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[QUOTE="Stern, post: 10970, member: 527"]
Too many local shows now. Having 3 local shows is far too much for a city this size. And to be honest they all blend together on that station. Nobody stands out, nobody is that good. I have listened to Brent Axe at times where he goes 40 min to 2 hours without a phone call and him just killing clock. It's obvious nobody is listening and the people who do don't care enough to call in. Usually that is when I flip on the SIRIUS and listen to Mad Dog Russo.

You could PROBABLY get away with 2 local shows in this town with a National Show in between as a buffer. I was no Parkins fan, he would just say stuff that he knew would get people riled up and call. Even he didn't believe the stuff he was saying half of the time. Cheap radio stunts. Like saying last year the "Fans" lost us the Pitt game because they were too quiet. Nonsense like that.

It is amazing though that in Syracuse, NY where we have the Newhouse school that has produced a who's-who of sports broadcasters, that our Play-by-Play man for football/basketball and our local radio shows are for the most part terrible. You would think by mistake we could get someone good in those roles. BY MISTAKE! The pool should be huge. 1260 should just have a folding table outside the dome every May with all the Newhouse graduates conducting interviews!

The prime example is the one kid who worked at 1260 for a while, lost his job, now just got a job on WFAN (granted he won a contest but he still WON for christ sakes)! Not good enough for us, but good enough for the #1 Sports Radio station in the country. Go Figure!
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