The Talk Radio Thread

[St. Gabe 0]

Do any of you listen to talk radio? lets discuss it here! Whether political talk, sports, or specialty, who is your favorite, and when do you listen?

 

I listen mostly to WGN 720 and ESPN 1000 in Chicago. Milt Rosenberg is a legit genius, Nick Digilio is a pop culture guru and a wrestling fan, and Mac, Jurko (yur-ko) , and Harry on ESPN 1000 take Sports talk to an artform.

 

What about you's guys?

[Guest Smues]

Tony Kornheiser. Of course he ended his show again to get ready for MNF, but he said he hoped to be back shortly after the season.

[Cartman 0]

Any show on WEEI sports talk radio in the Boston area.

[the max 0]

Opie & Anthony every morning on xm202.

 

After their show is over, I listen to Ron & Fez or surf around on xm.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Various sports stations in Phoenix. Whatever national sports stuff is on. Local stuff bores me.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I try to listen to O&A when I can.

 

I dont listen to sports talk radio much anymore since getting XM even though FOX Sports, ESPN and Sporting News are on there.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

Oh god. Don't let kkk in this thread...it'll be a fucking novel on right-wing radio.

[LessonInMachismo 0]

The local (statewide, actually) sports show here is bad. This fat guy does it, along with his redneck sidekick. Fuck, they're annoying. For one thing, the fat guy's voice is enough to make you throw your radio out the window. He drags the last voweeeel of everyyyy woooord. People call with questions and he gives them answers that are totally unrelated to the question. Granted, most of the callers are assholes, but come on...

[Guest Felonies!]

Same as St. Gabe. Basically just Milt Rosenberg, and Nick D if I'm up late enough. I'll listen to Roe Conn if I'm going somewhere with my dad.

 

Hey Gabe, what do you think of Mike North? I want to punch that blowhard.

[Guest J0bber]

There used to be this one guy in Chicago on ESPN who believe it or not had a wrestling talk show. I think his name was J. Hood. He was a pretty smart fan of the product if I can remember.

[Dobbs 3K 0]

I like to catch Michael Savage, because he tells it like it is.

[CheesalaIsGood 0]

I like Michael Savage because he tells it like it "is".

[spman 0]

I try to watch O'Reilly on the radio most afternoons when I can. I used to like listening to Hannity too, even if he is a total right wing shill, until they replaced him with local programming on most major stations in the northeast.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I like Michael "Savage" because "he" tells it "like" it is.

[NoCalMike 0]

Local Sportstalk station

 

Air America - sometimes, depending on what they are talking about

 

Thom Hartmann - everyday

 

Michael Savage - for comedic purposes

 

Dr. Laura - her callers make me laugh

[CheesalaIsGood 0]

I like Michael "Savage" because "he" tells it "like" it is.

 

 

Weiner!

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

Dr. Laura - her callers make me laugh

 

 

Finally, someone else who gets this show.

 

I'll just run by the names of people I listen to who are available in my market during a typical workday. LOCAL: Jim Quinn, Mark Madden, Fred Honsberger. NATIONAL: Glenn Beck, Dr. Laura, Rush, Jim Rome, Dave Ramsey (haven't listened to Hannity in months, still miss Neal Boortz). EVENING/WEEKEND: Ellis Cannon (local sports guy), Savage, Mike McConnell (I'm starting to have Medved on once in a while now, too).

 

That wasn't so bad now was it, Smitty?

[Guest Felonies!]

Smitty, you'd like Milt Rosenberg. I don't think he's syndicated, though, so you'd have to listen to it over the Internet. Brilliant guy. It's probably one of the only educational programs on commercial radio. I particularly enjoyed the night where he assembled a roundtable of theology experts basically just to explain why The Da Vinci Code is a worthless book.

 

FRIDAY, JULY 28TH

AN EVENING OF POETRY

The great poet W.H. Auden once noted, “it is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.” And what was true during Auden’s time is—unfortunately—still too true today. But tonight, we will celebrate the wondrous and still very active art of poetry with two panelists who will be on hand to read some of their favorite poems and to analyze the non-poetical writings of some great poets. Our guests tonight are CHRISTINA PUGH, professor of poetry at the University of Illinois Chicago, and JOSEPH PARISI, the former editor of Poetry magazine and the collector of the new book Between the Lines: A History of Poetry in Letters, 1962-2002.

