{"id":16703,"date":"2018-01-31T08:05:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=16703"},"modified":"2018-01-31T08:16:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T14:16:25","slug":"done-deal-bulls-pivot-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/01\/31\/done-deal-bulls-pivot-score\/","title":{"rendered":"Done deal: Bulls pivot to The Score"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Chuck Swirsky and Bill Wennington (Photo: Chicago Bulls)<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s official: Chicago Bulls broadcasts are moving to The Score.<\/p>\n

Confirming a report here<\/a> Tuesday, the Bulls have reached agreement with Entercom sports\/talk WSCR AM 670<\/a> to become the team\u2019s new radio flagship through 2021. The first game on The Score will air Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n

The Bulls (along with the Chicago White Sox) are losing their current radio home on news\/talk WLS AM 890 as owner Cumulus Media seeks to emerge from bankruptcy by nullifying<\/a> unprofitable contracts.<\/p>\n

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Chicago Bulls<\/p><\/div>\n

Terms of the Bulls deal, officially announced Wednesday on Mike Mulligan and Brian Hanley\u2019s morning show, were not disclosed. Insiders cite the decades-long relationship between team owner Jerry Reinsdorf and top executives of the station \u2014 Jimmy deCastro, senior vice president and market manager of Entercom Chicago, and Mitch Rosen, operations director of The Score \u2014 with finalizing the agreement in record time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are honored and privileged to carry a franchise as historic as the Bulls in conjunction with the great Score brand,\u201d Rosen said after the on-air announcement. \u201cIt's exciting for us to bring them together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bulls games will continue to be announced by veteran play-by-play broadcaster Chuck Swirsky and color commentator Bill Wennington. Steve Kashul will continue as pregame, postgame and halftime show host.<\/p>\n

Adding the Bulls will both enhance and complicate the lineup at The Score, which already carries DePaul and Illinois basketball as well as Chicago Cubs baseball. On occasions when Bulls broadcasts conflict with the Cubs, the Bulls are likely to air on WIND AM 560, the Salem Communications news\/talk station, under a tentative deal between the two companies.<\/p>\n

Still uncertain is the future of White Sox radio broadcasts. Identified as possible destinations were Tribune Broadcasting news\/talk WGN AM 720 or ESPN sports\/talk WMVP AM 1000. \u201cThe White Sox will announce a spring training radio broadcast schedule in the near future,\u201d the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s best comment:<\/a> Ron Magers:<\/strong> Intent raises an issue that muddies the debate over purchasing Twitter followers. If purchased simply to inflate the number of followers that\u2019s one thing. But if you can easily, and apparently cheaply, purchase a number of names who will see your posts and potentially become fans . . . that\u2019s another. And how would that be different from corporate marketers purchasing email and other lists in an effort to attract customers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s official: Chicago Bulls broadcasts are moving to The Score. Confirming a report here Tuesday, the Bulls have reached agreement with Entercom sports\/talk WSCR AM 670 to become the team\u2019s new radio flagship through 2021. The first game on The Score will air Saturday against the Los Angeles Clippers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16709,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16703\/revisions\/16709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}