MsProudSooner
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It would need to be the right month - a ratings month.
Al used to have the ability to ask good questions. He's just gotten too lazy.
Some Notes/Quotes from Kruger's WWLS interview
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It would need to be the right month - a ratings month.
Al used to have the ability to ask good questions. He's just gotten too lazy.
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Does KREF not get near the ratings that the sports animal gets? I know James Hale isn't too popular either...but he's better than Traber/Esbach.
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KREF's ratings are like D-Days GPA in animal house... 0.0
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The Sports Animal is pretty much only listenable with Mark Rodgers. He's really the only guy I like on there. But then again trying to listen to Hale on KREF is probably the hardest of any of them locally.
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It was funny listening to them leading up to the interview when their time got pushed back from 5:10 to 5:40.
Someone said he's probably busy with the media and Traber says "Yeah, we're always the last ones."
Wonder why? :ez-laugh:
Someone said he's probably busy with the media and Traber says "Yeah, we're always the last ones."
Wonder why? :ez-laugh:
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Had to work 2-11 today so I didn't get to watch the press conference; thank you to those that posted notes by the way. Anyway, figured I'd tune in to the animal on the way in to work; I mean, with the press conference at 2:30 they had to be talking about it right? Nope, it was Humphreys and a lot of golf talk :facepalm WTF!
I had a couple of my family members from Philly come stay with us for a while. they wanted to hear some local sports radio. I flipped on WWLS and warned them it is bad radio....Jim was on... he would say "Bobby.......I forgot what I was gonna say....hold on I just got a text (dead silence).....Uh yea..just got a great text...hahah..Bobby what were talking about...(jim heard talking to a guy at casino)
"hey big man!......yea I know"...(listeners can not hear "big man")
My cousins laughing..wanted to know why OKC sports fans put up with it.
"hey big man!......yea I know"...(listeners can not hear "big man")
My cousins laughing..wanted to know why OKC sports fans put up with it.
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Even Mark Rodgers is terrible. He's so condescending despite the fact that he comes in completely unprepared for his job. Watching a lot of sports and preparing segments apparently takes too much time, so he just takes three hours worth of phone calls, half of which end in him cuing the beer can sound effect.
As bad as every other host is, at least they'll acknowledge when they don't have enough info to answer a caller's question. On the other hand, Mark Rodgers will completely fabricate something instead of admitting that he can't answer the question. During the summer of 2009, someone called Mark and asked him about Serge Ibaka. Whereas someone like Al would say, "Uh, I don't know too much bout him...uh, Gideon, look him up on dah computah" (an irritatingly ignorant but honest response), Mark just BSed the listener by telling him that Ibaka was "a fairly athletic guard" whom the Thunder would probably keep in Europe another year or two (this was a month or so AFTER Ibaka had signed a contract with the Thunder for the upcoming season). If your job is to talk about sports several hours a day, you should at the very least know who is on the roster of the only professional sports team in your state, as well as what positions they play.
All of the Animal hosts to whom I've listened are lazy, with the possible exception of the morning guys, who seem like they actually put time into prepping for their show, regardless of what you think about the quality of the content. Most of the hosts don't devote any time to their jobs outside of the hours that they're on the air. They go through their daily routines, and if that doesn't include watching or researching sports, then so be it. Talk about the fifteen-year-old Seinfeld episode you watched last night instead of actually preparing segments because the lack of competition in your market gives you no incentive to work. They make you appreciate national hosts like Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd because, love them or hate them (I don't listen to them or any other sports radio very often nowadays), you can tell that those guys and their staffs put a lot of prep time into their shows instead of coming in unprepared and taking a bunch of calls to fill time.
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He is on with Toby Rowland on KREF right now. It's unbelievable how much better Toby is than the other guys.
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Why hasn't another station brought in a full time national sports talk radio station? In Tulsa, we have the Animal (although part of the day is local guys who may actually be worse than the OKC guys), but we also have ESPN radio and the Buzz. ESPN radio is just ESPN's national feed 24/7. It's great to have the national perspective. The Buzz is national, except from 2-6ish. They play Dan Patrick and Jime Rome and after the local show, they switch to Fox Sports Radio. It is a thousand times better than listening to the horrible Animal.
Also, does KREF just have the least powerful antennae in the world? I can almost never get it to come through, when I am in OKC.
Also, does KREF just have the least powerful antennae in the world? I can almost never get it to come through, when I am in OKC.
the worst thing for those of you not happy with WWLS, was them getting the rights to the Thunder games. Of course their ratings were going to go up along with the advertising dollars. Also the times have changed with technology and now official websites and message boards provide better conversation and informantion than radio show hosts do. I think there is still a large audience that still wants to rely on the radio hosts to know whats going on at Spring or Fall for OU or OsU. The culture has changed, i would tell someone if you want info go to this website or that one, tune in to talk radio if you want to hear just opinions and rants.
Now THAT was a good interview..
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