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.
"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."
For those of you who don’t know or remember me, I spent seven years at the late, great Radio & Records, working my way up from Assistant Radio Editor to a full-fledged format editor, reporter, columnist and feature writer, as well as contributing heavily to Street Talk Daily. When R&R shut down in mid-2009, I co-founded RAMP (Radio and Music Pros) with Kevin Carter, and, amongst all of that, I also spent some time on-air in Connecticut, Boston and Southern California.
When I was a kid, I convinced my parents to let me wear my WMMR sweatshirt in my school picture. I didn’t really understand the psychology of it then; I just knew I loved the radio station enough to want to wear the logo.
"When you get all of these people at ESPN who are either being asked to take pay cuts or get out of there while they give the money to just a few people, the industry really is struggling and spasming."
"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."
"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."