"My heart aches for the people, my friends, and for my colleagues. For the people that made the station what it is. The people that lost their jobs yesterday as corporate came down with a mandate of the layoffs. People that worked incredibly hard to give you listeners a product."
According to BNM's Pete Mundo, Ron DeSantis sounds an awful lot like someone who is gearing up for something bigger than “just” being the Governor of Florida.
With Sterling out of the booth for those games, opportunities to fill-in will present themselves to a few broadcasters. The opportunity is awesome, but so is the task of ‘sitting in’ for a legendary play-by-play announcer.
"It doesn't matter if it's this industry or it's a medical device industry. It's always is always evolving and always changing. There's always going to be a competitor that's going to come in and it's going to shake things up, and you always have to be on your toes."
Barrett News Media was honored to interview two longtime news/talk programmers in WBT's Mike Schaefer in Charlotte and KMBZ's Alan Furst in Kansas City.
“We have an easy job,” expressed Van Gundy. “We watch the game and we try to convey what has happened, what could happen or what should happen. That’s not about preparation as much as it is [about] studying the teams over the course of the year.”
"Staffing your station or network with a few former players and coaches does add some credibility. That credibility diminishes though if they have nothing valuable to say."
“We do a show from New York and I'm from New York but I desperately want this show to be for everyone and I think that comes from dotting the map in my career,” said Amendolara. “I care that somebody in Omaha or somebody in Little Rock or somebody in Columbus listens and gets the show as well."
It can be tough to get famous people to address criticism they are facing. The famous usually have advisors, and those advisors do things like explain to famous people how best to avoid addressing criticism they may be facing.
"My heart aches for the people, my friends, and for my colleagues. For the people that made the station what it is. The people that lost their jobs yesterday as corporate came down with a mandate of the layoffs. People that worked incredibly hard to give you listeners a product."
"Russini and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel reportedly worked together to coordinate their responses to The Post. Rather than calling her direct bosses first, The Times states she reached out to New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien."