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Jimmy Pitaro: ‘Quality Journalism Has Never Been More of a Priority at ESPN’

"It’s a huge part of our DNA, investigative reporting. We are not going to be pulling back there at all."

Mike Valenti: Bad Detroit Teams Have Made Me a Better Host

"When your town has been as bad as Detroit has been, yeah creativity has to happen. Because if you just get on the air every day and say, 'This team is bad,' well yeah water's wet."

Nexstar, DirecTV Resolve Carriage Dispute With Multi-Year Deal

"The Nexstar blackout on DirecTV began on July 2."

Staffers Rally After The New York Times Shreds Its Sports Section

“The way they’ve chosen to handle this has been unfair to workers at both The Times and 'The Athletic.'”

Dan Patrick: ‘I Don’t Do A Sports Show; I Do A Show’

"My goal is just to have a show and talk about whatever’s going on."

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Think Big, Ask Big: Doug Abernethy’s Radio One Playbook

"Our industry has transformed better than any other traditional media"

Ken Charles Explains How Trust Drives Ratings and Sales at 95.5 WSB

“The trust of your audience is crucial not only to long-term success but to being a long-term part of the community and a long-term part of their habits, so that when things happen, they go to the place they trust. And we want to be the place they trust the most.”

How Pete Sousa’s Road to Sobriety Led Him Back to a Sports Media Career He Thought He Lost

"When you get sober, the sky is the limit. I'm living, breathing proof of that. People thought I was extremely hopeless. I'm here to tell anyone with a problem, if you think you're hopeless, that is not true."

Why News/Talk Radio Stations Must Preserve Their History Before It Disappears

I may be living in some sort of fantasyland that I frequently rail about in these columns. I don’t believe that these special moments are unusual or examples of confirmation bias. This is real life.