[DementedReality]

Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN

I work for TEAM 1040 in Vancouver. I hear this question asked a lot, why do we have interviews or content that isn't sports related. It's a very fair question, but it's a pretty easy answer for sports radio. We have guests like Hrudey, McGuire, McKenzie etc to talk hockey, but the demographic that our station targets Men 18-54, like other stuff. Movies, music, gambling, stuff like that. Hence the reason we have different guests on. In the three years that I have been producing the morning show, we have had plenty of guests that are non sports related like Bob Saget, Cheech Marin, William Shatner and recently we had Verne Troyer aka Mini Me. These guests have nothing to do with sports, but they are some of the more memorable interviews on our station. It works when they happen every once in awhile, as a complete 180 from what we usually talk about. This is also a reason why many of sports shows turn out to be "guy talk" as well. It's sport talk mixed in with movies, hotties, music talk as well and based on listener surveys, that's what the listeners want.


As far as Negreanu, we had him on our show about 3 months ago and he was fantastic. We even put him into our "best of" show. He lives a very interesting life and he shared it in the interview. Very good piece. And contrary to another poster in this thread, there are very few times where the interviewee preps for the interview. They know the jist as to why they are on, but they never ask for pre-interview questions or anything like that.

in your professional opinion and maybe even insider knowledge, why doesnt Calgary have those quality of guests?

and will someone please pipe in about this moron Kirkwood? what are his credentials to be on the show?