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I lived in Austin for quite a while and still have many friends there. They hate San Antonio with a passion.
While driving through Austin today, I tuned in to AM 1300 and then briefly another AM Sports talk radio station (570?). I was surprised to hear so much love for the Mavs and distaste for the Spurs. Nothing wrong with radio personalities having favorite teams and expressing their glee or disdain, mind you. I was just surprised at how San Antonio's neighbor 80 miles to the north seems to be annexed by Dallas.
I post this with all due respect to Mark in Austin, Travis, Marcus Bryant and our other Austin area Spurs fans who are certainly not party to this oddity.
I'm not sure how representative these stations' personalities are of the Austin community at large and it's listeners' preferences. I guess it seemed odd to hear that loyalty to one of the winningest sports franchises in pro sports history may end somewhere north of Buda.
BTW, their basketball knowledge and insight into what took place in the Mavs/Spurs series was somewhat novice and surface.
What's up in Southfork?
I lived in Austin for quite a while and still have many friends there. They hate San Antonio with a passion.
1300 the zone is the fox affiliate, they are decent for local shows, and fairly unbiased for the most part between the two teams. but you really can't go 10 minutes without a mention of longhorn sports on that station, it's the primary focus. i don't listen to 1260 o 1530 much, they are the ESPN twins - i catch my espn radio on sirius. 1260 and/or 1530 play the spurs games locally, and 1300 plays the stros when they aren't interviewing mack brown for the 50th time in the daynot sure what station 570 would be
The station I'm unsure about may have been 1530.
in az you jim rome
680 with laker homers on it
YECK
Props to leemajors, SpursfaninAustin and J.T. who are Austinites, also.
solid, i usually tune into 1200 for spurs pregame on the way home from work, none of the stations from here have that kinda thing going. i got sirius to catch nba games i couldn't see on tv, and because for some reason reception on 1200 sucks at my house and in my blazer, but works fine in my mazda 3. when i used to work at the alamo drafthouse the only am station we got in good was 1300 so i'm a little more familiar with their programming. the afternoon show on 1300 is really the only program they talk much nba, and they have a remarkably levelheaded mavs fan who cohosts it.
Did someone say Laker homers
I live in Austin and know quite a few spurs fans.
ppl that live in austin and are mavs fans are probably bandwagoners
It's cause Austin is SA's .
uhh, ok. what you said. i guess sa's zoo totally owns austin's.
Godboldt and Hogan
This is downright hilarious
they are ok, but mostly talk ut sports. i think bucky godbolt was an assistant coach under mackovic. they are really out of step when they talk basketball.
Godboldt and Hogan
As for radio, the only way to hear Spurs talk is a staticky 1200. So don't pay attention to the other talk radio, because the real Spurs fans aren't listening.
My beef is with television broadcasts. Austin is weird. I think about five years ago the Fox affiliate here had some sort of falling out with the Spurs. Since then we only get about 30 games televised on Fox. Channel twelve televises about 15 games when they're not showing re-runs of Will and Grace. TNT, ESPN, ABC, any of the national broadcasts pick up about 6-10. So that leaves about 25 games that are not televised if you have Time Warner Cable.
My brother and I have written letters and e-mails to NBA League Pass, The Spurs, ESPN, TNT, we've left messages for David Stern at the NBA league office. We've completely cussed out both Time Warner Cable and Fox Sports Southwest. We get the Fox Sports guys from Dallas. That Rick Buker, or whatever, must have a relative that owns the network. They act like they're covering the Spurs, but it's still from a Dallas perspective.
There are about 5 or 6 bars around town that show the games when they're blacked out at the house. So we usually go around to each of those until we find one that's good luck. And invariably there are several dozen Spurs fans in there doing the same thing we are. I'm not sure if bars are able to get a different feed because of licensing, but it's not fair to have to go out to watch these games. We have been told over and over there is no way we can get those games televised at our house even though they're on just down the street. Seems to be another way Stern's keeping the Spurs down. Maybe it's a way to keep telling people that we're a small market team. Even if we want to branch out, he won't let us!
