"For now, the man who once looked like the biggest risk ESPN ever took may actually be the network’s best example of how to maximize the relationship without walking away from the brand that helped build it."
"It would be so easy in my chair to say, well, then we're just doing the same thing on both because I can save myself, you know, five extra meetings a week if both stations are virtually duplicate. But we don't do that here. "
"Show me somebody who has more at stake when they’re on the court or on the field and creates a bigger disparity when they’re gone in terms of interest and viewership."
Gladstone led the programming efforts of the venerable Chicago news/talk station from 1986 to 1991 after previously serving as an Executive Producer at the station.
93.3 WMMR Philadelphia’s Preston & Steve’s held their 20th annual “I Bleed for Preston & Steve” blood donor event June 12 and 13, collecting 930 units of blood.
"They show the players at the beginning of the game, ‘hey, I'm so and so. I went to the Ohio State University.’ He would say, ‘I'm Pat McAfee. One day, I want to be a professional wrestler.’ In his mind, he saw it."
The clinching Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final in which the Florida Panthers organization won its second consecutive championship over the Edmonton Oilers...
"For now, the man who once looked like the biggest risk ESPN ever took may actually be the network’s best example of how to maximize the relationship without walking away from the brand that helped build it."
"It would be so easy in my chair to say, well, then we're just doing the same thing on both because I can save myself, you know, five extra meetings a week if both stations are virtually duplicate. But we don't do that here. "
Nobody wants an outside ownership group walking into their newsroom and announcing that everything's been done wrong. That conversation never goes well, no matter who's delivering it or how it's framed.