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Mike Gallagher: Other Hosts Like Interviews With Talking Heads and Politicians, I Like Callers

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Mike Gallagher: Other Hosts Like Interviews With Talking Heads and Politicians, I Like Callers

Many news/talk radio programs — especially nationally syndicated shows — don’t feature as many listener phone calls as previously heard in the format. But Salem Radio Network host Mike Gallagher wants listeners to remain a staple of his program.

During The Mike Gallagher Show Monday, the nationally syndicated host noted that he thought it was important for callers of his show to phone the program and share their thoughts on the announcement that President Joe Biden would step aside from his re-election campaign.

He added that while other programs like to feature high-profile guests, he’ll always put his listeners in the forefront.

“Everybody else likes to talk to talking heads and authors and everything, politicians. I like to talk to the American people. This is a caller-driven show and I want to put your voice front and center,” Gallagher said to listeners Monday. “You and I’ve been through a lot together. Longtime listeners have been with me through 9/11. Longtime listeners have been with me through some personal tragedy. We’ve been together in the highs and the lows. And here we are today, watching history be made.”

Gallagher added he wants his phone lines filled with callers into the program so he can feature their voices and opinions on the topics that matter most to American citizens.

Bill Bowen, former 99.5 “The Wolf” host, has passed away.

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Bill Bowen, former 99.5 “The Wolf” host, has passed away.

Bill Bowen, former KPLX (99.5 The Wolf)/Dallas night host, has passed away.

Bowen joined “The Wolf” in 2011 before stepping away in 2021 to undergo chemotherapy.  He entered hospice in April when he announced that “Chemo isn’t working anymore. Liver is 60 percent cancer.”

His son, Michael, announced on Facebook, “Hi everyone. This is Bill’s son, Michael Phillips. Earlier this morning, Bill passed away peacefully, with his family at his bedside, holding his hands. We are processing a lot of emotions right now and will have more updates coming in the final days. Thank you to all who have reached out these past few months. We made sure he got every note of encouragement and it helped to lift his spirit.

Steve Hyder, Former Syracuse University Broadcaster and Sports Talk Host, Has Died

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Steve Hyder, Former Syracuse University Broadcaster and Sports Talk Host, Has Died

Steve Hyder, a very familiar voice to those in Syracuse, has passed away at the age of 62. Hyder had battled a kidney condition since 2014 and had a kidney transplant, the donor being his goddaughter, in 2019.

Hyder called Syracuse University basketball games in the 80’s and 90’s and also spent three seasons calling games for the Syracuse Chiefs who were, at the time, the Triple-A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. Hyder also hosted sports talk shows in Syracuse on WHEN.

Hyder would later move to Rhode Island and would end up calling games for the Pawtucket Red Sox, who used to be the Triple-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

Dan Hoard, the voice of the Cincinnati Bengals and the University of Cincinnati, knew and worked with Hyder. He posted a blog about the passing of his friend and said, in part, “My good friend and former broadcast partner Steve Hyder passed away this weekend. He had a razor-sharp wit, an incredible memory (especially for old TV shows), a big, booming voice, and an even bigger heart. I’m guessing that most of the people that knew him well consider Steve to be one of the most loyal and trustworthy friends they ever had. Not to mention one of the funniest people on the planet.”

Hoard would add, “After I moved to Cincinnati in 2011, Steve and I would text each other whenever we were reminded of our numerous inside jokes. It’s heartbreaking to realize that I am not going to see his name pop up in my messages knowing that whatever he just typed was sure to make me laugh.”

Hyder is survived by his daughters Eva and Carly and by his partner Cathy.

Former 95.5 WSB PD Pete Spriggs Named to Legends of Georgia Radio Hall of Fame

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Former 95.5 WSB PD Pete Spriggs Named to Legends of Georgia Radio Hall of Fame

Former 95.5 WSB program director Pete Spriggs will be one of several inductees into the Legends of Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in its 2024 class.

Springs began his career with the Atlanta news/talk station in 2000 before ultimately retiring in February 2020.

During his career leading the station, he oversaw the addition of the FM signal for the brand. He also led the station as Neal Boortz departed, but also the addition of talents like Rush Limbaugh from WGST, and local hosts like Eric Von Haessler, Mark Arum, Erick Erickson, and Herman Cain, among others.

While serving as the Program Director of the Cox Media Group station, 95.5 WSB won several Marconi Awards, including the Major Market Station of the Year Award in 2018.

