"Our promise is to put on real life human voices in our radio hosts and podcasters. To ensure that there would always be a human, there had all sorts of consequences from listeners being so thankful for that promise. But also for our own employees."
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."
That year for my birthday in December, my parents gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated. For the next 30 or so years that subscription would continue, and I would excitedly pull the magazine out of the mail each Thursday.
Since Jack Benny and Bob Hope moved to television and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar were on top of the Nielsen TV ratings, radio has had to accept a “more humble slot in the media landscape”.
"Our job is to kind of remind the establishment and the powers that be that these people who look like me basically have built the country. And we can't forget them.”
"Sports always had a starch to it where the gatekeepers didn't allow a lot of what we provided. We changed the industry in many ways, and I don't know if we get the proper respect for it."