Dear Mississippi Sports This Afternoon

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Please, just give it up. Your "interview" with Dan Mullen sounded like Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. No, nobody is going to call your show impersonating Bobby Bowden.

Oh, and screw you NBC Universal. I wanted to post a video of Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney and you had "copyright issues"...but a bunch of bungholes. Might want to work a little harder on not being the 4th rated Network.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Please, just give it up. Your "interview" with Dan Mullen sounded like Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. No, nobody is going to call your show impersonating Bobby Bowden.

Oh, and screw you NBC Universal. I wanted to post a video of Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney and you had "copyright issues"...but a bunch of bungholes. Might want to work a little harder on not being the 4th rated Network.

 

[ArrowDawg]

......morning show was bad, but those buffoons on in the afternoon make Chuck and Doug sound like pure damn sports geniuses. Bottom line, I've stopped listening to any show on AM 620. I now only listen to Bo Bounds on AM 930, and sometimes Ben Ingram's show in the afternoon.

 

[OEMDawg]

......morning show was bad, but those buffoons on in the afternoon make Chuck and Doug sound like pure damn sports geniuses. Bottom line, I've stopped listening to any show on AM 620. I now only listen to Bo Bounds on AM 930, and sometimes Ben Ingram's show in the afternoon.

Ouch. I'm sorry.

Cohibas and macanudos for all!!

 

[StateLover]

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[MSUCostanza]

I heard two jackasses on the radio - I believe one of them was Chuck Stinson - openly trying to figure out if the Pac-10 was involved in the BCS. They literally didn't know. I immediately turned it to music. Is that really the extent of sports radio in Jacktown? I feel sorry for ya'll if so. Memphis' local stuff has gotten pretty terrible, but at least they know basic sports information.

 

[ArrowDawg]

He's still better than anything those idiots on AM 620 bring to the table.

 

[ArrowDawg]

Is that really the extent of sports radio in Jacktown? I feel sorry for ya'll if so. Memphis' local stuff has gotten pretty terrible, but at least they know basic sports information.

Just about the extent of it. Like I said, I mainly listen to Bo Bounds. The best thing about Bo, when he's not talking about cigars and spirits, are the guests he has such as Brad Edwards from ESPN. At least he sets up quality interviews all the time, as opposed to talking NFL draft for hours on end or constantly arguing with his radio partner and sounding like a whiney school girl.

 

[TheBigDA]

It is Matt Wyatt and Ben Dean "The Dean Machine" everyday from 5 to 7 on 97.5 in North MS (Tupelo area). I started listening to it and am now officially hooked. They do a good (professional) job and have good guests.

Wyatt put in his two cents on the helmet issue and said we need the maroon helmets with maroon facemasks. He said we didn't need the maroon with white facemasks like he had. Also said that we need black pads in the helmet not white ones. Small difference, but made sense.

 

[BullyBob]

Please, just give it up. <span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;">Your "interview" with Dan Mullen sounded like Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney. No, nobody is going to call your show impersonating Bobby Bowden.</span>

Oh, and screw you NBC Universal. I wanted to post a video of Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney and you had "copyright issues"...but a bunch of bungholes. Might want to work a little harder on not being the 4th rated Network.

From what I heard, the interview was set up without the guy knowing it. It was seriously a surprise thing. I thought it was kind of cool that the guy recovered pretty well and for the record, I do hear folks call that show that call in as Bobby Bowden, JoPa, and others just being silly.

 

[BullyBob]

Is that really the extent of sports radio in Jacktown? I feel sorry for ya'll if so. Memphis' local stuff has gotten pretty terrible, but at least they know basic sports information.

Just about the extent of it. Like I said, I mainly listen to Bo Bounds. The best thing about Bo, when he's not talking about cigars and spirits, are the guests he has such as Brad Edwards from ESPN. At least he sets up quality interviews all the time, as opposed to talking NFL draft for hours on end or constantly arguing with his radio partner and sounding like a whiney school girl.

