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Tucker Carlson Tells Joe Rogan: I Don’t Email, Get on the Internet, or Own a TV

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Tucker Carlson Tells Joe Rogan: I Don’t Email, Get on the Internet, or Own a TV

Tucker Carlson has built a TV career spanning nearly three decades and has now built a burgeoning digital media entity. But he told Joe Rogan he doesn’t use any of the technology.

While appearing as a guest on the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Carlson attempted to send Rogan a series of files mistakenly released by the U.S. government. When the popular podcast host told him to email him the files, Tucker Carlson responded that he wouldn’t be doing any such thing.

“I don’t do email. I don’t know how to AirDrop anything,” said Carlson.

“You don’t do email?,” Rogan questioned.

“No,” Carlson bluntly stated as Rogan chuckled. “I haven’t done email in many years.”

“Really? How do you exist?,” Rogan continued.

“I do text. I don’t go on the f—ing internet, I don’t have a TV. I’m not into that. That stuff is bad, you know. That’s my isolation tank. I just stay away from that s—.”

Joe Rogan sat, flabbergasted, at the idea that someone synonymous with cable television — and now a growing digital media enterprise that includes videos and podcasts — would share that he doesn’t use the internet or television.

However, Rogan did admit “That’s smart.”

During the nearly three-hour discussion, Carlson and Rogan discussed a bevy of topics, including the Theory of Evolution, the existence of aliens, 9/11 conspiracy theories, and some of Carlson’s former bosses.

The Erick Erickson Show Added to Talk 1370 in Austin

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The Erick Erickson Show Added to Talk 1370 in Austin

The Erick Erickson Show has seen increased distribution over the last 12 months, and that expansion continues with Talk 1370 (KJCE-AM) in Austin picking up the program.

The station announced the move in a video from Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) who welcomed Erickson — who he labeled a “strong, conservative voice” — to the Texas capital and joked listeners may be able to hear him on the program in the future. In a comment to the Governor, Erick Erickson said he’d love to have the 66-year-old on his show as a guest.

“I’m glad to finally have a home in Texas and really appreciate Nikki Nite and KJCE giving me the opportunity to be on,” Erickson said. “Governor Abbott’s welcome was a pleasant surprise.”

Erickson’s show will be heard from 10 PM to Midnight on the Audacy-owned news/talk station in Austin.

In addition to the weeknight show, a best-of edition of The Erick Erickson Show can be heard on Saturdays from 6 to 9 PM.

Ian Rapoport Staying at NFL Network

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Despite layoffs and uncertainty surrounding the future of NFL Network, The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand reports Ian Rapoport, the top insider for the network, will be staying put.

The 44-year-old Rapoport has covered the league since 2009 and has been with NFL Network for 12 years. He previously served as the Patriots beat reporter for the Boston Herald for three seasons. He also covered college football for the Birmingham News and Jackson Clarion-Ledger prior to that.

“We’re excited for Ian to continue to be a part of the NFL Network news-breaking team, providing fans the most trusted source of NFL news across the industry,” NFL Vice President of Communications, Alex Riethmiller told Marchand.

Earlier this month, NFL Network laid off Melissa Stark, Andrew Siciliano, James Palmer, and Will Selva. There has been speculation the NFL is working to sell part of the network to ESPN or another outlet to take over operations, but for now it is business as usual.

Dan Bongino Retains Top News/Talk Podcast Spot in March

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Dan Bongino Retains Top News/Talk Podcast Spot in March

News/Talk programs have become popular podcast shows, but none more so than The Dan Bongino Show. It is the top podcast in the genre according to Triton.

The program hosted by Bongino and distributed by the Cumulus Podcast Network and Westwood One was the seventh most-listened-to podcast according to the podcast ranker in the Top Podcasts By Weekly Average Downloads category. That figure represented a one-place drop from the previous month for Dan Bongino.

Other podcasts from the genre included in the top rankings were The Megyn Kelly Show (15th), The Charlie Kirk Show (16th), The Mark Levin Podcast (27th), and The Shawn Ryan Show (37th).

The podcast rankings showed another strong finish for NPR, with NPR News Now (1st) and Up First (4th) both seeing top-five finishes.

SiriusXM took home the top spot for sales networks by weekly average download, with NPR, Wondery, Audacy, and Audioboom rounding out the top five.

Michael DelGiorno Added to 1190 KEX in Portland and 1090 The Patriot in Seattle

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Michael DelGiorno Added to 1190 KEX in Portland and 1090 The Patriot in Seattle

Michael DelGiorno has seen expansive growth of his syndicated morning show in recent months, and that continues with the addition of two more stations in the Pacific Northwest.

Your Morning Show with Michael DelGiorno has been added to iHeartMedia stations 1190 KEX in Portland and 1090 The Patriot in Seattle.

In Portland, the program replaces a re-air of Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, while in Seattle, it moves into a timeslot previously held by a re-air of Our American Stories and Bloomberg’s early morning business report.

