nmills said:

I never listened to the show until this thread was brought up now I listen everyday, who else is talking browns at 9 in the mourning.

and that's probably why most of the guys on wknr treat fans like crap. they know that they're the only true cleveland sports talk show and fans have no where else to go, so they think they can get away with dissing fans.

i like reghi, darryl ruiter(sp?) and jason gibbs. rizzo is ok, but his pessimism gets in the way sometimes. his co-hosts are unbearable. i'll only listen if i know he's going to interview someone worthwhile or when the sports center 30 minute updates and browns tc updates come one. muench is ok, i listen to him sometimes to.

if you listen to rizzo's show long enough, about a year or so, you'll start to see what i mean and you'll get tired of it. and you haven't even heard the show yet with fedor AND aarron goldhammer on there together. goldhammer is on vacation, but when he gets back, you'll really see what i mean.

I never listened to the show until this thread was brought up now I listen everyday, who else is talking browns at 9 in the mourning.

@the-gipper said:

i stopped listening about 5 years ago to all sports talk radio, its to depressing

@siperbowl said:

trivisasauge

Trivisonno is not on WKNR. And how much sports talk does he do nowadays? Maybe 10-20% of his programming if that?

trivisasauge

@samoth said:

I could not agree more; I cannot stand the constant degradation of everything Cleveland whilst bombastically praising everything Ohio State with the emotion of a television preacher crying for money....or love gift for tax purposes

I like Bruce Drennan and Greg Brinda.

thanks for the knr link.

Knr management pisses me off..Karmazin Jnr is in over his head..But you cant tell a kid with money he is wrong. Aint that right Aaron

@sj_browns said:

give it a listen, you gotta listen to the whole thing

http://www.stationcaster.com/player.php?s=...476&f=54528

@djdawg2010 said:

i heard a little bit of it. i turned it on for a sec just to see about the browns rookie signings. lecharles is just a different kind of person. he says some stuff that is beyond unbelievable. wknr is getting worse as the days go by.

nmills said:

what happened?

@samoth said:

I heard that Columbus actually has an inferiority complex about Cleveland. I suppose I can see why. While Columbus proper has a larger population (only because of annexation) the metro area is about half the size. Plus they have the Buckeyes, and the Blue Jackets as the only major league sport down there.

Did anyone hear LeCharles last night? I caught bits and pieces of the show. He expressed his opinion about players taking performance enhancement drugs and his thought that if sports are entertainment then players should be able to choose if they want to use them or not. Go figure. After awhile it becomes ubearable listening to him and Rhoda together, and then Cherry, because all they do is try to out talk each other!

Why is WJW AM radio important in broadcasting history? It is the station that Alan Freed worked at when he invented the term "Rock n' Roll". Freed of course played a lot of Rock n Roll music in late 1951 and early 1952. In March of 1952 he promoted the Moondog Coronation Ball, credited as being the first rock n' roll concert in history.

So, in essence, rock n' roll was "invented" (or at least given that name) on what is today WKNR.

@sj_browns said:

1350 is out of Akron, but it too has limited range or else its direction is away from where I am. I am mainly southwest of Akron. Their signal may be pointed northwest and northeast to pick up more of Cleveland area. They do a lot of national alternatives to ESPN, like Dan Patrick, Stephen A. Smith, some Foxsports, but they also have some local talkers, especially in the afternoon. They broadcast Aeros games and I think they do a lot of Akron U football and basketball as well.

@the-gipper said:

6. Roda has improved. His pro-Steeler stance is fairly muted now, and I think he really is a true fan of the Cavs and OSU.

- roda became a cavs fan after lebron was drafted. what a coincidence. and he loves osu because they're a winning orginization. simple and plain, roda is a bandwagon fan. and roda loves pouring salt in cleveland fans wounds. he's force feeding people his dumb only bad things happen in cleveland rant. he even pushes it on people he talks to from the national media. he's a steeler fan and you can hear that if you read between the lines. he's way too negative.

7. Bentley and Cherry were brought in solely to have a minority presence on the station. Cherry seems a reasonable man, but Bentley is all about Bentley or all about the players. He has no clue how to relate to his audience who are merely fans.

