Oso planning to go pro
Be really good karma if we were on WTMJ 620 AM for all our basketball games.Yes, I still listen to AM radio!
One of the reasons that the Badgers departed the station is that they wanted "clearance" over those teams instead of their games consistently being bumped to other stations. WTMJ obviously said "no way."
My understanding at the time was the Red Rodent wanted too much money. For football, I may be wrong but I thought they were getting clearance over the Brewers. The Packers don't matter because the Red Rodent plays on Saturday and the Packers on Sunday. For Red Rodent basketball, that's another story. A Sunday afternoon or Monday night game will NEVER get clearance over the Green Bay Packers. Ever. Playing a Rodent game on Sunday during football season is absurd, because you would have about 125 people listening if it was on opposite a Packers game (the 125 are players families and relatives of Bo Ryan). The conflicts are with the Milwaukee Bucks and who won that battle depended on whose team was better.The Rodent's issue ultimately was whether they wanted to be the Junior Partner on Wisconsin's Big Stick or they wanted to be the dominant voice on a CB radio. That's the same choice we face.
Wow, I'm very concerned for Benny. Being able to mimic Myron Medcalf's writing so closely implies an oncoming case of dementia.
Upgrade to the 540 transmitter to dual-hamster?
This would be just my luck... I recently upgraded to an FCA vehicle because the am radio receiver is so much better than the Saab I got rid of. I was all excited I'd be able to hear pre/post game talk and the Thursday shows... yet now apparently it seems I could have still rocked the Saab a few more years!
You changed vehicles because of AM radio coverage?
This is why MU could end up on 620:#1 - Marquette doesn't have football... so no radio-dick measuring contests to worry about there.#2 - I seem to recall very few Big East basketball games in conflict with the NFL. Probably has something to do with a) FS1 not wanting to go up against the mothership and b) with only 10 teams, you can easily schedule weekend slate around NFL, which isn't so easy with 14, 16 or 18 teams.#3 - To the bolded portion above, the probability of a Bucks/Marquette conflict is 50% that of a Bucks/Badgers conflict.#4 - Hard to make the hometown radio partner happy when 620 AM comes in clear as day in Madison. For that matter, it's hard to make several of the radio affiliates happy when they overlap TMJ's listening area. (i.e. Marquette's existing radio network being much smaller creates fewer conflicts with the local affiliates).#5 - It's not an earthmover, but MU playing in the new arena is a modest bump to its relevancy factor outside Milwaukee. That's meaningful to any media partners, even radio.
My smartphone is 4.5 years old... it's so full of pics and videos that I don't have room to install the tunin app. What else am I supposed to do? Plus it's amazing how well 540 comes in now on the new vehicle......But no... I may have exaggerated the "because" part of that post.
Why MU might not end up on 620. It's not all that popular a broadcast. Does Marquette basketball draw a larger audience than TMJ's regular evening programming?
https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2018/10/26/wkti-fm-move-country-music-sports-under-new-owner-good-karma-espn-radio-milwaukee/1774328002/MU on FM...WKTI? It says" Initially, WKTI and WAUK will carry the same programming, including local on-air sports personalities Mark Tauscher and Steve “The Homer” True. " Does that include MU games?
Maybe leaving WISN for a two bit station was a colossally stupid decision by Marquette leaving us wanting a move to TMJ so badly that is highly unlikely to happen for reasons stated?! Nah, that's right wing radio over there, nobody listens to that
If 540 offered them more money, they should take the money. Why assume it was for politics?
MU and belling don't much like each other and my hunch is that MU does not want to do business with anything MB has his fingers on. belling likes to run his show past the 6 o'clock hour to random times when he wants to get more chit in, although he did get out of the way of uwm b-ball as it occurred