We tried to order the League Pass, but they blackout cities that are within 75 miles of the team's town. (The sign leaving Austin says 81mi) We used to be season ticket holders, until it just became ridiculous to drive down there 41+ games a year. Back then it didn't bother us if the home games weren't televised here, but we couldn't understand why a game in Seattle, WA. would be blacked out in Austin. We don't get San Antonio channels here. I don't get it. And we usually get the Spurs vs. the Bobcats, but we don't get vs. the Suns. Can anyone shed any light on this. How about some advice on a person to contact.
i don't really think there is much you can do. i don't believe directv has the same regional restrictions as time warner cable because it doesn't count on a regional feed, but i may be wrong there. and i don't really have a good grasp of what austin thinks of the spurs because i don't get out too much - my daughter is 14 months old now and i prefer to stay home with her instead of going out. she plays and i watch/listen to the games.
Yea when I worked at Motorola my boss told me that he heard San Antonio was a lot more "dirty" than Austin. I told him it depended on how much he liked white trash...
Somehow he didn't like that answer
I'm in Austin as well and listen to both 1300 and 1260/1530 on my drive to and from work. It's really a mixed bag of team support, being as Austin is not a pro- town. Always lots of Mavs and Rockets love but they do seem kind of blah about the Spurs, which I just don't get.
The afternoon show on the ESPN affiliate barely even talks sports anymore... they just kind of blabber on about hot chicks and beer or something. Out of all of them I enjoy Chad Hastings and Kevin Dunn on 1300 in the afternoon. Yes, it is pretty Longhorn heavy but they get into all the nitty gritty details of whatever they are talking about.
Of course we also get the syndicated guys as well, 1300 has Jim Rome and JT the Brick. 1530 has Colin Cowherd and Dan Patrick. Unless the Spurs are in the Finals, you barely get a mention of them on the major shows. JT showed mad love for the Spurs last year during the Finals though. That was cool.
That's weird--we live in north central Austin, have directv's edition of league pass, and have only had 1 or 2 games blacked out in 3 years
See this is the exact reason why I keep telling my wife that we should stay in SA instead of moving to Austin. She's from there and wants to move back but I'm like I need to be able to see the games. But I might lose in that battle and if League Pass starts blacking out the games then I'm gonna be screwed. She'll be happy though cause she hates when I watch the games.
Austin is not a Mavericks town...
It's a UT and Cowboys town...
I'd say it's more of a Spurstown than Mavs in basketball but those two bags you mentioned aren't good for anything excepting licking Mack Brown's nutsac.
And the one guy E Hogan definitely isn't a Spursfan...
That is an awful sports radio station when it's running local programming...locally it's a UT/Cowboys sports radio station and nothing else really.
Basically with the other Texas teams they bandwagon whichever one is having more success...a few years ago they covered the Rangers and broadcast theri games...now it's straight Astros.
Used to live in SA, loved it. I lived in Austin, and Round Rock for the last 11 years, and both towns are great to live in. That said, screw the mavs. Just my 2 pennies.
E Hogan's also a Texans fan so he must like pulling for real "winners" too.
Yeah, there's so many more Mavs fans than Spurs fans that they won't even show Mavs games on TV, but show every Spurs games on FSN.
I'm an Austin native and went to U.T. but I have never liked the Spurs. I rooted for the Knicks in 1999 (let's not talk about that) and the Mavericks...I also like the Rockets. You have to consider that so many U.T. students come from Houston (largest contingent) and then Dallas. They will of course bring their team allegiances with them. I would say it's only been the last 3-4 years though that places like The Finish Line have carried Mavericks gear in addition to Spurs gear. Despite the influx of Mavs fans, most Austinites root for the Spurs.
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