Ramsey & Rutherford off the air again, 790 fires them

[LeFors4Ever]

After being forced out at 939 just 3 years ago, Mike and John are now looking for work again?

I’d say they’re the best show the fan base has had to listen to over the year. Ennis has a good show at 2pm so we won’t be without good content, but Mike and John are my favorite afternoon ritual.

Wonder why they keep losing their show?

 

[CommodoreCard]

This sucks, they had the most non irritating show in town besides Maybin. Truly, two hosts for UofL not paid to be UofL fans by local stations. Maybe, Ennis & Luke can take over.

Valvano = tub of goo that chews too loud. Was “bullied” by Jurich
Diener = mighty mite, paid to like UofL. Still kisses his UK bosses ass.
Lochlame = need I say more?
Sweeney = nails on a chalkboard
Eaves = does anyone listen to him other than Grover fans?

Louisville sports radio sucks. The losers listed up above have to trash the UofL athletic programs, players, coaches, and city just to get a reaction and listeners.

 

[CARDWIZ]

$$$$?

 

[FlavRunit]

This sucks, they had the most non irritating show in town besides Maybin. Truly, two hosts for UofL not paid to be UofL fans by local stations. Maybe, Ennis & Luke can take over.

Valvano = tub of goo that chews too loud. Was “bullied” by Jurich
Diener = mighty mite, paid to like UofL. Still kisses his UK bosses ass.
Lochlame = need I say more?
Sweeney = nails on a chalkboard
Eaves = does anyone listen to him other than Grover fans?

Louisville sports radio sucks. The losers listed up above have to trash the UofL athletic programs, players, coaches, and city just to get a reaction and listeners.

Nice list. I only listen to Ennis on the drive home and Maybin during lunch. I like Rutherford but I never listen to 790.

 

[LeFors4Ever]

It’s now been updated. It’s iHeart making cuts. They’re a national brand and are probably going through line items and seeings what’s profitable and what’s not profitable.

Paul Rogers is now part of the cuts. He will still call games for our Cards!

 

[PHCARD]

Yeah Paul Rodgers also works for Learfield who is the radio broadcast for UofL games. He did some sports radio talk for IHeartRadio on 790.

 

[CommodoreCard]

Great, we get national shows that ram down our throats how great Duke, The Grovers, UNC (they’ll be back!), the $EC, etc is instead of local sports that people actually care about.

Radio version of the C-J...

 

[Knucklehank1]

The Doug Gottleib show is in the spot of R&R. Talk about a real slap in the face.

 

[CardinalDave]

I listened to R&D every day. Will never to listen to Gottlieb. 790 dead to me.

 

[kentuckyshame]

Anyone know why it was cancelled?

 

[CardsvsCats2019]

I listen to Ennis from 3-6, but Rutherford is really good. Ramsey, not so much.

 

[LeFors4Ever]

Anyone know why it was cancelled?

They’re owned by a large corporation. It’s not really a local decision. They probably think they can do well enough not paying for a show and throwing a national show on the air and just collecting ad revenue.

 

[Sawyer]

Anyone know why it was cancelled?

Lack of local advertising dollars is usually the reason.

 

[glassmanJ]

iheart filed for bankruptcy in 2018. no one is advertising on radio anymore. everyone listens to spotify, sirius, amazon, google or pandora. who wants to hear commercials. i pay not to (spotify) so why listen to free radio with commercials every ten minutes.

thankfully i also bought the sirius satellite lifetime plan for $495 back in 2003 and it's been free ever since, at $13 a month, i've now gotten 12 and a half years of free sirius. only had to pay $75 twice to switch head units. never understood how a company could sell a lifetime membership but they did.

 

[zipp]

My guess is Iheart targeted their higher paid talent. If they just wanted to make cuts, Nick Coffey and Jerry Eaves would be pounding the pavement today...

 

[Knucklehank1]

https://www.wdrb.com/news/sportscas...cle_4d0503ae-37e2-11ea-9359-876704fb38de.html

These SOBs fired Paul Rogers over the phone

 

[Morgantown Card]

iheart filed for bankruptcy in 2018. no one is advertising on radio anymore. everyone listens to spotify, sirius, amazon, google or pandora. who wants to hear commercials. i pay not to (spotify) so why listen to free radio with commercials every ten minutes.

thankfully i also bought the sirius satellite lifetime plan for $495 back in 2003 and it's been free ever since, at $13 a month, i've now gotten 12 and a half years of free sirius. only had to pay $75 twice to switch head units. never understood how a company could sell a lifetime membership but they did.

I considered a lifetime membership, but wasn't sure if the technology would last so I wasn't willing to gamble the $495. I wish I had!

 

[Morgantown Card]

https://www.wdrb.com/news/sportscas...cle_4d0503ae-37e2-11ea-9359-876704fb38de.html

These SOBs FARRRR'd Paul Rogers over the phone

FIFY

 

[PushupMan]

I considered a lifetime membership, but wasn't sure if the technology would last so I wasn't willing to gamble the $495. I wish I had!

