790 The Ticket is the other sports radio station in South Florida. There used to be an ESPN station at around 1490 on the dial, but it did not last long. 790 The Ticket has been around for over three years. A big reason is that they partnered up with The Miami Herald and have put several Herald columnists like Dan Le Batard, Greg Cote, and Armando Salgeuro on the air regardless of talent. This is a rundown of 790 The Ticket. It starts with the owner of the station, Joel Feinberg:
Joel Feinberg, the outspoken owner of AM sports talk station 790 The Ticket, has been charged with beating up his fiance on October 23, 2007. Feinberg and his fiance had been staying at the Carmel Valley Ranch Resort. Deputies are not sure what sparked the argument, but they say Feinberg may have ''had a bad day'' at the track. He removed his fiance's $40,000 engagement ring from her finger, pushed her to the bed ''and proceeded to strike her about the head and face,'' according to a press release. The unnamed woman ran into another room, but he kicked down the door, which hit her in the back of the head, deputies said.Feinberg stormed away, rolling a suitcase and carrying a backpack. He eluded police, their dogs and a roving highway patrol helicopter as he walked through the sprawling 400-acre tennis and golf resort nestled in the Santa Lucia Mountains. About a mile from the resort, Deputy Kevin Hockenhull spotted him walking past a shopping center and arrested him.
Feinberg was booked into the Monterey County Jail. The woman was treated and released from a local hospital.
Feinberg owns the company that leases the radio signal for The Ticket, which has a marketing partnership with The Miami Herald. Feinberg declined to comment. The Ticket had broadcast Dolphins games, but this year the team switched back to its former station, WQAM. Feinberg had sent the general manager at rival WQAM-AM (560 ) e-mails gloating about the Miami Dolphins' 0-3 start. He also surprised observers by recently calling WQAM's Neil Rogers on air and drawing a line through Joe Rose's face on the Ticket's website after the broadcaster moved to WQAM.
Sid Rosenberg hosts the morning show and replaced the terminally boring Joe Rose. Sid Rosenberg used to be the sports sidekick on the nationally syndicated Imus in the morning show. His mindless and generally clueless sports banter contributed little to the show. His off the cuff remarks ranged from claiming that Venus and Serena Williams were better suited for National Geographic than Playboy. His expertise in tennis was reflected with this comment ... "faggots play tennis." and female soccer players are "juiced up dykes."
Six weeks after being released from a substance abuse rehabilitation center, Rosenberg, got into hot water when the show turned to singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer. Sid, in a fit of utter stupidity delivers this line ... "She won't look so pretty when she's bald with one tit." With IMUS running a camp for kids with ... get this .. CANCER the writing was on the wall for Sid. He was pulled from the Imus show and eventually ended up in Miami doing an afternoon show until Joe Rose got canned. Then Sid took over the morning drive show.
Sid Rosenberg tends to go on too long on some topics. He loves to have porn stars and similar scumbags on his show. He has a four year old daughter and yet never stops talking about porn. He often says that he is the Howard Stern of sports talk. He also has Bernie Kosar on the show nearly every day. Kosar likes to play the role of the millionaire drunken bum, and he plays it well. Kosar's scratchy voice and his dumb remarks detract a lot from Rosenberg's show. Hopefully Kosar will be sent down to The Dos Amigos soon, and Rosenberg can focus on sports. Michael Irvin is also a regular guest on Rosenberg's show. Irvin often has some interesting things to say. Unfortunately, Sid Rosenberg is another ultra-right-winger. Recently he had Ann Coulter on the show so that he could prove that she isn't anti-semitic. Sid Rosenberg is a lot more entertaining and intelligent than Joe Rose, but that is not saying much. Compared to the rest of the morning shows in Miami, Rosenberg is the best, but look at his competition: Ron and Ron, Defo in Palm Beach, Two Girls at Coast FM who spend all morning talking about their TOM and boy friends, the two punks at 93.1 FM who sound like they are about ten years old and can barely speak English and Joe Rose at WQAM.