“It’s really great to be recognized with so many fantastic broadcasters,” Spriggs said of the honor. “It was a blessing to have Cox Radio hand me the keys to work beside such great talent. We all accomplished some great things together.”

Before joining 95.5 WSB, Pete Spriggs also worked at WHIO Radio in Dayton, and WDBO in Orlando, both Cox Media Group stations.

The Legends of Georgia Radio Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held on Saturday, August 24th at the Sandy Springs Performing Arts Center. Joining Spriggs in the Class of 2024 are Howard Toole, Steve Craig, Bobby Ellerbee, Bob Helbush, Brady McGraw, and Wendy Williams.

ACC Network Reveals New ‘ACC Primetime Football’ Broadcast Team, Upcoming Programming

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ACC Network Reveals New ‘ACC Primetime Football’ Broadcast Team, Upcoming Programming

The ACC Network has announced a variety of programming initiatives and updates to its talent roster as the college football season quickly approaches. Last week, the ESPN-owned network announced Taylor Tannebaum as the new host of ACC Huddle, and she will be joined by analysts Eric Mac Lain, EJ Manuel, Mark Richt and Eddie Royal every Saturday from the location of the ACC Primetime Football game. Tannebaum and Manuel will be live from Dublin, Ireland for the 2024 Aer Lingus College Football Classic in Week 0 from Aviva Stadium on Sat. Aug 24 as Florida State and Georgia Tech open the season. The rest of ACC Huddle show members, in addition to host Justin Walters, will be live from the ESPN Bristol studios contributing to the coverage as well. The matchup will also feature a multi-angle Command Center presentation of the game with up to four different vantage points and player and team statistics concurrent with game action in real time.

The lead broadcast team for ACC Primetime Football will retain longtime play-by-play announcer Wes Durham while introducing two new members of the crew. ESPN college football analyst and national recruiting director Tom Luginbill will be the new game analyst for ACC Primetime Football broadcasts in the fall. Luginbill is a former Georgia Tech quarterback who has been a member of ESPN since 2005, spending the last decade as a college football analyst for ABC and ESPN. Dana Boyle, who joined ESPN and ACC Network in 2020, has been named the sideline reporter for the live game broadcasts. Boyle was an All-ACC lacrosse player for the Virginia Cavaliers and has served as a lacrosse analyst and sideline reporter for ESPN and the ACC Network. The broadcast team will make its debut on Aug. 31 when Georgia Tech faces Georgia State from Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta, Ga. at 8 p.m. EST.

In addition to ACC Huddle, the ACC PM program will be on the road throughout the season for editions of the program. Show host Mark Packer will work with a rotation of co-hosts such as Tom Lunginbill, Taylor Tannebaum and Justin Walters. The program will continue to bring viewers news and commentary around the conference on weekdays from 4 to 7 p.m. EST on the ACC Network. Friday editions will take place from ACC campus sites in the fall, while Monday through Thursday editions will emanate from Packer’s basement studio in Charlotte, N.C. and the ACC Network studio in Bristol, Conn. Both shows will be live from Raleigh, N.C. on Thursday, Aug. 29 before Western Carolina and NC State play that night at 7 p.m. EST on ACC Network. Two days later, the programs will be in Atlanta for the ACC Primetime Football broadcast between Georgia Tech and Georgia State.

Ahead of the start of the regular season, the ACC Network will engage in a three-week, 17-school road trip. This will begin on Monday, July 29 at Florida State in Tallahassee and conclude on Tuesday, Aug. 20 from Louisville. New members of the ACC will be spotlighted within the road trip, including Stanford University on July 31, the University of California, Berkley on Aug. 2 and Southern Methodist University on Aug. 6. ACC Network will feature several personalities throughout the venture, some of whom include Andrea Adelson, Roddy Jones, Mark Richt, Taylor Tannebaum and Justin Walters.

The ACC Network’s All Access series features the Syracuse Orange and will premiere on Monday, Aug. 12 immediately after the team is featured as part of ACC Network Football Road Trip. This three-part series will grant consumers access within the program as first-year head coach Fran Brown attempts to lead the team to a conference championship. In the past, the series has featured several ACC football programs such as North Carolina, Louisville, Miami and NC State. The network will also start filming for a new season of 3-Day Weekend, its travel series produced by Susie Films in partnership with ESPN. Hosted by Jess Roy, the show will provide fans with a look at ACC towns through exploring historic locations and eminent restaurants and establishments.

