(09-30-2017 08:19 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  RRstar has gone all in with HS sports. Im sorry but how many people care how the East E-rabs did last night?

In Rockford, more than care about NIU.
It boggles the mind that all the posters on here who brag about never buying let alone reading or caring what's in a newspaper, then can't understand the economics: less subscribers / less readers = fewer ads = less space = less coverage = less subscribers / readers = budget cuts in staff = less coverage = fewer ads = fewer pages and space = less coverage = less subscriber / readers = fewer newspapers = more cuts = fewer staff and on and on.
In the 80s, it wasn't unusual for NIU's press box to have writers from the Tribune, Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Register-Star, Aurora Beacon-News, DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Elgin Courier-News, Dixon Telegraph. In addition to the Huskie Radio Network on flagship WLBK plus an NIU student radio station, there were also single representatives from smaller stations like WRHL. Every MAC school had at least one daily paper, a student paper, and maybe one other newspaper making the trip to DeKalb.
For those of you who missed the news, former President William Monat recently passed away. He was famous for telling people when he was first at NIU serving in the capacity of Provost, then sports information director Bud Nangle kicked him out of the press box because there was no room for university administrators. Monat backed Brigham in building the President's Box underneath the press box.
Ask Korcek what it used to be like. The first time Iowa basketball came to Evans, there were seven different stations broadcasting the game for Iowa, now there's one Hawkeye Network.
Don't expect to see anyone from the Rockford Register-Star unless: a) NIU runs the table to a big bowl, b) a kid from Rockford becomes a star player, or c) something bad happens.