No More Jim Rome in Utah?

[clubberlang]

Rome's website still lists KZNS as the Utah affiliate, but a local show has been airing in his 10 am - 1 pm slot for the past several days. I cannot imagine the Jungle being gone from Utah's airwaves for too long (has always carried a large Utah following), any word on where it will reappear?

Candidly, the Jim Rome show was the only reason I would tune into 1280. Now that it is gone, I pretty much stick with ESPN 700 for sports radio. (Not that I am lacking in options, as there seems to be about 30 different sports radio stations in Utah --hopefully one of them will pick up the Jungle).

[CAwasinNJ]

This is a bit of a tricky time for Rome. His show is currently syndicated by Premiere, which is owned by Clear Channel. Rome has already signed on with the new CBS Sports Radio which debuts Jan 2. I wouldn't think Premiere would make much of an effort to sign a new affiliate when he's bolting in less than 3 months anyway.

The question then is, where will Rome end up when CBSSR starts? I haven't seen anything official yet, but I do know that CBS has a deal with Cumulus about it. As it is Cumulus has 2 sports stations (1230 and 1320) simulcasting. I think the CBS offering is going to end up on one of them. It would make sense to use 1230 as the dumping ground for the network stuff they have to clear but isn't really compelling and cherry-pick the good stuff for 1320. That's what they did with ESPN Radio for years.