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"Excluding China, (vertical video) is on track to hit $150 billion in 2026, up from $106 billion."

News/talk has produced Marconi winners and finalists for years. Hosts who've been recognized before -- or who've built shows around exactly the kind of local connection and audience loyalty the Marconis are meant to honor -- don't typically forget to apply.

"Baseball has plenty of unwritten rules. Sports radio partnerships do too. One of them is understanding that a flagship station still has an obligation to call it like it sees it, hold teams accountable, and deliver the type of coverage local fans expect."

"When everybody has the music, the music itself no longer separates one service from another. This is starting to make streaming look a lot like radio."

"The next decade won't simply reward businesses that adopt new technology. It will reward organizations that continually reinvent themselves while staying true to the value customers actually want."

"An algorithm can assemble a playlist. Yet it cannot build a community like radio does."

"If one lapse in judgment is enough to erase an otherwise successful career, we're setting a standard that very few people—inside or outside of sports media—could ever hope to meet."

This is the "it's the economy, stupid" of television news.

There is a significant portion of your audience that gets home on a Friday night and has no real human contact until they arrive at work on Monday. There is an opportunity for radio.

"Let's take a fresh perspective of what we're blessed to do."