The 95.5 The Game Appreciation Thread

i listen to rome on boise’s station online feed. 955 monkey go jump off a bridge.

AM 750 is a blowtorch, and the Game is basically “all local” now. To me this means that they are going for a broader appeal beyond the immediate Portland metro area. Kind of like a radio equivalent of an RSN. Smart move in my opinion.

I know the Rome listeners are upset, but this is happening all over the country, and his listeners will end up following him to satellite or the internet anyway. Plus his shtick can easily be time shifted in a way that actually broadens his fan base.

I didn’t hear what the clown had to say about it, and I don’t care. He is the one change that needs to be made in order for me to go back to the Game. In the afternoon. When I drive home from work. hint. hint.

Dumping Rome is dandy by me. I’m so tired of his act!

However, going to AM is bad news. I like the sound quality of FM so much more, and, neither of my car radios will pick up AM for some reason-wonder why that is?

I move back and forth from work in C. Oregon (where I can’t get Pdx stations anyway) to the Pdx area. When I’m in Pdx, I’ve either got the radio on 95.5, the jazz station, or OPB. On the East side and en route, I’ve got satellite radio with tons of station choices. For sports, it’s usually Mad Dog radio, seldom ESPN for some of the same reasons I don’t listen to Rome.

I’m happy that people in Boise may be able to list to the Fan, but sad I won’t be able to…

If it’s so much better being on the AM dial, how come they spent so much time talking about how superior they were as an FM station when they first started? And if the 750 slot was so great, why didn’t they keep KXL there? They moved it to FM and couldn’t stop talking about how great it was.

What irks me is I listen to the radio on a FM radio/MP3 player through headphones at work. I work in an old concrete building and I move around a lot, and people I work with usually have music on other radio’s around me. I can’t stand hearing multiple radios in the same area as it just turns into noise, so I’ve spent the last couple years with my headphones plugged in not bothering anyone else with my talk radio, and not having to hear KGON every day either.

My player doesn’t have an AM tuner. I am not going to spend all day listening to the game on my phone. They are trying to spin this like they will reach a broader audience, but I think it’s a load. I guess I’ll be a little less informed about what’s happening with the Blazers, though there is plenty of fluff and crap you have to wade through and I’m not the biggest fan of the personalities on the station. Still, they say they’re going for a bigger audience, but they’ve lost me as a listener simply on practicality.