Why is there a football game on Sirius Left?

[globalvillage]

Does anyone know why there is football on Talk Left? I have nothing against football, but is this normal?
I checked the station. 143. Same as always, but there's a game on.
So I switched to the Pitt/Nebraska game, but still...

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. That is disappointing

kind of like when they switched Sirius 144 to a Korean language station.

[confludemocrat]

2. I have something against football, it's boring and predictable with rare

exception and why watch or much less listen to it, hoping for a rare exception. Sirius Left needs a facelift in a big way, GET RID OF ALAN COLMES!!!! for starters.

[MissWaverly]

3. totally agree

I put up the $200 for set up so that I could listen to liberal talk
radio, football is a commodity that has never went to bed hungry, but
liberal talk radio is as rare as gold dust in this country. I also
think that Alan Colmes is no big liberal commentator. Heck, they
can sign up Brad Friedman for a daily show, he's great, and he has
a radio "presence." They say anyone can do it, but when I called into
the Young Turks to complain about the lack of FEMA and Red Cross in much of the rural areas impacted by Katrina, I sounded like a snail clearing
its throat. For those of you unfamiliar with Brad, he's on the Bradblog.com

[Montauk6]

4. Well it they pull THAT nonsense, count ME out as a potential subscriber!

How effed up is that??? They already have 3 SPORTS CHANNELS!

Would they ever preempt Movin' The Chains for a peace rally? I think not!

[globalvillage]

6. Does the same thing happen on XM?

I signed up for a year of Sirius THE DAY BEFORE the XM/AAR agreement was leaked. I paid for the year, so I figured I'd stick with it.
But if I have to listen to football every weekend on Sirius, I'm switching. This did not happen before football season started. I just noticed it last weekend and today.
Anyone know or should I call Sirius to find out their plans?

[confludemocrat]

7. Sirius has always done it since I started listening in 2002. XM doesn't do

it that I have ever heard. Air America, again contaminated by the presence of Alan Colmes, has never when I have listed there, had a baseball game on, that being their big featured sport.

[Montauk6]

9. Don't we have enough sports media outlets????

Every other station on the radio dial is Sports Talk. Weekend TV is sports, sports, sports. Half the news coverage is sports (forget the actual sports part, let some athlete get picked up on a drug charge: LEAD STORY!)

[globalvillage]

10. To answer your question,

I vote yes. More than enough.
I like sports. I'm a Pirates fan, and I watch Steeler games. Sometimes I watch golf and tennis. I followed the Tour de France.
But when I turn on 143, I want liberal talk radio. That's why I paid for Sirius, and that's what I want to hear.
I hate not getting what I've paid for.
This sucks. Time to call Sirius.

[Montauk6]

11. And, it's not just a political/partisan thang either!

If I'm paying the $whatever.etc/month and I tune to the Disco Channel and hear a special broadcast from the Kentucky Derby, I'd still feel ripped off.

[mwb970]

5. Our progressive station in Columbus is half sports.

I hate it when I turn the radio on to hear Lionel and it's another Reds baseball game. The damn things seem to last 5 or 6 hours for some reason. I wish they were broadcast on some other station.

Call me un-American, or unmanly, but I think sports is just about the most boring thing to watch or talk about that I can imagine (except for NASCAR, or is that a "sport" too?).

What is so fascinating about sitting around watching a bunch of pituitary cases stuff a ball through a hoop? Or watching 400-pound millionaires knock each other down while seeing who can throw a ball the farthest? WHO CARES?

[tx_dem41]

8. Its fairly normal.....

Sirius is a business that is making money off of the NCAA and NFL deals. Since many of those games are on simultaneously they regularly will pre-empt talk and entertainment streams for a three-hour period on Saturdays and Sundays. So, I understand them having to do that. I appreciate the fact that they don't soak up bandwidth by having 10 dedicated live sports streams like XM does.

I did not like how they did not replace AAR with another left talk stream. Did not like it at all!