You Make the Call: Music in Sports Programming

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I work for a radio station. I am currently building a format for our broadcasts this season of a college basketball team. I need music for the open, music for the close, music to start off the halftime, and liners to take the listeners in and out of commercial breaks.

Many of the generic CDs we keep in our library sound, well, generic. Any suggestions for the items I listed above?

For example, I'm thinking something like "Seen Your Video" by the Replacements to start the halftime show with.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

just buy the new New Order Singles Comp and use each track during the entire season. 20 bucks and you're done.

― biz, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

PP, how many distinct bumpers/transition bits will you need?

What about Andrew WK? Hell, he showed up in that one Madden...

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:22 (twenty years ago)

I need one open, one close, and one halftime.

I'll probably need 8 to 10 bumpers.

Instrumentals are mandatory. There'll be announcers and shit talking over them.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

T. Raumschmiere - Monster Truck Driver

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Bob Log.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

In a game with a brawl or that features ex-teammates on opposing teams, go with Dandy Warhols' "We Used to Be Friends." Catchy segue music, too.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, the big electro hits should work really good and everybody knows them so that's an advantage: "Monstertruckdriver", "Geht's Noch", "Rocker", "Satisfaction".

Also, "Soul Bossa Nova".

And "Poing".

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Chris Joss "You've Been Spiked" - Amazon page with sound samples. Great funk instrumentals

Another favorite is Zongamin's recent S/T CD, bounced between several genres but very consistent.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

WEEI RED SOX NATION is all about the strokes "someday" kicking off the post game wrap

― fb (ozewayo), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

"Sirius" by the Alan Parsons Project.

― late adopter, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

The opening of Grounded by Pavement would make for a great segue.

http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0X7KUCTREBMQ61SP40R8FJ5PTD

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Actually would make for a better opening.

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Fox just used Franz Ferdinand's "Michael" in the intro to tonight's World Series Game 3. No lyrics, just the music, but still - wow.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

aussie sports tv uses a lot of new order, franz ferdinand and, oddly, the first track on the first interpol album

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

WHOOMP! There it is.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

I've been using "Take Me Out" as a bumper for the weekday sportstalk show, but hell, even Madden 2005 uses that.

Something like "Grounded" would work great going into a break during a coach's timeout.

It's blasphemous as hell, but "Bizarre Love Triangle" is working out great as a pre-game billboard ("Trojan Basketball brought to you by....")

Keep 'em coming.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)

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