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"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."

"Viewers know exactly what they're getting from First Take, just as they know what to expect from Pardon the Interruption. When a formula continues to deliver results and remains central to a show's identity, changing it during growing success rarely makes sense."

"The point of creating and distributing content is to serve it to an audience that values it, and connect partners to it who can grow their businesses by being associated with it."

What's so unusual is the opposition coming from the right, not just the expected criticism from the left.

A cashier at Target can vent about corporate policy without consequence because nobody's confusing his opinion for store policy. Carr doesn't get that luxury.

"Nobody wants to think about Christmas in August. That's exactly why the stations who do it anyway end up ahead."

"You can't count on that happening, which is why stations like ours need to create moments like this."