The Official LGP Pittsburgh Sport Radio Thread

[Member]

No Tom Grimm, no one is in fear of talking about head shots on the radio, and callers talking about this doesn't make them brave either.

[Pavel Bure]

They define success as the number of callers a show receives.
It seems that to them more callers equals good show.

I remember an argument on Sirius "Maddog" Radio last summer: "Maddog" Russo wanted all his shows to maximize callers, no matter how bad. His hosts wanted to maximize personality and host opinion.

1) let the caller be the star (good when you have weak host, a glorified phone operator)

2) let the host be the star (good when you have strong host with personality, opinion and knowledge)

The guy that was on last night, Jim Phillips or something like that left his mic on during commercials and he was bemoaning that the Pirate game wasn't on TV and that he had no callers. Was pretty funny. Although i wanted him to swear or something that would have gotten him fired.

[Marshall Dylan]

They define success as the number of callers a show receives.
It seems that to them more callers equals good show.

If you're talking about The Fan, that's not correct.

[PghSkins]

Can they not get rid of the high pitched tweet that is on this station 24/7? The station I worked at was out in BFE Central PA but no way our Engineers would have tolerated that.

I can't possibly be the only one who hears it, right?

[TRazzy66]

Can they not get rid of the high pitched tweet that is on this station 24/7? The station I worked at was out in BFE Central PA but no way our Engineers would have tolerated that.

I can't possibly be the only one who hears it, right?

I hear it every morning. I thought I was going crazy but I guess I am not the only one!

[Psychlone]

Madden just said on his show that big changes are coming to the Fan since their ratings have been steadily dropping. They are considering getting rid of all of their hosts from out of town save 1 (Giannotti probably) since they are not Pittsburgh enough. Hopefully, this will allow Chris Mueller to get a bump to an earlier timeslot, I think he is pretty good.

[Troy Loney]

Madden just said on his show that big changes are coming to the Fan since their ratings have been steadily dropping. They are considering getting rid of all of their hosts from out of town save 1 (Giannotti probably) since they are not Pittsburgh enough. Hopefully, this will allow Chris Mueller to get a bump to an earlier timeslot, I think he is pretty good.

Get Seibel out of here.

[PghSkins]

Velkommen hen til den apparat

[cheesesteakwithegg]

Im probably in the minority here, but I think Chris Mueller is a stiff who doesn't belong on radio.

[columbia]

Madden just said on his show that big changes are coming to the Fan since their ratings have been steadily dropping. They are considering getting rid of all of their hosts from out of town save 1 (Giannotti probably) since they are not Pittsburgh enough. Hopefully, this will allow Chris Mueller to get a bump to an earlier timeslot, I think he is pretty good.

The best (well worst) would be if they hired Chris Mack.

[Malkamaniac]

Madden just said on his show that big changes are coming to the Fan since their ratings have been steadily dropping. They are considering getting rid of all of their hosts from out of town save 1 (Giannotti probably) since they are not Pittsburgh enough. Hopefully, this will allow Chris Mueller to get a bump to an earlier timeslot, I think he is pretty good.

Get Seibel out of here.

Nice, it can be even more yinzerfied now.

[Troy Loney]

More Jim Colony!!

[Point Breeze Penguins]

I bet Colin Dunlap's leaving the PG to work FT at the Fan.

[cheesesteakwithegg]

Anyone hear that WAMO is coming back on 100.1?

[FreeCandy44]

whoever the dude is in the morning aint that bad. but yeah save Starkey and Miller and axe the rest.

[cheesesteakwithegg]

I bet Colin Dunlap's leaving the PG to work FT at the Fan.

If there are major shake-ups like Madden is saying, that would make sense.

I wonder if Colin went to the PG and asked for a reduced role in covering the Buccos (perhaps only home games) since he wanted to do a full time gig at The Fan ala Ron Rook. The PG said no, and he split.

[Malkamaniac]

Get Paul Alexander out of there. Please for the love of God.

[IanMoran]

I REALLY need to start keeping track of how many times I post this (and so far I have a 100% accuracy); why is anything madden said even being discussed?

[viva la ben]

The day Pittsburgh is Richichi-less will be a good day, he just sucks

[KennyTheKangaroo]

Nice, it can be even more yinzerfied now.

kenny the kagnaroo, at some point in this thread, mentioned that it would be kind of nice to see how pittsburgh reacts to new blood in its sports radio market. lets face it, it hasnt worked

listening to andrew filliponi talk about jose bautistas tenure with pirates just does not have legitimacy because we all know that twit wasnt following the buccos 5 years ago.

listening to siebel talk about the atmosphere at penguins games doesnt hold juice because we all know he went to few, if any, pens games in mellon arena

listening to giannatti talk about all the pain pitt hoops fans have to go through has no legitimacy because quite frankly, he hasnt been here to suffer through all the embarassment/dissappointment

etc etc etc

[Member]

Good job Seibel and Starkey at taking two segments off by playing back 2 different interviews.

[Letang Is The Truth]

lol theyve been doing that alot lately

[DudeMan2766]

I'd love to know how many times vinnie says the name of the station during a given show. It has got to be in the hundreds. He's running at about a once every 3 sentences clip today

[Troy Loney]

lol theyve been doing that alot lately

Very true. I heard the Jim Leyland interview 3 times i think...they were really patting themselves on the back for that one.

[demondg1]

I'd love to know how many times vinnie says the name of the station during a given show. It has got to be in the hundreds. He's running at about a once every 3 sentences clip today

Ninedy tree sheven da Fan.