Tuesday, April 12, 2022

Media Notes

 

There has been considerable gnashing of teeth over Major League Baseball games transitioning over to streaming services, and those services are not free.

New York Daily News sports media writer Bob Raissman suggests simply turning on the radio.  Fewer games on free TV could spark a radio resurgence and I'm all for that.  Baseball is a great radio sport.

It's not peaches and cream.  I live in the Scranton area.  The Phillies are on the radio here.  The Yankees aren't.  The Yankees broadcasts remain unlistenable, anyway.  I do have satellite radio at home, and you can get most games free through smart speakers and smart phones.

Streaming's loss is radio's gain.

Switching gears...

Norah O'Donnell has signed a contract to remain anchor of the CBS Evening News, a last place broadcast.  As I've written here, ad infinitum and ad nauseum, the CBS problem isn't the anchor, it is weak lead-ins from local CBS stations across the country.

CNN is under a new ownership structure, and new management is on the way in.  Some think this means a shift away from opinion based programming and back to hard news.  One can only hope.

Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins died over the weekend.  An ESPN personality is catching some heat, for an insensitive tweet, as the news broke.  Time and place.  The Tweet contained a frank assessment of Haskins' short career.  While it might have been true, it was too soon.  There is plenty of time for that later.