On the Radio
insurance, and automobiles. Except for baseball games, it makes no difference if one listens to any one of the 50,000 watt stations. They are owned by a small number of large corporations and are all basically the same. If you've seen one fast food restaurant, you've seen them all.
Even baseball on the radio has changed, thanks to ESPN. The White Sox have not been on WMAQ for quite a while. Their flagship station is ESPN radio Chicago, 1000, which is part of an international radio network that broadcasts baseball games. On a Sunday night, the same broadcast can be heard on literally hundreds of stations.
Most younger fans are not even aware that they can listen to so many games for free and they if they knew, they wouldn't care because in the twenty first century, you don't LISTEN to baseball games, you WATCH baseball games. And if you really want to listen to baseball games, why, they are all available on satellite radio. They cost money? Don't we have to pay for everything?
How much has been lost. Why, yesterday I bought some vitamins at Eckerd, and I was not even in Baltimore.
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