KXNO Sports Fanatics
- Thread starter Acylum
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I didn't know today's guest host on the Sports Fanatics, but found him to be pretty interesting. He seems like I guy I want to go on road trips with.
You must be easily entertained and enjoy talking to people who have a high opinion of themselves.
I find it comical you piss on everything about KxNO. Jfc dont listen
I'd prefer to have most of the KXNO hosts than Mike Francesca, Paul Finebaum, or Mad Dog Russo being syndicated here.
I mean the premise of the show is their focus will be more on college sports, specifically ISU and Iowa, compared to Miller and Condon and Murph and Andy. Those other two have remained true to their stated intentions- regional professional teams and sports betting, and local issues, pop culture, current events, with some ISU and Iowa stuff sprinkled in, respectively. Miller and Condon actually have segments set aside a couple days per week to talk strictly about the P5 programs in the state. It would seem to me the show designed to focus on college sports in Iowa could’ve at least touched on the two commitments we got in football today. That’s just me though. Maybe you prefer to have some HS principal talk about himself for 2 hours. Good for you.
Maybe CW can expound on why kxno seems to go out it’s way to avoid recruiting so much? CBus local shows are like 75% Buckeye football recruiting during the off season and probably 50% during the season.
And in that spirit, I add Acylum to my Ignore List.
Having had DirecTV for 25 years I watched a lot of Mike and The Mad Dog.
You'll go a long time trying to find someone as sure of themselves about meaningless sports stuff as Francesca.
That said, it was kind of entertaining which I guess is the point.
I wonder if it's because unlike Ohio State who chases 5 star players and has four stars as fall back options, Iowa and Iowa State generally recruit players at a much lower level. So it's harder for the hosts to pretend like they know what they're talking about and harder for the audience to be engaged talking about it.
Only reason I can think of.
I think recruiting is also just something the hard-core fans follow closely, and wouldn't be of big interest to the majority of the audience. Personally I would love 3 hours of recruiting talk, but I'm the exception I think.
This is definitely true - I think the typical local radio listener would probably rather listen to 3 hours of fart jokes or see what the stoner red neck from southern Iowa has to say than dive into recruiting.
In-state kids or pulling off a huge recruiting win is probably the exception. Nwampka, Proctor, Patton are of interest, but the typical fan does not want to dive in to talk about some 3 star DL from Blue Spring, Mo.
The typical fan is listening to Star 102.5. If you tune to a sports station you’re already beyond “typical fan”.
The fact that the current morning show has remained on for this long supports that fart jokes > recruiting talk to most people listening.
Maybe most important is that other than CW the other hosts simply don't have interest in recruiting, and they think it's meaningless cuz Mike Rose and Luka Garza.
Not really. Some people like sports a lot, but have little desire to hear grown men fawn over some 17-18 yo kid that probably won't see the field for a couple of years.
I bet a local show leaning heavy on recruiting would have dozens of interested listeners. DOZENS!
I wonder what local AM talk radio in general does in ratings, maybe in the 100s or low thousands? I know a guy who did some production work at kcrg in cedar rapids and they said that their kcrg2 channel buried way down the TV list would pretty routinely have less than 20 people watching it
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Only includes market share, not listenership numbers, but you can get a rough idea. In April, WHO and the Bus were the top 2 stations. KXnO had ~1 listener for every 2.7 that we’re listening to the Bus. That’s not nothing.
