Tampa Bay Radio Update

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Couple of changes to the Tampa Bay Area Radio scene
since the first of the year.

First, WBBY has changed monikers, they still have the
play the same (rather lame) classic rock, but instead
of 107.3 the Bay, they are now 107.3 the Eagle
A comment on this: I'm as patriotic as about anyone
here, but I have to cringe when a radio station tries
to flaunt the fact that they are just to get more listen-
ers. It happened after 9/11/01 and during Operation
Iraqi Freedom when WQYK claimed to be Tampa Bay's
"Patriotic" country station. Come on, why claim that
you're more so than the other country station when
the company that owns you ALSO OWNS THE OTHER
FREAKING COUNTRY STATION!!! .

Speaking of WQYK, their weak-a** sister AM station,
1010 the Insane Sports Asylum, went to
ESPN Radio, and WDAE the Sports Animal is now
exclusively Fox Sports Radio. So now, the station with
the better local sports coverage (by far) has the
lesser of the national sports radio networks, and the
station with the worst local sports coverage (they
hardly ever touch the Lightning or the Rays) has just
about every national live event possible (ESPN's
coverage of the NBA, MLB, and BCS; and Westwood
One's coverage of NCAA Basketball and the NFL).
If the "official station of Goober Nation" as I call it now
wises up and drops their coverage of NY Yankee games,
maybe, just maybe I'll listen.