Tag: Angelo Cataldi

"Sports radio doesn’t need to chase viral moments or reinvent itself every six months. It needs to plant a flag. Create something listeners can circle on their calendar. Something they talk about months in advance and remember long after it ends."

"Clicks, views, and chatter might generate noise, produce a momentary ratings spike, and help you trend on Twitter, but that doesn't define success anymore."

"Did he [Yadgaroff] have my back? No. He stabbed me in the front, not in the back."

"For every programmer or host who believes ignoring criticism is the high road, it’s worth asking: high road to where? Because while you’re staying above the fray, someone else is owning the moment—and the audience that comes with it."

As has been written about and discussed plenty on Barrett Media and elsewhere this week regarding the sports radio wars between the "old school"...

"If the product is stronger, the audience is larger, and the business is healthier than ever, then there’s nothing to hide from. Say it. Prove it. Own it."

"There are 10,000 ways to read and hear and watch coverage of your team. Instead of just coming on and mumbling. That's terrible."

"Not just WIP, all the sports media in Philadelphia. There are a bunch of p***ies. Put that in your headline. There are a bunch of p***ies."

"Everybody kissed your a** and treated you so well, and you never reciprocated that towards anybody."

"Legacy isn’t only defined by what you did behind the microphone. It’s also defined by how you speak about the institution after you step away from it."