The Official Ottawa Sports Radio Thread #5

[BatherSeason]

Alright! Thanks to TGOR, lets get back on track!

Any one else notice that TGOR has officially already mailed it in for the summer? The sports updates contain much more valuable sports talk than the entire TGOR show. Bill Carroll talked more hockey in the 7:00 hour today. Also, Ultimate Frisbee tickets in the 60 second shootout?? I think the contest has run its course. lol.

Sorry, just wanted to change the subject from the same conversation that's clogging up every thread.

Also, Dorion and Melnyk are liars. #MelnykOut

 

[Filatov2Kovalev2Bonk]

I would not say they mailed it in, but when their "Blue Team Elimination Watch" blew up in their faces after game 2, they actually had to watch hockey and talk and analyze it. TGOR hasn't really been any better or worse than usual; as long as they don't take calls or read emails on the air, show will be fine.

 

[BonkTastic]

TGOR hasn't really been any better or worse than usual; as long as they don't take calls or read emails on the air, show will be fine.

Well, the show has never been "fine", but I'll agree that the less listener-generated content that is featured on any show, the better.

 

[Tuna99]

What is ridiculous, is people believing Rumours, and reacting to them as if they were 100% true, posting their outrage on website forums, and when the Trade deadline passes, and nothing happens ....... continue their outrage.

Wait until something happens, before tearing apart a GM or Coach.

This is a fight Dorion picked over a Rumour. There are millions of hockey rumours a year.

The real issue is Dorion and fans like you having a problem with the sports media and hockey rumours, the sports media reports about 75% on exactly rumours (signings, trades, coaches getting fired, expansion, relocation, rule changes)

Other rumours we dealt with this year that didn’t cause a ridiculously think skinned media backlash - Turris signing, Melnyk selling the team, hiring of front office staff, college free agents, Chris Neil signing somewhere, the Olympic team and who might be on it, Seattle - do you have a problem with any of those rumours or just this one specifically?

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

Bob Tells it like it is

 

[Stylizer1]

Stick to sports TGOR.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Bob Tells it like it is

Hmmmm believe one of the most trusted journalists in the country or trust Melnyk and his lap dog Dorion? hmmmm what a tough choice.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Stick to sports TGOR.

What are they talking about?

 

[Upgrayedd]

What are they talking about?

Was it horse artificial insemination again?

 

[BatherSeason]

What are they talking about?

At one point this morning they were discussing women's shoes.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Was it horse artificial insemination again?

Hmmm nice they must have gotten Producer Melnyk's notes again. Hopefully the horse business is going well for him unlike the unprofitable low energy sens franchise.

They are seriously the worst radio show in the country. Go listen to the other Canadian NHL cities morning shows and see the vast difference in quality. It's quite amazing actually.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Hmmm nice they must have gotten Producer Melnyk's notes again.

They are seriously the worst radio show in the country. Go listen to the other Canadian NHL cities morning shows and see the vast difference in quality. It's quite amazing actually.

Is it normal that all morning shows are geared towards morons? Like every radio station in the city practically beats their chest over how proud they are of being completely ignorant besides CBC. The classic rock station, 89.9 and TSN being the worst of them.

Just the sound of these people's voices is enough to make me want to turn off my radio.

Is this common practice or is it just an Ottawa thing?

 

[pzeeman]

Is it normal that all morning shows are geared towards morons? Like every radio station in the city practically beats their chest over how proud they are of being completely ignorant besides CBC. The classic rock station, 89.9 and TSN being the worst of them.

Just the sound of these people's voices is enough to make me want to turn off my radio.

Is this common practice or is it just an Ottawa thing?

I find that 88.5 is doesn't insult my intelligence.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Is it normal that all morning shows are geared towards morons? Like every radio station in the city practically beats their chest over how proud they are of being completely ignorant besides CBC. The classic rock station, 89.9 and TSN being the worst of them.

Just the sound of these people's voices is enough to make me want to turn off my radio.

Is this common practice or is it just an Ottawa thing?

