Cincinnati sports talk with sharp elbows.
Ken Broo moves like a live desk on a busy weekend morning: scores first, judgment right behind. Reds innings, Bengals roster moves, NCAA stakes, Washington fights, and Cincinnati civic flare-ups all get handled with blunt, practical energy.
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Ken Broo is a weekend radio show with Cincinnati at the center and a much wider map on the desk. It is labeled as sports talk, and that label fits, but the episodes move beyond box scores. Reds baseball gets serious attention. A close win, a clean defensive start, a pitcher grinding through traffic, a bullpen trying to close the door: those details become the raw material for a bigger argument about how winning actually works. Bengals talk comes with the same urgency. When the team makes an unusually aggressive trade for Dexter Lawrence, the show does not just celebrate the splash; it measures the local excitement against the colder national reaction and asks what the Bengals believe about their championship window. College sports sit in the mix too. NCAA finals, Big 12 win totals, NIL money, streaming costs, and the average fan getting priced out all show up as connected problems rather than isolated talking points. The show is comfortable with that kind of chain reaction. A sports segment can open into streaming economics. A local embarrassment can become a complaint about city leadership. A discussion of diesel fuel and oil markets can turn into a plainspoken explanation of why groceries and hardware cost more. The pacing is brisk. The judgment is not hidden. It has the texture of live talk radio: numbers, names, guest hits, clipped reactions, repeat phrases, and the occasional hard pivot from baseball to Washington or the Strait of Hormuz. The show works best for listeners who want Cincinnati sports without sealing sports off from politics, money, media, and civic frustration. It is not a narrow analytics feed. It is a local radio counter, busy before noon, with the Reds coming up and the next argument already forming.
Made for: For Cincinnati and Tri-State listeners who follow the Reds, Bengals, college sports, and the civic noise around them. It also fits fans who prefer radio-style reaction over polished studio analysis.
What sets it apart: The show treats sports as part of local life, not a sealed-off entertainment product. Scores, roster moves, streaming costs, politics, and city leadership all sit close enough to collide.
Sunday Morning Sports Talk with Ken Broo on 700WLW
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Ken Broo pairs close Reds and Bengals scrutiny with pointed questions about the financial and organizational forces shaping Cincinnati sports.
Ken Broo turns Cincinnati sports into a running conversation about decisions, consequences, and the money around the games. Reds pitching, roster construction, Bengals draft questions, college basketball, and NIL all receive attention, with Broo moving between his own pointed…
Reds bullpen anxiety meets Washington exasperation; your scorecard may need a second column.
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