Jorge Sedano has done some odd shows including a very annoying overnight show where he had a sleazy female co-host and they would talk trash about sports all night long. Unfortunately, 790 The Ticket seems to like trash talk on the radio and Sedano found a home. I do not listen to his show much, but he seems to have some potential for intelligent discussions and occasionally analyzes sports.
Jonathan Zaslow is the producer for Jorge Sedano and Boog Sciambi. Zaslow often is given some time on the radio, and he usually does a good job when he is doing a fill-in show.
Jon "Boog" Sciambi looks kinda scary. He apparently has a weight problem and has to go to some kind of fat farm every year to lose weight. The picture of his ugly face is above a photo of Sciambi working out by trying to pull a rubber band. Boog Sciambi used to be the voice of the Florida Marlins baseball team and then he got fired. Sciambi seems to be a nice guy, but he is really too nice. On the radio he sounds like a goofball. He often refers to the callers as "my brother" and is always talking about everyone being his brother. I guess it is some kind of religious thing, but I find it a bit irritating in the context of a sports show. Sciambi also spends all his time praising everyone. Update: The Booger has gotten a job in Atlanta. Thank heavens he can go annoy people over there. Hopefully he will become the voice of the Braves (ironic justice) and will spend the next 40 years there.
What can be said about Dan LeBatard? He has parlayed an awful sports column at The Miami Herald into a career at ESPN and radio. LeBatard is the perfect clone of the Chris Berman style of comedy sports broadcasting. LeBatard spends every afternoon singing moronic songs about various sports celebrities. He invites the listeners to call in and sing songs about sports celebrities. He has Greg Cote (pictured above, he is the guy who looks like a chipmunk) also on the station regularly and they sing songs to each other. Cote used to review movies at The Miami Herald, but is now some kind of columnist there. Stugotz is LeBatard's sidekick. At 790 The Ticket, Jon Weiner (Stugotz) is also the program director, general manager, and probably cleans the toilets too. Hank Goldberg of WQAM had originally nicknamed Weiner as Stugotz. The Urban Dictionary says: Made popular by the HBO Series "The Sopranos", stugots is from "(qu)esto cozzo" in Italian, meaning "this cock" or "this dick". Often used in reference to someone being an asshole. Perhaps the worst thing about LeBatard is that he has Terell Owens on every week to talk about Terrell Owens. What a waste.
Kevin Rogers is on at night and as a fill-in show during odd hours. He is very informative and he should be on ESPN or Fox or some other national station. Rogers is a very good talk host and I enjoy listening to him whenever he is on. Update: Kevin Rogers finally got a permanent slot. Apparently he is replacing Booger sometime in the mid-day slot. That will be a good reason to listen to AM790. Kevin Rogers does not sing songs on the radio and he is not a single man in his mid-forties fighting rumors regarding his sexual orientation.
Steve "Goldie" Goldstein is one of the worst talk show hosts ever. He used to be on the WQAM morning show as the sidekick to Joe Rose, and they literally would fall over each other trying to see who could kiss the most ass. Every time they had a guest, "Goldie" would be so far up the guy's butthole that Rose would sometimes take a shot at Goldie just so it would not be so phoney and contrived. Goldie also has a high-pitched squeeky voice, and Neil Rogers loves to make fun of Goldie. The Neil Rogers Show would regularly play spoofs of Goldie doing his show. At one point Goldie became the sidekick to Howard David at WQAM, and that had an unhappy ending too. Neil Rogers spoofed the Goldie and Howard David discussions endlessly and Goldie has always been worth a few laughs. If there is ever a bad team or any negative situation involving a sponsor of the station, you could always count on Goldie to come up with some bizarre spin so that he could talk about it as a good thing. Fortunately, Goldie is now the TV voice for the Florida Panthers hockey team and is not on radio as much. Unfortunately, 790 still uses Goldie on weekends and to do fill-in shows.
Perhaps the best thing about 790 The Ticket is that they have J.T. The Brick on late night as part of their Fox Sports Radio syndication. J.T. The Brick is ten times better than all of the staff of 790 The Ticket put together.
