Newspaper, Radio Station Back Together
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
By Roger Grossman, Lake City Radio-
Isn’t it funny how life, from time-to-time, will bring you back to a place you've already passed through on your journey and it brings back a lot of really good memories? Like when you and your wife go to eat at the restaurant where you went on your first date or your kids start reading a book you read when you were in school.
That happened last month when my boss at Lake City Radio, Woody Zimmerman, signed a deal with Times-Union boss Gary Gerard to work together on gathering and reporting local news in the paper, on the internet and social media and the new 24/7/365 news station 1480 News Now. The new venture is off to a great start and there is a great buzz in the community about it.
Part of that agreement includes me writing a weekly column for the Times-Union. While the partnership between the paper and the radio station is now “official” on paper, it’s not really “new”.
For those of you new to the area, the Times-Union used to own the radio station and our studios and offices used to be in the basement of their building on Market St. In the mid-90's WRSW-FM (107.3) and WRSW-AM were sold and that connection ended...but not really.
The truth is that while the sales staffs have competed in the market place since then, the news staff and sports staff at the T-U has never really stopped sharing information and stories when it was appropriate and helped each other.
And when it comes to sports coverage, Dale Hubler, Anthony Gadson and I constantly share information about teams and players and local news stories. Being the Voice of Tiger Sports means also being the de-facto historian of Tiger Sports and 'Keeper of Records and Record Books'. I keep record books with me for the boys and girls basketball teams and the football team that are each 30-plus pages thick. I have always shared that information with the media, all media outlets locally and regionally, and still do. It's part of the deal.
So when this partnership took shape this spring and the radio station leadership came to me about what that might look like for myself and the sports departments, it really is not that much different than it’s been.
I enjoy working with Dale and Anthony and I hope that I can bring something to their readers. I want to thank both of them, and Gary, for their friendship over the years and to express how cool it is that this went down this way.
My goal here will be to try to make you think a little deeper about sports at the local and regional levels. We'll talk Tigers, no doubt. But we will bring to light kids and stories from beyond 1 Tiger Lane. I will lament the Cubs and the poor Ricketts family which is trying to make us think they had no idea what they were buying, the Irish, etc.
Sports is supposed to be fun, so we'll try to keep that in mind and have a little fun with this thing. My former broadcast partner Brad Ellis used to say “it's sports, not brain surgery” so we'll remember that.
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Isn’t it funny how life, from time-to-time, will bring you back to a place you've already passed through on your journey and it brings back a lot of really good memories? Like when you and your wife go to eat at the restaurant where you went on your first date or your kids start reading a book you read when you were in school.
That happened last month when my boss at Lake City Radio, Woody Zimmerman, signed a deal with Times-Union boss Gary Gerard to work together on gathering and reporting local news in the paper, on the internet and social media and the new 24/7/365 news station 1480 News Now. The new venture is off to a great start and there is a great buzz in the community about it.
Part of that agreement includes me writing a weekly column for the Times-Union. While the partnership between the paper and the radio station is now “official” on paper, it’s not really “new”.
For those of you new to the area, the Times-Union used to own the radio station and our studios and offices used to be in the basement of their building on Market St. In the mid-90's WRSW-FM (107.3) and WRSW-AM were sold and that connection ended...but not really.
The truth is that while the sales staffs have competed in the market place since then, the news staff and sports staff at the T-U has never really stopped sharing information and stories when it was appropriate and helped each other.
And when it comes to sports coverage, Dale Hubler, Anthony Gadson and I constantly share information about teams and players and local news stories. Being the Voice of Tiger Sports means also being the de-facto historian of Tiger Sports and 'Keeper of Records and Record Books'. I keep record books with me for the boys and girls basketball teams and the football team that are each 30-plus pages thick. I have always shared that information with the media, all media outlets locally and regionally, and still do. It's part of the deal.
So when this partnership took shape this spring and the radio station leadership came to me about what that might look like for myself and the sports departments, it really is not that much different than it’s been.
I enjoy working with Dale and Anthony and I hope that I can bring something to their readers. I want to thank both of them, and Gary, for their friendship over the years and to express how cool it is that this went down this way.
My goal here will be to try to make you think a little deeper about sports at the local and regional levels. We'll talk Tigers, no doubt. But we will bring to light kids and stories from beyond 1 Tiger Lane. I will lament the Cubs and the poor Ricketts family which is trying to make us think they had no idea what they were buying, the Irish, etc.
Sports is supposed to be fun, so we'll try to keep that in mind and have a little fun with this thing. My former broadcast partner Brad Ellis used to say “it's sports, not brain surgery” so we'll remember that.
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