“Slick” Tom Tiberi Out At 97 Rock/Buffalo After Posting FB Meme

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“Slick” Tom Tiberi Out At 97 Rock/Buffalo After Posting FB Meme

“Slick” Tom Tiberi is out at Cumulus Classic Rock WGRF (97 Rock)/Buffalo following a meme posted on his personal Facebook page depicting Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin lying in coffins.

Commenting on the same Facebook page Tiberi shared, “Last Thursday I shared a dark humored FB meme about former President Trump, on my personal FB page.

Was it in poor taste? Yes, it was. However, the point I need to stress is that this meme was put up BEFORE the assassination attempt on Saturday. I then took it down immediately! However, by then a small but well-organized group of far-right extremist on FB had taken a screen shot of my meme and posted it all over public FB and to their private far right FB groups. This included posting phone numbers and e-mail addresses of Cumulus local and corporate Cumulus management. The screen shot they shared made it look like I had posted the meme AFTER the assassination attempt rather than on Thursday. This small group of individuals have succeeded in getting me fired from 97 Rock, as Cumulus local management crumbled under the pressure from this small group of lunatics. Make no mistake, this was a well-organized hit job! Funny, these are the very same people who whine about cancel culture and freedom of speech. For now, I would like to express my deep affection and thanks to all my loyal listeners that have welcomed me into their homes and supported me over the last 25 years. You are more than listeners to me; you are and will always be my true friends. Let us just say so long for now, as I’ll be back.

Barret Media has reached out to Cumulus for comment.

Tiberi’s most recent time with the WGRF started in 2010. Before that, he had a nearly two-decade run in nights before exiting in 2008 due to budget cuts.

Yogi Roth Joins Big Ten Network

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Yogi Roth Joins Big Ten Network

B1G Media Days begin tomorrow in Indianapolis and there will be a new face amongst the media members on hand. Yogi Roth, formerly of the Pac-12 Network which recently shut down, has landed at the Big Ten Network.

Roth posted about his new role on his X account and on his website, Y-Option.com.

“The one constant in life is change,” Roth wrote. “Excited for this new role at the Big Ten Network, the growing community at Y-Option Football as we talk about college football through the lens of the West Coast & finding meaning amid the last year with the league that means so much to me.”

Roth would later add about the new role, “I’m excited to visit new campuses that will inspire hope in our future, meet new athletes who will share stories that will move the nation, learn from new coaches who will help us coach the viewers, and connect with new fans who share a love for this game. Overall, I am so thankful for this new team at BTN as I get to continue to live out a childhood dream.”

Roth played wide receiver at Pitt and spent time on Pete Carroll’s coaching staff at USC. He is also an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and a New York Times and Amazon best-selling author.

95.3 WDAE Renews Deal with Pewter Report for Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coverage

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95.3 WDAE Renews Deal with Pewter Report for Tampa Bay Buccaneers Coverage

95.3 WDAE has announced it has agreed to an extension with the Pewter Report for coverage of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2024.

As part of the deal, the digital outlet will be featured on the iHeartMedia-owned Tampa sports station for exclusive interviews. Additionally, Scott Reynolds — Pewter Report publisher and beat writer — will return as an analyst for The Insiders program on the station. Also, WDAE hosts will appear on Pewter Report podcasts throughout the 2024 season.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Scott Reynolds & the entire Pewter Report team for an eighth straight season in Tampa Bay,” said 95.3 WDAE Progam Director John Mamola. “It’s going to be a big year for football and Bucs nation, and we could be happier to continue our long-standing partnership and continue to build upon delivering the best Bucs coverage to our amazing listeners and devoted online audience”

Pewter Report has covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers exclusively since 1995. The site employs Matt Matera, Bailey Adams, Joshua Queipo, and Adam Slivon as beatwriters covering the NFL franchise.

Meanwhile, 95.3 WDAE’s iHeartMedia sister station — 98Rock — serves as the radio flagship for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Radio Network.

2024 Election Ad Spending Surpasses $3 Billion, New Report Claims

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2024 Election Ad Spending Surpasses $3 Billion, New Report Claims

Despite the presidential election being flipped on its proverbial head in recent days, 2024 election spending hasn’t slowed, reaching more than $3 billion.

