Stoerner’s most memorable moment
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You say that like it’s a bad thing to be a boomer. I can say I am very happy that I was born in 1947 instead of 1987, 1997, or 2007. Life was much better in my youth than the kids have now.
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Buchsbaum was one of a kind. Stories about Buchsbaum from former UH PxP man, Tom Franklin who worked at KTRH radio, for those that were not around during the time Buchsbaum did his segments in Houston
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I’ve heard about this but never actually saw it. Good ‘ol boy needs to put that ball away!
around 31:30
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Share many of the thoughts of others on this thread that Houston sports radio is no good, mostly due to lazy hosts. I will admit that to do it right is a tough gig just keeping up with everything, and it’s not like the Chronicle is much help in that regard these days. Most stations have too much focus on the Texans or other random nonsense, very little on college sports and none on the high schools. You know, Texas, high school football capital of the world - and when have you ever heard them talk about the state high school basketball tournament?
To be clear, High School Football is relatively big in Texas, but it’s not that big. DCTF covers every High School in the state and still has fewer subscribers than UH Football’s twitter account. The Texans, by contrast, have ten times what UH has. Covering High School anything is a waste of time and money for an over-the-air radio station.
Radio stations follow the money, and the widest audience in the city follows the Texans and the Astros.
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Thanks for breaking it down for me like that. I appreciate you making the effort to be clear.
https://twitter.com/mcclain_on_nfl/status/1752689056830443658?s=46
Guess talking Texans 24/7 isn’t as profitable as they think since McClain was cut from the payroll this week
But why did they need to pay him for EXTRA podcasts and stuff - we have enough Texans crap already - waste of resources
We have 4 million or so folks out here and we o it talk about 1 thing? I see why money ain’t being made
Wonder if there are any openings in Nashville? He could finally get his dream job licking the Adams family’s boots.
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Since McClain himself is doing the reporting, there is a 75% chance he has the info wrong.
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McClain has stated he does weekly local Nashville radio during the season.
No one talks college hoops. It’s 99 percent Texans and it’s overkill. Seems like every show has a former football player as a host. What about some former baseball players or basketball players? I don’t need 24-7 Texans talk
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I was just listening to Stoerner, Hughley and Tyler and they spent a whole segment talking about what is and isn’t sharting. Houston sports talk is really going downhill.
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They don’t talk about college sports nearly enough. I hate that houston is a pro town and also fairweather. Not die hard enough for me.
Joel was tremendous and he was Nationwide. From coast to coast and in between he was highly regarded.
Letting former pro folks come in cause they were bored and nothing to do has led to the decline of the stations ironically as it turned into on the job training - they’ve bumped good guys who trained for those gigs out
Programs directors should be ashamed of that
Their lack of the local sports scene opened the door for them to hide that knowledge and opened up segments of middle school locker room jokes, movie liners, whatever cause they don’t have knowledge of anything else locally to carry on
The non- jock who wanted to be what they were and in their friend circle will suck up to him and basically devalue his own position
The old days you had folks who wouldn’t even get near a radio mic unless they had KNOWLEDGE of said subject and more - regardless if you were an ex pro player or not
ND Kalu and Greg Koch were really good. However, their show was football focused. But you knew that going in. Stan Norfleet is gawd-awful.
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Branham and Blank are good, local sports 90% of time, but yes almost all pro sports
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I was told a long time ago that am radio sports talk is similar to Top 40 radio. Limited number of subjects daily. If you don’t take calls, you don’t go off track. If they do go off on a tangent, the producer gets them back on track