All Purpose Media Thread

[AnalogKid]

Any chance we can put Willy D on waivers with the first group of kids heading back to Milwaukee? He obviously did not take his off season training regimen seriously and it shows he still horrible to listen to. He calls games about as well as Ben Harper plays.

 

[AintLifeGrand]

Who are the dudes that do cat fish on ice podcast? I could only make it through 15 min of last nights episode before giving up .

 

[Armourboy]

Yeah dunno why they don't find someone halfway decent. He's definitely below average and the fact he makes calls based on other sports is seriously irritating. It is not a foul

 

[triggrman]

Who are the dudes that do cat fish on ice podcast? I could only make it through 15 min of last nights episode before giving up .

Painful.

 

[Predsanddead24]

What irks me most about our play by play is that we have Weber-Gill which I think are great but they're stuck on the radio. Wish there were a way to listen to them alongside the TV broadcast without having to go through the hassle of syncing them up.

 

[ShagDaddy]

Villie D is a baseball guy. He’s always been a baseball guy and he will always be a baseball guy. Why the people rganization didn’t go after another hockey person like Krispy baffles me to no end.

 

[Scoresberg]

Man, listening to Weber in that 1st pre-season game.. it was pure gold.

 

[drwpreds]

Man, listening to Weber in that 1st pre-season game.. it was pure gold.

Exactly- night day difference from the 2nd game that night. Ugh

Watched a couple of minutes of Seattle pre-season game last night and they have freaking John Forslund and Eddie Olczyk doing their games.

Forslund is my favorite play by play guy in the entire league, and I would pay money, a good bit of money, to be able to listen to him do all the Preds games.

 

[GoldOnGold]

I had hoped Willie would get better after a couple of years, but it really hasn't happened. I really wish he was on radio (my apologies to those who listen primarily via radio).

Unrelated funny clip of Hynes:

 

[Softball99]

 

[nine_inch_fang]

Hmmm, if they're real journalists and understand hockey they'd probably be posting somewhere other than Twitter while regurgitating Twitter bullshit.

 

[ShagDaddy]

Yeah…..if I’m having to go to twitter or some obscure corner of the internet to get less than adequate coverage of the best sports franchise in Nashville, I’m still gonna complain about lack of coverage. Twitter is a cess pool that you refuse to get in to. The “local media” does a trash job of covering the Preds. The radio station that claims to be the “Flagship of the Predators” MIGHT talk about them for 30 minutes during a program on a good day. I doubt any one on that station could talk intelligently about any of the other teams in the NHL. If someone handed them a roster for the Admirals, they’d have no clue what they were looking at.

But they can drone on for hours on end about the most obscure players on any roster until NFL……..

 

[Viqsi]

Yeah…..if I’m having to go to twitter or some obscure corner of the internet to get less than adequate coverage of the best sports franchise in Nashville, I’m still gonna complain about lack of coverage. Twitter is a cess pool that you refuse to get in to. The “local media” does a trash job of covering the Preds. The radio station that claims to be the “Flagship of the Predators” MIGHT talk about them for 30 minutes during a program on a good day. I doubt any one on that station could talk intelligently about any of the other teams in the NHL. If someone handed them a roster for the Admirals, they’d have no clue what they were looking at.

But they can drone on for hours on end about the most obscure players on any roster until NFL……..

You can wait forever and it will never change. Traditional media is dying because more and more people voluntarily take the route you're describing as "some obscure corner of the Internet", and so they're cutting back to that which gets the most casual attention and thus the most dollars. And that's always going to be football.

We have the same phenomenon going on up here. If all you paid attention to was traditional media channels, you'd think Buckeye football was the only thing that ever happens here. It's the state of sports media in general right now.

 

[adsfan]

Any chance we can put Willy D on waivers with the first group of kids heading back to Milwaukee? He obviously did not take his off season training regimen seriously and it shows he still horrible to listen to. He calls games about as well as Ben Harper plays.

We have Aaron Sims back to do the games on radio. Aaron has a backup if he gets sick or works the rare TV telecast game.

 

[adsfan]

Yeah…..if I’m having to go to twitter or some obscure corner of the internet to get less than adequate coverage of the best sports franchise in Nashville, I’m still gonna complain about lack of coverage. Twitter is a cess pool that you refuse to get in to. The “local media” does a trash job of covering the Preds. The radio station that claims to be the “Flagship of the Predators” MIGHT talk about them for 30 minutes during a program on a good day. I doubt any one on that station could talk intelligently about any of the other teams in the NHL. If someone handed them a roster for the Admirals, they’d have no clue what they were looking at.

But they can drone on for hours on end about the most obscure players on any roster until NFL……..

You over rate the level of intelligence of the TWITS, sir!

 

[adsfan]

You can wait forever and it will never change. Traditional media is dying because more and more people voluntarily take the route you're describing as "some obscure corner of the Internet", and so they're cutting back to that which gets the most casual attention and thus the most dollars. And that's always going to be football.

We have the same phenomenon going on up here. If all you paid attention to was traditional media channels, you'd think Buckeye football was the only thing that ever happens here. It's the state of sports media in general right now.

The Buckeyes were the second best college football team in the entire state of Ohio last year.