- i disagree with this. both bentley and cherry started out by being interviewed on a wknr show like alot of athletes/former athletes have been. from that they were invited to come in on different shows as a guest host, esp. during football season. i think them getting a daily show (which originally started out as a weekly show) grew out of this and not a minority move.

bentley seemed to become obnoxious when him and cherry first started doing x's and o's with the pros on a once a week basis. cherry is the more logical out of the two.

@ballpeen said:

I loved listening to Pete!

@the-gipper said:

Also, there is a sports talk station at 1350 if you can get it.

Where I am I cannot get KNR2 at 1540. In fact, I have like been inside Cuyahoga County a few times and couldn't get that station

i just found out about 1350 last week. what's up with that station? are they local or national? are there any good stations (sports related) for us clevelanders to listen to other than the usual suspects?

@djdawg2010 said:

True here too. I can seem to get it Ok on my radio at home, but I can't pick it up in my car.

@the-gipper said:

Also, there is a sports talk station at 1350 if you can get it.

Where I am I cannot get KNR2 at 1540. In fact, I have like been inside Cuyahoga County a few times and couldn't get that station

I do occasionally watch All Bets Are Off. I don't like the fact that when the sun goes down (literally) WKNR's signal gets weaker. I can't get a clear signal in my neck of the woods during the evening hours.

@djdawg2010 said:

Well, you can always watch him on STO.

Also, there is a sports talk station at 1350 if you can get it.

Where I am I cannot get KNR2 at 1540. In fact, I have like been inside Cuyahoga County a few times and couldn't get that station.

@sj_browns said:

Aarron Goldhammer strikes me as a guy who got picked on when he was in school so now that he has some kind of "authority and power" with WKNR, he misuses it because he knows he can get away with it. The owner, Cris Karmazac(sp?) is his best friend and he basically made a bunch of excuses for Aarron and tried to downplay the things he does. Aarron is just downright negative 95% of the times and is real disrespectful to the callers.

LeCharles is just a biased athlete who let's emotion overule logic. It's his way or the highway.

Gregg Brinda is a Debbie Downer. He's negative most of the time. He hates the fact that Cleveland fans like football more than baseball and he thinks all Cleveland fans are homers, unrealistic and lacking in sports knowledge and understanding.

Tony Rizzo is okay, but he comes off as a "whoa is me, we're doomed" fan a little too much. I believe a paid proffessional should be, well, proffessional and not some knee-jerk reaction fan.

Chris Fedor is a bandwagon fan. He cheers for all of the best teams in sports (he's a big time Kobe homer) and he's always hating on Cleveland teams.

While Kenny Roda can be amusing and informative, his allegiance is to a Cleveland rival and according to someone I know who used to be a producer for his show, Kenny loves pouring salt in the wound of Cleveland fans. On a side note, I was glad when Reghi checked him a few weeks ago about that "bad things only happen in Cleveland" crap. Kenny is always trying to force feed that to Cleveland fans.

Sabrina Parr is just damn annoying and that bootleg movie critic RJ is a joke. I know more about movies than he does. They really aren't main people on WKNR, but I thought I would just throw them in anyway.

I like listening to Michael Reghi. He's informative and objective. I know people criticize him for saying what he's done and how long he's been in the game, but that's a small thing to me. Reghi is one of the few people I listen to on there. I like to listen to Darryl Ryder to. He's a good up and coming talk show host. Too bad he doesn't get much air time.

I have no problem with a talk show host being realistic or telling things like it is. I just have a problem with people on that station who are being outright pessimistic. Just negative all of the time. There's nothing wrong with having a little balance with your opinion. I don't want to listen to a homer, but I don't want to listen to someone who's the complete opposite of a homer either. I also feel that the callers and listeners are the reason these guys have jobs, so they should be treated accordingly (unless they deserve to get dissed or hung up on).

I was curious as to what the rest of you think about this station and it's on air personalities (for those of you that listen to WKNR).

I do like Rizzo. Goldhammer drives me nuts, as does LeCharles Bentley, who I'm really growing tired of with his support for Lebron James. I personally think he sucks as a talkshow host. Brinda, no doubt is a Debbie Downer, but I don't mind him. I like Reghi. He is very informative, and I especially love listening to him on "Browns React." As for Rhoda, while he is very informative, it blows my mind (and only in Cleveland would this happen) that we have a Pittsburgh Steelers fan on a Cleveland sports talkshow! That certainly wouldn't happen down there. I really wish they would bring back Bruce Drennan. "I LOVE YA CLEVELAND!"