BTW, “Lifetime” means the life of your satellite receiver, not your lifetime. Although if you do have a lifetime subscription and your receiver fails, you can transfer that subscription to a new receiver for $75, up to 3 times....

 

[zipp]

I don't and never will have satellite radio. Question for those who do... Why should I pay to receive the same type of programming that I can stream off of the internet for free? Esp. if I mostly listen to podcasts...

 

[glassmanJ]

I don't and never will have satellite radio. Question for those who do... Why should I pay to receive the same type of programming that I can stream off of the internet for free? Esp. if I mostly listen to podcasts...

i originally got it for two reasons, NFL games which you could not listen to anywhere else but sirius. then the grateful d3ead channel and jam on channel, both of which the music could not be found anywhere on any station in the world except for people who had live recordings of those bands. next you have the simplicity of the controls being on your car radio instead of on your phone and trying to search. and internet streaming radio from you phone is only a few years old. i;ve had satellite since 2003 before iheart radio or any kind of national service existed but i could travel anywhere in the entire country and never lose signal, never not how remote you were. and then i had boom box to match so i could go camping and take satelite radio anywhere int he world. trying getting service on your phone in the gorge, or out in the desert. then for people who like howard stern they went to satellile. and finally, pandora sucks and repeats everything. with sirius, you have all the podcasts, all the tlak radio ll the music and every single live pro and college mijpr sports games available to you anywhere int he country. internet radio doesn;t give you half those options.

 

[glassmanJ]

BTW, “Lifetime” means the life of your satellite receiver, not your lifetime. Although if you do have a lifetime subscription and your receiver fails, you can transfer that subscription to a new receiver for $75, up to 3 times....

so far i've changed twice in 17 years. new one is a module for my wife's car and module can be removed and added to a new car so should last another decade or so before i have to pay again. figure i'll spend about $700 for forty years or more of sirius radio. figures out to be about $0.04 a day. plus i bought a lot of their stock when it was below a dollar and it's above $7 now so they also made me a bunch of coin too.

 

[glassmanJ]

I don't and never will have satellite radio. Question for those who do... Why should I pay to receive the same type of programming that I can stream off of the internet for free? Esp. if I mostly listen to podcasts...

also, Louisville Football and Basketball games are all on there and if you travel at all was always nice to listen to games anywhere you are. i remember having to listen to louisville lose to illinois in the final four as we were driving to Bristol so the spring NASCAR race. maybe i wish i couldn't have heard it but heard every moment even driving thru the smokey mountains in BFE. plus with subsciption you also get app to listen anywhere on your phone too so you don;t need a head unit either. i can listen on my phone, thru my sonos speakers, or anywhere the app can be loaded.

 

[LeFors4Ever]

I think the local sports market is what it is as of right now. Only so much coverage you can do for just a college teams.

Down here in Nashville, local sports talk is thriving. 2 stations that both draw good ratings. With the Titans and Predators, it adds another element to keep people interested. Then there’s plenty of Vols, Vandy, MTSU, and Belmont coverage. The MLS team is on the way. The Sounds even get some decent support. Heck when the Grizzlies are good we have some support here for those guys.

Not to mention we’ve hosted NFL and NHL drafts and a Women’s final four. SEC basketball tournament draws well and there’s a big SEC market near the city.

It’s really hard to have enough good content for local coverage when it’s all about college. The Louisville coverage is great, but you can only max that market so much. The reason the UK stuff creeps into the market is because they’re trying to find another element of fans to tune in. There’s a decent segment of people who honestly don’t care that much about college sports.

Adding an NBA, NHL, MLB, etc. would be big for the city. Growing up in Louisville, we are a 10 times better sports town than Nashville, but they have so much more to consume and have drawn people like me down here to live.

I love UofL sports more than anyone, but 7 home football games and a large slate of cupcake basketball games mixed in with 3-4 big games a year just isn’t big for growth.

Having 2 stations discuss “UofL with the big matchup against Akron this weekend” and “we’re hoping to get this 3 star football commit” doesn’t give you much content.

 

[PHCARD]

Hey we will have content after we beat the Dukies tomorrow. That’s worth a good 5 days of chatter.

 

[Morgantown Card]

Having 2 stations discuss “UofL with the big matchup against Akron this weekend” and “we’re hoping to get this 3 star football commit” doesn’t give you much content.

This made me LOL

 

[CardsFirst]

zipp said:

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I don't and never will have satellite radio. Question for those who do... Why should I pay to receive the same type of programming that I can stream off of the internet for free? Esp. if I mostly listen to podcasts...[/quote]

Well before you could stream on your phone with decent quality and selection satellite radio was great for the car. I very rarely ever get on a desktop computer. I can do just about anything from my iPhone include listen to iHeartRadio, watch FB and BB game, all kinds of music I can stream to my tv or my car radio when necessary.