I think they do a great job. They've got the longest tenured running show in the market and that's hard to do with the fact that this market is such a revolving door for shows (and stations) coming and going. Plus they actually talk SPORTS and not about wine, cigars, and all that crap. I don't see the morning guys on the Score getting ripped for talking about what they had at Shapley's last night because...wait..no one CARES. Just a thought, but most sports shows should consist of sports talk and not your lifestyle of being a wanna-be Brando, Finebaum or whoever. Just my two cents.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

For the record, if Seattle couldn't win a Super Bowl with Mike Holmgren you're definitely not gonna win one with the slug who replaces him.

 

[hereugo]

Doug is the SINGLE reason I listen to Bo in the morning.
Doug Colson's inability to speak without the "you know" (x10) or
the "uhs" (x20) is unbelievable for a radio show. Plus, he is
so dadgum self impressed. The guy is a joke.

Chuck Stinson is really pretty good.

 

[TR.sixpack]

Dude, just because you googled yourself and this was the first thing that came up doesn't mean we need you to reply to a 3 weeks old thread.

 

[sixpackmafia]

The worst thing that ever happened to 620 was letting there up and coming rising star Ben Ingram go without being paid for 3 months.......K. Windham should be fired for that.....now i listen to Ben on 930 in the afternoons....Chuck and Doug are pretty entertaining because they are goof balls and they have a lot of respect in the state of ms when it comes to sports.....people like them....plain and simple...they dont sound like all the rest, and that's what makes them fun to listen too

 

[BullyBob]

I don't have a gripe with Ingram's show in the afternoon's and if what your saying is true about the way they did him in not paying him, then screw them and good for Ingram to get away from that place. I don't have a gripe with the new guy in the afternoon's either on 520 nor do I have a problem with the morning guys on 620. The guy in the afternoon has had folks on from ESPN and FOX and some interviews with all sorts of guys, and so has Ingram at 930. I think we have a pretty good lot of shows around here to listen from, aside from the "lifestyle" bs in the mornings at 930. Listening to that makes me want to chop my ears off. He sounds like a redneck that's never been on the air before and probably kissed alot of butt to be on. Again, just my two cents.

 

[Simplydog]

Sports radio will never succeed in Jackson for many reasons...and I know this because I struggled, in vain, to be a part of it for almost 10 years.

1. OVER-SATURATION - Jackson is radio market #121 in the US and there are 4 sports radio stations on the AM band and another on the FM. With sports you're already chopping out the complete female and senior demographic. Now take what's left (essentially the male 18-54 demo) and chop it up 5 ways? That's stupid.

2. GROSS MISMANAGEMENT - For whatever reason, the owners of these stations feel like they have to run a sports station completely different from any and every other format in radio. Just take, for example, the Ben Ingram situation. Not paying him for months is so far beyond outrageous for a company that owns damn near a quarter of the entire industry. Now it's biting Clear Channel in the *** as 930 is gaining more momentum than ever with their new facility at the Alumni House in Ridgeland along with the acquisition of Ingram. Having worked at 620 in the past, hearing the phrase "not in the budget" is as common as oxygen or water.

3. FINICKY MARKET - There are a lot of people who will never realise how difficult it is to talk on the radio for 3 hours a day without making an *** of yourself in some form or another. Those people will never have an appreciation for what they can listen to each day. Also, people in Mississippi never want to hear criticism or anything negative about their team.

i.e. "<17> that Doug Colson man, he hates Rick Stansbury and hates MSU. He must love Ole Miss!" Anyone who knows Doug (who was born in CT, and educated in MO) knows he really doesn't give a rat's *** weather MSU hoops wins or not, aside from the business perspective of MSU losing means less callers. But so many people take any kind of criticism(or anything not completely rosy or sunshine) from any media totally personal, as an insult to their person. This is ridiculous behavior.

4. EGO'S - A man shouldn't feel like he is the **** because he has a radio gig on an AM station in the 121st market. But some of these people are just unreal when anyone runs up on them with any criticism. The sense of entitlement some of these guys have is off the chart.

