{"id":19455,"date":"2018-10-09T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=19455"},"modified":"2018-10-09T06:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:00:19","slug":"espn-1000-celebrates-20-years-compelling-entertaining-sports-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2018\/10\/09\/espn-1000-celebrates-20-years-compelling-entertaining-sports-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN 1000 celebrates 20 years of \u2018compelling, entertaining sports talk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman<\/p><\/div>\n

If you happen to be awake before dawn Friday, you might want to head over to Austin\u2019s,<\/a> the popular saloon and eatery in Libertyville.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the best way to ensure a front-row seat for the free, all-day 20th anniversary celebration and remote broadcast of ESPN Radio sports\/talk WMVP 1000-AM.<\/a><\/p>\n

Starting at 5 a.m., the nationally syndicated morning show of Mike Golic and Trey Wingo will air live from the site, followed by David Kaplan\u2019s \u201cKap & Co.\u201d at 9 a.m., Carmen DeFalco and John \"Jurko\" Jurkovic at noon, and Tom Waddle and Marc \u201cSilvy\u201d Silverman at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

Special guests will appear throughout the day, including a call-in reunion of \u201cMac, Jurko and Harry\u201d \u2014 Dan McNeil, Jurkovic and Harry Teinowitz \u2014 and other notables from the past two decades of ESPN Radio\u2019s flagship station.<\/p>\n

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Adam Delevitt<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cAs Chicago\u2019s sports talk leader, we pride ourselves on the most engaging, compelling and entertaining sports talk out there,\u201d said Adam Delevitt, who rose from show producer to program director during his 20 years at ESPN 1000. He\u2019s now in his eighth year at the programming helm of the station.<\/p>\n

Delevitt along with Golic, Silverman and DeFalco were among the station\u2019s earliest hires when Walt Disney Co. launched ESPN 1000 on October 12, 1998. The frequency\u2019s roots as a sports station go back to 1993 when former owner Evergreen Media changed the call letters from WLUP AM to WMVP (for \u201cMost Valuable Player\u201d) and switched to all-sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t find another lineup that uses former pro athletes as show hosts,\u201d said Delevitt, citing Waddle, Golic, Jurkovic and Eddie Olczyk as \u201cnot only experts on professional sports, but also the most entertaining former athletes you\u2019ll find.\u201d Their daily insights, as well as those of veteran Chicago broadcasters Kaplan, Silverman and DeFalco, \u201cmake it easy for our listeners to keep coming back every day,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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

Notwithstanding the hoopla of the 20-year \u201cFanniversary\u201d<\/a> and the continued strength of \u201cWaddle & Silvy\u201d in afternoons, these are challenging times for the station. The latest Nielsen Audio survey shows ESPN 1000 tied for 25th place with a 1.2 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 380,800. Its main rival, Entercom sports\/talk WSCR 670-AM,<\/a> ranks sixth with a 4.3 share and 1,070,800 weekly cume. Now in its 27th year, The Score broadcasts Chicago Cubs baseball and Chicago Bulls basketball.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never make a practice of overreacting to Nielsen ratings, good or bad,\u201d said Jim Pastor, vice president and general manager of ESPN Chicago. \u201cThe only certainty is that wherever we\u2019re currently ranked, we know it\u2019ll change because it always does. Unlike our competitors, we don\u2019t rely on play-by-play to inflate our numbers. No need to when you\u2019ve got the best sports talk show in Chicago in \u2018Waddle & Silvy.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cMost importantly, we know where we stand with Chicago sports fans and our partners.\u00a0 The relationship we have with them can be heard and felt on our air every day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s comment of the day:<\/a> Richard Heffernan:<\/strong> Sandy the Tramp \u2014 the only mime I ever enjoyed in my entire life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you happen to be awake before dawn Friday, you might want to head over to Austin\u2019s, the popular saloon and eatery in Libertyville. That\u2019s the best way to ensure a front-row seat for the free, all-day 20th anniversary celebration and remote broadcast of ESPN Radio sports\/talk WMVP 1000-AM.<\/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\/19455"}],"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=19455"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19469,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19455\/revisions\/19469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}