Change in Omaha Sports Radio

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Sun Aug 31, 2014 2:20 pm

Greg S wrote:I agree on Vrzal. OK for a fill in but not perm. The show got boring at times.

Greg

I agree. He just didn't have enough energy to make the show interesting. Josh does. That said, he also is able to contain himself enough to where he isn't a spaz like Bahe.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 10:48 am

Anyone heard anything about why the 1180 Zone 2 the Deuce streaming has not worked all week?

Post by **nebugeater** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:37 am

Brad wrote:Anyone heard anything about why the 1180 Zone 2 the Deuce streaming has not worked all week?

No idea but 1620 the Zone has been working fine, but I am sure you know that. You would think that it would be both or neither.

Post by **Brad** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:45 am

nebugeater wrote:
Brad wrote:Anyone heard anything about why the 1180 Zone 2 the Deuce streaming has not worked all week?

No idea but 1620 the Zone has been working fine, but I am sure you know that. You would think that it would be both or neither.

No, I can't remember the last time I turned on 1620. I go find the 1180 shows on stations in other cities when 1180 is not working.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:51 am

Brad can't handle Husker talk 24/7

Post by **Brad** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 12:01 pm

Coyote wrote:Brad can't handle Husker talk 24/7

I can't handle any talk 24-7, its just not a husker thing. That said, the last thing I want to hear about this week would be the whole clapping BS...

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 3:50 pm

The whole reason that 1620 was good back when unsportsmanlike conduct started was that they weren't husk-jay parrots. You could hear about other stuff. If that is gone, there is really little that attracts me to any sports radio in Omaha. Non-stop skers all fall and then non-stop blue jays all winter. Yuck.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 5:46 pm

Michael Bishop has made USC unlistenable, the guy is awful. The other guys on 590 are pretty boring too, besides Sharp and Benning Omaha sports talk is awful.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:09 pm

Good thing they don't have former QB Michael Bishop, and instead have John Bishop. Makes it only slightly more of a joy to listen to.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 6:52 pm

Lol, my bad, apparently I have early 2000s Kansas state on my mind.

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 7:19 pm

Linkin5 wrote:Lol, my bad, apparently I have early 2000s Kansas state on my mind.

Haha, when I first saw that I had to do a double take. I wonder whatever happened to him, I think he went to the CFL.

guitarguy · Post by **guitarguy** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 8:46 pm

Does Matt Parrault still do radio here in town? He was the only guy I actually liked listening to a few years back.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Thu Oct 09, 2014 11:35 pm

I believe Perrault is living out of his car somewhere.

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 6:07 am

Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.

Post by **nebugeater** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:14 am

I follow Perrault on Twitter and see his tweets once in a while. I believe he is doing radio on the east coast somewhere near his home stomping grounds. While I never really liked listening to him that much I think he had some talent. His topics that he wanted to run into the ground where not my fav but he seemed to do his homework and stay somewhat constant.

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:53 am

I know he left the New Hampshire ESPN radio gig earlier in the year. Not sure if he has landed any where else yet.

Greg

cp jay 07 · Post by **cp jay 07** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 8:53 am

bigredmed wrote:Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.

Hey don't throw him in with us, we hated him just as much as you. I think Perrault is the only person to unite CU, UNL, UI, and ISU fans on one subject, how big of a Dbag he is.

Also Your first line describes the new Perrault in town, Greg Sharpe on 1620, just replace Jays with Huskers and you have his model. I don't know how anyone can listen to Sharpe and Benning over DP on 1180.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:33 am

This all begs the question: would a balanced local radio program maintain sufficient ratings and commercial revenue for a GM to keep it on the air? And I'm not just talking about a NU/CU balance. Granted 'local' programming caters to what their listeners are interested in, but looking at Omahans preference for NFL, NHL, NBA and even MLB teams, would a more general discussion on professional sports draw interest, or is Omaha only attentive to college sports with a little PCL talk every once in a while, or even USHL once a year? Does Omaha have the talent, could get and keep the talent to provide thus format? Do we have a station with the knowledge in marketing such a format?

Post by **Brad** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:49 am

Coyote wrote:This all begs the question: would a balanced local radio program maintain sufficient ratings and commercial revenue for a GM to keep it on the air? And I'm not just talking about a NU/CU balance. Granted 'local' programming caters to what their listeners are interested in, but looking at Omahans preference for NFL, NHL, NBA and even MLB teams, would a more general discussion on professional sports draw interest, or is Omaha only attentive to college sports with a little PCL talk every once in a while, or even USHL once a year? Does Omaha have the talent, could get and keep the talent to provide thus format? Do we have a station with the knowledge in marketing such a format?

