{"id":179,"date":"2012-10-14T09:07:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T14:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=179"},"modified":"2012-10-14T09:07:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T14:07:26","slug":"yakety-yak-dont-talk-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2012\/10\/14\/yakety-yak-dont-talk-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Yakety Yak (Don’t Talk Back)…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If sports talk radio listeners paid heed to the 1958 song by the Coasters<\/a>, it might have never mushroomed into what it is today….A place to go while you’re in your car, a haven for long suffering fans, even somewhere to catch up on a missed interview on your radio DVR (is there even such a term?)…<\/p>\n

But talk radio, and sports in particular, has exploded in the last ten years and whether you like it or not, to quote Marshall McLuhan, “The Medium is the Message”<\/a> (if you should wade through that video, keep in mind, while \u00a0it was recorded in 1977, McLuhan’s book actually came out in 1964…It’s \u00a0as authentic today as it did almost a half century ago)…Three years ago Boston had one all sports station…soon we’ll have three…An\u00a0Inside Radio<\/a> <\/a>survey, released earlier this year, \u00a0says eighty six percent of listeners are men…\u00a0Ryan Johnston<\/a> of 98.5 The Sports Hub claims many are unhappy; \u00a0“Boston is pretty damn miserable, there’s a kinship that comes from that. We all kind of suffer through the same thing. \u00a0They wanna gripe and they want to hear other people gripe. They want to know they’re not alone in the their misery”…Rick Pitino lives!<\/p>\n

Johnston joined Amy Lawrence<\/a> of ESPN Radio at the latest edition of the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series and the differences between a local show and a national one such as Amy’s were obvious….”When it’s slow, Johnston said, you feel like you’re just beating the same topics into the ground. \u00a0You hope the audience doesn’t feel that way (though)”…Lawrence was quick to point out that her guideline for topics might be a bit narrower, especially a subject like politics; \u00a0“We’re trying to appeal and bring in as many people as possible and inevitably you will alienate half of your audience whether it’s intentional or not is a different story”…<\/p>\n

ESPN currently has more than four hundred and seventy affiliates nationwide so they must be doing something right…In fact, that same Inside Radio survey says sports talk radio stations have increased by some sixty seven percent in the last ten years, jumping from just over 400 to near 700…That growth spurt has attracted financial investors and if for no other reason, sports talk radio is alive and well…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If sports talk radio listeners paid heed to the 1958 song by the Coasters, it might have never mushroomed into what it is today….A place to go while you’re in your car, a haven for long suffering fans, even somewhere to catch up on a missed interview on your radio DVR (is there even such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}