Joe,
As someone who was born and raised in Salisbury, I appreciate the open forum you have developed and provided for Delmarva.
I write today because I recently read a number of posts regarding Delmarva’s new home for sports radio, 95.9 The Sports Animal, specifically in regard to the Baltimore Orioles broadcasts. Although there have been posts from appreciative listeners about our new station, there have also been posts with questions, speculation, and even misinformation. Most of that involves our not carrying Baltimore Orioles’ baseball. I have read about and understand the frustration and hope I can clear some of that up.
95.9 The Sports Animal launched April 1st. Our goal is simple: to provide a place on the FM dial for avid and passionate sports fans and deliver the absolute best sports radio programming possible from a national to a local level. We are proud to have partnered with the best and most recognizable sports brand in the world, ESPN, as well as The Dan Patrick Show and our own local show, Off the Bench with Whiskey and Randy.
In addition, we will be carrying Washington Redskins football in 2010 and had hoped to work with the Orioles as well. Our initial plan was to be Delmarva’s exclusive radio home for Baltimore Orioles baseball and felt we were the perfect fit for their organization. After providing all 162 games of the 2009 season on our sister station News Talk 1470/WJDY, we made the decision to increase our commitment to Delmarva fans and to the team itself by shifting the entire Orioles broadcasts in 2010 to 95.9 The Sports Animal. Unfortunately we learned that we were not alone in our affiliation with the Orioles in the Salisbury/Ocean City radio market and discussed the matter with their radio network representatives. It would be fair to say that our frustration about their decision to carry their games elsewhere is at the very least equal to the frustration I have read in some of the posts. But, the decision was not ours. It was the Orioles. And, so our affiliation with the team ended abruptly.
As a related note, it is worthwhile addressing speculation about the on field performance being a factor in the sequence of events. This had nothing to do with the Orioles win/loss record. It was a decision by Orioles management. We embraced the team the very first day we launched 95.9 The Sports Animal and continue to report on the team. The Orioles have a rich history of success and we look forward to the team returning to that form.
Baseball fans should be glad to know that we will be airing ESPN’s coverage of Sunday night baseball all season long, in addition to being the home for the MLB All Star Game on Tuesday July 13th, the MLB play-offs and the World Series this fall.
There’s more to say, but this e-mail/posting is to help address some of the matters discussed and to make an open invitation for anyone to write or call me directly. It has been tremendous to already be hearing from sports fans and listeners alike and we encourage them to openly give their feedback and opinions to their station. Thank you for allowing us to clear things up and please feel free to call or contact me anytime with your comments or questions about 95.9 The Sports Animal.
Thanks,
Randy Scott
PD- 959 The Sports Animal, WOSC
PD-Sports Talk 960, WTGM
PD- News Talk 1470, WJDY
Co-Host of Off The Bench with Whiskey & Randy, WOSC 4PM-7PM
Direct Line- 410-572-6717
randy@959thesportsanimal.com
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FM radio is good and all... but satellite radio is always clear and numerous sports radio.
ReplyDeletewhiskey and randy show sucks tell whiskey to stop laughing at every comment he sounds like a 3 year old
ReplyDeleteSatellite Radio is the way to go. Once you listen you'll never go back. I should know, it's been 7 years and I haven't listen to regular radio since.
ReplyDeleteAnd Lex and Terry was soo much better. I am not a sports nut, but I was stuck listening a last week and I heard about 200 times in a hr about what was going to happen with Roethlisberger after the bathroom incident... I'm just thankful I was stuck listening to this show after the Tiger ordeal....
ReplyDeleteI know a guy that knows more about sports than anyone I've ever met his age. He's like a Howard Cosell when it comes to stats of players from days gone by. He's been told he should get into sports casting or sports journalism by many people. He says he'd rather talk than write LOL
ReplyDeleterandy scott you do a bad job with the shorebirds and you just dont have the it factor on the radio are you in charge at the radio st. please get some raven and oriole fans in there how can you be a yankee fan and be on the radio in this area. move to new york and do us all a favor
ReplyDeletestop blaming it on the Orioles. you're the least of their problems right now. They have contracts with the other Orioles affiliates. Just because you couldn't have them exclusively, you dropped them. Not an Orioles decision...your decision. They do suck more than most years...but let's put blame where it belongs. You dropped the O's...they didn't drop you. And why doesn't anybody call your Whiskey and Randy Show. Maybe because it sucks.
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ReplyDeleteThere was clearly a need for a local sports station but it also took away a decent rock station and theres not much left on public airwaves now.Other than Bob & Tom, I usually tune in to radio in the car exclusively and miss the variety of rock stations that used to be available.
ReplyDeleteRandy,
ReplyDeleteYou do an ok job on your show, but man do you need a better co-host. Whiskey is terrible. He knows nothing about sports! Why in the world is he your co-host??? My sister is better informed than him.
Anyone who says "I don't know anything about baseball" on Opening Day should not be co-hosting a sports talk show. Just a thought. You'd be better off by yourself Randy.
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