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ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Continue the Slow Death of Sports Media’s Middle Class

"After 30 years in sports media, the most valuable lesson I've learned is also the simplest. The audience falls in love with people. The business falls in love with numbers, and the numbers always win."

The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

"The real challenge isn't adding great content. It's convincing consumers to change habits they've spent years developing. Netflix is learning in real time that paying for exclusive access to content people already enjoy elsewhere doesn't automatically persuade them to open their wallets. SiriusXM now faces a similar test."

92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

CBS Sports Acquires Rights to Present World Rugby Games in the U.S. Through 2029

"With rugby’s popularity continuing to grow here in the U.S., this is the perfect moment to bring every major World Rugby competition to CBS Sports and Paramount+."

Tony Barnhart To Retire Following Upcoming College Football Season

“After many talks with my bride, Maria, friends, family and colleagues I have decided it will be my last.”

Pac-12 Football Home Games to Be Broadcast by CBS, ESPN and The CW in 2025

"We are thrilled to continue our partnership with The CW, to welcome a new partner in CBS Sports and to see a return of Pac-12 football on ESPN."

Can Sports Radio Get Its Creative Juices Back?

"How can a format stand out when there’s no one to stand up?"

CBS Sports Averages 13 Million Viewers for Final Round of Masters Tournament

Coverage of the Masters Tournament peaked with 19.54 million viewers during the 7 to 7:15 p.m. EST quarter-hour.

Bob Fescoe: Jim Nantz ‘Nailed It’ on Masters Tournament Broadcast

"At one point, he said, ‘I feel like America’s spent watching this,’ and I was like, ‘Hell yeah, I’m spent watching this.'"

Dan Le Batard: Golf Is the Only Sport Where the Camera Is So Close to the Emotions of It

“You’re seeing in that moment a person who is as happy as he can be, and as grateful as he can be. And you’re capturing the intimacy of that up his nostrils.”

Brent Musburger To Receive 2025 Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award From Pro Football Hall of Fame

“The Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award recognizes broadcast excellence in pro football, and Brent Musburger certainly measures up to that standard."

March Madness Was One Shining Moment Despite Issues With the Sport

"Watching these driven players go all out, fighting for loose balls, and just plain hustling was quite scintillating. That, despite any outside changes, is the true purity of the game"

Florida-Houston NCAA National Championship Game Averages 18.1 Million Viewers on CBS

As a whole, the National Championship Game was up 22% and represents the most-watched iteration of the event since 2019.

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The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

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92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

New Game Lets Radio Pros Win the Ratings War

"The way that the game is developed, the FCC ownership regulations match the time. It gradually loosens to what we have today,"