U-M signs long term deal with CBS radio, 97.1 to air select games, Hockey on 1270
Michigan Hockey will air on 1270 am, too. No word on how long term the deal is. Harbaugh will also be interviewed once a week during the season.
http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/071316aaa.html
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97.1? Really? Can't wait for our play-by-play and color commentary to be delivered with a Spartan slant.
you did not mention that in the op.
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I think he's just referring to how annoying Mike Valenti is. But this is good news overall, glad to have it on FM!
Wondering why people think 97.1 is MSU-slanted. Wojo, Karsch, Fithian, Leach, Riger, Sully (V&F producer), and Stoney (to some extent) are all UM guys.
Valenti is the main Sparty guy, but he's the loudest and most obnoxious out of all of them.
And he is on during the afternoon drive slot which gets a lot of ears.
1270 usually broadcasts DRW or Tiger games if there's a conflict. The only time this should occur is in early April, which coincides with the college hockey postseason. I wonder if we take a higher priority in that instance.
It won't be Sparty people calling the games...
Karsch and Fithian should have a show together on 97.1, instead they have Doug working with the Whale and Fithian with that imbecile Caputo.
...all I can say is that 105.1 had more Michigan fans/alumni on that station and now they're playing 80's rap. If 105.1 was smart, they would've branded themselves as the UM alternative to Sparty nation over at 97.1.
We need our own Kirk Herbstreit on the airwaves. If Desmond or Jalen were on the radio, I'd listen. There have been guys who had radio gigs out of town, but never had to leave their house to do a show.
Go ahead and listen to ESPN Radio then...Jalen & Jacoby airs weekdays from 7-9pm.
Marcus Ray actually does a great job on the radio. He should have a full-time gig on 97.1 with Valenti. They actually did a show together once and it was awesome. Valenti can be good if he's paired with the right partner, but when he's on with Foster(basically his lap dog) it's brutal to listen. He even did a show with Wojo last year and that was some great college football talk.
Had braylon edwards who was great. Then a week into listening it is off the air...
They should've gone with Braylon before Lindsey Hunter. I liked Lindsey, but you're not going to drive up ratings talking about the NBA here.
When I lived in DC in the pre-BTN days, I could listen to the all the night basketball games and any football games that stretched past 6pm. Thanks to a crappy ACC game (featuring Maryland), I had to listen in my driveway to Braylonfest until the second OT.
Part of the reason Sirius/XM gets my money is so I can listen to the games when I'm on the road on Saturdays.
Harbaugh is already on 97.1 weekly, so I wonder what the difference will be going forward.
Makes sense after 97.1 is no longer the flagship station for the Lions, had to do something. Highly doubt Valenti will be doing any commentary for the games, people need to settle down a little bit.
Yup, it was my gut reaction too but then I saw it was only airing the games, not commentary. Phew!
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Not a fan of Reager... would rather just have Ira keep doing the post game show.
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I think the only people who don't like this are people who are looking for reasons to hate on Manuel. There isn't a reason to not like this. The station has really high ratings, you get hockey and basketball thrown in. Quality shouldn't be effected as Play by Play Commentary will be done by Michigan's own guys, not Valenti (although I would like to see his head explode trying to act excited when something big happens). Plus the majority of 97.1 personalities are Michigan guys anyway.
Will try that. Thanks.
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That's kind of what I was thinking, that it seems like 97.1 is now the only sports radio in Metro Detroit with an audience worth the effort to make this sort of deal, so this would probably work out quite well for Michigan in that regard. Airing the broadcasts I can definitely dig, as others have said, whereas having their on-air talent do games would, well, yeah....let's not theorize.
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Is there a fued between him and Michigan? I know RR didn't wanna do it anymore, but I figured that Hoke or Harbaugh would bring it back at some point.
they need to find a new play by play guy. i like brandy for Michigan replay, but he is just cringe-worthy calling games.
Good! I was pissed when Michigan football went off 760.
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iTunes Radio also has it, if you know where to dig in the current version to find the radio stations.
Anyone else having problems with the official MGoBlue app? It started crashing last week and doesn't work anymore.
Bummer. I was really hoping we'd get WJR back since the lions dropped 97.1. Michigan football should be on the only Class A clear-channel station in the State.
So JR isn't on my list. But radio in general has taken a nose dive. I liked the local content JR had in the late 80's/early 90's. I liked its range.
So much is syndicated now.
Hockey simulcasts on 1270 are a good thing, considering once you get about 20 minutes from A2 on a Friday or Saturday night, that 1050 signal fades straight to static.
That is because the nightime coverage map is approximated by 275 and 96 as its eastern and northern border rather nicely and both those freeways are about 20 minutes travel time from Ann Arbor.