A successful broadcast would be just talk Hockey, focus 90% of it on Leafs. Ignore all else. Sure you may lose the national audience, however many dozen that might be. Alright there are ten's of thousands of Leaf fans throughout the country, you'd still have them. The added local fans would more than makeup for the ones lost due to them wanting to here about football, baseball and Teams like Calgary.He was something completely different in the sports radio market. He doesnt care about the day to day discussion. Anyone can do that. He talked a lot about the business side and the larger topics in the sports and he could get anyone for an interview. He also was broadcast right across Canada, so that explains the lack of focused Leafs discussion.
I didnt listen to him all the time. I only listened when he had topics that interested me. He was the best interviewer in Canadian sports media, thats for sure. Overdrive was always the priority listen, but with the advent of podcast downloads I listened to most of both shows after they aired.
I remember one of the sports casters joked (But it was true) if he wanted to fill his whole segment and keep the phone lines maxed out he could just come in and say........ Leafs, go