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Barrett Media Announces Top 20 in Radio Awards Show During Super Bowl Week in Los Angeles

“Up to 40+ awards in total will be handed out during the three-hour ceremony.”

Is ESPN Overcomplicating Super Bowl LXI With Too Many Viewing Options?

"The Super Bowl is more than a football game, it's America culture. ESPN doesn’t have to convince viewers why they should watch, as it has worked to do with the College Football Playoff National Championship."

Strategic Solutions Research’s Hal Rood Explains What The Podcast Study 2026 Reveals

“There definitely is a flashing yellow light for ad load. Now, is it a red alert yet? No, but we’re seeing the canary in the coal mine.”

Rock Radio Should Steal From Ash Dykes’ Congo Basin Stunt

"Stunts don’t need to be death-defying — they can take place in the studio or at a client location instead of on a river full of killers."

What Can Be Learned From How iHeartMedia Flipped 97.3 The Game In Milwaukee

"There’s no art to a format flip, but the rule of thumb has always been to limit your change. Too much change risks losing listeners you may never get back"

Sunday Night Football Lions-Chiefs Clash Delivers Record-Breaking Audience for NBC Sports

"The matchup drew 27.3 million viewers, making it the fourth Sunday Night Football game in 2025 to exceed 25 million viewers"

FOX Sports MLB Division Series Highest Viewership On Any Network Since 2015

"Across FOX, FS1, and FS2, 4,146,000 viewers watched the 2025 ALDS. This total represents the most-watched LDS across the FOX/FS1 platforms since FS1 began televising postseason baseball in 2014"

Colorado Rockies Radio Announcer Jerry Schemmel Laid off by iHeartMedia

"It seems incredibly unfair. I gave my heart and soul to those broadcasts and felt like I was completely prepared every night, and hopefully sounded OK"

Pat McAfee Highlights “Hall of Fame” Sports Radio Rant From Tony Rizzo

"We’d like to say massive respect to what you guys do, and we appreciate your fanhood and your passion"

Clay Travis Reportedly Considering Leaving Fox At Year’s End

"Travis is considering leaving Fox Corp. — which acquired OutKick in 2021 — to potentially start a new media venture"

NBC Sports To Air Twenty Big 12 Men’s Basketball Contests Exclusively on Peacock

"Peacock’s Big 12 coverage begins Friday, November 21, when No. 8 BYU hosts No. 24 Wisconsin"

Ryen Russillo: Spotify Feed of Podcast Not Coming With Me to Barstool Sports

"Dave [Portnoy] and I talked for five minutes. I wanted a partnership at this stage of my career. He was like, no problem. So here we go, off and running"

Kirk Herbstreit Credits ESPN for How They Handled Lee Corso’s ‘College GameDay’ Farewell

"Sometimes, you know, big companies — a lot of people, things move on. But they really did him right with that special they did"

ESPN NFL Analyst Peter Schrager: “I’m a Product of WFAN Sports Talk Radio”

"I think it helped form a lot of the ways that I like to connect with the listener, viewer, reader, whatever. They’ve been a huge influence over my career"

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Is ESPN Overcomplicating Super Bowl LXI With Too Many Viewing Options?

"The Super Bowl is more than a football game, it's America culture. ESPN doesn’t have to convince viewers why they should watch, as it has worked to do with the College Football Playoff National Championship."

Strategic Solutions Research’s Hal Rood Explains What The Podcast Study 2026 Reveals

“There definitely is a flashing yellow light for ad load. Now, is it a red alert yet? No, but we’re seeing the canary in the coal mine.”

Rock Radio Should Steal From Ash Dykes’ Congo Basin Stunt

"Stunts don’t need to be death-defying — they can take place in the studio or at a client location instead of on a river full of killers."

Darien Southerland Built 101.1 The Pulse on Faith, Country, and Real Radio

"Country music, Marjorie Taylor Greene, deer hunting, King James Bibles, and four-by-four pickup trucks. That's my avatar."