puget-sound-sportscape Stories - Sounder At Heart
Regular Major Media Coverage of Sounders FC
A few soccer fans have asked me if I think that Sounders FC and MLS are getting enough coverage in the Seattle market. They point out the 30,000 or so crowd, the good TV ratings for games so far and the general excitement they notice on the streets. But, maybe the problem isn't the media. Maybe...
And now there are two
There are now two sports stations with local programming complimented by national backbone. Yesterday I was able to catch only a few segments of Kevin Calabro in the afternoon, yet stayed on Mitch in the Morning. Over the next few weeks we will get to discover if either station goes for more...
Rave Green Griffey?
So in listening to today's Ken Griffey Jr. Press Conference I started to ponder, "what would it take for Sounders FC to have a Griffey?" It isn't that soccer can't have a transformative figure, one with which entire communities identify, for we have seen it in other less than top tier...
Chelsea to play at Qwest and Training Camp news
1st the BIG news Seattle Sounders FC will host Chelsea FC of the Premiership. This according to Prost Amerika. This has long been rumored and it looks like ECS confirms. It may be a friendly, but it will be an enormous crowd at Qwest, dominated by the Rave Green in the lower bowl. Tests like...
MLS Draft Talk Saturday on KJR - Update x 2
Dick Fain will be having Matt Gaschk on for a segment today to chat about the results of the Super Draft. No word yet as to what time they will do their little chat. Fain in the past was kind enough to give me 10 minutes to talk about how he will approach MLS in this town. He said then that he...
Let's get on that Magic Mic and Ride
Our play-by-play man is going to have a full-time Monday through Friday job right here in Seattle. 710 ESPN Seattle is going to have Kevin Calabro on the air talking sports. Sure he's only one host, but he's a huge name. Romero had it at the Times. Here's the blog entry at MyNorthwest.com The...
Puget Sound SportScape: Sports Radio KJR-AM Seattle
The Puget Sound SportScape is intended to be a series of stories about the changing dynamics of the sports entertainment dollar in the Greater Puget Sound. After several decades as a three sport town, our landscape is changing. Sports fans are losing the Sonics, gaining Sounders FC, the economy at...
Soon there will be two - KIRO-AM to join KJR-AM as sports station
Some people may have missed this, but my old employer is about to have competition. KIRO AM to Shift to all sports Although Bonneville International laid off six newsroom employees and one engineer on Monday, the station is expected to hire an assistant program director who would format the sports...
Puget Sound SportScape: Seattle Mariners
The Puget Sound SportScape is intended to be a series of stories about the changing dynamics of the sports entertainment dollar in the Greater Puget Sound. After several decades as a three sport town, our landscape is changing. Sports fans are losing the Sonics, gaining Sounders FC, the economy at...
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