{"id":8330,"date":"2015-06-24T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8330"},"modified":"2015-06-23T19:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T01:26:32","slug":"moving-up-the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/moving-up-the-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Up The Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/farmio-dj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8090\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/farmio-dj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/farmio-dj.jpg 525w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/farmio-dj-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a>After months of speculation, word broke yesterday that the White Sox will be leaving their radio home since 2006, WSCR The Score, at the end of this season and will be moving up the dial to WLS. \u00a0The former Big 89, which beat out WGN along with The Score, are expected to sign a 6 year deal with the White Sox later this week.<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on whether the current broadcast team of Ed Farmer and Darrin Jackson will make the move. \u00a0Farmer followed the club from ESPN 1000 to The Score following the 2005 season, but will be 66 by opening day 2016. \u00a0Jackson, who turns 52 in August, is the young pup of the White Sox broadcast team.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the first domino has fallen in the Chicago radio rights game, expect the next to come rather quickly. \u00a0CBS Radio, knowing that the Sox contact was due to expire, set up a clause in their Cubs deal that allows them to move those broadcasts to The Score from WBBM. \u00a0Given the poor fit that Cubs baseball has been on the all news station, I expect them to do so sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of speculation, word broke yesterday that the White Sox will be leaving their radio home since 2006, WSCR The Score, at the end of this season and will be moving up the dial to WLS. \u00a0The former Big 89, which beat out WGN along with The Score, are expected to sign a 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5593,120,5712,5054,3603,3602,4794,2914,49,3016],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cbs-radio","tag-cubs","tag-darrin-jackson","tag-ed-farmer","tag-espn-1000","tag-the-score","tag-wbbm","tag-wgn","tag-white-sox","tag-wls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8331,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}