With Kerr gone, I’ll be eagerly watching to see what they do to jump start the afternoon show.
Granted it is the off season, but the show in its current incarnation has been difficult to listen to with Kerr being the one strand that kind of kept me listening on occasion thanks to his ability to grind, push dialogue and create some tension. Love him or hate him, it was engaging just like it was back in the day with Dowbiggin or Joe Sports.
During the hockey season last year, I found myself tuning in to catch some Flames discussion or an Elliotte Friedman segment and then switching to other programs.
With radio stations around the world available via the internet and data packages becoming cheaper, I don’t even listen to radio programs on the radio. I’m streaming all my listening and that means I have a lot of other options at my disposal. I’ve found myself tuning into TSN radio in Toronto. Leafs-centric which I find humorous and great hockey guys as hosts like Jeff O’Neill and Jamie McLellan provide a good mix of sports talk and fun conversation with the added bonus of guests like Ray Ferraro and Bob McKenzie.
Between other radio options and a whole bunch of entertaining hockey podcasts, I find it harder and harder to tune into 960 to listen to the general monotony of the afternoon show, amateur level analysis on Hockey Central at Noon (hosted by the Program Director!!), 3 boring burning questions, “Are You Jimmy Ray” intro music, and hosts that repeat themselves to the point of annoyance and say “100%” and “goes about his business” a dozen times a day.
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