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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Do you guys think the issue with 960 is it's too limited to hockey? Yes, the majority of people in Calgary love hockey and talk Flames, but you can't do that 24/7 365.
Should they talk about local sports more, university sports, high school sports, Stampeders, or there's World Volleyball in town this week.
In the States, national sports radio talks about NFL year round for hours and hours but pivot to NBA and MLB and NCAA and other issues, sometimes political, throughout the year if there's big news. Local radio I believe talks about their local teams.
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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Absolutely they should. But I've heard snarky remarks over the years from the panelists and hosts themselves about how no one cares about other sports. They aren't interested in covering anything else.
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They don't have the
broadcast rights to anything else. Why cover a sport that they don't make money off of? It's as simple as that.
This is precisely why for the last 15ish years in the US ESPN was incredibly snarky and dismissive of hockey. E.g. you really wanna know why the goofs on 960 (Rogers) joke about the CFL? Because 770 (Corus) and TSN (Bell) make money off of it, and they don't.
I am flabbergasted that people have any affinity for 960 whatsoever. If it went off the air I'd scarcely notice; according to Numeris they're generally the second-least-listened-to radio station in the city save for a bit of a bump in the spring if the Flames are in the playoffs. Outside of Flames games the programming is atrocious, I can't bear to listen to it for more than a minute or so at a time.