In late September 2010, the 28th to be exact, two students at Springfield College had a plan: host a Saturday afternoon sports show. One of them suggested to the other to co-host together and the show was born. So on October 8th aired the first episode live from the WSCB studio. Just over a year later on October of 2011, the duo came onto television sets across campus - playing off of their radio success and popularity. The blog you have come across originally launched exactly two years to the day of the show's founding, began on Wordpress. The show celebrated it's 100th episode, which aired the first full weekend back from winter break January 25, 2014. After 117 episodes, the radio series final episode aired live on Barry's birthday May the 10th of the same year. When Ricky began at WNIA Niagara University, he frequently had Barry on his new program (I Saw it Through the) Knot Hole. On December 21, 2016, the blog moved to its current home to Blogger.
Sports Talk ran for eight semesters with the show being aired from 2-5 on Saturday afternoons for the four bookend semesters and the middle semesters between 2011 and 2013 aired 1-4 on the same day. The radio program was formatted by big four season over the first two hours with any other underlying content covered in the final hour with program breaks every half an hour on the 25s and 55s. As the first episode aired, Major League Baseball was in season the longest thus the first segment in the history of the show. It was subsequently followed by the NFL NHL and NBA in the order which their season was scheduled to open. At the end of each semester, Ricky bridged his freeform program from 8-10 on Saturday mornings for his end-of-semester marathons including the "Winter Spectacular" preceding the festive period.
When the television program was introduced, the program ran for a whole thirty minutes straight uninterrupted at 8pm on Thursdays which repeated at midnight each night. It was formatted with opening remarks and a lead-off topic followed by an opinion piece, five secondary topics another opinion piece a final topic (sometimes replaced by a top 5/not top 5) followed by closing remarks. The opinion pieces were formatted in a five minute block where the first three minutes belonged to the speaker while the other host had a one minute reaction or rebuttal followed by a closing referred to as "on demand" the initial opinion was Barry on Demand and Ricky on Demand was the latter at 5 minutes in and 10 minutes to go, respectively. Due to time and scheduling restraints, the show only lasted two semesters during the 2011-12 academic year.
The program coming to an end was the result of Barry's graduation from Springfield College and Ricky's departure from the institution (citing familial reasons). Sports Talk was the most watched and viewed programming for the duration of its run across WSCB and SCTV. The pair have expressed interest in a documentary looking back as a celebration of the program's accomplishments at the request of viewers. While a tentative date has been set, it is subject to change.
Sports Talk ran for eight semesters with the show being aired from 2-5 on Saturday afternoons for the four bookend semesters and the middle semesters between 2011 and 2013 aired 1-4 on the same day. The radio program was formatted by big four season over the first two hours with any other underlying content covered in the final hour with program breaks every half an hour on the 25s and 55s. As the first episode aired, Major League Baseball was in season the longest thus the first segment in the history of the show. It was subsequently followed by the NFL NHL and NBA in the order which their season was scheduled to open. At the end of each semester, Ricky bridged his freeform program from 8-10 on Saturday mornings for his end-of-semester marathons including the "Winter Spectacular" preceding the festive period.
When the television program was introduced, the program ran for a whole thirty minutes straight uninterrupted at 8pm on Thursdays which repeated at midnight each night. It was formatted with opening remarks and a lead-off topic followed by an opinion piece, five secondary topics another opinion piece a final topic (sometimes replaced by a top 5/not top 5) followed by closing remarks. The opinion pieces were formatted in a five minute block where the first three minutes belonged to the speaker while the other host had a one minute reaction or rebuttal followed by a closing referred to as "on demand" the initial opinion was Barry on Demand and Ricky on Demand was the latter at 5 minutes in and 10 minutes to go, respectively. Due to time and scheduling restraints, the show only lasted two semesters during the 2011-12 academic year.
The program coming to an end was the result of Barry's graduation from Springfield College and Ricky's departure from the institution (citing familial reasons). Sports Talk was the most watched and viewed programming for the duration of its run across WSCB and SCTV. The pair have expressed interest in a documentary looking back as a celebration of the program's accomplishments at the request of viewers. While a tentative date has been set, it is subject to change.
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