Last week we heard about Brandon Tierney leaving 95.7 FM “The Game” for a national morning show on CBS Sports Radio. Today all parties involved are allowed to announce the new show.
Tierney will join Tiki Barber and Dana Jacobsen (yes, THAT Dana Jacobsen) for a new morning show. CBS Baltimore provided some information on stations and scheduling for CBS Sports Radio’s new lineup:
Several Top 50 markets will showcase CBS Sports Radio’s Morning Show, including WIP-AM (Philadelphia), WFOM-AM (Atlanta), WXYT-AM (Detroit), WJZ-AM (Baltimore), KFNZ-AM and KJQS-AM (Salt Lake City), and WSJZ-FM (Orlando).
6-9 a.m.: Tiki Barber, Brandon Tierney and Dana Jacobson
9 a.m. – Noon: John Feinstein
Noon – 3 p.m.: Jim Rome
3-6 p.m.: Doug Gottlieb
The listed times are Eastern, so if Tierney’s morning show is carried on either KNBR station (CBS Sports Radio is a Cumulus partner) it will only be heard by the earliest of risers.
95.7 FM “The Game” reacts
Actually, they haven’t done much of anything yet. Tierney removed any mention of “The Game” from his Twitter bio, but he’s still prominently featured on 95.7′s website:
If you believe that every “big announcement” from “The Game” is truly “big,” you might want to tune in at 4 pm:
I have a hard time believing they’ll announce a replacement today (in other words, don’t expect news of “The Razor and Ric” to send this market into a tizzy this afternoon). The holiday season is a slow time for local sports radio, full of guest hosts and “best of” segments. In other words, December is the perfect time for Entercom to audition several potential replacements and juggle the lineup to see if they can create radio magic in January.
CBS Sports Radio’s new lineup could mean some major changes for KNBR 680 and KNBR 1050 in 2013, too. We’ll explore those soon…
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Tierney was pure pain. Dude never had an opinion you couldn't read on a usa today headline and he tried to sound like Al Pacino from "Scent of a Woman" Go home to NY, Wannabe wise guy.
Yep-Tierney being on Comcast so often..when it was rare at 95.7 to happen,tells me that their might be a local outlet for his show..rumors confirmed I guess.
I feel for Tierney ..TIKI??? your paycheck and what you feed the hot wife depends on TIKI???..ulcer causing I would imagine.
Also, I just thought about this but, when Tierney starts his CBS sports radio show in January, he will be on pretty much during the same timeslot as Eric Davis, even though Tierney's show will be from 3-6 AM PT, while the NFL AM show is from 3-7 AM PT. But yes, just a random thought but, how ironic is that? They both worked together on 95.7, and come January they will have shows that will be on at the same time, so they will be competing against each other in a sense.
Anyone notice that Tierney is making more Chronicle Live appearances now? I think he's been on like 2 or 3 times this week. I guess he hasn't made his official move back to NYC yet, and he probably needs something to do jobwise, while he's in between jobs from 95.7 and his new CBS sports radio gig. I wonder how many more Chronicle Live appearances will he have, before his big move back to NYC.
It would be interesting if Tierneys show broadcasts on KNBR or 1050 as he used to rip them when 95.7 just started. I enjoy the ESPN content on 1050 - too bad it's going away
Ken- Ray Woodson is really not that bad on Sportsphone. Can he be boring and a little dry at times? Yes, but he's been a good essential replacement for Byrnes on Sportsphone (even though I guess it's not really official yet), he has good discussions with the callers on Sportsphone, and he knows how to handle the drunk/crazy callers at night even though I think they sometimes drive him crazy. LOL. Yeah, Woodson is no Damon Bruce or Larry Krueger on Sportsphone, but he's been pretty good on Sportsphone, pretty much ever since he took over for Byrnes on Sportsphone during the baseball season earlier this year. No offense to Kevin Lynch, but he really shouldn't be hosting Sportsphone whenever he fills in on Sportsphone. Yes, he has good 49er discussion, but the guy is boring. I'm sorry. He's ok filling in for Fitz and Brooks or Tom, but not Sportsphone. Tim Montemayor is ok whenever he fills in on Sportsphone, but I think he's good in the role he's in right now, as a fill-in host. I don't think I would want him as the full-time Sportsphone host though. But yeah, Woodson has done a good job on Sportsphone. I mean, to go from being the update guy to hosting Sportsphone pretty much full-time, there's something to be said for that.
