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There have been rumors running around lately regarding Sportsradio 610 WIP’s plans to take over 94.1 WYSP, with WIP entering the FM battle to take on direct rival 97.5 The Fanatic. WIP and WYSP are both owned by CBS Philly. It would be the end of an era for the local rock music scene and [More...]
It looks like 97.5 The Fanatic will need to drop their “Philly’s only FM sports station” tag line. According to philly.com’s Dan Gross, the area’s sports talk radio king 610 WIP is planning on taking over operations from legendary local rock station 94 WYSP. Both are owned by CBS Radio. WIP’s program director Andy Bloom [More...]
By Justin Adkins: Hard to believe, but it’s been a year to the day since the gates opened on the PhillySportsCentral.com Message Boards. Since that time, it’s a been a great experience, with some witty debates, intense dicussions, incredibly ridiculous arguments – some even about Philly sports — and pretty much non-stop shenanigans on a near-daily basis. The PSC boards are [More...]
By Justin Adkins: It looks like some idiot included Philly Sports Central as a 12 seed in the Phield’s 2011 blog tournament. Let’s make them regret it by voting PSC’s still-developing blog to at least make it through the first round. To vote, send an email to thephield@gmail.com with “PhillySportsCentral” in the Subject field. No need [More...]
By Justin Adkins: This week, PSC will be displaying a banner in support of Multiple Sclerosis Awareness. If you’re unfamiliar with the disease, here is some more information, per the National Multiple Sclerosis Society website: Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system (CNS), which is made up [More...]
Philly Sports Central is now the official message board partner of the fantastic Philly sports blog CrossingBroad.com. What this means is that all articles posted at Crossing Broad will now show up as threads here at PSC. It also means that PSC will be linked to from the Crossing Broad homepage, with the PSC link [More...]
By Justin Adkins: Tune in Thursday morning December 2nd around 7:30am to hear PSC’s own Sharkman attempt to qualify for 610 WIP’s Wing Bowl! When not posting nonstop hilarity on the PSC forums, Sharkman, aka Mark Summers, is busy DJ’ing at Delaware’s WSTW 93.7FM. In his quest to qualify for Wing Bowl, Mark will attempt to throw [More...]
November 24 Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Bob Ford: “By 1 p.m. Tuesday, a good half-hour after an orange, four-ton wrecking ball began tapping the south side of the Spectrum – first gently, then grimly – the hole in this piece of Philadelphia sports history was still not much bigger than the ones Darryl Dawkins left in a [More...]
November 12 csnphilly.com: The date has finally been set. The Spectrum will be demolished during a ceremony on Nov. 23. The one-hour wrecking ball event will commence with a free viewing party that is open to the public, including a block party with dollar hot dogs and soft drinks. Philly sports legends Bernie Parent, Bob [More...]
phillymag.com Heavyweight 610 WIP and upstart 97.5 The Fanatic are waging a furious battle for the city’s obsessed sports-radio listeners, but the real action is going on off the air. Here, the behind-the-scenes story of how Angelo threatened to walk, what staffers honestly think about Eskin, and, for the first time, what really happened the [More...]
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