The announcement comes on the heels of the show hosted by DelGiorno was added to 550 KFYI in Phoenix, WILM (Wilmington, DE), WDOV (Dover, DE), WJDY (Salisbury, MD), and WGST (Macon, GA).

The program, which debuted in October of last year, is headquartered at iHeart’s Nashville studios and originates from Talk Radio 98.3 WLAC. The show airs live from 6-9 AM ET.

95.7 The Game Edges KNBR in Tight San Francisco Winter Ratings Book

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95.7 The Game Edges KNBR in Tight San Francisco Winter Ratings Book

Both 95.7 The Game and KNBR registered wins and widespread increases during a tight ratings battle in the Winter book. The latest Nielsen results saw The Game finish sixth in weekday prime (M-F, 6a-7p) with a 4.8 with Men 25-54. That marked a 0.5-share improvement from the fall book but a 0.2 share decrease year-over-year. Worth noting, Nielsen recently announced revisions to its DMA rankings. As a result, San Francisco slid from market 4 to 5 now behind Dallas-Fort Worth.

For the full week (M-SU, 6a-12a), 95.7 The Game also won the head-to-head matchup. The Game ranked eighth with a 4.1 share among Men 25-54. In the prior year’s winter book, the station finished with a 1.8 share in 19th place, a 2.3 share year-over-year increase.

In mornings, Bonta Hill and Joe Shasky finished fifth with a 5.5 share from 6a-10a PT. The Morning Roast gained 1.3 shares from the fall and were even year-over-year. Middays were a similar story with Matt Steinmetz and Daryle ‘Guru’ Johnson claiming a third-place result with a 5.6 share. Steiny and Guru added four-tenths of a share from the fall and one-tenth of a share from the winter book of 2023.

The only show to decline compared to the fall was afternoon drive with Mark Willard and Dan Dibley. Among Men 25-54, Willard and Dibs lost four-tenths of a share, finishing with a 3.7 share to rank 10th. The afternoon number was also eight tenths of a point lower year-over-year.

Following a fall ratings period that included station layoffs and subsequent lineup changes, KNBR experienced growth in weekday prime. The Sports Leader delivered a 4.5 share, seventh place finish, up 1.3-shares from the fall. The station also added 1.7 shares year-over-year.

In their first full ratings book, Brian Murphy and Markus Boucher recorded a 5.7 share, good for fourth in the market. The duo scored a close head-to-head win over The Game in morning drive, improving 1.7 shares from the fall book. Murphy and Boucher were up an even more impressive 3.2 shares year-over-year.

Middays with Greg Papa and John Lund finished seventh for the quarter with a 3.8 share. Papa and Lund did gain 0.6 shares from the fall 0.9 shares year-over-year though they did trail The Game in the timeslot. KNBR also earned a 4.2 share, seventh-place finish in afternoons with Tom Tolbert and Adam Copeland. Tolbert & Copes garnered the largest quarterly gain on the station, amplifying its standing by 1.5 shares from the fall, and 1.4 shares year-over-year. The duo also won the head-to-head battle in their daypart against The Game.

Overall, KNBR attained a ninth-place, 3.9 share for the full week (M-SU 6a-Mid) with Men 25-54. That placed the station two tenths of a point and one ranking position behind The Game. The flagship home of the San Francisco 49ers and Giants was up 0.9 shares from the fall, and 1.4 shares year-over-year. In weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p), KNBR scored a 4.5 share to rank seventh. That put the brand three tenths of a point and one spot behind The Game. The good news, KNBR gained 1.3 shares from the fall, and 1.7 shares year-over-year.

Ratings reports and analysis are written by BSM and sponsored by Crowd React Media, a division of Harker Bos Group. Learn more about the different ways sports media research can benefit your station and cut through the noise by clicking here.

98.5 The Sports Hub Names Tim McKone Headline Anchor and Co-Host of Zolak & Bertrand

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98.5 The Sports Hub Names Tim McKone Headline Anchor and Co-Host of Zolak & Bertrand

Beasley Media Group announced Tim McKone as the new Headline Anchor and Co-host on 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Zolak & Bertrand Show. The addition of McKone to the third chair is effective immediately.

McKone replaces Rob “Hardy” Poole, who moved to mornings with Fred Toucher on the station in January 2024. McKone has been a part-time on-air personality at the Sports Hub since 2013. In addition to co-hosting and providing headlines on all weekday and weekend shows across the station, he has served as studio host for the Celtics and Bruins radio broadcasts.

In the ratings book which just came out, the midday show finished strong with a 15.4 share for the quarter, ranking first with men 25-54, while the new morning show pairing also remained No. 1 registering a 17.9 share.

Cumulus Suggests Slight Revenue Drop in 2024 Q1 Preliminary Results

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Cumulus Media has announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2024, which shows a mixed performance.

