Richard Deitz

Every one of those games, he's going to basically be working with local analysts.

And it'll be interesting just to see how that sounds for

the viewer, because I know over the years writing this stuff, I can't tell you how many people are like, why can't I get my local play-by-play person?

Why can't I get my local analyst?

Well, this will be an experiment where at least in the analyst position, you'll have somebody who knows the team much more than your traditional network guys who just parachute in.

So it'll be interesting to see how that sounds, but I think Benetti's just so good as a play-by-play person, I think you can honestly put him with anybody and it'd be a good broadcast.

I think it depends on the market.

You guys are in a great market that appreciates radio still, right?

That appreciates history.

So I think in a market like Chicago, I think you'll always be in a pretty good position, I think, when it comes to radio broadcasting.

Smaller markets, the one thing I can tell you is they're spending much less money when it comes to traveling on the road.

You know, a lot of times they won't set their...

their broadcast team on the road for radio.

They're calling games back in whatever the home market is, which is brutal, brutal for the broadcasters.

And you've got some talented broadcasters that have to call it off a monitor, which is not easy to do.

So that's where like the money, I think in big markets, at least in the near term,

You'll still have a pretty good presence.

The New Yorks, the Bostons, the Chicagos, places like that.

But smaller markets, man, I hate to say it, most of these places are trying to do stuff on the cheap.

And so you'll see them cutting back.