[TomSportsHack]

Tom, you have been gone too long.
103.1 has now begun playing '70's rock thru late '90's.

It's about time somebody woke up.

The AM's are the hottest thing going here....fastest growing in eastern KY.
All talk weekdays 6a-7p.........Sporting News Radio 7p-6a weeknights....Sp News Radio 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday.

What happens when TSN's new management decides it's not interested in being in the radio business anymore? That day will come, and sooner rather than later. Former TSN owner Paul Allen was trying to build a multimedia powerhouse (print, Internet, radio and eventually TV) and gave up; American City Business Journals is a print publisher first and foremost.

BTW...you of all people should understand that someone has to pay the bills(even if it is an annoying attorney)...if you want local radio with local games, local news, local info...

I listen to the radio for music rather than talk and rarely listen to sports radio of any kind anymore (comes with being out of the business, I guess). And with satellite, I pay the bills so I don't have to listen to commercials.

there must be ads or else local radio stations will become like the News Express, which is struggling for it's publishing life due to the loss of advertisers.

And why is it losing advertisers? Methinks it has something to do with the way the Alabama management has hamstrung its news staff to inflate its profit ratio. At the end of the day, newspapers' survival or failure will have much to do with content quality; advertising revenue shortfalls are a secondary symptom of a self-inflicted disease.