The company says it will experience revenue between $199 and $201 million. That figure represents a drop in revenue between 2.3% and 3.3%, according to RadioInk. The company will also finish the quarter with a net loss ranging between $13.4 to $14.9 million. The significant reduction in net loss is largely attributable to a non-operating gain from the sale of Broadcast Music Inc. However, it’s worth noting that the first quarter of 2023 also saw a gain from a similar sale, albeit smaller in magnitude from the sale of WFAS in New York for just over $7 million.

Cumulus also announced updates to its current Exchange Offer for shareholders.

The Exchange Offer announced by Cumulus Media New Holdings indicates a strategic move to adjust the interest rate and extend the maturity of existing notes. By offering more favorable terms to note holders and aligning with current financial strategies, Cumulus aims to strengthen its financial position.

The proposal to convert old term loans into new senior secured term loans further demonstrates Cumulus’s efforts to optimize its financial structure and improve liquidity.

Cumulus will unveil its full first-quarter earnings on Friday, May 3rd.

Dan Le Batard: NBA Broadcast Studio Shows ‘Exist to Get to the Next Batch of Commercials’

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Dan Le Batard: NBA Broadcast Studio Shows ‘Exist to Get to the Next Batch of Commercials’

As playoff contests around the NBA started over the weekend, fans from around the world tuned in for coverage of the action on national platforms, including ABC, ESPN and TNT. Dan Le Batard watched some of the NBA Playoff games over the weekend, including the studio shows that preceded them, and made mention of a storyline that has emerged pertaining to former center and ESPN analyst Kendrick Perkins.

Perkins, who appeared this weekend on NBA Countdown, conjectured that the Miami Heat could shoot 100% from the field and still get swept by the Boston Celtics in the best-of-seven series.

This point, which co-host Jon “Stugotz” Weiner claimed was ridiculous, led Le Batard to elaborate on ESPN’s coverage of the games. Despite an early audio glitch in the Orlando Magic contest against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Le Batard believes that the game coverage was great. Shoulder programming surrounding those broadcasts, however, was an entirely different matter.

“I’m talking about the games, but the studio shows in general – that’s something that Adam Silver and the NBA has had a problem with, almost the entire time that I’ve known of ESPN and that they’ve had studio shows, because it’s always compared against the standard, which is [Charles] Barkley and TNT, and it always pales compared to that,” Le Batard said, referring to Inside the NBA.

“But you’re just filling a lot of studio shows with noise and noise in tight spaces, and so some dumb things are going to be said because you just exist to get to the next batch of commercials. You’re there giving 90 seconds of analysis and getting out. It seems like a waste of time.”

This season marks the first year with host Malika Andrews and analyst Bob Myers, who stepped in after Mike Greenberg focused on his other ventures and Jalen Rose was laid off by the company. Prior to that, NBA Countdown had included personalities such as Michelle Beadle, Paul Pierce and Jay Williams.

“It’s an unfair comparison or standard, isn’t it, from Adam Silver, to compare what ESPN is doing against TNT,” Weiner said. “It is the greatest pregame show in the history of pregames.”

“I’m just telling you the reason they’ve had so much turnover over the years with those studio shows is at least in part because of the NBA’s dissatisfaction with those studio shows,” Le Batard said. “They’ve wanted something better.”

Broadcasters Foundation of America Announces New Award Named After Former Chairman Phil Lombardo

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Broadcasters Foundation of America Announces New Award Named After Former Chairman Phil Lombardo

The Broadcasters Foundation of America has announced a new award created to honor its former chairman, Phil Lombardo.

The Philip J. Lombardo Spirit Award, announced by the Broadcasters Foundation of America, pays homage to the remarkable dedication and tireless commitment of its former chairman. Lombardo, who sadly passed away earlier this year, left an indelible mark on the Foundation through his unwavering support of its mission to assist broadcasters in times of need.

This award, set to debut at the Golden Mic Award Gala in 2025, will honor individuals who embody Lombardo’s spirit of philanthropy and steadfast devotion to the Foundation’s cause.

Ray Cole, a board member of the Broadcasters Foundation and retired President and COO of Citadel Communications, remarked, “Phil believed in giving back to an industry he deeply cared about, contributing both time and treasure to support the vital mission of the Broadcasters Foundation: helping fellow broadcasters during a difficult time in their lives.”

He noted that the award honor Phil Lombardo was an “ideal way” to recognize his “unparalleled leadership and countless efforts that left a lasting impact on the Foundation’s mission.”

The award is made possible through the generous support of Kim Lombardo, Mario Gabelli, and other partners, reflecting the deep appreciation for Lombardo’s leadership and enduring impact on the Foundation.

“Phil brought the sense of urgency that is often needed to give donors an understanding of why they need to donate to our charitable purpose,” added Broadcasters Foundation Chairman Scott Herman. “He led the board for many years, overseeing significant advancements that brought in more funds, and thereby allowing us to continue to distribute financial aid to broadcasters in need.”

The inaugural Spirit Award recipient will be announced prior to the 2025 Golden Mic Award Gala.

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