KXNO Sports Fanatics
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“It was 1992 And I was sitting at a bar in Buffalo, NY, just sitting there!….”
And that’s entirety of the story. Lol.
I enjoy pro sports quite a bit, so I flip over the 1350 ESPN (or their FM equivalent) in the morning, especially during the last 30 minutes of the Morning Rush as there's almost zero sports talk at that time. If I find myself in the car during lunchtime, I almost always prefer Bart & Hahn to Miller & Condon and then it's a toss up between Cowherd and B&H. No offense to Chris & Ross, but Chiney & Golic was my go to on the way home, but both of them have been replaced by Canty and Carlin so I switched back to Fanatics.
The biggest thing is I don't have a radio or stream going at work, so rarely do I ever hear any of Murph & Andy or the entirety of the other shows. I also don't download the podcasts after the fact as I have a slate of others that I listen to at work. KXnO is hardly my go to for anything anymore, especially between April and August. Honestly, I tune into 810 WHB out of KC as much as I can to hear about the Royals and Chiefs, even if I do gets subjected to the occasional KU, KSU, and Mizzou talk. Although, it is interesting when Soren Petro does his 2-minute drill in which he contacts sport radio people from around the country to talk about the upcoming opponents to the KC area teams. He has had Ken Miller(And maybe even Ross) in that past to talk about the Cyclones and it is interesting to hear what they say about the Clones when the "home" crowd isn't listening.
The story would actually go "I was sitting at a refreshment stand in Buffalo"
If Miller and Condon went away, KXnO would be a much better station.
Jumping on FM was a sneaky brilliant move. The sound quality is great, and makes AM seem borderline unlistenable. Plus all of the population growth within the listening area is within the FM range.
Even with podcasts, DM area radio has the advantage of being in a metro that's going to roughly double in the past 25 years, yet still has very short commutes where people tend to flip on their radios more often, and are less likely to listen to a podcast than if they had a 45 minute plus commute.
I think CW and Ross's show pretty much nailed what great local sports radio is supposed to be. I've lived in and traveled in other markets a lot back when big markets paid local guys pretty decent money. I'd put that show up against any of the local shows I've heard around the country as finding that sweet spot of local vs. national, sports vs. non-sports, actual opinions without the hot take for a reaction, and great host chemistry.
On the flip side I just haven't found the recent morning shows on KXnO to be good at all. The current one is just unlistenable to me. But there clearly are people that like it, so good for them.
I'll attest to what CW said about Sean. He's much smarter than people give him credit for, and that's primarily due to how well he plays his role in the mornings. He comes off like an idiot to some because that's the role he just has to play on that show for it to be successful. Off the air, he's one of my closest confidants and best friends. He will prove a lot of people wrong if given the opportunity to do so. He will put in the work required to make anything he does successful.
Clearly some of it is overplayed for radio, because Travis feels like he's trying to do 'morning zoo" in the vein of Stern and Mancow instead of doing a sports show. Sean just may not know some things that are obvious to Travis, Heather, and those of us that are a bit older than Sean. At some point we all had the wrong idea on certain things, we just didn't have that lack of knowledge called out on the radio for lots of people to hear.
That's pretty clear if you ever listen to the Saturday morning show.
Doing that Saturday show is the most fun I have ever had on the radio.
I remember watching sportscenter and stuff like that too to get the 30 second clip of ISU highlights. I can get that on twitter instantly. I haven't watched Sportscenter for years, and it's been the same for sports talk radio. I'm not going to listen to a 3 hour show for the 20 minutes of content I'm interested in. There are places like CF that just deliver that hit to me instantly and I don't need to sift through the other stuff.
I don't love Miller and Condon but I think you could do much worse. Their content is usually pretty solid, but I don't love the delivery. I don't mind the gambling stuff and appreciate alot of the guests they are able to get.
How Morning Rush is still on the air is beyond me. I'll typically have Fanatics on for the drive home and sometimes KXNO will still be on the radio in the morning, and what an odd combination of people. Travis strikes me as pretentious. Heather does fine in the few moments Travis isn't talking over her. Sean doesn't appear to do much more than bring the median age under the 40 y/o mark. Whether he's being typecast or not, his "class clown" schtick gets a little old.
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This is one of my problems with podcasts. Wish they all came with a transcript to get to what interests me. In off season, all sports commentary seems to venture into frat boy territory that is probably more interesting for men than me. But would like to get to the sports nuggets in a short amount of time commitment.
They team up and make fun of Sean for not knowing something from 1983 when he was born in the late 80s. Yet he's not allowed to give them crap for being Boomers when it comes to current stuff.
They hire HAWKSTD or Hawks on my belly guy for the Cyclone angle?
A lot of podcasts will have timestamps in the episode description that tell you what topics are discussed and when