No UNO Talk???

I think too many people in this state want Huskers 24-7.

I haven't caught Nick Handley's show on 590 recently. I would hope the Public Address announcer for UNO Hockey would talk a little UNO Hockey. May be I should tune in today.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 10:52 am

Brad wrote: No UNO Talk??? .

I threw that in with "or is Omaha only attentive to college sports with..."

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:50 am

The peak of the product from Unsportsmanlike Conduct was when they would talk about anything. We didn't get Homers that only talked about Huskers or Jays. We didn't get ESPN "Pro-Only" D-bags that looked down on college. MOST of all we got guys who talked about guy-oriented topics. We need a show that will cover the usual teams and UNO and the other smaller teams.

I want a show that is run by people who are into sports and into cool stuff that I can do on the week-end. If UNO soccer is really building up, I want to know (before the next game), because as a STH for Hockey, I have 4 free tickets to anything in UNO sports and I might want to catch a game. I won't know to do this till after the game is over and the OWH covers it. If I have a show that really covers sports, I will know in advance.

We need a show that has the balls to cover non-traditional sports. Anyone aware that trapshooting is one of the biggest sports in high school in Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota? That is without teams in Omaha (except CP and Marian). Anyone know that Midlands has a shotgun team with scholarships and a coach from the US Olympic team? Anyone know that a girl from Marian got selected for the Olympic development team in trapshooting? Anyone know about the "Family Fun Shoot" at Pheasant Bonanza last Saturday where you got unlimited sporting clays and dinner for $45? A real sports radio show would have the stones to cover shooting sports and not cave to PC gun haters. Especially when some new thing or cool event is coming up.

Give me that. Give me more than 10 minutes between commercials. Give me someone who is not just another jock sniffing Jaysker homer. Give me a station that has a signal you can hear all over Omaha, and you got a listener.

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:05 pm

cp jay 07 wrote:
bigredmed wrote:Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.
Hey don't throw him in with us, we hated him just as much as you. I think Perrault is the only person to unite CU, UNL, UI, and ISU fans on one subject, how big of a Dbag he is.

Also Your first line describes the new Perrault in town, Greg Sharpe on 1620, just replace Jays with Huskers and you have his model. I don't know how anyone can listen to Sharpe and Benning over DP on 1180.

It's funny is Gary Sharp was actually forced off the air in Lincoln on Sports Nightly years ago, because he was not "pro Husker" enough. That's how he ended up in Florida.

I actually think Sharp and Benning are as good as it gets around here (close to when Kevin Kugler was on the air). They obviously talk Huskers but they also hit the local high school scene, NBA, NHL (Sharp really knows hockey), and with Sharp doing so much UNO stuff now, UNO sports. They do talk Creighton as well but not nearly as much as Nick Bahe and John Bishop.

Sharp and Benning finished #27 last year in the top 30 sports talkers nationally from Radio Ink Magazine....

Greg

MadMartin8 · Post by **MadMartin8** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:46 pm

Sharp is good, I don't mind him. Damon "everyone is my man" Benning is insufferable to listen to. So condescending and brings little to entertain. He may know football, but not much else.

cp jay 07 · Post by **cp jay 07** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 4:24 pm

I will admit Sharp is good for hockey talk. It just seemed like whenever they talked about the Jays the morning after a game Sharp would not seem interested, make jokes about them, or just admit he didn't watch the game. I never thought I would say this but Benning actually brings up good points when talking about Jays basketball and I actually really enjoyed listening to him morning after games.

Since CU has gone over to 1620 I can't tell you a thing about 590 honestly. None of the ESPN programs interest me and getting a guy from Columbus, NE to do afternoon talk didn't really excite me either.

HskrFanMike · Post by **HskrFanMike** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:43 pm

cp jay 07 wrote:Also Your first line describes the new Perrault in town, Greg Sharpe on 1620, just replace Jays with Huskers and you have his model. I don't know how anyone can listen to Sharpe and Benning over DP on 1180.

It's Gary Sharp. And his show with Damon Benning is the best sports talk show in the area. Period. Solid, unhyped, and substantive. It's a local show, so if you want all-national talk, you'd have to go to Dan Patrick (who's horrible BTW).

