His prison stories are probably better than anything currently on the station.
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His prison stories are probably better than anything currently on the station.
I'd bet good $ something is lined up by late July on that front.
I actually do know what this is. I didn't get the initials.
I can only take CW in small doses, unfortunately.
You and me both. I haven't listened to the trash on KXNO since Williams left and haven't missed it at all. So much better stuff out there although that doesn't take much to surpass anything KXNO puts out.
It was a perfect storm where a wnba preseason game absolutely required 20x more coverage than a 4 year starter ISU quarterback starting a superbowl. They had no choice.
Cotlar worked hard. Miss his show.
Have mixed feelings about Murph and Andy ending. Have certainly spent a lot of hours listening to it, but over the past couple years, it has devolved into about half TOE coverage, and half non-sports stuff.
I started to tune them out two years ago during football season when ISU had an upcoming game against Texas, and the other school was idle. Downs was solo on a Wednesday afternoon, and spent the entire first hour talking about Brian Ferentz and the inept Iowa offense. I continued to listen while thinking "surely this can't last forever." It did.
Fales returned the next day and I hoped for some ISU discussion. Nope. The entire first hour was spent re-hashing what Downs talked about on the prior day. My god, the worst offense in the country does not warrant this level of coverage compared to a team that, at the time, was still in the hunt for a conference title.
From that point, I have I just turned it off whenever I hear a Garza, Clark, or Brian reference, and I usually don't turn it back on till the next day. These days, I probably listen to about 5% of the total airtime.
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I started to tune them out two years ago during football season when ISU had an upcoming game against Texas, and the other school was idle. Downs was solo on a Wednesday afternoon, and spent the entire first hour talking about Brian Ferentz and the inept Iowa offense. I continued to listen while thinking "surely this can't last forever." It did.
Fales returned the next day and I hoped for some ISU discussion. Nope. The entire first hour was spent re-hashing what Downs talked about on the prior day. My god, the worst offense in the country does not warrant this level of coverage compared to a team that, at the time, was still in the hunt for a conference title.
From that point, I have I just turned it off whenever I hear a Garza, Clark, or Brian reference, and I usually don't turn it back on till the next day. These days, I probably listen to about 5% of the total airtime.
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Why work hard and do a great job to become well respected in your field when you can become the #1 cheerleader for a highly recognized polarizing figure and get more attention/view/likes?
Me too, he had a good lineup of guests every week which is something the current KXNO shows other than Miller are lacking. You'd think with all the connections these people have in the market - especially Heather who has not only worked for ESPN before but has done multiple radio shows in this market for a long time they'd be able to line up decent guests on a regular basis to fill the time slots without a bunch of random gibberish. While I don't mind some of the off topic segments like ask 5-0 anything that can't be your main featured segment for the week. Iowa has a pretty diverse base of sports fans since we don't have a pro team in Iowa so even just lining up some regular segments on teams people in the area follow would be an improvement. They've all milked the Caitlin Clark story to death by now to fill air time too.
Cry harder. I haven't heard a Joe.com commercial on there in forever. Granted I mainly listen to KXNO while getting ready in the morning.
Listen Ross... don't get mad at me because you can't lure people into the woods with you.
Unfortunately they bought into the attention/views/likes the past few years. They milked that stupid bandgate thing far longer than what was appropriate.
Totally get it and that's why 2 hours/week for these shows is so much better than 10 or 15 hours a week.
Hassel drops some random gems to keep it light hearted and they have a good schtick knocking each other down for their own obvious personal flaws. He came up with a Lou Holtz pep talk for ISU's bye week last year on the fly that was probably the funniest thing I've ever heard on an ISU related show/podcast. The iguana story as a random "other" was hilarious compared to anything I've heard on KXNO. For 1-2 hours a week I can consume any time of day or walking my dogs, I'm def a fan as long as they want to do it.
25 years ago sports talk was basically 10-20 minute doses on a commute once or twice a day. Now people have the option to mainline a crazy amount of talk radio through their phones and blue tooth headphones, it's not really great to do that just because you can.
Band gate and doing zero coverage basically of the racial stuff is when I realized how unserious any of KXNO was about covering Iowa/ISU objectively.
Murph was very critical of KF back around 2014ish when their program was in a relative slump. Then they turned things around in 2015 and he went back to sucking up. Think KF & Iowa regained the cache to remind him who his daddy was.
The whole "Kirk Ferentz is the guy to solve this" line in 2020 was comical.
