Wonder if there is any chance that 620 also picks up Canes games to provide an AM presence (and presumably larger broadcast coverage area)? I guess not, since the need for that AM presence isn't quite the same now.
With webcasts and Sirius/XM, the day of dialing in the out-of-state AM stations to hear other games is largely-gone, but it was a fixture of my youth (although I sometimes will go to 660 and listen to a Devils game, or see what else I can get just for the heck of it).
I don't know if many of you are old enough to remember when it was the thing to see what out-of-area AM stations (and baseball or hockey games) you could pick up at night. I used to lie in bed and listen to stations from New Orleans to Miami to the northeast and midwest and think how cool that was (times were a little different then pre-cable, pre-computerm, pre-video games - there was not much in the way of late night entertainment options
).
I remember probably the first larger city sports radio show I heard (the ones around Charlotte where I grew up were very local), at night you could pick up WWWE ("3WE") in Cleveland and there was a forerunner of the 'shockjock' there named Pete Franklin (I think, can't recall his last name) who would talk sports and absolutely ridicule some of his guests. This was in the 70's, and in the Carolinas we'd never heard anything like that. A harbinger of things to come.
As to the lineup, I was hoping that Mike M might inherit the second slot that he has been filling in on for that 99.9 afternoon show. If they are going to keep it as Jackson and Thomas, somebody please turn Mark Thomas' microphone off whenever they talk hockey. Mark was a good football player, and as a former college football player with a cup of coffee in the pros I guess he fills the football need (albeit biasedly), but I almost physically cringe whenever he asks a question of a hockey guest.