Greg Sharpe is the play-by-play announcer of Nebraska football and baseball, and the regular host of Sports Nightly...and you'd expect that to be primarily Husker based, because it's run out of Lincoln by the network that syndicates Nebraska sports broadcasts.

GRANDPASMUCKER · Post by **GRANDPASMUCKER** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 10:15 pm

bigredmed wrote:Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.

Perrault got ran out of town because he wouldn't suck up to management. Radio isn't any different then most jobs. If you are not kissing up to your bosses you get fired no matter how talented you are. The ones that have been around the longest are the ones that know how to stroke the bosses the best. Talent is secondary at best.

Linkin5 · Post by **Linkin5** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 12:47 am

GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:
bigredmed wrote:Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.
Perrault got ran out of town because he wouldn't suck up to management. Radio isn't any different then most jobs. If you are not kissing up to your bosses you get fired no matter how talented you are. The ones that have been around the longest are the ones that know how to stroke the bosses the best. Talent is secondary at best.

There is nobody else around. Holy |expletive| I should have known your d0uche a$$ is Perrault.

GRANDPASMUCKER · Post by **GRANDPASMUCKER** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:08 am

Linkin5 wrote:
GRANDPASMUCKER wrote:
bigredmed wrote:Perrault has been off the air for years. He was a Bluejay jock sniffer. Hated the Huskers, and was orgasmic over Creighton. UNO could have played so well the dead came back to life just to see the final minutes, and he wouldn't talk about it. Sadly, as biased as he was, the station he worked for managed to find replacement shows that sucked even worse.
Perrault got ran out of town because he wouldn't suck up to management. Radio isn't any different then most jobs. If you are not kissing up to your bosses you get fired no matter how talented you are. The ones that have been around the longest are the ones that know how to stroke the bosses the best. Talent is secondary at best.
There is nobody else around. Holy |expletive| I should have known your d0uche a$$ is Perrault.

You hate Perrault and you hate me and you have a potty mouth and yet I'm the bad guy. I get it. These internet forums are like the Bizzaro World that Seinfield used to talk about. Here in internet Bizzarro World good is bad, geeks are cool, up is down, hot is cold............I get it!

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 8:45 am

Actually Perrault had the chance to stay. It was during the economic downturn. Budgets being cut all over radio. He had an offer to stay but they also wanted him more involved in sales and he declined. I heard that straight from a major sponsor of his show who really liked him.

Greg

GRANDPASMUCKER · Post by **GRANDPASMUCKER** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:15 am

Greg S wrote:Actually Perrault had the chance to stay. It was during the economic downturn. Budgets being cut all over radio. He had an offer to stay but they also wanted him more involved in sales and he declined. I heard that straight from a major sponsor of his show who really liked him.

Greg

That's interesting. Help me with this but isn't that the same company that pays Todd N Tyler 250,000 a piece a year? I have no idea but If I was to guess I would say that Matt Perrault was lucky if he made 30,000 a year. Not exactly an amount that was breaking their bank.

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:57 am

It's all about the ratings my friend. Obviously TNT is a whole different ballgame than what MP was bringing to the table.

Greg

Post by **nebugeater** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 5:26 am

It is thanksgiving morning and look every other day of the year I am up.early I turn on 1620 sometime before 5 AM and listen to the end of the show that was on. At 5 a show come on and it sounds familiar but I wasn't sure. It was / is Matt Perrault on a Yahoo Sports Radio sindicated show. Listing to the first 20 min so fare and it has been mentioned as the dabue show for him on Yahoo Sports Radio. Will be interesting to see if this is a daily or some sort of random fill in show. He introduced himself and named the places he had done sports talk by state. Taking calls and has some guests lined up.

bigredmed · Post by **bigredmed** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:07 am

nebugeater wrote:It is thanksgiving morning and look every other day of the year I am up.early I turn on 1620 sometime before 5 AM and listen to the end of the show that was on. At 5 a show come on and it sounds familiar but I wasn't sure. It was / is Matt Perrault on a Yahoo Sports Radio sindicated show. Listing to the first 20 min so fare and it has been mentioned as the dabue show for him on Yahoo Sports Radio. Will be interesting to see if this is a daily or some sort of random fill in show. He introduced himself and named the places he had done sports talk by state. Taking calls and has some guests lined up.

Good luck to him.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 9:22 am

Matt Perrault wrote:I'm a sports talk show host and radio professional who is currently working for the Yahoo! Sports Radio national network based in Houston. I've also worked in Nashua/Manchester, Boston, Des Moines, Omaha, Kansas City, Charlottesville, and Huntsville (AL).

