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Posted: Sat Mar 22nd, 2008 10:07 pm |
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What's with this station? The St. Louis Cardinals played an exhibition game today and 101.3 didn't carry it. The Lebanon station did which is how I heard the game. What was embarrassing was that during the game, Mike Shannon sent a shout-out to the folks in Springfield Mo! Only no one heard it. Instead it was more stupid love songs.
I wish someone else would grab the Cardinal broadcast. The station doesn't carry all of the pre= and post-game programming. It's a shame.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 01:23 pm |
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It would be interesting to see if you are in the majority. I am a pretty big baseball fan -- but rarely listen to pre-season stuff.
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XGM
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 01:48 pm |
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Not being a baseball fan, I prefer the "love songs"...they too are hard to come by in Springfield. Tons of "rock music" and country but not much else. I think baseball could be improved if they had a rule that the pitcher had 10 seconds to throw the ball or it would be an automatic ball (not strike). Baseball is such a s-l-o-w game.
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wsterrett
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Posted: Sun Mar 23rd, 2008 03:51 pm |
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| I'm a pretty big Texas Rangers fan, and I DO listen to/watch spring training ball any chance I get. But I recognize I'm not the norm (what else is new?)
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ken371
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 05:28 pm |
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| You know a 24-7- 365 Cardinals radio network would be a cash cow. No fans of any team in any sport follow thier team like Cardinal fan. They never miss a game, they know every player, they know thier teams history and they never tire of hearing about or talking about thier team. In the off season you could re-play classic games, even do fun stuff like recreate old Cardinal games from the era before radio. You could have endless talk shows and call-in shows. Hot stove in the winter. An overnight call-in show after a game in the summer would be a hoot. If you can have an all Elvis station in Memphis or an all Led Zeppelin channel on Sirius, an all Cardinals station ...
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Posted: Mon Mar 24th, 2008 08:18 pm |
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| Anyone have the New Royals this year?
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ken371
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Posted: Tue Mar 25th, 2008 04:49 pm |
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| The Royals are on AM 1400. Thier tv games will be on channel 51 FSN when they do not play at the same time as the Cardinals. I also believe 860 AM out of Pittsburgh KS carries the Royals.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 01:52 am |
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Why doesn't Meyer air the Cardinals on 98.7? Is it just because they have been on 101.3 for so many years? It would seem as though the demographics for baseball would be a major clash for the Soft Love Songs format.
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 03:08 pm |
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The Springfield Cardinals are on 98.7.
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Kent Clark
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 10:49 pm |
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moradio wrote: Why doesn't Meyer air the Cardinals on 98.7? Is it just because they have been on 101.3 for so many years? It would seem as though the demographics for baseball would be a major clash for the Soft Love Songs format.
The Cardinals make too much money for KTXR. Meyer has been loading up on sports, especially over the last few years, because it's such an easy sell. I believe every station he owns now airs at least some sports programming. Remember, the company doesn't, or at least didn't, sell the numbers. You really don't need numbers to sell sports. So, in that sense, it's a natural fit.
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XGM
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 01:36 pm |
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| If you look at ratings nationwide, you will note that "Sports Stations" rank very near the bottom in most cases. Sports fans, bless their hearts, are a loud minority. When it comes to counting listeners...they just don't amount to that much. Most sports advertisers are also strong supporters and will buy just about any sports on the air...including "tiddly-wink matches".
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 08:43 pm |
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| It would make perfect sense to move the baseball broadcast to a soports radio station but they have been on KTXR for so long that I'm sure Mr. Meyer hasn't even thought about it. Didn't the Cardinals used to be on KGBX before moving to MeyerCom? I worked at KGBX in 76/77 and seems like we ran the Redbirds, all though I can't be sure...I know we carried St Louis on the old KIRK in Branson...ahhh thosed were the days, a cold Bush, Jack Buck and baseball on the radio in the spring. KTXR carried the Royals back in the 70's.
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 09:56 pm |
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| Turner I am trying to remember you. Hugh Matlock, Chuck Riley and Jerry Higley come to mind. Were you the night guy. Remember having to turn the power down at dark. Hugh would AHEM forget. Or " The city speaks" program. You may be the guy that hated that and said I wish the tape would mess up and alas it broke in half,only you had a hard time going on the air with a straight face. And The Cardinal Caravans " bus trip" used to leave Boonville and Tampa when the Cardinals were carried by KGBX and the Royals at KTXR. Of coarse the Royals were in the playoffs every year then. Then when Meyer swapped and got the Cards they started winning and well the rest is history. I would say Jane was living right. And newsman Barry Bryant I heard he died but have no idea what happened? Do you?
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Kent Clark
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 10:33 pm |
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XGM wrote: If you look at ratings nationwide, you will note that "Sports Stations" rank very near the bottom in most cases. Sports fans, bless their hearts, are a loud minority. When it comes to counting listeners...they just don't amount to that much. Most sports advertisers are also strong supporters and will buy just about any sports on the air...including "tiddly-wink matches".
Correct. However, sports stations also significantly outbill their ratings shares. Nationally, sports radio has one of the highest power ratios of any format (it was #1 for several years in-a-row and may still be there today). It's extremely rare to find any sports station with a power ratio of less than 2 to 1. Jock 98.7 is a perfect example of this. A year or two ago, it was the highest biller in Meyer's cluster by a considerable margin. I suspect it's still that way.
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wsterrett
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Posted: Sun Mar 30th, 2008 10:54 pm |
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Kent Clark wrote: It's extremely rare to find any sports station with a power ratio of less than 2 to 1. It's not quite that way anymore, but it's still a very solid power ratio, and the overhead is incredibly low. The Miller-Kaplan figures from 2007 show the Sports format has a 1.69 power ratio...3rd best overall (trailing News [2.05] and Hot AC [1.84]). Still, it's an unbelievably solid format as far as billing is considered. More importantly though, it's the highest-ratio format that has proven it can succeed with a lackluster signal.
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