{"id":403,"date":"2017-03-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-18T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=403"},"modified":"2017-03-18T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-18T17:23:00","slug":"on-the-radio-whoa-oh-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2017\/03\/18\/on-the-radio-whoa-oh-oh\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Radio, Whoa Oh Oh…"},"content":{"rendered":"

“We play the bad guy, we play the villian”…<\/p>\n

Now there’s a way to start a seminar!…<\/p>\n

Sports Talk Radio is about to explode in Boston…Oh sure, we’ve had two stations for close to eight years but with both stations now being owned by the same corporation, something has to give…And maybe it just might be the format…Or not…<\/p>\n

“We’ll create an emotional investment in the person who’s listening”, said Jimmy Stewar<\/a>t, Executive Producer of Felger and Mazz on 98.5 TheSportsHub…How else to explain why callers will stay on hold for an hour to get seven seconds of air time?<\/p>\n

There’s no formula for sports talk radio these days but certainly stirring things up is key…It’s not a news organization as much as it is a forum…A place to throw an opinion out there and have people react…Sure, you can write a comment to a blog post or tweet back at someone you’re following…But those are passive compared to actually hearing your own voice (even on seven second delay)…<\/p>\n

If there’s one constant to sports talk radio nationwide, it’s that it can’t be boring…You might not like Mike Francesa but people listen…Dan Le Batard has a cult following…Mike and Mike take up four hours on ESPN Radio every day and have been on for eleven years now…<\/p>\n

So when Shane Victorino<\/a> takes Tony Massarotti to task live, it’s gold….. When Fred Toucher hangs up on Rick Pitino<\/a>, \u00a0ratings soar!…<\/p>\n

Sure, there’s a lot of yelling, a lot of talking over one another but what do you expect when you get sports people together?…Jon Wallach<\/a>\u00a0joined Stewart at our latest installment of the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series and he pretty much summed it up when i asked him what was the best part of S-T-R…Said Wallach, “It’s what I always wanted to do and I’ve had an opportunity to do it and it’s fun. \u00a0My father went to Williams (College) and then he went to Harvard Law School. \u00a0I took a very different but my father told me when I was 28 that he wishes he had my job. \u00a0That means everything”…<\/p>\n

So it does……<\/p>\n

“And now in my heart I know I can say what I really feel<\/span>
\n‘Cause they said it really loud, they said it on the air…”<\/span><\/p>\n

Name that tune…..(without using Google Search!)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We play the bad guy, we play the villian”… Now there’s a way to start a seminar!… Sports Talk Radio is about to explode in Boston…Oh sure, we’ve had two stations for close to eight years but with both stations now being owned by the same corporation, something has to give…And maybe it just might […]<\/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\/403"}],"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=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}