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Why Radio Talent Needs to Stop Playing It Safe

"The most demoralizing outcome is asking talent for creativity and then letting their ideas disappear into a corporate black hole."

Why Radio Personalities Must Share More Personal Stories

"It may start with a conversation with a co-host, but then do you bring in the listeners?"

Audacy’s Sports Talk Playbook Extends Beyond Frequencies Building for the Future

"FM is just one distribution point in a much larger ecosystem that includes streaming, podcasts, satellite and whatever comes next. The goal is no longer to own a frequency. It's to own every moment a sports fan wants to listen."

Why David Haugh Believes Journalism Is the Foundation of His Success at 104.3 the Score

"You want to crystalize the story as fast as possible. Cut through the fat. Don’t waste time when you’re on the air, just like you don’t waste space when you’re writing... The reporting background frames everything we do."

Jason Whitlock Wants To Be Remembered as the Best Sports Writer “Ever”

"I look out and see all these people trying to mimic what I did, and they’re doing bad versions of it"

Fred Toucher: Burnout Factor Could Happen With Stephen A. Smith

"Stephen A. Smith can’t be in any way divisive on a political show and then be accepted by a mass sports audience"

Teddy Atlas Reflects on Leaving ESPN After 30 Years

"That probably might be the last broadcast that I ever do with ESPN after 30 years, no gold watch, nothing, nothing"

Why Stephen A. Smith Leaving NBA Countdown Benefits Everyone Involved

"This is good. For ESPN. For the NBA. And yes, for Stephen A. too"

Why Rob Manfred Is Now on the Clock as MLB Commissioner

"The next three years will define Manfred’s legacy as commissioner of baseball. If he’s able to secure a deal where baseball leapfrogs the NBA in media rights value, put him in the hall"

Dave Portnoy: Stephen A. Smith Owes Drake Maye an Apology

"You don’t call a man a liar. He owes him an apology."

ESPN Reaches Multi-Year Extension With Rebecca Lobo

"I have loved calling women’s college and WNBA games for ESPN the last 20-plus years"

Stephen A. Smith: Drake Maye Is a “Liar” for Not Knowing Cam Newton Is on ‘First Take’

"First Take is the number one morning show. 13 years and counting. Don't tell me you are an athlete and you don't know that Cam Newton ain't on the show. You lying"

Stuart Scott ’30 for 30′ Documentary Coming December 10 on ESPN

"Stuart Scott didn’t just change sports journalism — he changed culture"

Paul Finebaum Believes Stephen A. Smith Comments Regarding Oxford, Mississippi Were “Racial”

"I’ve been to Oxford a million times, and it’s terribly unfair to bring up echoes of the ’60s and try to portray Oxford as that type of place today. It’s not"

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Why Radio Personalities Must Share More Personal Stories

"It may start with a conversation with a co-host, but then do you bring in the listeners?"

Audacy’s Sports Talk Playbook Extends Beyond Frequencies Building for the Future

"FM is just one distribution point in a much larger ecosystem that includes streaming, podcasts, satellite and whatever comes next. The goal is no longer to own a frequency. It's to own every moment a sports fan wants to listen."

Why David Haugh Believes Journalism Is the Foundation of His Success at 104.3 the Score

"You want to crystalize the story as fast as possible. Cut through the fat. Don’t waste time when you’re on the air, just like you don’t waste space when you’re writing... The reporting background frames everything we do."

Christine Williamson Is Becoming One of the Future Faces of ESPN’s SportsCenter

"Like it or not, change is a constant in big-time media, and ESPN will continue moving forward. Entertaining and energetic talents like Williamson are helping forge that new path."