After the Horn with Andy Frost
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p.l.f.
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18 years is a looooong time to just can it like that. I honestly enjoyed it. Too bad. I thought it might be bigger news since it was a such a tradition for so many fans.
Problem is, what's Mike In Buffalo's purpose in life now?
Podcasting, where every nutter with a microphone can have their own show.
Eklund is just a sports parody blog...kind of like the WWE/WWF is just a parody of real wrestling. I thought Mike was just an honest dude who kept calling Andy Frost every night after the game- I didn't picture him to be associated with fake/fabricated hockey news
Crysis
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Shutting down places where angry fans can vent in both the call in show and the official message boards. Seems like a form of muzzling. Most teams want their fans to engage with each other.
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Where am I going to hear endless loops of "Enter Sandman" now?
I mostly enjoyed the show. Mike from Buffalo made good points, but something about his voice, and the fact that I would often listen to this show in bed on the clock radio, made for great lullaby material.
I mostly enjoyed the show. Mike from Buffalo made good points, but something about his voice, and the fact that I would often listen to this show in bed on the clock radio, made for great lullaby material.
I don't believe either Rogers or Bell owns AM640, so they would have no say in whether the show continued or not.
Seems more likely that since both 590 and 1050, (Rogers & Bell) have extensive post game shows, the landscape was too crowded for the 640 show and Chorus decided it wasn't economically viable any more.
Crysis
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When Rogers and Bell bought the team he said he wasn't sure if he would be back due to them purchasing the team.
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Leafs Lunch is a good one. Someone sent a message from Montreal asking for them to talk about something new and said something like todays show was boring or whatever so Hayes said "we'll talk about something new, how about after the break we talk about how bad Montreal is without Price"
My guess is that he was simply reading the writing on the wall. Radio rights to Leafs were to be shared between the FAN and TSN 1050 and both stations were going to do post-game shows with full Leafs branding (something that is clearly only available to rights holders -- hence, TSN's "Blue and White Lunch" [I think that was the title] from the days before the Rogers/Bell purchase). So, I can see that there would be doubts about whether or not AM 640 would continue with an unbranded post-game show -- which they did end up doing for a few years.
In any event, I don't think Frost was implying that Rogers and/or Bell was going to force AM 640 to shut down his show, but rather that the soon to be crowded market might bring an end to it.