My experience includes every aspect of sports radio from on-air work to sales to programming. I've done it all and continue to work hard to grow the business of sports radio through great content and killer sales platforms.

I recently was the General Manager of Absolute Broadcasting which owned ESPN New Hampshire and WSMN "Nashua's News and Talk" and host on the WEEI Sports Radio Network in New England before moving to Houston.

Specialties: Trained by Bill Dunnavant (who started the career of Sean Hannity) and Peter Thiele (formerly ops manager of Salem NY) in Huntsville, Alabama. Has hosted top rated sports talk shows in 4 different markets (Charlottesville, Huntsville, Omaha, Des Moines).

Has history of being ranked consistently in the Top 5 for all male demos.

Awards Matt has been associated with:

2008 Winner of the Nebraska Gold Award for Community Service for Big Sports 590's coverage of the Westroads Mall Shooting by the Nebraska Broadcasters Association

2013 Winner for Best Spot News Coverage for ESPN New Hampshire's coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings by the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters

2013 Winner for Best Play-by-Play for ESPN New Hampshire's coverage of the DII boys basketball championship by the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters

2013 Merit Winner for Community Service for ESPN New Hampshire's PSA for Team Impact by the New Hampshire Association of Broadcasters

Post by **nebugeater** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 7:36 am

Saw this come across the Tweeter feed last night

Matt Perrault
@sportstalkmatt
@rjchoppy I moved to Houston in November. I'm working for Yahoo Sports Radio now. My national wkend show starts this week.

Looks like Matt is no longer in his home area on the East Coast.

Did a little Google search and see that he has a regurlly schedualed weekend show now on Yahoo Radio that is just starting this weekend and it looks like he has a lot of fill in happening during the Holiday period.

http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archi ... WIWNf.uxfs" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

YAHOO! SPORTS RADIO has added four new hosts to its lineup for 2015.
Long-time "Sports Talk" host ANTHONY PEPE will bring the fans' perspective back to radio weekdays from 10a-12p (ET), beginning MONDAY, JANUARY 5th.

Broadcasting SATURDAYS and SUNDAYS 2-6p (ET), starting JANUARY 3rd, sports host MATT PERRAULT will spotlight the week in sports .

Launching JANUARY 4th and airing SUNDAYS 6-8p (ET), will be morning anchor and "Sports Talk" host TIM MURRAY, who will deliver professional and college football talk, with a college hoops focus.

Finally, "The Big Lead" founder and publisher JASON McINTYRE will provide a roundup of the week’s sports headlines and entertainment SUNDAYS from 11a.-2p (ET), debuting JANUARY 11th.

“We look forward to this expansion of our talented lineup, as we welcome ANTHONY, MATT, JASON and TIM to our 2015 lineup,” said YAHOO! SPORTS RADIO COO and Program Director CRAIG LARSON. “The experience of all four in the sports broadcast realm, combined with their business-minded backgrounds, will deliver both great content and great opportunities for new and existing partners.”

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:19 am

I think the only time I've heard Yahoo sports radio was in Cedar Rapids, though the signal might have been coming from somewhere else.

Greg

Post by **nebugeater** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 8:55 am

Greg S wrote:I think the only time I've heard Yahoo sports radio was in Cedar Rapids, though the signal might have been coming from somewhere else.

Greg

They are just another sindicator. I believe that 1620 / 1180 in Omaha carries some of their programming.

EDIT

Did a search and here is a list of affiliates. 1620 / 1180 are listed'

http://www.yahoosportsradio.com/affiliates/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Wed Dec 31, 2014 11:30 am

I wonder when they run it? I can't remember hearing Yahoo sports mentioned on either one.

Greg

Greg S · Post by **Greg S** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 8:40 am

With the rights to the Huskers going to Big Sports 590, going to be interesting times in Sports radio. Wonder if ESPN eventually goes back to 1620? If you think about it, a bunch of the ESPN programming will be going away with the time committed to the Huskers and SportsNightly.

Greg

Post by **Brad** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 10:04 am

Greg S wrote:With the rights to the Huskers going to Big Sports 590, going to be interesting times in Sports radio. Wonder if ESPN eventually goes back to 1620? If you think about it, a bunch of the ESPN programming will be going away with the time committed to the Huskers and SportsNightly.

And get rid of the local shows?