Before President Donald Trump was shot at a Pennsylvania rally earlier this month, resulting in President Joe Biden pulling his campaign ads, political advertising was beginning to grow, with more than $165.8 million tracked by AdImpact in the last two weeks.

With that infusion of $165 million into the political realm, it brings total spending to just under $3.2 billion, far outpacing previous spending, including the hotly contested 2020 election.

While the presidential race has been shaken up by the recent announcement that President Joe Biden is ending his re-election campaign, tight Congressional races have increased spending for the 2024 election cycle.

According to AdImpact’s data, more than $550 million has already been reserved for fall advertising for Senate races, with an additional $330 million spent on House campaigns. In total, more than $1.2 billion has been reserved for political campaigns when issue spending, presidential races, state house campaigns, governor races, and attorney general elections are factored in. $721 million of the spending reserved is for Democratic Party candidates, with just under $405 million reserved for Republicans.

With the tight Congressional races and the changes to the presidential ticket, AdImpact has upped its projection for total political spending for the 2024 election from $10.2 billion to $10.7 billion. That figure would represent a 19% increase compared to 2020.

The CW Network Announces College Football Broadcast Teams

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The CW Network Announces College Football Broadcast Teams

The CW Network agreed to a deal with the Atlantic Coast Conference in which it obtained media rights for 50 college football and basketball games within the conference in each season through 2026-27. Additionally, the broadcast network will televise Pac-12 home football games featuring Oregon State and Washington State football programs produced by Pac-12 Enterprises. The CW is preparing for another season of college football broadcasts and is introducing a new studio program, CW Football Saturday, slated to make its debut on Saturday, Aug. 31.

“The second season of college football on The CW will be bigger than ever with coast-to-coast coverage of powerhouse teams from the ACC and Pac-12 conferences,” Dennis Miller, president of The CW Network, said in a statement. “With the addition of the new live studio preshow and a roster of expert commentators, reporters and analysts, The CW is poised to become a premier college football destination on broadcast television for fans every Saturday this fall.”

The network announced that Thom Brennaman will serve as the lead play-by-play announcer for ACC games on The CW and select Pac-12 contests as well, granting him another chance in sports media after he was fired four years ago for vocalizing a homophobic slur on a hot microphone during a Cincinnati Reds broadcast. Brennaman explained that he was grateful for the opportunity and has been working on listening to people in trying to learn from the mistakes that he made, according to an article that broke the news from Andrew Marchand of The Athletic.

Brennaman will be joined by analyst Max Browne and sideline reporter Treavor Scales on these broadcasts, both of whom have athletic experience within college football. Browne is a former college quarterback and analyst for Pac-12 Networks, and Scales is a four-time All-Ivy running back and current pregame and postgame show host for the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks.

Ted Robinson will serve as the play-by-play announcer on Pac-12 games on The CW with analyst Chase Daniel and sideline reporter Nigel Burton. Robinson was formerly the lead play-by-play announcer for football and men’s basketball broadcasts on Pac-12 Networks, which ceased operations on June 30 after 12 years on the air. Daniel is a former college quarterback at the University of Missouri who retired from the NFL in 2023 and has since served as a studio analyst for NFL Network and co-host of the Chasin’ It podcast with Trey Wingo. Burton was the head coach of the Portland State Vikings for five years and recently served as a football analyst on Pac-12 Networks programming and live game broadcasts.

Pac-12 “After Dark” games will feature a broadcast team of play-by-play announcer J.B. Long, analyst Michael Bumpus and sideline reporters Camryn Irwin and Heidi Watney. Long is the radio voice of the Los Angeles Rams and a founding member of Bleacher Report, while Bumpus is the lead host for radio broadcasts of Seattle Seahawks games and co-host of Bump and Stacy on Seattle Sports. Irwin is a host for the Los Angeles Rams and has previously worked with Pac-12 Networks and Amazon Prime Video, and Watney is a reporter for Friday Night Baseball on Apple TV+ and former MLB Network host.

The CW Football Saturday studio show will be hosted by Mike Yam and feature a rotating panel of expert analysts. Pac-12 Enterprises will produce the studio show and all Pac-12 games for The CW, while Raycom Sports will produce all ACC games on The CW.

The Pac-12 Conference contains two teams after it was unable to come to terms on a new media rights deal upon the expiration of a 12-year contract with ESPN and FOX Sports. Earlier in the year, the conference signed a one-year national television deal with The CW and FOX to televise a majority of home games for both Oregon State and Washington State.

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