I am very pro Ray Woodson. He is very even keeled and knows a good deal sports which allows him to do good post-game shows. Can he be sort of dry sometimes? perhaps but he doesn't try to be something he is not and you can tell the callers like talking to him. I endorse him for the full time role with no reservations. Go Ray!
The Bay Area Sports Guy reports about the radio wars with no bias; at least none that I detect. But it does seem to me that The Drive has people lurking here, clicking thumbs up and thumbs down to suit their interests, and KNBR couldn't care less. At least that's how I percieve it
I was driving home Sunday afternoon and listened to the Game and heard the Guru and ZAK or whomever and I got to tell you they were on fire, I mean going back and forth and it was passion and entertaining , guess I was the only 1 :)
The choice of BT to lead off the CBS sports morning is surprising since he is not a name talent like the others they have such as Jim Rome,Doug Gotlieb,even Scott Ferall and the pairing him wih with Barber and Jacobson both who never done talk radio and who are competing with well established Mike and Mike espn show. Athough the do have the airing on lots of well known sports talk stations.
Much respect to BASG for covering the "Radio Wars" between the 2 stations. But cannot help but sense that BASG and many of these commenters are biased slightly toward KNBR and have failed to cover objectively and fairly to the new guy in the marketing- the Game. You may not like all of the personalities from the Game, but you clearly get the sense that the PD-Jason B and all the producers and hosts are busting tails to produce genuine content. You can fault the Rise Guys' segments as gimmicky but they are pretty entertaining and even addictive for drive time commuers. Mr. T is a good personality but I still think he is much better when paired with folks with bigger personality (Ralph, or even BT hypothetically). Guys like Gary Radnich clearly doesn't know his stuff (does not know his sports and details); and Damon likes to rehash JR content.
Ken - You cannot possibly serious. Show me an article where BASG is biased towards KNBR. As far as being a commenter, I have no bias towards either station. I will listen to the people who I think are good. Both stations have their strengths (Bruce, Tolbert, Townsend, Brazil) of both have glaring weaknesses (Fitz, Brooks, Lund, Tierney). Of course, this is all personal preferences, but it can't be denied that the vast majority of commenters both here and on facebook didn't care for Tierney. I agree with you that the Rise Guys can be entertaining. I don't fault their gimmicky segments as it's part of the morning show vernacular and has been for decades. I also agree that Radnich knows nothing. I don't listen to Rome so I don't know if Damon rips Rome content. However, on several occasions, I've heard Tierney almost say verbatim something I heard the night before on a national show, whether it's ESPN or whatever. If Barrent and the producers and hosts are busting their tails to produce content, as you say, why is so much of the content recycled? I listened to an entire Lund program several times and heard them literally cover the same topics and say the exact same things during a show, not once, not twice, but thrice. To me, that says you are definitely not busting your tail. In all the years I've listened to sports radio, I've never heard content recycled like it is on the Game. Perhaps Barrett needs to stop flying to NY every weekend an focus a bit more on the station. I would like to see the Game succeed. I would like an alternative to KNBR. However, I don't have much faith in that happening until Barrett finally takes care of some business. Barrett should start with eliminating the endless amount of structure and gimmick segments. One per show is fine. Three per hour is overkill. It's just bad radio to hear an interesting interview or debate get cut short so they can get to "Truth or Trash" on time. I'd also like to see Barrett stop with the musical chairs. Once a guy is locked in, keep him there. When Lund takes a week off, don't move Towny there. Keep Towny there and get some else. Finally, what's going on after 7pm??? Is it Tittle? Is it Bernstein? Is it someone else? And when is the shift over? Is it 10pm? Is it 11pm? Is it midnight? Sorry for the diatribe, but I had to respond to your post. There's a lot of potential there, but Barrett needs to get on it!
