He has no radio talent, yet he was given an afternoon show and became a guy who people loved to hate, which gave him good ratings.
He has no radio talent, yet he was given an afternoon show and became a guy who people loved to hate, which gave him good ratings.
He has no radio talent. He's just a guy who people love to hate.
In my view, anybody who gets paid to spout their opinion for 4 hours a day is the luckiest person ever. There are far worse jobs one can have.
As we've discussed on the sports format board, the fact that Sirius is considering creating a YES channel is also amazing to me. I wonder which channel they'll drop when they add YES.
There's been speculation elsewhere that YES Radio could mean the end of free OTA play-by-play for the Yankees. I just can't see that happening,
SiriusXM tends to make deals with outside entities to fund branded channels. They're probably getting paid or some kind of consideration to create a YES channel.As we've discussed on the sports format board, the fact that Sirius is considering creating a YES channel is also amazing to me.
SiriusXM tends to make deals with outside entities to fund branded channels. They're probably getting paid or some kind of consideration to create a YES channel.
The Yankees are a national team like the Cowboys are. You would be surprised to see how many people would want a channel like that.I understand that, but it's one thing to get paid channels by musicians whose music is national, it's another thing to create basically a local sports channel. Money is money and they seem to be running out of things to put on their channels.
The Yankees are a national team like the Cowboys are. You would be surprised to see how many people would want a channel like that.
I have always hated the Cowboys being called "Americas team" but they do bring in ratings and have a huge fan base. The Braves lost that monicker long ago. The Yankees have the history and are in the biggest market so by default they have a big fan base. But like the Red Sox a lot of snow birds moved away form the northeast and still follow the team. Baseball unlike the other sports is regional. Everyone follows every team in football. The Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cubs all have fans across the country. This is why they can have successful RSN'sMaybe...I see lots of complaints about too many Yankee games on ESPN and MLB. And I think the days of the Cowboys being "America's Team" are over. They've become the team people love to hate.
He has no radio talent, yet he was given an afternoon show and became a guy who people loved to hate, which gave him good ratings.
Maybe...I see lots of complaints about too many Yankee games on ESPN.
Hannity talks like a radio host. Francesa has no radio talent. Getting rid of callers quickly and talking slowly isn't talent.The ability to speak fairly coherently on a topic for hours at a time and attract and hold an audience’s attention is “radio talent” It doesn’t necessarily indicate intellect or other abilities, but, it is a specific type of talent, in my view. As another example, Sean Hannity strikes me as not being an intellectual giant, nor even particularly smart, but, he has the talent to assimilate a lot of information and to recall that information very adroitly.
Except those Yankees games -- especially Yankees-Red Sox -- draw eyeballs, and not just from the teams' home markets.
Hannity talks like a radio host. Francesa has no radio talent. Getting rid of callers quickly and talking slowly isn't talent.
That's not the Sirius business model. They already have a lot of Yankee fans with Chris Russo. The only real upside is its a sponsored channel.