[NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread

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WCBS in NYC is also in the same vein, and I have been a semi-regular listener for years.? However, I must confess to a longstanding WBBM "jones".? Although I came to Evanston as a provincial Long Islander with a heavy NY bias, by 1974, when I left Evanston, I really loved all things Chicago--except, of course, the weather.? As a consequence, whenever I have been far enough into the "country" to pick up WBBM's 50,000 watts of power, I usually have given it a try.? Thus, down in Sarasota (with a heavy population of Chicago ex-pats) in the Winter, and now out in Lewisburg, PA, where my son is a frosh at Bucknell, I can often pick up Chicago's news station, and I do so, much to my wife's annoyance (as she doesn't like a lot of radio noise in the car--a matrimonial dispute of many, many years:-)).? By the same token, I also like to pick up WGN-TV when I am in hotels, etc., with cable networks that pick it up.? Cablevision, my provider, doesn't provide it, so it is a "treat" when I
  am away from home.

I also miss WXRT--all these years later.



Paul Levinson




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From: Scott Zeller <scottzel at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] mostly off-topie political thread



KCBS in San Francisco is exactly the same format as you described for WBBM
and the Detroit station. I wonder how many of these CBS newsradio stations
city-to-city are so identical?

I'm with your wife on missing WXRT. It's been 24 years!! Is it still as good
as it was in 1985?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Michael Vance <michael.vance at att.net>wrote:

> 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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