What? WTIC drops UConn basketball coverage??

[jimazee]

Over the last few years, I have morphed to using my Android 'smart' phone as my 'radio' receiving device. In fact iHeartRADIO is one of my main 'apps'. It offers hundreds of stations of all types, from just about everywhere...to just about anywhere. I regularly listen to some in TX, CO, FL, PA, etc.

When I need more sound presence in the house, I connect the phone/radio (phadio?) signal directly to one of many bluetooth speakers ... including one in the shower or to my in house 'stereo' receiver also via bluetooth. This 'stereo' receiver device is actually now an AVR that also receives Internet radio via the in house network.

When jogging/walking with my phadio I sometime use earbuds, sometimes just the phone speaker. When in my car I sometimes play the phadio through my car's system using bluetooth. There is a wired connection too, but I don't need it.

Podcasts are often available to download and replay material. "Broadcast" reception is always perfect. Together, it works a lot better than all my old radio gear...and is much smaller than my first 'portable' transistor radio...which was amazing in its day, and about the size of a trail camera of today

Give it a try...

 

[willingtonfan]

I will give it a try; however my real fear is who the people commenting on the game. Bob Joyce is, for my money, one of the best radio basketball announcers I can recall hearing, and Deb (Baer) Fiske brings her own personal experience as a UConn player and adds a lot to the broadcast. I don't know where iHeartRadio thinks they will get any duo as good as them; and before they think about getting them, Bob Joyce is under contract to WTIC so would be unavailable.

I'll give them a try (mostly because there is no alternative) but am not optimistic.

 

[RSJ14]

I will give it a try; however my real fear is who the people commenting on the game. Bob Joyce is, for my money, one of the best radio basketball announcers I can recall hearing, and Deb (Baer) Fiske brings her own personal experience as a UConn player and adds a lot to the broadcast. I don't know where iHeartRadio thinks they will get any duo as good as them; and before they think about getting them, Bob Joyce is under contract to WTIC so would be unavailable.

I'll give them a try (mostly because there is no alternative) but am not optimistic.

And how do you know he's under contract ?? Hmmmmm ??

 

[huskymedic]

I will give it a try; however my real fear is who the people commenting on the game. Bob Joyce is, for my money, one of the best radio basketball announcers I can recall hearing, and Deb (Baer) Fiske brings her own personal experience as a UConn player and adds a lot to the broadcast. I don't know where iHeartRadio thinks they will get any duo as good as them; and before they think about getting them, Bob Joyce is under contract to WTIC so would be unavailable.

I'll give them a try (mostly because there is no alternative) but am not optimistic.

From today's Jeff Jacob article:

...The deal with UConn expires as the end of the basketball season. I have made it clear Joe D’Ambrosio and Bob Joyce should be retained as play-by-play announcers. There has been speculation Joe D may be out. In the past couple of days, however, officials from iHeart, IMG and UConn have insisted there is no a decision. D’Ambrosio has a contract at WTIC that is believed to run out in June. Joyce does not have a contract at WTIC. New announcers would be employed by iHeart.,,