Bucks Media Thread (Discussion of Bucks & Sports Media)

[MickeyDavis]

Weird that the got the rights to Packer radio then dumped everyone

97.3 got the Packers rights.

[BucksStatsGuy]

Bart is the best WI sports personality in a LONG time.

Bart is a conundrum and will be curious where he lands. On raw intelligence, he was the smartest guy there. The problem is that he'd sort of go whacko at many times (and not just on politics). As a result, he'd turn a lot of people off. Would speculate his support/ratings were an inch wide and a mile deep.

Yeah, when just actually being his normal self, he was the best. But because he was that smart, I feel like he tried so hard at being "morning" guy here and there (transparently ridiculous arguments that you knew even he didn't believe, content generation, being LOUD, etc). Obviously the politics were there as well, which I personally never found overbearing, but I'm sure old-man-radio certainly did. He and Horvat really made a great team. I appreciate any radio guy who prefers to stand on the side of "we don't know" or "meh, this is a nothing thing", rather than spout a take for the sake of taking a side.

[EastSideBucksFan]

Bart is the best WI sports personality in a LONG time.

Bart is a conundrum and will be curious where he lands. On raw intelligence, he was the smartest guy there. The problem is that he'd sort of go whacko at many times (and not just on politics). As a result, he'd turn a lot of people off. Would speculate his support/ratings were an inch wide and a mile deep.

Bart rubbed a lot of sponsors the wrong way and had to be reigned in numerous times, but, his act took money out of their revenue.

Know that for a fact.

I liked him as a person and personality, but when he got the show to himself after Chuck left, was pretty disappointed how he constantly took the approach of "I don't prepare anything" and it showed. He had the chance to be so much better and never stepped up.

[paulpressey25]

Bart rubbed a lot of sponsors the wrong way and had to be reigned in numerous times, but, his act took money out of their revenue.

Bart was sort of an angry version of Wickett, which think hurt him in broadening his appeal. His local following was like one of those TV shows that gets cancelled for low ratings, but has a dedicated audience. Maybe he can monetize that with a podcast.

Did appreciate his lawn chair parade spot thing during the Finals last year. That what was damn clever and well done.

[Matches Malone]

Bart rubbed a lot of sponsors the wrong way and had to be reigned in numerous times, but, his act took money out of their revenue.

Bart was sort of an angry version of Wickett, which think hurt him in broadening his appeal. His local following was like one of those TV shows that gets cancelled for low ratings, but has a dedicated audience. Maybe he can monetize that with a podcast.

Did appreciate his lawn chair parade spot thing during the Finals last year. That what was damn clever and well done.

Would be curious to see the breakdown of his age demographic. Seems like he found something with the mid 30's to mid 20's crowd but I could tell a lot of the older hosts/listeners didn't take to his schtick and thought he was off his rocker. There are some successful podcasts with personalities similar to his. Just think he needs to find the right medium.

[tski1972]

Bart rubbed a lot of sponsors the wrong way and had to be reigned in numerous times, but, his act took money out of their revenue.

Bart was sort of an angry version of Wickett, which think hurt him in broadening his appeal. His local following was like one of those TV shows that gets cancelled for low ratings, but has a dedicated audience. Maybe he can monetize that with a podcast.

Did appreciate his lawn chair parade spot thing during the Finals last year. That what was damn clever and well done.

Would be curious to see the breakdown of his age demographic. Seems like he found something with the mid 30's to mid 20's crowd but I could tell a lot of the older hosts/listeners didn't take to his schtick and thought he was off his rocker. There are some successful podcasts with personalities similar to his. Just think he needs to find the right medium.

As a fifty year old I’ll say I thought Bart was great. He’d call b.s. on a lot of the click bait-type news items all the time. It was refreshing to listen to someone like that.

[EastSideBucksFan]

Bart rubbed a lot of sponsors the wrong way and had to be reigned in numerous times, but, his act took money out of their revenue.

Bart was sort of an angry version of Wickett, which think hurt him in broadening his appeal. His local following was like one of those TV shows that gets cancelled for low ratings, but has a dedicated audience. Maybe he can monetize that with a podcast.

Did appreciate his lawn chair parade spot thing during the Finals last year. That what was damn clever and well done.

Would be curious to see the breakdown of his age demographic. Seems like he found something with the mid 30's to mid 20's crowd but I could tell a lot of the older hosts/listeners didn't take to his schtick and thought he was off his rocker. There are some successful podcasts with personalities similar to his. Just think he needs to find the right medium.

Bart was a great third banana to Wickett & Chuck, funny guy, quick quips, raunchy bits and rants, like a sports Charlie Berens.

When Wickett left, Chuck was still there to pull him back and get back on track

Without Chuck, it was just too much of his unfiltered, unprogrammed meandering thoughts and his shtick was tired for me.

But, I do hope he lands on his feet and gets a solid gig somewhere.

