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ESPN’s Frozen Frenzy Posts Big Viewership Gains in Year Four

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"The Frozen Frenzy Whiparound show on ESPN2 averaged 105K viewers, a 54% year-over-year gain."

Katie Zacharia, Aubrey Huff and the Art of Failing Fast

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"A bad decision isn’t the end of the line if you make more good decisions than bad."

College Football Playoff Expansion Leaves Broadcast Opportunities on the Sidelines

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"Expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams will give more programs a chance to compete for a national championship. But the sport is missing a golden opportunity to expand something else just as important: the voices bringing those games to life."

Chuck Damico: Country Radio Has an Energy That Rock Lost

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"A lot of other businesses ... could probably learn a lot from how the country radio and country music community operates and supports each other."

Dan Le Batard’s Missed Opportunity Proves Journalism Still Needs Defenders

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"Journalism hasn’t disappeared — but too many people have stopped standing up for it when it matters most."

ESPN VP of News David Kraft Announces Retirement

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"I’ve had a fantastic run with ESPN and am proud of what we’ve accomplished — and continue to accomplish on a daily basis — as a newsroom."

Is Pat McAfee’s Hate for Sports Journalism Fact, Fiction or Just Entertainment?

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"McAfee punches down, insulting the system while being a visitor in a house he never built—paid, of course, by The Walt Disney Company"

ESPN New York’s Michael Kay Pushes Back on “Strong” Criticism of Sports Journalists by Pat McAfee

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"People want to do their job and ask why you went for it on fourth-and-two. That means they shouldn’t be taken seriously? So it's all supposed to be rah, rah. Hey, great! Wear my Jaguars gear? No, I don't agree with it."

Pat McAfee: A “Large Percentage” of Sports Journalists Hate Sports

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"They hate what sports are for people (happiness).. They hate what sports are for society (unifier)."

Sports Betting Writer Doug Greenberg Signs Multi-Year Extension with ESPN

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"The network embraces what betting brings to fans, and I look forward to keeping readers informed on the latest trends and significant news."

Five Common Sense Items To Make Sports Media Better in 2026

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"Instead of forecasting trends or firing off hot takes, here are five common sense things that would genuinely make sports media better in 2026."

Neil Best Retires From Covering Sports Media at Newsday

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"In his farewell column, Best emphasized that the decision to step away was entirely his."

Jason Whitlock Wants To Be Remembered as the Best Sports Writer “Ever”

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"I look out and see all these people trying to mimic what I did, and they’re doing bad versions of it"

Dan Patrick Pushes Back on Athletes Criticism of Journalists, Calls for Journalism To Be Stronger

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"This is supply and demand. They either want to listen to you or they don’t. There’s no in between"
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Katie Zacharia, Aubrey Huff and the Art of Failing Fast

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"A bad decision isn’t the end of the line if you make more good decisions than bad."

College Football Playoff Expansion Leaves Broadcast Opportunities on the Sidelines

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"Expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams will give more programs a chance to compete for a national championship. But the sport is missing a golden opportunity to expand something else just as important: the voices bringing those games to life."

Chuck Damico: Country Radio Has an Energy That Rock Lost

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"A lot of other businesses ... could probably learn a lot from how the country radio and country music community operates and supports each other."

Could Canada’s Radio Diary Replacement Be the Future of US Radio Ratings?

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PPM didn’t make sense financially in smaller Canadian markets, which remained reliant on a diary-based system. Numeris and its stakeholders recognized that the industry required a system that more accurately reflects how Canadians engage with radio today, while reducing volatility and improving consistency across markets.