I could go on and on and on.

Pardon my rant...

 

[sixpackmafia]

I also came from the radio industry before entering the whipping of medical sales, and I will tell you that you are wrong on the market saturation of sports talk in jackson.....there are only 2 major players in the jackson market for sports talk, one of those two only has enough firepower to make it past madison with a decent signal.....and i will also tell you that there is only 3 stations total FM/AM regardless of format that has more male listenership than 620.....Mismanagement? yes.....that place is living proof that it all starts from the top.....besides where is your history in radio? I am curious

 

[FlabLoser]

I also came from the radio industry before entering the whipping of medical sales, and I will tell you that you are wrong on the market saturation of sports talk in jackson.....there are only 2 major players in the jackson market for sports talk, one of those two only has enough firepower to make it past madison with a decent signal.....and i will also tell you that there is only 3 stations total FM/AM regardless of format that has more male listenership than 620.....Mismanagement? yes.....that place is living proof that it all starts from the top.....besides where is your history in radio? I am curious

620
930
970
1240
There's an FM one too?

By comparison for many years, the #5 market (Dallas) had ONE sports radio station (a few others stations carried local sports games, but were not sports stations). Several years ago, they added an ESPN affiliate and I don't know if it still exists or not.

The backwards state we live in needs to get a realistic image of itself. You don't have to be big to be successful. But you do need to recognize what you are and work with that. We need one good sports talk radio station, not several. Just like we need one major university, not 3 plus a few wanna-bes.

 

[Simplydog]

You are 100% right that there are only 2 sports talkers that are major players. There is a new ESPN FM, 92.9 out of Brookhaven who's signal reaches strongly into the metro area. But the fact of the matter is that there are 4 sports talkers in Jackson metro, all on one side of the band and an FM from just outside the metro that shoots in.

There aren't 4 country stations in Jackson.
There aren't 4 rap/hip hop stations in Jackson.
There aren't 4 AC/Top 40 stations in Jackson.
There aren't 4 news talk stations in Jackson.
There are 4 sports talkers in Jackson...all on the AM band.

If that isn't oversaturation, I don't know what is.

As far as my history, I broke in at WLBT in ops/prod in 1996. In 1997 I was picked up by 620 as a producer. In 2002 I left 620 for 930 to host with Travis Gordon who is now at ESPN in Bristol. In 2004 I left TV-3 to try to make it full time in sports radio(stupid). In 2007 I was fired from 930(for being too critical of Stansbury) and landed at WAPT for about 2 weeks before I started at MPB Radio(the greatest blessing God has ever given me besides life, wife and children). In 2008, I had an ill-fated 6 month run on 970. In there between 03 and 07, I called some Veritas, Pearl, and Canton Academy football as well as Clinton, Jackson Academy, and Brandon baseball with one or two M-Braves games and a handful of Canton basketball games. I also produce Friday Night Under the Lights in the fall.

Since getting out of sports I've never been happier. I get to root for who I want to again and most importantly, be a fan.

 

[Shmuley]

I hear you on commie radio from time to time.

 

[Simplydog]

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Commie Radio...Funny. Thanks for listening...

 

[BullyBob]

Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner!

Commie Radio...Funny. Thanks for listening...

Whatever happened to your show on 970?

 

[Simplydog]

More or less, the original investor backed out when he realized the extra capital that was promised by <old football coaching radio host> was never coming and that he'd been sold a station that, from a nuts and bolts standpoint, was an irrevocable dump. He was hemorrhaging money and I can't blame him for getting out. When the money man leaves we all get the ax.

It had great potential if it would have been run better from the get go...but that requires openness and honesty which are not trendy in media.