How much did the Dispatch, Post, Messenger and Lantern cover the Bearcats?

 

[ShagDaddy]

You can wait forever and it will never change. Traditional media is dying because more and more people voluntarily take the route you're describing as "some obscure corner of the Internet", and so they're cutting back to that which gets the most casual attention and thus the most dollars. And that's always going to be football.

We have the same phenomenon going on up here. If all you paid attention to was traditional media channels, you'd think Buckeye football was the only thing that ever happens here. It's the state of sports media in general right now.

You can wait forever and it will never change. Traditional media is dying because more and more people voluntarily take the route you're describing as "some obscure corner of the Internet", and so they're cutting back to that which gets the most casual attention and thus the most dollars. And that's always going to be football.

We have the same phenomenon going on up here. If all you paid attention to was traditional media channels, you'd think Buckeye football was the only thing that ever happens here. It's the state of sports media in general right now.

In today’s society, the media drives the narrative. Twitter, blogs and obscure websites by people that decided they wanted to be “journalist” this week, will never have the same sway. Will the journalist/sports writer wannabes put out content? Sure they will. Will that content be of any quality? Probably not because the team has no idea who they are and aren’t going to share much of anything with them.

Like it or not, radio stations and TV stations still have the credentialed reporters/journalist that the organization will talk to. The TV stations and radio stations refuse to dedicate much of their shows to the Preds keeping the team from being more prominent than they are. If the media decides tomorrow to dedicate half their coverage to the Preds, the local market would start paying more attention to the Preds growing the fan base, the fan base knowledge of hockey would expand and would lead to the local market wanting even more. The media just refuses to do that.

The actual media holds all the cards and the wannabe bloggers/twittersphere/obscure website folks will never provide much quality content.

 

[Viqsi]

In today’s society, the media drives the narrative. Twitter, blogs and obscure websites by people that decided they wanted to be “journalist” this week, will never have the same sway. Will the journalist/sports writer wannabes put out content? Sure they will. Will that content be of any quality? Probably not because the team has no idea who they are and aren’t going to share much of anything with them.

Like it or not, radio stations and TV stations still have the credentialed reporters/journalist that the organization will talk to.

Um. So do the blogs. And the Twitterati. A number of folks in that list of "local media" sources on Twitter are in fact so credentialed. A couple are going to Prague with the team.

 

[LCPreds]

It’s really easy to curate a twitter feed. If you are being bombarded with stupidity on twitter then you’re likely the one doing something wrong.

 

[nine_inch_fang]

It’s really easy to curate a twitter feed. If you are being bombarded with stupidity on twitter then you’re likely the one doing something wrong.

It's pretty easy to be bombarded with stupidity just following the Preds official feed.

 

[LCPreds]

It's pretty easy to be bombarded with stupidity just following the Preds official feed.

Stupidity from the Preds? Or from the people commenting? If the former then you can just stop following them. If the latter then just don’t read the comments.

 

[ShagDaddy]

Um. So do the blogs. And the Twitterati. A number of folks in that list of "local media" sources on Twitter are in fact so credentialed. A couple are going to Prague with the team.

If you’re considering Twitter to be local media, then I’m voting for Nine_inch_fang to create a Twitter account so that the “local media” has someone that can spell NHL…..

 

[101st_fan]

If you’re considering Twitter to be local media, then I’m voting for Nine_inch_fang to create a Twitter account so that the “local media” has someone that can spell NHL…..

In the true spirit of Twitter

HELL NO, %$%$@##, (insert personal insults here) ......

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

In today’s society, the media drives the narrative. Twitter, blogs and obscure websites by people that decided they wanted to be “journalist” this week, will never have the same sway. Will the journalist/sports writer wannabes put out content? Sure they will. Will that content be of any quality? Probably not because the team has no idea who they are and aren’t going to share much of anything with them.

Like it or not, radio stations and TV stations still have the credentialed reporters/journalist that the organization will talk to. The TV stations and radio stations refuse to dedicate much of their shows to the Preds keeping the team from being more prominent than they are. If the media decides tomorrow to dedicate half their coverage to the Preds, the local market would start paying more attention to the Preds growing the fan base, the fan base knowledge of hockey would expand and would lead to the local market wanting even more. The media just refuses to do that.

The actual media holds all the cards and the wannabe bloggers/twittersphere/obscure website folks will never provide much quality content.

But I don't think most people really care about "quality content"... or know the difference. Or care to find out the difference. They just want the fire hose pointed into their face, and they'll take whatever comes out, whether it's true, false, "quality", junk, whatever. They are going to be sitting at their devices clicking all those types of media for all their other daily content anyway. That's how people live now. And so yeah, sadly they will cheerfully consume any such junk content, and it won't really matter what some small minority of more "serious" fans would rather see.

 

[Olderfan]

Use of the term “journalist” to describe the local media is stretching it a bit. Some are but mostly a bunch of folks who offer opinions just like we do. Only they do it for money, fame or both. Many of the media today covering sports and news are a bunch of kids who got a first job after obtaining some sort of communications degree. They come and go. We hear and see them; ever changing but hardly journalists. I put less value on most of their work than I do some of the informed opinions on this board(myself excluded). It’s a shame really given the excellent team journalists of the past in this sports market.