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The Return To KNBR I Never Saw Coming

"I'm excited to be back in the game, grateful for another opportunity. I'm confident I can earn the trust of Bay Area listeners all over again. More than anything, I'm hopeful my friend Greg Papa wins the only battle that really matters."

20 Brands In 20 Days: Mike Street, WPGC, Washington D.C.

"For a while, especially with mainstream hip hop and R&B, if it was new, you could just play it and it worked. But you have to be a bit more discerning these days."

Spotify’s Skip Ahead Feature Isn’t The Threat Podcasting Thinks It Is

"If a single button is enough to break the relationship between a creator and an audience, then that relationship probably wasn't as strong as we thought."

38 Years After Rush Limbaugh, Is News/Talk Radio Stuck in the Past?

Some may interpret my conclusion as a slight against Limbaugh. Actually, it's the opposite — it's admiration for what Limbaugh built: a wildly successful format across the country. But at the same time, it feels like there hasn't been much, if any, evolution over four decades.

XFL Games Moving Off FX Amid Low Ratings

"Week 3 action in the XFL averaged 571,000 viewers. That is a 13% drop from Week 2. It is also a significant drop from the initial attempt to reboot the XFL in 2020."

Doris Burke: ‘My Career is a Happy Accident’

"The year I left coaching at Providence, they decided to put Providence women’s college basketball on radio. That was literally my first foray into this business."

Chad Withrow: Kendrick Perkins Isn’t A Racist, He’s Just Not Smart

"They're putting him in an awful spot because he's not very intelligent."

ESPN Enjoys Most-Watched Women’s College Basketball Season Since 2015

"Viewers streamed 2 billion minutes of women's college hoops this season. That figure is the most on record for ESPN and up 35% compared to last season."

Dan Dakich: ESPN Had More Rules For My Twitter Than For Kendrick Perkins

"I remembering having to call Norby Williamson, the head of ESPN, about a tweet that had no sexual innuendo, nothing, but they thought it did..."

JJ Redick: Kendrick Perkins Implying MVP Voters Are Racist is ‘Problem With First Take’

"What we just witnessed is the problem with this show where we create narratives that do not exist in reality.”

Michael Kay: NHL ‘Red Hot’ After Stephen A. Smith Said League ‘Doesn’t Count’

“One addendum to that: I heard today, the NHL, red hot.”

ESPN Picks Daniel Cormier To Lead Wrestlemania Coverage

"I’m getting more opportunities for ESPN, and I’m so thankful for that."

Paul Finebaum: ‘ESPN Has To Decide If a 9th SEC Game is Worth More Money’

“I don’t want to be spending your boss’s and my boss’s money, but I’ll go ahead and do it. It makes perfect sense to go to nine games.”

Beth Mowins, Doris Burke, Cassidy Hubbarth Lead ESPN All-Women NBA Broadcast

"Women will dominate studio coverage that night as well."

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20 Brands In 20 Days: Mike Street, WPGC, Washington D.C.

"For a while, especially with mainstream hip hop and R&B, if it was new, you could just play it and it worked. But you have to be a bit more discerning these days."

Spotify’s Skip Ahead Feature Isn’t The Threat Podcasting Thinks It Is

"If a single button is enough to break the relationship between a creator and an audience, then that relationship probably wasn't as strong as we thought."

38 Years After Rush Limbaugh, Is News/Talk Radio Stuck in the Past?

Some may interpret my conclusion as a slight against Limbaugh. Actually, it's the opposite — it's admiration for what Limbaugh built: a wildly successful format across the country. But at the same time, it feels like there hasn't been much, if any, evolution over four decades.

Lynn Barstow: Alternative Radio Programming Legend

"The station does enjoy top of mind awareness from having that tentpole morning show. It gives us a connection to the audience that just being a music jukebox can't provide."