 

[LeFors4Ever]

This made me LOL

I’m trying to imagine what they’d be doing in Nashville without a pro team?

“Vanderbilt is looking for their first conference win this year tonight and Belmont is making a run in the OVC. Will this be the Vols year to beat Alabama?”

I wish Louisville would push for the next round of MLB expansion, but it seems Nashville has beaten them to that punch.

Summertime wouldn’t interfere with our Cards. It starts right when March Madness ends. Would add some fun to the summers. Natural fit and history with baseball, could be the Louisville Sluggers (best name ever).

 

[LeFors4Ever]

Hey we will have content after we beat the Dukies tomorrow. That’s worth a good 5 days of chatter.

This is the best time of the year. Games twice a week in conference play. A ranked Cards team wit title hopes.

 

[zipp]

...Well before you could stream on your phone with decent quality and selection satellite radio was great for the car. I very rarely ever get on a desktop computer. I can do just about anything from my iPhone include listen to iHeartRadio, watch FB and BB game, all kinds of music I can stream to my tv or my car radio when necessary.

When I said stream from the internet, I was including bluetooth with an iPhone. I saw glassman's points as well. I'm not an NFL fan--I can't believe people don't get that with an iPhone--and I can get any U of L broadcasts via the internet.

The reason I ask is it sounds to me like satellite radio was great and indispensable in its day. But the internet and free streaming have mostly obsoleted it. I doubt I'd be paying for it anymore if I didn't have a lifetime subscription...

 

[glassmanJ]

When I said stream from the internet, I was including bluetooth with an iPhone. I saw glassman's points as well. I'm not an NFL fan--I can't believe people don't get that with an iPhone--and I can get any U of L broadcasts via the internet.

The reason I ask is it sounds to me like satellite radio was great and indispensable in its day. But the internet and free streaming have mostly obsoleted it. I doubt I'd be paying for it anymore if I didn't have a lifetime subscription...

basically, yes in it's day worth it. but in my wifes car where the radio can display everything, it's way more convenient to change channels, set favorites, and everything on the touch screen than on your phone while driving. and as for sports, not jsut nfl, nba, mlb, hockey.. i believe all sports. its; way more convenient in the car than at home.

but we actually pay for spotify at home just for all the music options and the ability to download all the songs. but i also have not bought a music cd in decades so having all music at all times available is worth the $15 a month. and finalyl, with people subscribing to sirius, it really about them selling one person or talk show that you can't find anywhere else. so for you zipp, you can find your podcasts for free, but say for example, paul rogers was your #1 podcast and you lived for it everyday then all of a sudden he goes to sirius and only way to hear is to pay. you probably wouldn't but for howard stern fans they all did. and there's so many others that's sirius only that it's worth the money to listen. similar to you not paying for satellite, i don;t pay to go to cardinal games because i can watch them for free at home in better conditions and comfort. same situation, same reasoning, you don't; pay for what you listen to and i don;t pay for what i watch but i pay for what i listen to and you pay for what you watch. we are all just wasting time technically

 

[indaville]

They should have fired Nick Coffee his Show is horrible, doesn’t take calls and is mostly him talking about one subject for several hours. Or he has on a sports medicine doctor to talk about knee injuries. I turned him on this morning he was riffing about David Johnson turned it off then 1 and half later turned it on still talking about it.

 

[CommodoreCard]

They should have fired Nick Coffee his Show is horrible, doesn’t take calls and is mostly him talking about one subject for several hours. Or he has on a sports medicine doctor to talk about knee injuries. I turned him on this morning he was riffing about David Johnson turned it off then 1 and half later turned it on still talking about it.

He also has no recollection of any UofL history in any sport. He knows nothing beyond Rick Pitino and Petrino 1.0.

Who’s this Darrell Griffith guy???

 

[LeFors4Ever]

Vanetti and Jennings have to be working for free or draw some advertiser friendly audience.

Radio ratings don’t get released publicly, I’m guessing they were able to draw a broad audience in their timeslot previously and were profitable.

I sometimes forget that most radio listeners are 40 and over. Boomer appeal is what they got, although John Ramsey is the ultimate boomer in my mind.

(no offense my boomer friends )

 

[zipp]

They should have fired Nick Coffee his Show is horrible, doesn’t take calls and is mostly him talking about one subject for several hours. Or he has on a sports medicine doctor to talk about knee injuries. I turned him on this morning he was riffing about David Johnson turned it off then 1 and half later turned it on still talking about it.

I honestly don't think Coffey is educated enough to be on the radio. Reminds me of the opportunities some of the 93.9 interns get to do live radio. You understand you're not getting their best talent.

In 790's case, however, it's their morning drive quality...

 

[Morgantown Card]

I keep saying it and none of you listen. The best sports talk ever is Pittsburgh 93.9 The Fan ("the Fehhn") after a Steelers loss. It's drunk yinzer after drunk yinzer yelling about how "the Stillers need to run the ball more and play real football, not this passing hocus pocus" and complaining about refs (although some of you are great at that, too).