Morning Rush

[Cydkar]

So, I'm listening this AM to hear about the Iowa basketball meltdown.

This
Show
Is
Terrible

My brain explodes knowing that this has a loyal listening base.

 

[SC Cy]

It's not a good show but I'd rather listen to ISU/iowa sports rather than LeBron on national radio. Omaha sports radio isn't an option.

 

[CloneinWDSM]

I only catch 7:40 to 7:55 each day so I don’t listen enough for it to bother me.

 

[sclotz]

What station?

 

[RoseClone]

So, I'm listening this AM to hear about the Iowa basketball meltdown.

This
Show
Is
Terrible

My brain explodes knowing that this has a loyal listening base.

Then don't listen to it.....ever again.

 

[isu81]

Then don't listen to it.....ever again.

This is the answer. My frustration over the crappy local programming put out by KxNO has been reduced significantly. This is due to the fact I don't listen any more.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

It's not a good show but I'd rather listen to ISU/iowa sports rather than LeBron on national radio. Omaha sports radio isn't an option.

This!!! I usually catch a little bit of Cowherd over my lunch hour and every day last week he was talking about Lebron and the Lakers. It's just brutal to listen to.

 

[enisthemenace]

It’s not that bad. It’s not a show to be taken seriously, as they don’t take it that way. It’s supposed to be “fun”, with a sprinkle of sports talk in there, and they do make me laugh every once in a while. At least they talk, somewhat, about local sports.

 

[Walden4Prez]

Some blowhard sitting in his underwear in Omaha, Heather (nuff said), and some whiney kid are the best they can do?

 

[clonebb]

My quality of life went up since I started to just listen to music on my commute instead of these jokers.

 

[Cydkar]

It's not a good show but I'd rather listen to ISU/iowa sports rather than LeBron on national radio. Omaha sports radio isn't an option.

I agree and never listen to national talk radio. This show is still brutal.

I listen to podcasts and only listen when the Hawks implode.

 

[oldman]

I don't mind them, personally.

 

[jsb]

It’s not that bad. It’s not a show to be taken seriously, as they don’t take it that way. It’s supposed to be “fun”, with a sprinkle of sports talk in there, and they do make me laugh every once in a while. At least they talk, somewhat, about local sports.

They’re not fun. The show is not fun. Travis is not funny.

I only listen when Iowa loses to hear travis’s meltdown.

 

[Cycsk]

Why are they talking about anything other than Iowa's Big 10 championship in women's basketball on Sunday and Iowa State playing for the Big 12 championship tonight?

These are big news items. And there are plenty of great story lines. Gustafson goes for 45, contender for national POY. Carlton has shot at leading all-time scorer for ISU. Iowa State recruits Joens from Iowa City.

 

[capitalcityguy]

So, I'm listening this AM to hear about the Iowa basketball meltdown.

This
Show
Is
Terrible

My brain explodes knowing that this has a loyal listening base.

What other option do you have?

Is it mind-blowing radio? No, but I got to listen to Bill Fennelly on my way to work this morning thanks to local sports talk shows like this.

I heard Jamie Pollard last week.

Relax...or provide me a better option on local radio in the mornings that promotes ISU simply by means of talking about them and keeping them top-of-mind?

But hey....if you enjoy listening again about the Antonio Brown trade.....or how in the world the Warriors lost to the Suns last night....go for it. IMO, average local radio covering teams that actually have some relevance to Iowa is far superior to national radio covering overpaid pro athletes lastest sneeze.

This is why KXNO kills it in the ratings. Yes...maybe more by default, but at least we have that option.

 

[capitalcityguy]

I don't mind them, personally.

How about professionally?

 

[SolarGarlic]

That Travis still has a job on the radio is mindblowing. He can't have an IQ over 100.

 

[wxman1]

This is the answer. My frustration over the crappy local programming put out by KxNO has been reduced significantly. This is due to the fact I don't listen any more.

This! I used to listen to WMT here in CR during my short commute for local news and what not. October of 2017 when ISU football was on it's winning streak and Iowa had just lost they had a short conversation about the hawk game and couldn't even come up with who ISU had played and would be playing. Fun part about it was I happened to have been doing a Nelson ratings booklet that month and had fun putting my comments in on that one.

They also have made fun of ISU enough and fly a tiger hawk flag outside their station enough that I have given up and have not tuned back to them in months and that was for 30 or so seconds before I got tired of them.

 

[CYdTracked]

I don't mind listening to them. I only listen to about 20 minutes or so during the 7-8am hour on the way to work so it's not like I have them on long enough to get annoyed by some of the childish stuff Travis talks about. I do find entertainment in the moments they catch Sean off-guard and he says something stupid then tries to backpedal it and make up stuff in his defense that makes him look even dumber. The "ask 5-0 anything" segment once a week can be interesting if someone has a good question or there is something that recently happened he can talk about.

The one thing they lack are quality regular guests that some shows have but you also have to think it's tough to get quality people lined up to do interviews from 6am-8am regularly too. They talk just enough local sports mixed in with pop culture and current events to keep my interest. There really isn't any other local options in their time slot to listen to or compete with and like some here have said I'd rather get what I can with them even as dumb and cheesy as they can be sometimes than to hear non-stop LeBron talk on the national shows.

 

[c.y.c.l.o.n.e.s]

Why are they talking about anything other than Iowa's Big 10 championship in women's basketball on Sunday and Iowa State playing for the Big 12 championship tonight?

These are big news items. And there are plenty of great story lines. Gustafson goes for 45, contender for national POY. Carlton has shot at leading all-time scorer for ISU. Iowa State recruits Joens from Iowa City.

They did... Including a 15 minute interview with Bill Fennelly. He obviously talked a lot about our team and tonight's game but also congratulated the Hawks on their championship and said that Megan Gustafson should probably be player of the year.