Several program directors, meanwhile, who air the newscasts, said they were not briefed by the network that select newscasts would be pre-recorded or re-aired.
Employees learned of the cuts during a Monday Zoom meeting before being sent home with severance packages based on their tenure, Barrett Media has learned.
"When he talks about the president, you know he’s trying to be a tough guy. And when he’s talking to him, he’s a sycophant because he wants the ratings and he wants the access."
"The Justice Department said it's not challenging the acquisition because it's not likely to harm competition or American consumers. How is that possible?"
Why is it breaking when a player that was injured in a game, is still injured and won’t play in the next game? A player that will be a free agent in three-years signs an extension in spring training and that’s breaking? Nope. Never. Uh uh. No way.
"I think the good programmers have a vision and they have a sense of the brand, but they also want to get better all the time. Hopefully, I help them do that."
"If the booth on Saturdays this fall really will be Jac Collinsworth and Jason Garrett, it continues a long tradition for NBC of treating the Notre Dame broadcast like it doesn't really matter to them."
Before this hockey season began it had been nearly two decades since Bob Wischusen called hockey games. When ESPN acquired NHL's TV rights, Wischusen wanted in.
Radio sales has always been about the ability to devise creative ways to sell the one thing we have: time. That sentiment has never been truer than today.
It is criminally difficult to narrow down a list of important voices in sports to just five, but Andy Masur gives a strong effort at spotlighting a handful of his favorites.
Employees learned of the cuts during a Monday Zoom meeting before being sent home with severance packages based on their tenure, Barrett Media has learned.
"When he talks about the president, you know he’s trying to be a tough guy. And when he’s talking to him, he’s a sycophant because he wants the ratings and he wants the access."
"The Justice Department said it's not challenging the acquisition because it's not likely to harm competition or American consumers. How is that possible?"