CBS Sports Hub proliferation

[Doug Drown]

Yeah, but when you think about it, how many cities would have the 
hubris to call themselves "The Hub of the Universe"?  (Personally, as a 
native Bay Stater, I love it.)   -Doug



Quoting Howard Glazer <hmglaz@att.net>:
> Roger Kirk wrote:
>
>
> >   According to an article by Corey Dietz (radio.about.com) KMOX 
> >NewsRadio
> 1120 is launching an evening
> >sports talk show (9:00pm to Midnight) called the Sports Hub. 
>
> >Has CBS trademarked the name?
>
> This makes me wonder how far afield the association of "Hub" with 
> Boston goes. 
> Here in Connecticut, I neither hear nor see it. If Boston is referred to by
> nickname at all, the nickname used is "Beantown," which, of course, is never
> used by Bostonians or the Boston media. Down South, where I spent 
> three years a
> few decades back, "Beantown" was apparently the only nickname they knew. 
>
> Curious, though, that CBS Radio, which must have known of the 
> association when
> it branded 98.5 that way, now is using it to describe general sports
> programming. Although who knows, WBZ-FM's name might have been thought up by
> someone in New York who only knows Boston as Beantown. 
>
> Howard
>
>