LeBron James: I’ve called sets for the last 11 years
April 2, 2015Furious 48: Heat at Cavs—Behind the Box Score
April 3, 2015Josh Flagner from More than a Fan came on the podcast to talk about all things sports media. We discussed blogs and podcasts and newspapers and how the coverage has developed around the Browns and Cavaliers this year.
- Two hours a week podcasting down from five
- The formulas for podcasting and how long to go on
- More than a Fan and where it is compared to what he wants to do
- Dave Sterling helping fill out the podcast “inventory”
- Are podcasts replacing sports talk radio, or is it just a supplement?
- The big media companies taking over podcasts
- Do the big companies want to compete in podcasts?
- Intentionally titillating people with yelling and controversy
- Blogs and traffic and getting viraled into new traffic
- Millionaire matchmaker and making money
- Brian Windhorst talks and nothing but negative things get picked out
- Media organizations vertically integrated into blogs
- The skew negative in the reaction
- The Cavaliers and what’s really going on or not going on
- The Browns and the hope meter
- Are the Browns a complete mess or do they have a chance?
- Sports owners and whether their skills translate
- Jimmy Haslam and Joe Banner and him being implanted in Cleveland
- What Cleveland sports moment would you change in your lifetime?
2 Comments
For me podcasting has completely replaced the radio. Well, that is not completely accurate because I basically never listened to talk radio or talking heads on TV.
I am getting saturated, where I have more subscribed content than listenable hours in a week. Some, like Adam Carolla (sooo many hours/week), and some hobbyist pods (not time dependent) I let slip.
WFNY pod always gets bumped to the top of the list for my drives to work. I miss the casual Friday for weekend yard work.
Thanks again for sharing your hobby.
I listened to the Windhorst podcast twice and his “positive” comments were backhanded especially concerning Kyrie. Immediately he discusses Kyrie the ball hog, 7th min he blamed Joe Harris & Blatt for Spurs loss forgetting Lebron lost the ball in the last possession, 15th min he stated how he was disappointed in Kyrie, 25th min he claims that Lebron tells Cavs players need to stop talking to the media(Huh?), 29th min he said Lebron pushed Griffin to get JR (what, no they asked if he wouldn’t mind because of his negative history), 34th min he said that Blatt called him a liar when in reality he said the story about Lue calling time-outs behind his back was “nonsense” Blatt came out blazing on that one. Then of course WIndhorst ‘s timing of this podcast to state that Lebron calls “all” the plays and he is just basically a parrot hours before Blatt was named Eastern Conference Coach of the Month. This dude Clearly wanted to rain on his parade. This podcast was more NEgative than positive on the Cavs overall. Positive on Lebron because Windhorst worships him.