Michael Landsberg has been exchanging ideas with powers to be at TSN and wants to take the challenge but he is scared of what might happen to off the record if he does the TSN Radio drive home show because he does not want to weaken his TV product which he wants to continue to do the TV and along with the radio.
I think Michael Landsberg would have a hard time to take the audience away from Bobcat even though he could get big sports stars that Bobcat has said that "I do not like to talk to athletes because they only use their sport speak and I do not like that because I can not get the truth out of them". I still think that Bobcat has the pull with the sport insiders along with GMs of the sports along with like people involved with the day key stories along with the format of Bobcat's Prime Time Sports is very strong and would be hard to take it down. Right now TSN has scheduling in american radio talent with both the Jim Rome Show and the Dan Patrick Show to fill their afternoon drive home spot but diffidently could and will be changed by April 13Th.
The thing about Michael Landsberg doing the job is that they would have to move the Off The Record time slot to a later time like moving it back to 6 P.M. or maybe even have it moved to like 11 P.M.. Which would have it up against the other talk shows which maybe a death nail and like they would have to change some of the topics as some of them are based towards what is happen during that night's sports action and would be out of date by airing it late.
The date of the launch of TSN Radio has been announced and it will happen on April 13Th and the reason for this date is because it is the first day of the NHL playoffs along with the last day of the NBA regular season. This is the biggest day in sports in April with all that excitement of the beginning of the NHL playoffs and the pairings for the NBA playoffs will be set and TSN can promo the radio product leading up to the launch like when they do their playoff previews and during the playoff hockey games.
In disappointing news for people looking for someone strong to match up with Mike Richards and right now the rumor is that the Fan 590 has been talking with Joey Vendetta who used to be a Q107 disc jockey and did do an one off on the fan 590 earlier this year or late last year and it could be a horrible thing because have a non sports guy trying to take down Mike Richards may not work but George Stroumboulopoulos is a sports guy with a lot of non sports people.
So the wheel of Toronto sports radio keeps on turning
Tom Mehegan
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