"With a potential $60 million-$65 million annual extension reportedly waiting in the wings, ESPN is clearly wanting to make a significant investment in his future. Whether you love McAfee, tolerate him or cannot stand him, there is little denying his ability to generate attention."
"It's bittersweet. What I will do is just be grateful. I'll be grateful for the 26 years with Salem, and the 50 years in the business, and the wonderful people that I've worked with."
"Barrett Media’s rise to success has been because of the power to think differently, be recognized, and create community for a better tomorrow—all fueled by the many voices who contributed to this platform, and many more for years to come"
"I have been in lots of major markets across the country, but the success that I have had here in New York...has proven to a lot of folks that if you let me do what I do, I can have success and WABC allows me to be that guy."
"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."
"It was an amazing period where we had all of that stuff going on in the world. We had some big local issues.
All this happened in a couple of years, and I got to be at the epicenter of this."
"It's bittersweet. What I will do is just be grateful. I'll be grateful for the 26 years with Salem, and the 50 years in the business, and the wonderful people that I've worked with."
"I was only going to use it to mess with people. I did not plan on it being big at all. But it lends to what I do, which is find stuff. And because it’s sports, it makes it that much better for me."