As much I find fault with KNBR, they at least have segments that are organic in that its an actual conversation that can go many different directions rather than pre-packaged segments. When Razor &Mr T and Gary and the audience( or Bruno) were at their peak, you never know where it was going to go. The Game has way too much "in 10 minutes, we'll discuss...."
Hi AJ & TommyJ: Just want say thanks for the very informative and well-reasoned response to my post. I have to say you guys are right in correcting me, as I do, like many here, want to see the Game succeed. And I hope Jason Barrett is reading all of these listeners' comments because there is just so much room for improvement! It is great to see you guys being so passionate also about the state of the Bay Area sports media landscape! Kind of ironic that--Tierney & Davis, whose show got a big beating in rating from the rival KNBR, both have used the show to land big, high-profile national gigs at the NFL network and the CBS sports radio (or as big and as high-profile as those two relative national unknown can land at this stage of their careers). It shows that Jason Barrett in some respects knew what he is doing in assessing and acquiring talents (as opposed to Lee Hammer who appears to care less about substance and talent. Ray freaking Woodsen the business guy doing Sports Phone are you kidding me!!)--I guess he needs a break in getting people to start tuning in (and of course, all of that "in 7 minutes" stuff need to go)...
Exactly stated, TommyJ. And that can make for quite compelling radio. Replaying the same interview 3 times a show, doing the same 5 canned bits per show, and constantly promoting what's "coming up in 7 minutes" is just lazy radio. For some reason we get it, but Barrett fails to grasp this concept.
Are you Jason Barrett's father?
If Ratto joins KNBR to host a show, I will officially discontinue listening to KNBR forever. He is such a Debbie Downer on air. His articles are decent. But then again, Lowell Cohen is still around.
The new pairing immediately is the Games strongest show. Tolbert does get seemingly disinterested/bored quite a bit. Ratto can't be there all the time which means that abomination Byrnes. And they do run a ridiculous amount of commercials (a frequent complaint about knbr amongst commentors). I will definitely give the Drive more my time with this pairing ( now about Lund.....)
Townsend/Bucher That can actually hold serve against Mr. T and might force KNBR to do something other than rotating hosts.
If you have seen the ratings I think it will take a lot more then essentially Townsend just moving to another spot to really challenge Tom's position.
Townsend for Tierney is a big swap. I have no idea why Barrett ever thought that we'd all tune in during our drive home to listen to a New York blowhard pretend to give a shit about Bay Area sports. Townsend has an undeniable passion for the local teams (especially the A's) and that shows through.
I'll admit, that's one thing I won't miss about Tierney. He disagreed on everything. It was kind of rare when he said he agreed on something.
LOL DB3
Somewhere, BT is disagreeing with this article.
BTW, I'm sorry BASG but, what's up with the new format on this site? I still get the old one from my phone, but whenever I'm on this site from my laptop, I get the new format.
That's interesting that Tierney cancelled all his shows on 95.7 this week, so I guess he won't have an official goodbye show from 95.7 as well, just like Eric Davis and Drew Hoffar. I just think that's a bad way to do business, but oh well. Tierney wasn't really that well liked here anyway, and it probably would've been awkward if he did a last show knowing that he's on his way out anyway. You almost kind of feel bad for Bucher in all of this, but him being paired up with Townsend is a better pairing anyway, the show flows better, and they take more calls. I'm sure Bucher knew about this because whenever he pimps the show on Warrior telecasts, the past couple of Warrior home games he just said listen to him on 95.7 from 3-7 on weekdays, as opposed to saying listen to him and Tierney on 95.7 from 3-7 PM on weekdays. By the way, does anyone else find him pimping the show on Warrior telecasts, when Fitz has his show on KNBR and is a KNBR guy and Bucher has his show on 95.7 and is a 95.7 guy? But yeah, very strange news, considering that Tierney sounded like he wanted to stay in the Bay Area and make it work at 95.7, even though Tierney did need to go though. Even though we all aren't really fans of Tierney, congratulations to Tierney on the new gig! This is huge for him to go national. Plus, he gets to go back to NYC where he was probably more comfortable anyway.