[jakecronus8]

Chuck was the absolute worst radio guy I’ve ever heard. Definitely he or Bill Michaels. He was like any drunk Packers fan in a bar that fashioned themselves an expert, yet really only watches the games.

Winkler’s format was a conversation rather than a soapbox which is what 90% of sports media is now. That’s what set him apart and he’d actually listen to his guests/callers and consider their takes/opinions before he’d respond. Typically most hosts will wait until the person on the other end says a buzz word that allows them to rant for another 20 minutes then cut them off.

Bart was like the anti Bill Michaels.

[Matches Malone]

Chuck was the absolute worst radio guy I’ve ever heard. Definitely he or Bill Michaels. He was like any drunk Packers fan in a bar that fashioned themselves an expert, yet really only watches the games.

Winkler’s format was a conversation rather than a soapbox which is what 90% of sports media is now. That’s what set him apart and he’d actually listen to his guests/callers and consider their takes/opinions before he’d respond. Typically most hosts will wait until the person on the other end says a buzz word that allows them to rant for another 20 minutes then cut them off.

Bart was like the anti Bill Michaels.

Bill Michaels was so obnoxious during interviews. You could tell he wasn't listening and his big sausage fingers were clacking away at the keyboard that would come through on the radio.

[paulpressey25]

Bill Michaels was so obnoxious during interviews. You could tell he wasn't listening and his big sausage fingers were clacking away at the keyboard that would come through on the radio.

Every Bucks related interview with Bill Michaels.

Watch on YouTube

[ReginaldDwight]

I think Sparky deserves some praise for the fact for a long time he was one of the only sports radio hosts who would actually talk bucks. Gary and Leroy on the radio together should have been good but usually was awful.

[Mags FTW]

Meeting Sparky while he was doing his post-game show at GameTime Pub during the Kohl-era was like rock-bottom for an alcoholic. Going to watch a failure of team, then going to a location that hosted a parade of failed bar/restaurant ventures, to see an AM talk radio show that only die-hards listened to on a now-failed radio station.

"What the hell am I doing with my life..."

[Chad34]

Tim Allen is supposed to be moving his brewers postgame show to the game 97.3. First one is supposed to be tonight

[MickeyDavis]

Since there have been no announcements I'm assuming Lisa and Marques are back this season. I was hoping Lisa would be one and done, there's no doubt she is using this to get a national gig (although she's not good enough, at least not yet). I was also hoping she'd show improvement during the year but she didn't.

Marques I enjoy. He's 66 though and has scaled back, much like McGlocklin did. I love that the Bucks/Bally's saw that Novak was an abomination doing games and booted him back to pre/post game. Unfortunately they replaced him with Bardo. Sure Bardo played briefly in the NBA but he does college games and definitely wasn't tuned into the Bucks. He appeared to do no prep work, he'd drive up from Chicago, or fly in somewhere from Chicago and do a crappy job. As Marques' career winds down I hope they can find a good analyst. And find a good play by play person when Lisa moves on.

[EastSideBucksFan]

Lisa was just awful. Just factually incorrect on things on a near nightly basis and very little emotion injected into her calls.

If it was her and Bardo, I'd just turn the audio down and put some background music on.

I liked Zora & Marques the most, just cause they had an obvious chemistry and Zora knew the Bucks, knew the NBA and knew basketball. She had work to do to get her feet solid, but I'd rather her get the nod than Lisa.

I wish they would find a way to sync up the radio with a video feed, although now that Ted is gone that's less important to me.

Although, I thought the new radio guy was solid, just needs some deeper NBA knowledge.

[CharityStripe34]

I can do a good ole fashioned dweeb announcer voice and I know the game. Gonna apply for the gig.

[MickeyDavis]

I wasn't a fan of Zora on PBP. Granted she was new to it and could get better and she did know the Bucks much better than Lisa.

[MVP2110]

Lisa > Zora when it comes to PBP and it wasn't even close. Zora is great in her current role. But I'm also one of the few who actually likes Lisa

[MickeyDavis]

Lisa > Zora when it comes to PBP and it wasn't even close. Zora is great in her current role. But I'm also one of the few who actually likes Lisa

I'm not a big Zora fan but if she worked as many games as Lisa has in PBP she'd be far better. Lisa was too busy sending out her resume to bother to learn much about the team. They were the world champs and her lack of knowledge about the players was incredible. And she has no chemistry with Marques.

ETA, when BA started as the Brewers PBP guy he had no MLB experience. He had done some minor league baseball and was a sideline reporter for the Spurs. And while it took him time to develop he came in prepared. He not only knew the team inside and out he knew the history of the team and past players. Something Lisa never bothered to do.

[blazza18]

No offense to Zora but they had her hosting a podcast as a game was going on. She should be nowhere near doing PBP for an NBA team. And while not an ideal choice Lisa was fine her first go around and she improved as the season went on. Hopefully for her she sticks around longer and becomes more apart of the franchise.