"Russini doesn't need to win over every critic, nor does she need to answer every question thrown her way. But she does need to give people a reason to keep tuning in beyond their curiosity about her personal life."
"This was a natural place for me to go: to write for myself in my own name, directly to my audience, and have that kind of intimate connection and really pursue the stories that I wanted to pursue."
“It’s hard to imagine College GameDay picking anywhere other than Corvallis if Pat McAfee had not doubled down on a feud with the remaining Pac-2 schools earlier this season.”
While you may not be able to fight the all-Christmas station in your market with music, you can understand the dynamics better with the information you have in-house.
"Conservative talk radio has driven itself into a cul-de-sac, and they don't know how to get out of that dead end, and I'm not sure they ever will. That's problem number one enough to kill the entire industry."
As the NFL season gets meaty, Riddick, McIntyre, Canty, and Ryan are serving up a filet mignon of analysis – quite rare in this medium and very well done.
"This was a natural place for me to go: to write for myself in my own name, directly to my audience, and have that kind of intimate connection and really pursue the stories that I wanted to pursue."
"News/talk stations are largely syndicated, and the local shows, which used to feature a host, producer, and board operator/phone screener, are largely a thing of the past. What does this mean? If you are a local host on a radio station, having a large ego is an invitation to unemployment."