John Mamola

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John Mamola is Barrett Media's sports editor and daily sports columnist. He brings over two decades of experience (Chicago, Tampa/St Petersburg) in the broadcast industry with expertise in brand management, sales, promotions, producing, imaging, hosting, talent coaching, talent development, web development, social media strategy and design, video production, creative writing, partnership building, communication/networking with a long track record of growth and success. He is a five-time recognized top 20 program director in a major market via Barrett Medi's Top 20 series and has been honored internally multiple times as station/brand of the year (Tampa, FL) and employee of the month (Tampa, FL) by iHeartMedia. Connect with John by email at John@BarrettMedia.com.

The Buffalo Bills May Have Changed NFL Rights on Sports Radio Forever, and for the Better

"Television rights continue to splinter games across broadcast networks, cable channels, streaming services, and subscription platforms, asking consumers to pay more while receiving less convenience. Radio has an opportunity to move in the opposite direction. That's what happened here."

Joe LaCroix Details His Journey From Listener To Leader At Baltimore’s 105.7 The Fan

"As soon as the opportunity arose, I took a week to talk it over with people I know. Is this something I feel I can accomplish. After those discussions, I decided to go for it."

105.3 The Fan’s Gavin Dawson: Texas Rangers Shifting Telecasts To BZZR “Bizarre”

"The business of baseball is great. It's just the business of cable television really got complicated when all this on-demand streaming services started taking up all their viewers."

WFAN’s Craig Carton: MLB All Star Game Feedback Shows American Sports Fans “Suck”

"Being a Northern American sports fan makes us losers. Last night's a prime example of it. What's the first thing we all talked about? Oh, the game was boring. Boys To Men sucks. Patty La Belle's old."

ESPN West Palm’s John Martin Returns To Work Following Battle With Cancer

"Literally two days ago, for the first time in a year, on Monday of this week, he walked back into ESPN West Palm as a member of the team again."

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Braiden Bell Seeking His Portland Trail Blazers Role Back Following Firing

"Braiden is not asking anyone to excuse what he wrote. He has owned it, without excuses. What he is asking is whether a boy’s words from fourteen years ago should outweigh everything the man has done since."

Bomani Jones Takes The Right Time To Playmaker

"What I liked about Playmaker was that they weren’t trying to come in and change the show, they were giving us the resources to do more with it."

Barrett Media’s Top 20 Podcast Advertisers of 2026

"Voters were asked to answer up to six questions and list which groups and individuals were most important to their business in exact order."

YouTube Is Changing the Rules Again: What it Means For Broadcasters and Brands

"The playing field for platform dominance only gets harder from here."