I used to take the wife for an afternoon Sunday drive and would have the 'Sports Writers' on WGN radio. It was started by Chicago Sports Columnist Bill Gleason in the late 1970s. His fellow panelists were Ben Bentley, Bill Jauss and Rick Telander. The show then migrated to television in the mid-1980s. It was unique for its time and was clearly the forerunner of sports talk radio.
Replies to: "Re: Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN"
- Anyone old enough to remember the show "Sportswriters on TV" it aired out of Chicago on WGN - Hibakusha - 10:07am 11/18/20
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- That group, oddly enough, would have been down with the kneelers. Especially Jaust and Telander. [NT] - ELP - 10:28pm 11/18/20
- Gleason was a columnist for both the Southtown in Chicago and the SB Trib [NT] - jrdjr84 - 5:10pm 11/18/20
- I remember it well... as pointed out below it started out as a radio show - D2 - 4:39pm 11/18/20
- At first, I recalled the Boston one, then remembered this one; - cubsfanin16 - 2:50pm 11/18/20
- Mike Lupica was an idiot and an ass. A BC grad by the way. He was wrong about everything. [NT]
- THEISMANCARR - 3:58pm 11/18/20
- Agreed, and when I wrote, "an irritant', I meant Lupica although - cubsfanin16 - 4:34pm 11/18/20
- Mike Lupica was an idiot and an ass. A BC grad by the way. He was wrong about everything. [NT]
- THEISMANCARR - 3:58pm 11/18/20
- Local show? [NT]
- whatsamataU - 1:40pm 11/18/20
- Yep. Chicago area on SportsVision which later became SportsChannel Chicago. - Irish_Demon - 1:57pm 11/18/20
- Absolutely. Used to watch it often. - TakethetrainKnute - 1:04pm 11/18/20
- Ha that's it! [NT]
- Hibakusha - 2:20pm 11/18/20
- There's a bunch on YouTube. Recall seeing this one where they discussed Kurt Cobain's suicide... - TakethetrainKnute - 3:55pm 11/18/20
- These guys were great, what the hell Nirvana and sports, cigars. - Hibakusha - 9:59pm 11/18/20
- There's a bunch on YouTube. Recall seeing this one where they discussed Kurt Cobain's suicide... - TakethetrainKnute - 3:55pm 11/18/20
- Ha that's it! [NT]
- Hibakusha - 2:20pm 11/18/20
- I remember it well. [NT] - ELP - 11:45am 11/18/20
- Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN - Irish_Demon - 11:40am 11/18/20
- Re: Sure, but rather than predating, it was actually a video adaptation of a radio talk show on WGN - fedman - 2:29pm 11/18/20
- That's right, I forgot it was a talk show filmed for TV. I liked it because you always got ND talk. [NT] - Hibakusha - 12:53pm 11/18/20
- * [NT] - Aragoto - 11:34am 11/18/20
- Sure. [NT] [LINK] - Aragoto - 11:34am 11/18/20