 

I think I'll take tonight off, though.

[devo 0]

Dan Patrick was my favorite until the radio station carrying it here decided to extend the show of gigantic moron Chris Spielman, cancelling Patrick's show in the process. Now I don't listen to talk radio unless I'm in New York, where my tuner is permanently set to 660 WFAN, regardless of who's on.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

That Dave Ramsey guy is alright. I'm thinking about buying one of his books to find out what to do with my considerable wealth.

[geniusMoment 0]

Bill Cunningham on the Big One.

[UZI Suicide 0]

I have Sirius so I listen to Howard Stern in the morning, Jim Breuer in the afternoon. When I'm not listening to them it's all NFL Radio mostly - their training camp coverage owns so far.

 

I don't listen much to terrestrial radio, although I do catch a few sports talk shows from time to time. I used to listen to Dave Smith all the time when he was local here in LA, his show just went national on Sporting News Radio and I don't like it as much anymore, still decent though. Colin Cowherd is another guy I listen to sometimes.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I've thought about going non-terrestrial, but as of right now the talk-radio choices aren't worth it.

[treble 0]

I'll usually stick it on O&A or Ron & Fez if there's something going on there that I like to listen to. I'll some times put it on the Home Plate or Home Ice channels, but some of those shows aren't very good (Charley Steiner blabbing about Barry Bonds or Rob Dibble being a moron).

[TheDevilAndGodAreRagingInsideMe 0]

Michael Kay on 1050 ESPN

 

Mike and the Mad Dog on WFAN 660 when Maddog's not there

 

I like fill-in hosts much more than alot of the regulars. I HATE Stephen A Smith, but I like his sidekick Brandon Teirny alot. ESPN Radio is garbage for the most part. Mike & Mike / Colin Cowherd / SAS / Dan Patrick / It's not until 4 pm that the station is bareable. I like the overnight guy, Jason Smith, however, the overnight is a national smorgasborg of ESPN dribble...what's Barry doing...what's Tiger doing...what's Reggie Bush doing. But he's enjoyable.

 

FAN has some unbearable characters to me as well, like Joe Benigno and Tony Paige. I scratch my head and wonder sometimes when they talk, it seems like they don't know anything. About everything. Chris "Mad Dog" Russo is just flat out awful, but the show is really good when it's Francesca solo.

[BruiserKC 0]

FAN has some unbearable characters to me as well, like Joe Benigno and Tony Paige. I scratch my head and wonder sometimes when they talk, it seems like they don't know anything. About everything. Chris "Mad Dog" Russo is just flat out awful, but the show is really good when it's Francesca solo.

 

 

Here in Des Moines we have an afternoon host on the sports talk station...Marty Tirrell...who sounds exactly like Russo...all his mannerisms right down to his opening line of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

 

Used to have an afternoon guy who was an Iowa State shill all the time...kinda forgets that Iowa is the Hawkeye State.

 

My mornings I listen to Bob and Tom...then Jan Mickelson (local talk show host on WHO 1040...he's conservative but not a Republican cheerleader). I listen in the afternoons to All Things Considered on NPR, then Michael Savage, JT The Brick and O'Reilly at night (O'Reilly comes on a local station here at 10 PM).

[Slayer 0]

When around Wichita I typically listen to Bob and Tom in the morning, the local sports show (which is pretty good), Jim Rome and then Don and Mike in the afternoon. While he was still on the air, I would also listen to Phil Hendrie, at least until the station dumped his final month in favor of Glenn Beck (who sucks a fat one)... though to be fair, B&T and Jim Rome often give me as many reasons to avoid listening as they have for me to listen in the first place.

 

When I'm out and about, I try to find those shows if I can, otherwise it's radio roulette.

[Prophet of Mike Zagurski 0]

I used to listen to Tom Leykis but then I got sick of hearing the same thing over over again.

I listen to Dr. Laura occasionally because her callers.

 

I listen to this guy also.

 

His name is Bill Handel and he does morning drive in LA. He talks about current events and he's funny.

[Big Ol' Smitty 0]

I listen in the afternoons to All Things Considered on NPR, then Michael Savage

 

That's funny to me.

[Adam 0]

Question - is there anywhere on the net that streams live broadcasts of NBA/NFL games? I'm kinda sick of looking at the Yahoo boxscore update itself.