Derek Futterman

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Derek Futterman is a former associate editor and sports media reporter for Barrett Media. He previously interned for Paramount within Showtime Networks, wrote for the Long Island Herald and served as lead sports producer at NY2C. Find him on X @derekfutterman.

Day Spent With: Jim and Dawn Cutler

"What do they want? It is about making their life easy. Boiling that down to the devil in the details, what’s the point in the story?"

Carmen DeFalco is Committed to ESPN Chicago

"There’s such a great demand and appetite for sports talk because people are so passionate in a place like this about their teams."

Laura Rutledge is Thriving on Her Journey at ESPN

"They don’t need to remember what I said because I’m there to make them shine, and that will be what I hope people would say about me."

Ike Reese is Raring to Go in Afternoons With Spike Eskin at SportsRadio 94WIP

"I think there’s a healthy amount of ego in all of us and then there’s even more of a healthy amount of humility in all three of us."

Corby Davidson Expects the Next Five Years to Represent His Final Stretch at The Ticket

"I’m not going to say that I’ll be completely done with doing something of this form, but I will never work for another radio station – ever."

Breaking

AM Radio Is on Life Support, and the FCC Helped Put It There

AM's demise is connected to terrible content. Can AM rise again? It's all about content.

Warren Kurtzman of Coleman Insights Wants Radio to Prove Its Brand-Building Power

"We need something that more effectively demonstrates the impact that we have for advertisers."

How Matt Chernoff Evolves From One Legendary Chapter to the Next at 680 the Fan

"I’ve always taken pride in the fact that I can work with different people. I don’t want this show to sound like Chuck & Chernoff because that chapter is closed."

Is Syndication Making Radio Better or Just Cheaper?

"If you can't win that fight at home, you're not ready for somebody else's town."