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Nate Colbert

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No more Cubs games on WGN
« on: June 04, 2014, 02:32:06 pm »
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2014, 02:36:21 pm »
You watch Cub games?

I think I need a shower.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2014, 02:44:40 pm »
It's odd that he states that the income generated by Chicago sports is relatively miniscule ($250,000).  I keep reading that sports is what networks want since is is more DVR proof and thus more attractive to advertisers.  What the hell else is on that Channel that people watch?   
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2014, 03:02:28 pm »
Quote from: jbm on June 04, 2014, 02:44:40 pm
It's odd that he states that the income generated by Chicago sports is relatively miniscule ($250,000).  I keep reading that sports is what networks want since is is more DVR proof and thus more attractive to advertisers.  What the hell else is on that Channel that people watch?   

I think Matlock plays six hours a day.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2014, 03:12:40 pm »
Quote from: juliogotay on June 04, 2014, 03:02:28 pm
I think Matlock plays six hours a day.

It's nice to think that even the parents of the old fogies watching matlock on WGN weren't even around the last time the cubs won a series.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2014, 03:16:02 pm »
Quote from: jbm on June 04, 2014, 02:44:40 pm
What the hell else is on that Channel that people watch?   

It's the only place I've ever seen Bozo the Clown.  I always thought that Bozo and Harry Caray were the same person.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #6 on: June 04, 2014, 03:51:10 pm »
Quote from: Bench on June 04, 2014, 03:16:02 pm
It's the only place I've ever seen Bozo the Clown.

Hell yes.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #7 on: June 05, 2014, 01:34:40 pm »
Quote from: jbm on June 04, 2014, 02:44:40 pm
What the hell else is on that Channel that people watch?   

" ... sports ad revenue is penny ante compared to what WGN America might take in from airing original content, like the company's dark and sexy new witch show, 'Salem,' which began airing last month."

Awesome.
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #8 on: June 05, 2014, 02:49:47 pm »
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Re: No more Cubs games on WGN
« Reply #9 on: June 05, 2014, 03:03:00 pm »
Quote from: BUWebguy on June 05, 2014, 02:49:47 pm
Cubs are also leaving WGN radio after 90 years:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/chc/chicago-cubs-announce-wbbm-am-780-as-new-flagship-radio-station?ymd=20140605&content_id=78368086&vkey=news_chc

Wow. 90 years since they broadcast their first Cubs game. Grover Cleveland Alexander was on the mound that day. I am dumbstruck by the statement that baseball in effect doesn't make sense for AM radio these days. That's amazing to me. I would think a baseball contract brings a lot of listeners to that channel that wouldn't be there otherwise. It may be the station that is on first thing in the morning when the car radio is turned on. It is promotional opportunities and top-of-mind awareness for the station. It is the good-will of "affiliation" of being the station of the home-9. It is credibility. It is familiarity. It is relationships with advertisers that they may not have otherwise. And hopefully they make a little profit out of the deal at the end of the day. That is just an amazing statement to me.
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