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ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro Notes “Difficult Decisions” as Network Begins Layoffs

"We had to make some difficult decisions about job impacts that we will be communicating today."

NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero Reportedly Departs As Part Of ESPN Layoffs

"Pelissero joined NFL Network in July 2017. Before that, he covered the NFL for USA Today starting in 2013, part of a team that won an Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 award."

Bill Handel: We’ve Lost 65% of Our AM Radio Audience on KFI in Past Decade

"And if you look at revenue, revenue has just collapsed."

NHL Creating Local Broadcast Production Setup With At Least Four Clubs Beginning Next Season

"Our main goal right now is to maintain as much flexibility as we can so that as the market matures and we start to understand what the future really holds, then we can react very quickly."

Sports Podcast Festival Returns To Raleigh Featuring ‘Ovies & Giglio’

“We built something really special last year that brought people to the Triangle from as far away as Miami and Albany."

Adam Gold’s Career Took Off Once He Arrived in Raleigh

"I make fun of everything. I make fun of myself before I make fun of anybody else. I’m just trying to do an entertaining show.”

99.9 The Fan Picks Tim Donnelly For Afternoon Drive

"Donnelly comes to the Triangle from Virginia Beach."

Joe Ovies, Joe Giglio Launch Podcast Company Following 99.9 The Fan Exit

"We’re going to try to do what we’ve been doing, only on our own."

NC Governor Comments On Firing of Joe Ovies, Joe Giglio

“He took to Twitter to wish Ovies and Giglio well and thank them for the entertainment their show provided.”

Joe Ovies, Joe Giglio Out at 99.9 The Fan

"@giglio_OG and I did some really great stuff in just over 3 years of the show. Thanks for making us part of your routines."

Joe Ovies: Radio Should be Spending More Time on Reddit, YouTube Than Twitter

“There isn’t a better platform to get local flavor of a sporting event in real-time. Twitter is useless in promoting the show though.”

NC Governor Roy Cooper Fills Out Tournament Bracket For 99.9 The Fan in Raleigh

"Cooper isn’t doing this as some sort of stunt He legit watches the local teams and he listens to the shows and podcasts."

Countdown To Coverage: College Football’s Best Local Radio Show

"The best local shows are the ones that are going to give you three entertaining, uninterrupted hours on the local team that's fighting for an invite to the Sun Bowl!"

Bomani Jones Explains How College Basketball Recruiting Put Him On The Map

"On the latest episode of A Brief History of Triangle Sports with Joe Ovies, Jones talked about what happened over a decade ago and how it gave him his first national platform."

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NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero Reportedly Departs As Part Of ESPN Layoffs

"Pelissero joined NFL Network in July 2017. Before that, he covered the NFL for USA Today starting in 2013, part of a team that won an Associated Press Sports Editors Top 10 award."

Bill Handel: We’ve Lost 65% of Our AM Radio Audience on KFI in Past Decade

"And if you look at revenue, revenue has just collapsed."

NHL Creating Local Broadcast Production Setup With At Least Four Clubs Beginning Next Season

"Our main goal right now is to maintain as much flexibility as we can so that as the market matures and we start to understand what the future really holds, then we can react very quickly."

Emmanuel Acho: ESPN Executives “Cowards” for Handling of Ryan Clark Firing

"If you work long enough, you will get fired regardless of your profession. But to fire a man that helped bring a show its very first Emmy award in the midst of that show is cowardly."