Raddy taking shots at bloggers "Who couldn't get a job in the business" "They have miserable lives"..I dunno,BASG seems pretty happy with his wife. And Gare's old line?..It was much harder to get into hosting a blog Gare,when there was no internet-geddit?..You don't seem to. BASG wasn't into home computers in 1968 either. How do you get a job in a business that didn't exist for most of Raddy's career? For somebody like him to brag that he can afford the best of everything...and still be so shallow and insecure says much about him. I guess he wants even more?
For someone who doesn't listen to Radnich, you sure listen to a lot of Radnich.
You already played your hand as a strange republican and raddy lover via the survey. SO stop trying to sound normal and not a rabid KNBR fan. !!!
Stan- If you don't like Gary Radnich, that's fine, a lot of people feel the same way. But the anti-Gary people DON'T LISTEN TO HIS SHOW But the way you constantly quote him and reference him .... it's as if you listen to him every day.
Ok,how's this..Radnich is a liar and a manipulator. And he knows,I KNOW.
This response is so canned Stan. It's like you're not even trying anymore. I miss the Stan of 6 months ago that actually seemed to try.
The Townshend/Bucher matchup was pretty good last week, too bad, doubt they would kill The Pulse already. Chris and Rick had fun, talked sports, were interesting, took calls, and didn't sigh over the callers. I never wanted to switch because of TA (Tierney Annoyance.) Hopefully more of the same this week.
If KNBR goes with Ratto/Tolbert against the Game's Townsend/Bucher, I will be a happy man at drive time. Towny is good with anyone who can keep up (not Steinmetz) and Tolbert/Ratto have really good chemistry. Won't happen though.
The Towny/Bucher matchup makes the most sense and would be the best due to compete against Tolbert. In other words, Barrett won't do it.
Towny is now paired with Bucher. I'm simply amazed that Barrett finally pulled the trigger for something we've been asking him to do for months.
It appears nothing is happening anytime this week. A tweet from an hour ago... Roxy Bernstein @roxybernstein Next up on college hoops slate: #SeattleU at #Stanford Wednesday on @pac12 Networks. Tues & Thurs co-host with @RicBucher on @957thegame
HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!!!! Watch them say nothing about Tierney and tell us that some random player from the Giants or A's will be coming on once a week starting in March.
This morning they said they had a HUGE announcement at 4pm on thegame Anythings better then Raddy sounding like a princess "Larry SAVED ME! Ohhh". "And,I want the whole world to know!" Putrid.
Slightly off-topic, but anyone notice how many times in the last week during 'discussions', a host says something to the effect of 'well, I disagree with you, but not just to generate conversation because we don't do that here' or something like that? Notice how that's suddenly become a line across multiple shows? Seems like Barrett's picked up on the fact that people are onto the manufactured disagreements he's got his hosts doing so now he's got them doing disclaimers. I mostly mention this cause Tierney was the king of fake disagreements.
FFUC - and it only took him a year
1050 already carries espn radio. not sure why they would drop espn for cbs.
Because both KNBR stations are owned by Cumulus, and Cumulus and CBS Sports Radio are now partners. CBS will want Cumulus to air their content, and doing so makes financial sense for both parties.
I've gotten a tweet that bellboy has cancelled all his remaining shows. I guess we shall see at 3pm. If it's true, at least he's finally adapted to the listeners.
Anyone else find it funny that the listeners essentially broke this story over a week before the station even acknowledges the move? Are we "insiders"? :) Good riddance, bellboy.