[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

[Michael Vance]

One of the things that I grew up with in Detroit (WWJ-950) and still 
spent a lot of time with in Chicago (WBBM-780) is the CBS Newsradio 
stations.  You could -- and still can for the most part -- get traffic 
and weather on the 8s, sports at 15 and 45, business news at 25 and 55, 
national network news at the top of the hour, and mix of local and 
national highlights at the bottom.  It was almost like comfort food when 
driving back to Chicago from Michigan, and was especially frustrating 
when they have carried various sports teams over the years and that 
disrupts the traffic report schedule.  But I think that even those have 
changed some just in the six years that I've been in Indianapolis.  I 
don't get a chance to listen to WBBM enough when I'm back up in Chicago 
(my wife missed WXRT too much) to really put my finger on it though.

-Michael

Mike Nolan wrote:
>> Conservative Talk Radio only survives as a viable format because it draws
>> listeners. 
>>     
>
> Isn't that true about ANY media?  If nobody is reading, listening or watching
> it dies.  I'm not sure if the Internet quite follows that rule yet.
>
> I pretty much stopped listening to AM radio a good 10 years ago, because 
> there wasn't anything I wanted to hear, certainly no music.  Even the local
> morning drive-time block isn't worth listening to any more, except maybe 
> for traffic reports.  (Just TRY to get a weather report on an AM radio
> at 6:30 AM!)
>
> These days when I'm in my car (not as much as before 1999, since I now
> work from home) I listen to Sirius satellite radio, usually Broadway 
> show tunes.   Memory, all alone in the moonlight....
> --
> Mike Nolan
>
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