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Why Profanity Standards Are Due for Change in Sports Broadcasting

"The media landscape, audience, and definition of what is considered offensive or profane has changed. Yet broadcast radio and television remain bound by standards created for a media environment that no longer exists."

Why Miranda Khan Traded TV for Afternoons on KCMO Talk Radio

"In TV, it moves so quickly. In radio, it's more casual and laid back. It's not 30-second sound bites. You can sit and have a conversation."

The Eagles at The Sphere Proves the Classic Hits Format Still Dominates

"Songs that are 50 years old are now suddenly favorites of people much younger."

How Joe Giglio Took Philadelphia Sports’ Best “What If” Questions From 94WIP Into His First Book

"There are 25 different ‘what if’ moments in the book. Five to seven immediately came to mind. Others I had to go back and think, ‘People aren’t thinking about this,’ but something happened along the way that would have changed a lot about Philadelphia sports."

Dan Hicks Replaces Jac Collinsworth in Notre Dame Booth for NBC Sports

NBCUniversal and the University of Notre Dame agreed to a four-year media rights extension said to be worth $200 million that will keep Notre...

‘Boomer & Gio’ Analyze Keith McPherson-Jimmy Traina X Exchange on Rickie Ricardo

"They have total agreement that Rickie Ricardo should be the English voice of the Yankees."

Gregg Giannotti: If Brendan Burke Wants to Replace John Sterling, “You Got It”

"He's as good as anyone in the business right now."

Matt Vasgersian To Call First MLB Sunday Leadoff Game of Season

"Matt Vasgersian will also call Peacock’s broadcast of the Atlanta Braves and Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, May 7th as part of the MLB Sunday Leadoff package."

Brendan Burke Tabbed As Peacock’s MLB Sunday Leadoff Voice

Burke -- the current television voice of the New York Islanders -- has network experience, working NHL broadcasts for both NBC and TNT.

John Sterling Plans To Return To Yankees Radio Booth Next Season

“I don’t know how many games I’ll do. Maybe I’ll do all of them."

Brendan Burke On Yankees Radio Rumors: At This Point, I’m A ‘Hockey Guy’

The 38-year-old has seen his hockey profile grow, with national assignments from TNT added to his schedule. Burke worked 12 games on the Yankees Radio Network as one of several fill-in announcers as Sterling took extra time off during the season.

Brendan Burke Always Knew He Could Come Back To Baseball

“I always thought I would be a baseball broadcaster,” said Burke. “That was always the idea when I was a kid just because that’s what I was around."

There Is Only One Way to Fill-In For John Sterling: Be Yourself

With Sterling out of the booth for those games, opportunities to fill-in will present themselves to a few broadcasters. The opportunity is awesome, but so is the task of ‘sitting in’ for a legendary play-by-play announcer.

WFAN Announces Sweeny Murti & Brendan Burke To Fill-In for John Sterling

"You guys need to understand, this is my great white buffalo, if you will. This is where I got the spark for being a broadcaster."

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Why Miranda Khan Traded TV for Afternoons on KCMO Talk Radio

"In TV, it moves so quickly. In radio, it's more casual and laid back. It's not 30-second sound bites. You can sit and have a conversation."

The Eagles at The Sphere Proves the Classic Hits Format Still Dominates

"Songs that are 50 years old are now suddenly favorites of people much younger."

How Joe Giglio Took Philadelphia Sports’ Best “What If” Questions From 94WIP Into His First Book

"There are 25 different ‘what if’ moments in the book. Five to seven immediately came to mind. Others I had to go back and think, ‘People aren’t thinking about this,’ but something happened along the way that would have changed a lot about Philadelphia sports."

I’ve Been a Music Tourist for Years. I Just Didn’t Know What to Call It.

A couple of years ago, my family and I...