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Is ESPN Overcomplicating Super Bowl LXI With Too Many Viewing Options?

"The Super Bowl is more than a football game, it's America culture. ESPN doesn’t have to convince viewers why they should watch, as it has worked to do with the College Football Playoff National Championship."

Strategic Solutions Research’s Hal Rood Explains What The Podcast Study 2026 Reveals

“There definitely is a flashing yellow light for ad load. Now, is it a red alert yet? No, but we’re seeing the canary in the coal mine.”

Rock Radio Should Steal From Ash Dykes’ Congo Basin Stunt

"Stunts don’t need to be death-defying — they can take place in the studio or at a client location instead of on a river full of killers."

Darien Southerland Built 101.1 The Pulse on Faith, Country, and Real Radio

"Country music, Marjorie Taylor Greene, deer hunting, King James Bibles, and four-by-four pickup trucks. That's my avatar."

Fred Toucher Credits Listener With Saving His Life, Takes Leave of Absence

"I had been going to doctors and they didn’t seem overly concerned. However, a listener heard me and put me in touch with a doctor he works with. I went and things didn’t go great."

Fred Toucher: Management Has Used Voice Problems Against Me In Contract Negotiations

"I will say that if you're ever negotiating a contract and have anything sketchy going on, they will use that against you."

Fred Toucher is Living Our Industry’s Worst Nightmare

"Not being able to speak is bad. Being able to speak but not sounding like yourself? That has to be maddening."

Scott Zolak Enlists Listener To Get Twitter Handle Back

"It takes a while for Twitter to get back to you, but I got an actual person at Twitter that reaches out and is handling this."

Fred Toucher: ‘Is My Career Over If I Continue to Talk Like This?’

"When your throat has been messed up long enough, you learn to speak in a different way to compensate for it."

Fred Toucher Updates His Vocal Condition

“No one wants to go on the IR, but I realize that radio is a physical game and it’s what you sign up for when you put on those headphones every morning."

Toucher & Rich Mock Dan Shaughnessy Column Expressing Concern Over Gambling Ads

“He’s sick of the commercials for sports gambling and Rich and I are talking about it off the air like ‘What do you want? More Burger King commercials?’”.

Fred Toucher Jokes A.J. Hawk is the Unsung Hero of Pat McAfee’s Aaron Rodgers Interview

"I watched the thing twice, and the second time I watched it, I just wanted to pretend to be A.J. Hawk's head."

Mike Felger: NFL Insiders Don’t Realize You Can’t Win ‘Em All

"You don't get every story. Just because you don't have it doesn't mean it's not happening."

Rich Shertenlieb: Fans Have to Plan Ahead For Games on ESPN+

"So if you're a bar, and you're just usually someone who flips the game on on cable, ESPN+ is just not an option unless you thought ahead about that."

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Strategic Solutions Research’s Hal Rood Explains What The Podcast Study 2026 Reveals

“There definitely is a flashing yellow light for ad load. Now, is it a red alert yet? No, but we’re seeing the canary in the coal mine.”

Rock Radio Should Steal From Ash Dykes’ Congo Basin Stunt

"Stunts don’t need to be death-defying — they can take place in the studio or at a client location instead of on a river full of killers."

Darien Southerland Built 101.1 The Pulse on Faith, Country, and Real Radio

"Country music, Marjorie Taylor Greene, deer hunting, King James Bibles, and four-by-four pickup trucks. That's my avatar."

How News/Talk Hosts Can Spot Bad Midterm Election Polls Before Election Day

This shouldn’t take much time and, in fact, might add to the on-air conversation. The host can give real reasons why some of the polls about your market’s midterms are good or bogus, beyond “How can Candidate X be ahead?” or “You can’t believe any of the polls.”