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ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Continue the Slow Death of Sports Media’s Middle Class

"After 30 years in sports media, the most valuable lesson I've learned is also the simplest. The audience falls in love with people. The business falls in love with numbers, and the numbers always win."

The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

"The real challenge isn't adding great content. It's convincing consumers to change habits they've spent years developing. Netflix is learning in real time that paying for exclusive access to content people already enjoy elsewhere doesn't automatically persuade them to open their wallets. SiriusXM now faces a similar test."

92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

Diamond Sports Group Granted Extension Amid Reported MLB Streaming Talks with Amazon

The hearing has now been rescheduled for next Friday, Jan. 19, an extension granted as discussions with Amazon reportedly continue.

ESPN and FOX Unveil 2024 Major League Baseball Season Schedules

FOX and ESPN have both released their broadcasting schedules for the 2024 Major League Baseball season, but only until about Labor Day.

Sinclair, MLB Looking for Clarity in Diamond Sports Group Bankruptcy Case

"To suggest that MLB or the Clubs would be ‘content,’ let alone willing, to endure such uncertainty into the 2024 season is misleading at best, and they should not be forced to endure another season in limbo."

Duane Kuiper: I Wonder if Jung Hoo Lee Signing Will Keep Mike Krukow on KNBR

"I don’t think he’s going to quit being a broadcaster, but I think he was saying he was going to quit your show..."

Jon Morosi: I’m Grateful MLB Network Has Been Supportive After Inaccurate Shohei Ohtani Report

"I was confident that what I had was correct and that’s why I put it out there."

Bob Costas: Despite My Baseball Knowledge, I’d Never Want to Run a Franchise

"...I always said, ‘I’m neither interested nor qualified, so forget it.’”

Mike Mulligan: Idea Shohei Ohtani Used MLB Media to Increase Price is ‘Pretty Wild’

"I think that’s been reported or that’s the conspiracy theory, right?"

Scott Kaplan: Chris Russo is Too Famous to Be Fired by ESPN

"I kind of think he didn’t just come up with atomic bomb and World War II talking about this particular Japanese baseball player."

Red Sox Radio Voice Joe Castiglione Named 2024 Frick Award Winner

"Starting with the team in 1983 in Carl Yastrzemski’s final season, Joe has connected generations of Red Sox fans with a delivery that has become part of the New England fabric."

David Haugh: I Respect Bob Nightengale as a Reporter

"I do care what Bob Nightengale says."

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92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

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