Ohio. The company was managed & operated by founder and president Paul Belfi, and their studios are located at 5500 South Marginal Road in Cleveland.

The station features local and national sports and entertainment talk from Cleveland-area personalities.

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 The WKNR Years
1.2 2005 and Beyond
2 Current Programming
3 External links

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[edit] The WKNR Years
In February 2002, an agreement was reached with Salem Communications to partner WKNR with the fledgling Internet broadcast entity & website sportstalkCLEVELAND.com (aka STC). STC was to not only serve as the Internet home of WKNR and selected WKNR programming but to also offer Internet exclusive programming that would occasionally cross over on to the radio.

The very first sportstalkCLEVELAND broadcast was live on March 15, 2002 at the original Harpo's Sports Cafe on Brookpark Road.

WKNR's personalities would not only broadcast their show on terrestrial radio, they would also do a show on STC. Some notable personalities include the late John Antus, Les Levine, Bruce Drennan, Kenny Roda, Greg Brinda, Ken Silverstein, Dave Milo, Dave Scherer, Buck Woodward, Mike Ptak, Joe Lull, Matt Monter, Gene Winters, Andre Knott, Josh Sabo, Matt Loede, Bil Needle, Jeff Sack and Mike Catan.

In March 2005, WKNR and sportstalkCLEVELAND went their separate ways. Over a weekend, all of STC's equipment was moved from the old WKNR studios in Broadview Heights, Ohio to the old ClevelandHits.com building at E. 55th and South Marginal.

[edit] 2005 and Beyond
Veteran Cleveland sports talker, Kendall Lewis, returning from a stint in Memphis, Tennessee, became the midday host in late 2006. His arrival was both successful but brief, since "The BSK" also signed a deal to become Les Levine's new co-host on FSN Ohio's Cleveland Rants, replacing Neil Bender. Because of the hectic schedule, Kendall would not be able to return as the midday host. Kendall later returned to the STC airwaves for a short stint in Spring 2008.

In April 2008, the station evolved into sportstalkNETWORK with market specific websites in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Detroit, and Canada.

As of August 2008, sportstalkCLEVELAND became the flagship for sportstalkNETWORK, thus bringing back the local perspective in the daily show content.

sportstalkCLEVELAND currently features daily sports & entertainment shows such as "The BLEW Entertainment Morning Show", "Unsportsmanlike Conduct", "Rappin' with J-Rock", "The No Name Show", and "The North Coast Report". Also, STC broadcasts various niche programming. Break down the numbers with Gary the Numbers Guy from 1-2 pm EST. Talk NASCAR and motor sports with Frank Reese on "Reese on Racing". Wednesday nights feature "Pro Wrestling Insider" and "Fantasy Draft Help Insider" with Rick Morris and Jason Jones, which is dedicated to the fantasy sports enthusiast.

New programs are being developed.

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I don't think that anyone thought that Webio was groundbreaking...most people believed Webio would be a colossal blunder and embarrassment. And they were right.

Not jessie rodgers. he thought it was the best job he ever had and that hernandez ran it the right way

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webio was awesome, i have firm belief it will come back. they can call it, "wehunghernandezatthestakeandburnedhisel-locoasstohell.com"

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Now on Sports Talk Network, Pouyan Karbassi & Rob Paternite (I wonder how many women he's knocked up). Sounds like top-notch programming.

Because North had many lazy media people in Chicago believing all the bullshit that came out of his mouth and parroting his line that he was Mr. Undeniably Chicago and the Voice of the Fans and a great broadcasting innovator and genius. For a while there, North couldn't be mentioned in the papers without a complimentary adjective like "popular" in front of his name. Few took the time to really look at his ratings or to find out what happened to his gambling site and other ventures or what people really think of him.

Thankfully, most of the North ass-kissing seems to have stopped. Unfortunately, it took many people losing money and jobs in a Ponzi scheme to wake a lot of people up to the fact that North hasn't exactly had the golden touch in his media ventures for many years now.

Keep in mind that Bookie Priest will tell you North invented the Webio concept as well.

^^^BigFan, get to work^^^

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