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David Roberts Bids Farewell to ESPN After Two Decades of Influence

"I trusted him. He believed in me tirelessly. He put me front and center with everything. I've never had an executive believe in me as much as he did."

Why Howard Stern Doesn’t Need Daily Radio Anymore

"Howard was the ultimate slave to the art. Perhaps he finally doesn't want to be anymore"

Why Curtis Sliwa Refuses to Be a Donald Trump Echo Chamber on 710 WOR

"I made that very clear in coming back: I was not going to become an echo chamber for Donald Trump. It's proven to be very successful for us."

Inside Andrew Perloff’s Reunion With Paul Pabst To Launch ‘Not So Fast’ on NBC Sports NOW

"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."

Adam Silver: NBA Media Rights Deal Ensures Reach, Accessibility, Discoverability

The National Basketball Association agreed to 11-year media rights deals with The Walt Disney Company (ESPN/ABC), NBCUniversal (NBC/Peacock) and Amazon (Prime Video) reportedly worth...

NBA and TNT Sports’ Relationship Was Destined to End This Way

If you’ve been paying attention, you’ve seen this coming from miles away. The NBA media rights conversation for after next season was always going...

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver “100% Expects to Be Sued” Over New Media Rights Deal Per Report

David Zaslav, chief executive officer of Warner Bros. Discovery, publicly stated last year that the entity did not need the NBA, and he recently averred that the company’s sports oeuvre is “very robust.”

ESPN, NBC and Amazon’s NBA Media Rights Package is a Big Win for Sports

I can't help but just continue to think this is a good thing for sports and let the rest of it sort itself out.

Adam Silver: NBA Hopes to ‘Wrap Up’ Media Rights Negotiations in ‘Relative Near Term’

"No one likes this uncertainty, and I think it’s on the league office to bring these negotiations to a head and conclude them as quickly as we can."

Adam Silver: ‘Inside the NBA’ Team is Always Going To Be Covering the NBA

"I can’t imagine those guys won’t be performing and announcing together in the future and we all love them."

The NBA Play-In Tournament is Simply About Money

By most estimates, the PIT has added millions of dollars in value for the league’s broadcast partners.

Would TNT Prefer NBA All-Star Weekend Without the All-Star Game?

Credit the TNT crew with playing things about level — nobody tried to pretend this was anything other than a freestyle show — but there is just such a limited audience for the kind of tripe that was on the court in Indianapolis.

Adam Silver: NBA Will Discuss Expansion After Inking New National Media Rights Deal

"The reason we wanted to get those deals done, no secret, is we want to have a better understanding of what the economics would be going forward."

Nationalizing NBA TV Rights Works for the League, But Not For Broadcast Partners

The league is looking out for itself by trying to get a huge rights fee. But there's only one problem: Who's going to agree to what the NBA wants?

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Why Howard Stern Doesn’t Need Daily Radio Anymore

"Howard was the ultimate slave to the art. Perhaps he finally doesn't want to be anymore"

Why Curtis Sliwa Refuses to Be a Donald Trump Echo Chamber on 710 WOR

"I made that very clear in coming back: I was not going to become an echo chamber for Donald Trump. It's proven to be very successful for us."

Inside Andrew Perloff’s Reunion With Paul Pabst To Launch ‘Not So Fast’ on NBC Sports NOW

"There’s a lot of people I would love to work with, but doing something with Paul would have been great... This was in the works for a long time, so a big chunk of the last eight months was developing this show."

Four Things Music Radio Can Learn from the Savannah Bananas

"What I saw was part circus, part radio festival, and part New England sports fans reunion. I couldn't help but sit there and think about how radio should be taking notes."