Re: WNRB, One-on-One

[Mike Thomas <nostatic@earthlink.net>]

Are you serious??  One-On-One is a joke.  Always has been.  You complain
about the "parochial" sports fan---A listen to O&O will most likely result
in discussion of one of three topics, the Dallas Cowboys, College Football
and Nascar. Who cares?  You wonder why O&O is imploding?  How about the fact
that they aren't local to anywhere, except to rural, redneck areas of the
south, midwest and Texas.  Successful sports talk is local, and looking at
the billing for WEEI and WFAN should prove that to you.  However, for
national sports talk,  I do enjoy ESPN radio.  I worked with Joe D'Ambrosio
a few years back and he's a class act and quite funny.  And I'd take Tony
Bruno over Papa John anyday.  I also listen to Jim Rome on occasion (via
WORC.)  Even Sportsfan Radio nights and weekends on EEI is better than O&O.

Mike Thomas
WXLO & Premiere Radio Networks

H Glazer wrote:

> That would be a shame. For a non-parochial sports fan -- of which there
> are precious few in Boston, unfortunately -- One-on-One's wide-ranging
> and knowledgeable hosts were a welcome change from the
> Mo-Roger-Mo-Roger-Antoine-Mo-Mo-Roger-Antoine monotony of 'EEI and the
> Ewing-Ewing-Ewing-Rangers-Ewing-Ewing-Mets-Ewing-Roger drumbeat of WFAN.
>
> ESPN Radio is OK, I guess, but Tony Kornheiser is the only host I really
> make a point of listening to. There's also too much self-promotion. Case
> in point: Driving home from a shopping trip Saturday night, I heard 10
> minutes of ESPN on WTIC. The topics for those 10 spellbinding minutes:
> ESPN's lunchroom in Briston (It stinks, but Disney's building a nice new
> one.) and the ESPN Store concept (You can buy all sorts of great ESPN
> gear in LA, but not in Bristol. Maybe Disney will build a store
> here...). It's getting to be like the SportsCenter ads -- these guys are
> convinced that everybody is fascinated by the most minute details of
> life at ESPN. Are we? I miss One-on-One already.
>
> Of course, hearing the WEEI guys talk about Entercom might be a good
> listen:)
>
>
> Howard

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