But why is that? Wouldn't almost every member of CP want to talk about sports and have your own professional soapbox? If it's impossible to find, it's probably because the station isn't willing to pay for it. There have got to be thousands of people out there looking for this kind of opportunity. Maybe they're too picky, looking for folks with some sort of specific college education?
Isn't the running joke on cp that the average income is 150k? Unless your average cp poster took a 120k hair cut, they aren't working in radio.
Radio in general is struggling in large part due to the rise of podcasts. Where people can listen to funny, interesting, uncensored content on demand, for free. Whereas in radio, boomer gets suspended because he made a joke.
It's a creatively bankrupt, excessively conservative game that anyone with any ambition, talent, or zest for life avoids like a wasteland. Now this could be fixed if the program directors took any risk whatsoever, but Kelly Kirsch didnt get where he is thanks to visionary thinking.
Take for example Overtime. What was, with Kerr, a staple of my post game ritual, has become an entirely missable misuse of everyone's time. The solution is actually pretty simple. The show is on no earlier than 11pm at night. You're dealing with a bunch of drunks, and one good hockey call every four or five callers. So does it make sense to have Steinberg treat everyone with respect and as intellectual equals, or should he or whoever else hosts the show screw with those callers, mock them, and make a game of it? Because one formula gets you Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr Drew and the other is something nobody cares about and wouldn't miss if it was gone.
I don't like Boomer, Walker, Kerr, Maher, Steinberg, Griffiths, Kirsch, or Warrener.
And don't even get me started on TSN. They should fire Dreger, McKenzie, Duthie, Hodge, Ward, Miller, and Cuthbert and the rest of them. Sportsnet should clean house as well cause their talent stinks.
And who do those CBC clowns Ron Maclean, Don Cherry, Healy, Jim Hughson, Craig Simpson, Friedman, Mark Lee, and Kevin Weakes think theyre fooling?? They suck!
I only like sports personalities after they are long gone... even though I also complained about them when they were around.
I can't believe sports networks don't just get it right and hire people that everyone likes!
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Walker's "That's Stupid" segment is hit and miss but they ran an extended "best of" segment this morning that had me laughing pretty good. I think he brings a good perspective to the show, even if it is sarcastic and cynical.
On topic, I for one am much happier with the show minus Bryn. I'm not much of a media critic or hater, and can usually accept whatever faults I may perceive in a broadcaster/personality and enjoy the show, but for me Bryn was absolutely unlistenable. Literally, I had stopped tuning in to the big show altogether because of him. A few times after long stretches I would turn the show on for the hell of it, and almost instantly hear Bryn talking in circles and turn it off again.
I agree with the sentiment that he comes off as a good guy, tries to be agreeable, etc but as a sports talk guy he had, for the vast majority of the time, absolutely nothing worthwhile to offer.
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^^^^^ Wait a minute, someone this annoying probably would like Hughson
just said i don't like walker, not everyone is going to like everyone but seeing a lot of people dislike him on twitter and their ratings aren't that great. but if you need to be mellow dramatic fair enough. hughson does suck that isn't even up for debate.
just said i don't like walker, not everyone is going to like everyone but seeing a lot of people dislike him on twitter and their ratings aren't that great. but if you need to be mellow dramatic fair enough. hughson does suck that isn't even up for debate.
Oxymoron?
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Here's his take. Mostly positive stuff to say about Calgary and his coworkers. I'm not sure we're getting the whole story though. http://brynster-mightymouth.blogspot.ca/
found it weird how obsessive the city is about its rivalry with Edmonton. Ya, there's the sports thing...and that's great. Nothing wrong with that. But having now lived in both cities, it's the City to the North that seems to know when to turn it OFF. Just found it far more petty in Calgary with no OFF switch. Couldn't quite get a handle on why, especially when you consider the overall outward confidence of the city.
