Can WSCR stop the 25 minutes of uninterrupted sports talk schedule now? PLEASE!

It's great if you happen to be listening from X:00 to X:25, but I usually jump in the car about 5:15 and get 8 minutes of uninterruped sports talk and then 35 minutes of crap. So, I punch the button and I may come back at 6pm or I may not.

Same with the noon slot. I heard Holmes (filling in for Murph) a couple weeks ago come back from commercial to mention that they wouldn't have time to get to Piniella talk until after 1pm - IT WAS 12:FREAKING:38pm. And, then, off to commerical. Button punched.

I would happily sit through 2-3 minutes of commercials every 10 minutes or so if I knew they were coming back to some discussion afterwards. But from X:25 on the hour, discussion is done. I don't count Bernstein coming back for 2 minutes to tease something else a good listen.

Sorry, had to vent.

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Dr. I agree with you. I've been listening to Fox Sports radio on XM and they have a better system. I think they do the 3-4 mins of commercials for every 12-15 minutes of talk so you can figure if you hear commercials they will be right back.

That schedule would work for me because this one sucks. I've thought about the satellite thing but I usually do the iPod thing when I'm not listening to radio - thought satellite might be a little too much gadgetry. I take it you like it. Based on others I read on the board, I may have to take another look.

I'll throw one other WSCR complaint out there (so as not to start too many threads). Can we cut back on the updates also? Maybe top of the hour unless there are some actual sports going on? But right now in non-baseball season, do I need to hear the Bears won 41-10 3 times an hour on Monday? There are a million places to get info on the game if you have to have it. Once an hour would be more than enough for me. I go to sports radio to hear some thought/opinions, not to hear what the score was. The quotes are sometimes infomative but they are done over and over again as well. I might be in the minority on this one but I'm still venting...

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Not to derail the thread, but with satelite, you have the tradeoff with the more national approach for sports. I got it because I was spending a ton of time in the car downtown and had trouble getting the locals. I do enjoy it for the music, sports (both fsr and xm sports as well as big ten sports).

check me if i'm wrong, but isn't xm suppose to be commercial free ?

no Deac....not for the networks they carry directly like fox sports, sporting news radio, cnn, espn, espn news, etc. The XM sports channels and the music and comedy channels are commercial free though.

Deacon - there are some stations with commercials like Coast said. Those stations are like espn, espnnews, fox sports radio, xm sports nation (which feeds in tsn), kiss fm and a handful of others. Most stations on XM are commercial free though.

I agree with the complaints on the 3 updates per hour. Keep it to one, maybe only during actual sporting hours (i.e. 3pm-10pm only) becuase the updates stale quite quickly when there is nothing to update.

I've about had it with the roar of the day too. Pretty Gay.

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Actually Dr. Kenneth and Darkside the Score only does 2 updates--top and bottom They used to do 3 but changed about a year or so ago. ESPN 1000 does 3 every 20 minutes.

Yeah, I was rerferring to ESPN, not the Score. I really don't listent to the score unless Dan Patrick is going thru one of his silent moments.

And 3 updates every 20 minutes would be 9 an hour, wouldn't it Beardown? Just joshing.

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My bad - mixing up my ESPN and Score (I bounce back and forth). My point stands though. Too many.

Once an hour is more than enough for me.

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The Score has to justify George Offman's salary. Would it really make sense to pay him 80 grand if he only spoke once an hour for 2 minutes? They should just have the hosts do the updates. Have an intern write the copy.

Wasn't there some supposedly brilliant program director (ron gleason?) who made the claim that "the audience changes every 15 minutes?" That maybe was once true in Chicago...but it isn't true anymore when drive time commutes are the 2nd longest in America, averaging 33 minutes. If the distribution of listeners' commute times are on a standard bell curve, updates every 20 minutes means the vast majority of listeners are hearing at least two updates per commute. Lengthening that to updates every 30 minutes would still provide at least one update per commute to over 90% of the audience. I have a 60+ minute commute 2x a day so every time I hear the 2nd or 3rd update on a single commute, it's change the channel time.