RadioActive wrote:

So the Blue Jays did the unthinkable Sunday night, sweeping a playoff series for the first time in team history in the most unlikely fashion. After it ended, the Fan 590 did a truncated Jays Talk with Mike Wilner, because of the length of the game. But following that show, there was ... well, radio silence.
 
What came on CJCL at midnight? A canned broadcast of Raceline Radio. This as parts of the downtown core were flooded with fans celebrating an amazing finish for a team that just a few weeks ago looked like they could be playing golf right about now.
 
Meanwhile, over on competitor TSN 1050, they were talking about wrestling. Yes, wrestling. Apparently, there had been a WWE match that same night. Even co-host Jason Agnew during his CFRB Sunday Morning Trivia gig wondered on-air why his own later show on his sister station would bother, given the interest in the Jays.
 
I can’t understand why both outlets quit live coverage so soon. It can easily be argued that it was a holiday weekend, late at night and why bother with the expense of bringing in a full crew on overtime for a few hours?
 
But I would counter that it’s precisely because it was a holiday and people could stay up later that, given the euphoric circumstances, that’s exactly when they should have been there. There were 50,000 people at that game, all heading home after it ended. They’re very likely to have tuned in driving home to listen to reaction or talk about what they just saw. Not to mention all the fans watching downtown in local bars and restaurants. The audience could easily have been in the thousands, even given the time slot. 
 
Instead those would-be ears were treated to pre-recorded programming about two entirely different sports that had absolutely no relevance to what had just happened in their own city.
 
Yes, it wasn’t a ratings-covered time slot. But the impressions you make on being there when people most want you is something that can never be reclaimed. So while the Jays were winners, the two Toronto all-sports stations that cover them definitely struck out with me Sunday night. An opportunity lost for both stations, IMHO. 

Surprised the Fan would bail so early. They could have gone deep into the night talking about the Jays and I bet the phone lines would have been jammed. Same for TSN 1050. But radio stations don't seem to value the overnight time period any more.
 

Maybe. But I find it hard to believe they couldn't have rescheduled Raceline to say, Monday at 7 PM. That has to be better than midnight on a Thanksgiving long weekend.

I also can't quite comprehend why 590 is carrying the Cubs-Giants game on Monday, when the Red Sox-Indians contest - the one that will determine who the Jays ultimately face - is also being played. There may be something in the agreements about carrying out of market AL contenders, but they've done it before with the Orioles.

Really, the former game has no real relevance here yet, while the latter is of the utmost importance. Seems to me that's the one everyone would want to hear in this market, if they were able to carry it.   

Too many post-game shows go too short on that station. Game ends at :50, the show rolls until :30 of the next hour. Many days and nights the post game show ends too early.

TSN radio should have their own post game show and have it go for a couple hours head to head with Fan. Hire a guy who knows baseball inside and out with radio experience and simulcast on 1050 Toronto, 1150 Hamilton and 1200 Ottawa at the very least. Being a non-Rogers entity you might get real discussion and opinions.