It's a small town/city thing. Don't hear it as much in Toronto and Montreal radio.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

It's a small town/city thing. Don't hear it as much in Toronto and Montreal radio.

I dunno about Montreal but Toronto has a ton of horrible morning shows too but they have way more variety and a couple good ones in the mostly terrible batch.

Speaking of variety, we have 2 freaking pop country music stations here and not a single decent hip hop offering.

 

[BonkTastic]

Is it normal that all morning shows are geared towards morons? Like every radio station in the city practically beats their chest over how proud they are of being completely ignorant besides CBC. The classic rock station, 89.9 and TSN being the worst of them.

Just the sound of these people's voices is enough to make me want to turn off my radio.

Is this common practice

In North America? Generally, yes.

In Europe? Not at all.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

I dunno about Montreal but Toronto has a ton of horrible morning shows too but they have way more variety and a couple good ones in the mostly terrible batch.

Speaking of variety, we have 2 freaking pop country music stations here and not a single decent hip hop offering.

I remember when 89.99 was a niche hip hop station waaaayyy back. good times.

 

[BonkTastic]

Speaking of variety, we have 2 freaking pop country music stations here and not a single decent hip hop offering.

Every station that has tried anything close to a hip-hop format hasn't been able to turn a profit or even keep the ledger out of the red.

The problem isn't that no one has tried, it's that:
1) not enough people listened to it to justify the costs that the station would need to ask for advertising spots to keep the station afloat.
2) businesses were hesitant to pay the asking price for ads on the station based on the smaller audience the station had when compared to the cost of buying ad spots on the station, when ads on rival stations with a larger audience share cost roughly the same.

There are 2 pop country stations because, unfortunately, Ottawa is kind of a hick town, especially once you get outside the greenbelt, and pop-country is the new "pop music".

More listeners = more people want to buy ad slots = you can charge more for ads = a profitable business = people will copy profitable business models.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

I remember when 89.99 was a niche hip hop station waaaayyy back. good times.

Omg, it was nearly ad free and so much Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, DMX, Tupac, Biggie. That must have been like 15 years ago. I remember it well.

 

[Ray Kinsella]

Omg, it was nearly ad free and so much Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, DMX, Tupac, Biggie. That must have been like 15 years ago. I remember it well.

Haha... yes, my son and I would always listen to it in the car.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

I wonder if the market has changed enough in the last 15 years, that can make Ottawa fully support a niche hip hop only station. I wonder if one of Bell/Rogers has already looked into this with some type of market research, would be really interested in seeing those numbers. Just a gut feeling but I think it can now, especially how so many hip hop artists have migrated towards more into the Pop scene more and more mainstream than ever before ie Drake, The Weekend etc. Especially the ever changing demographics in the city.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

I wonder if the market has changed enough in the last 15 years, that can make Ottawa fully support a niche hip hop only station. I wonder if one of Bell/Rogers has already looked into this with some type of market research, would be really interested in seeing those numbers. Just a gut feeling but I think it can now, especially how so many hip hop artists have migrated towards more into the Pop scene more and more mainstream than ever before ie Drake, The Weekend etc. Especially the ever changing demographics in the city.

Probably not. That demographic is younger and aren't going to be listening to the radio anyways. More and more young people aren't even buying cars anymore, there's really no need listen to a radio with the invention of the smart phone.

 

[slamigo]

Speaking of variety, we have 2 freaking pop country music stations here and not a single decent hip hop offering.

Because after the censors are done with editing the songs, they no longer makes any sense.

 

[Stylizer1]

Because after the censors are done with editing the songs, they no longer makes any sense.

They mostly don't make sense anyway without the edits..

back in the day some radio edits used to be better than the originals.

 

[WadeRedden]

I remember when 89.99 was a niche hip hop station waaaayyy back. good times.

It wasn't so much that 89.9 was a niche hip hop station, but that hip-hop as a genre was the most mainstream it's ever been. Gangster rappers were household names and their songs were being played on nationally-syndicated top-40 shows lol. That's just not the case anymore.