Kevin Woodley: Updates on Canucks goaltending, including Ian Clark? Lamenting the loss of local media.
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Why is Kevin Woodley leaving Sportsnet 650 and how did he react to the station closing?
Our next guest is the proprietor of InGoal Media, covers the Vancouver Canucks for NHL.com, a longstanding and valuable voice in this market, and someone who did extraordinary work, I must say, Kevin Woodley, over nine years at Sportsnet 650. It's great to have you on the show. Regrets about the loss of Sports Talk. Terrestrial Sports Talk Radio in the city. How are you doing otherwise?
Yeah, well, first off, thank you for that, the kind words. Yeah, it's been a tough couple of weeks. Personally, obviously, there's a hit both financially, my car sponsorship. I need to figure out whether I got to buy a new car. Like there's realities of it. But at the end of the day, it's nothing for me as compared to those who like this was livelihood. And this was... It's not just that part of it. It's how much they put into it to build that sports station and to make it as good as it was. There's, you know, real skin in the game there. And a lot of people put a lot of their soul into that play. So to have it yanked out like that is... It's tough. It's really tough. And I think I'm catching up to you guys from a rink here in North Vancouver.
I've been coming out to be on the ice doing some video with a goalie coach that I know and a couple of NHL prospects. And sort of having to make that commute without being able to just turn on the dial easily. I'm one of the olds, as we can see with the gray beard. So I've got to learn how to manage and have the ability to sort of download and access sports that way. I think of the community and the audience, the voices lost for them. And then last but not least, I think this has gotten, it's disappeared a little bit, the charity work that... went through that station. I mean, I was heavily involved in the Autism Network stuff. A lot of the money that was raised, it was always easier when you had that audience for Canucks Autism Network.
Obviously, we took part in the events, but also raised a lot of money as a group and spread the word about that. And that also disappears. And, you know, that's the part... Challenger baseball, too.
I do believe I heard yesterday that...
jay's care challenger baseball tournament i do believe is still going forward it'll still exist but the mouthpiece isn't there anymore yeah yeah i know it's it's actually monday and and john olerud's the featured guest and so you know like still it's always tough right now with rogers attach it would still a fantastic cause um and so if anybody wants to get involved they can they can look that up but those are the things that disappear it's you know what we talk about monopolies and the deals that the government has cut over the year to allow them to expand and build their monopolies. And, you know, I know what I pay for cell bill for a month. And part of the pledge was to maintain sort of these community initiatives, like forget sports 1130.
And the people that worked there that made sure that there was good, honest news, like that part was supposed to be a part of that commitment. And I know Patrick Johnson has talked about that with you guys and written about it quite well. And, uh, you know, talked about it on your show, but, you know, pulling the rug out from under that, like, I feel like, They're all corporations, but when they get deals and they make promises based on sort of a community partnership and a community commitment, this is them pulling the rug on the community commitment part of it.
Well, it's a shame there wasn't an evolution for the product. 1040 and 650 didn't have any attempts to modernize. I couldn't help but pay attention when Matt introduced you. It used to be Ingle Magazine. Now it's Ingle Media because no magazine. You know, you evolve. He's beyond magazines. Yeah, because you evolve, and there was never an attempt to evolve. It was just we're going to let technology consume us.
Well, and, and, I mean, and part of that too is right. You want people turning on the dial as well, right? Like, cause, cause giving them alternatives means not. So I do, you know, I do listen to a lot of podcasts.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
Why is Kevin Woodley leaving Sportsnet 650 and how did he react to the station closing?
0:02–6:23
2
How did local sports radio closures affect community charity work and fan connectivity?
6:23–19:50
3
Why did Kevin start InGoal Media and how did his career evolve into a niche goaltending outlet?
19:50–26:13
Speakers
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