Bucks Media Thread (Discussion of Bucks & Sports Media)

[chonestown]

On the flip side it's good that sports radio can deliver to Milwaukee the local angle the Cream City craves: wall-to-wall coverage on Tom Brady and L'Bron (sp?) James.

[buckboy]

I like Dan Patrick, but yeah, local options are..........not good. I listen to the Score more than any Milwaukee sports radio.

[jakecronus8]

This was gutting. I love the fan. They had original personalities that actually have personality. I think Bart Winkler grew into the best local radio guy I've ever heard in the market.

The rest of the local stuff is all tenured blow hards who are basically doing a no show job, or former local players who talk just about anything but sports.

This is bad for sports fans in Wisconsin. Discourse amongst the fan bases is a good thing and the fan was the only station to give the fans a voice. I imagine this will legitimately make me less of a sports fan.

[skones]

I'm legitimately shocked at how many folks listen to regular ole sports radio. This was always going to be a thing, the way of the internet.

[MickeyDavis]

Wasn't Haywood originally a caller who eventually got a gig at the station? I liked the guy.

[MickeyDavis]

I'm legitimately shocked at how many folks listen to regular ole sports radio. This was always going to be a thing, the way of the internet.

It has its place. Podcasts are fine but can get dated fast. With radio it's live and can cover breaking/current news. Sure there's some crappy local radio. Also crappy podcasts.

[M-C-G]

I'm legitimately shocked at how many folks listen to regular ole sports radio. This was always going to be a thing, the way of the internet.

We don't have fancy podcasts in the suburbs

[MartyConlonOnTheRun]

It's cool now being able to listen to any podcast and get 10 min of bucks talk a week from various national outlets. But when we suck again, there will be zero bucks talk

[skones]

I'm legitimately shocked at how many folks listen to regular ole sports radio. This was always going to be a thing, the way of the internet.

We don't have fancy podcasts in the suburbs

Still on that DSL.

[skones]

It's cool now being able to listen to any podcast and get 10 min of bucks talk a week from various national outlets. But when we suck again, there will be zero bucks talk

There are Bucks specific podcasts in addition to people live streaming on youtube, twitter, facebook, etc. There's content out there. Radio is just too limited in its exposure.

[paulpressey25]

There are Bucks specific podcasts in addition to people live streaming on youtube, twitter, facebook, etc. There's content out there. Radio is just too limited in its exposure.

The problem we're going to have is that none of those Bucks specific podcasts have anyone like Woelfel in there talking to people inside the organization and tossing bombs and tidbits if necessary. I realize we don't need Gery as much now given the high national media profile the team has. But we're going to need that watchdog if stuff goes south.

[paulpressey25]

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.

[ReasonablySober]

Listening to any local/Wisconsin sports radio has always made me want to stick an icepick through my brain.

[skones]

There are Bucks specific podcasts in addition to people live streaming on youtube, twitter, facebook, etc. There's content out there. Radio is just too limited in its exposure.

The problem we're going to have is that none of those Bucks specific podcasts have anyone like Woelfel in there talking to people inside the organization and tossing bombs and tidbits if necessary. I realize we don't need Gery as much now given the high national media profile the team has. But we're going to need that watchdog if stuff goes south.

You're not getting bombs and tidbits from sports radio, you're getting them from twitter. Hell, how many inside info drops have happened here right on this board over the years. That legitimately happens with more frequency than it does on 1250. Reporters are absolutely still talking to people inside organizations. Radio, as it pertains to sports, is just a medium that's not necessary.

[MickeyDavis]

The advantage of Pods is you can fast forward the crap. But while news doesn't break on the radio the reaction and talk is immediate. When Hader was traded it was immediately discussed on air vs a Podcast that would be released in a day or two. Callers can immediately opine. That doesn't mean the quality is always top notch (nor is it on Podcasts) but the news can be disected immediately. Twitter breaks news certainly but the comments on the tweets are always a pile of crap.

[Mags FTW]

Sports talk was really hurt by Twitter. Instead of waiting on hold to spit out a hot take, people can just tweet it out now. Or post it on a message board like a loser.

The only program I really tune into these days is Packer post-game on ESPN after a night game when there's no other games to watch.

National sports talk is brutal.

[0BobLobLaw0]

If you want good sports talk locally you will be disappointed....but I find wilde and tausch and scalzo and brust highly entertaining from a non sports lens and that's good enough for me.

[doublejman69]

1250 was really the first station to go local sports talk. 1510 at the time was a day timer and had one or two local shows,

The real trailblazer was WAUK 1510am when they started up in 1995. They did go local programming from sunup to sundown, save for I think a national show from 10-2. Some names were Scott Aebly, Bill Johnson, Chuck Freimund, Bruce Marcus, Craig Kaliebe, etc.

But yes, WSSP was the first 24 hour place. In 2005 Sparky made the jump from Homer with the idea he might be able to land a full-time gig there. (and Homer was feuding with Belling and would later leave WISN late in 2005).

Sparky was basically Peter Brown's producer, and as you note, the comedian Vonn didn't last long, so Sparky grabbed that spot. And his focus on the Bucks was really huge for all of us. No one covered the team, but Sparky created a niche there for Bucks coverage. And he pulled in Gery, the only local reporter covering the team also (I can't count Enlund, Gardner, Hunt at MJS since they just read Bucks press releases).

So many good memories of the Larry Harris show every week and then Sparky's postgame shows.

Edit: The greatest moment for me was on a Friday afternoon in late June 2006 when they had Larry Harris on. "Larry, are you looking to trade TJ Ford?" Larry.....stutter....."Uh no, not looking to do that at all". We had an amazing huge thread here on that show real-time that afternoon, and later that night TJ was gone. Epic.

The start of 1510 was before my time in Milwaukee, by the time I got here to carry ESPN you had to air the Mike and Mike morning show now I believe stations have to carry Mike Greenberg. What was disappointing about 1510 was that in the winter time the station couldn’t sign on until 7am then after 4pm it had to sign off and forget trying to pick up the station south of Milwaukee. Some of those guys went to other stations after 1510, Scott Aebly was at 620 and wisn for a bit, he even work in sales at 1250 and other co-owned stations for a year or so. Freimund was at 1250 and now works in Madison for Iheart and fills in on 97.3.

Before 1250 I was surprised it took so long for Milwaukee to get another sports station or a station that was 24/7 sports also with a decent signal. Ratings aren’t good for all sports though out the country but they bill very well, in the early 2000’s WFAN in NYC was ranked around 15th in the New York ratings (where 94.5 and 97.3 is now) but was 5th highest billing radio station in the country. When 94.5 and 97.3 both switch to sports it got over corrected.

[crkone]

The advantage of Pods is you can fast forward the crap. But while news doesn't break on the radio the reaction and talk is immediate. When Hader was traded it was immediately discussed on air vs a Podcast that would be released in a day or two. Callers can immediately opine. That doesn't mean the quality is always top notch (nor is it on Podcasts) but the news can be disected immediately. Twitter breaks news certainly but the comments on the tweets are always a pile of crap.

I'd still rather talk about it on a local sports team forum with frequent posters than listen to what idiot callers/shows have to say about it. Unless it's a post game show after a Bear loss.

[Profound23]

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