Yeah, I wasn't a big fan of the schtick but the concept was one I could support. You know, a Triangle based show concentrating primarily on Triangle based sports. But 'tis a new day for sports broadcasting and I understand that. Now you're either getting national stuff (primarily NFL and big event driven) or specialized, smaller scope shows. It's fine. There's a reason local stations can't get ad revenues and it's got more to do with the changing market than what they're offering. Like local/regional print press and regional sports networks, it's just not profitable anymore. I had to quote Mike Manfred, but he wasn't wrong when he saiid that the old broadcast model for MLB was "great, so long as we could get people who didn't care about our product to subsidize coverage in order to get the things they do care about." People just don't have to do that anymore.
Heck, I'm old enough to remember when "sports radio" in the Raleigh market boiled down to actual game broadcasts, a score recap show on the weekend, the weekly coaches' shows and maybe one or two hours of nighttime phone-in. That was it man. The freaking farm report got more air time.