Still though, they gave me an opportunity, so I'm thankful to them.</p>

 

[sixpackmafia]

I started feb 02......I do think there is room for 2 sports stations in jackson....first off, youve got fox sports, and then espn sports.......and a market for the locals..... I like C&D that 10-11am Colin Cowherd (gotta change the channel) 11-2pm......ROME.....wish he would go to satellite so I could get him everywhere Chris Myers show is good Then Ben Ingram's show.... that's the sports talk I love As long as K.Windham is running the show at CC, there will always be room for a competitive station...... Could you imagine if Ben got a morning show opposite C&D? There would be some shittin-in-pants going on...

 

[Simplydog]

While at 970, I tried to angle for Ben to do our morning show with my co-host Kevin Broughton. I was going to gladly make way for Ben by moving to middays. It's the best play they could have made. Ben rated better at 620 than any show in the market except C&D, and approached their numbers like nobody else has in 10 years. They just said, "we'll think about it." I don't know what there was to think about...Bad mistake.

I've always thought Rome was entertaining. He contradicts himself often by cracking on people hard then going soft in interviews, but he is good behind a mic. Myers is ok. Cowherd makes me wanna punch him in the face. The thing that I hate in any radio personality and the one thing I always tried to avoid with listeners is "talking down" to them or basically telling them what they're supposed to think. Cowherd is great at that. Don't try to make me feel stupid because I don't agree with you. Locally, 930's morning show is good at that. If it could lose that whole "I'm better than you and we both know it..." attitude, he'd easily be one of the best in the south.

Arnie Spanier is the reason I got in the business. I've always tried to copy his fun, self deprecating, take everything I say with a grain of salt style...In a good way of course.

 

[Captain Agustus McDawg]

Were you on with the black guy just before he went to ESPN (he was always talking about Rick and the Comagees)? If so, that was by far the best local sports show that has ever aired in Jxn. Always figured you as an UM fan. Miss your show. Ben is the second best. The afternoon guy on 620 has a very poor knowledge of sports and just replies on common mis-perceptions, like you can't recruit to Starkville/Oxford, etc.

 

[BullyBob]

Were you on with the black guy just before he went to ESPN (he was always talking about Rick and the Comagees)? If so, that was by far the best local sports show that has ever aired in Jxn. Always figured you as an UM fan. Miss your show. Ben is the second best. The afternoon guy on 620 has a very poor knowledge of sports and just replies on common mis-perceptions, like you can't recruit to Starkville/Oxford, etc.

Again, I don't think the shows on 620 are bad. The afternoon guy over there actually sounds like he's been on a mic before and the show had been much better from a caller-driven standpoint after that other guy (Mike I think was his name) is off the air. That guy sounded like a nasal-drip contusion with a bad southern drawl and a bad case of sleep deprivation. He's entertaining to and it's a caller-driven show, not like some of the other shows in the area where the guys just want to hear themselves talk and rant.

Ingram seems angry when he talks, like he's pissed about something and his arrogance kind of comes over the mic at times-maybe I'm wrong but that's the way it sounds. Bosephus Bounds can't get cigar talk outta his *** long enough to focus on sports and his attitude, as referenced earlier, is a big turn-off. Again, 620 is the mecca of sports talk radio and the ratings back that so anyone allowed on a mic there has to know a least a little of what they're talking about and if they don't-who cares? They have a mic and speak to thousands each day and we don't.

 

[El Diablo Blanco]

You bump up 3 threads from weeks ago, all cussing Bo.

Bo show and Ben's are the only ones in the Jax area I can stomach. Bo has better guests by far. Plus I can pick them up on the internet.

 

[BullyBob]

You bump up 3 threads from weeks ago, all cussing Bo.

Bo show and Ben's are the only ones in the Jax area I can stomach. Bo has better guests by far. Plus I can pick them up on the internet.

Russ Agent, is that you? Stop posting Russ!

 

[El Diablo Blanco]

[No message]

 

[BullyBob]

Ah yes, when someone says something the Bounds apologists don't like it's time to ban someone. That makes sense I guess since this is the Bo Bounds part time website.

 

[TR.sixpack]

I can't remember the last time anyone here mentioned anything that was said on Chuck and Doug's show.

 

[tossedoff]

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