"These broadcasts gave listeners a connection to the players, the programs, and the university. It meant something to me to help build that connection. UIC basketball, (men and women) and baseball stand as the only school in the Missouri Valley without home and road local radio coverage."
"The show also climbed past its record September audience of 464,000. Additionally, viewership among adults 18-49 rose 20% from last October on linear TV."
"What an honor and a privilege it is to be joining the Great Voice of the Great Lakes, 760 WJR. I can’t wait to contribute to the station’s legendary broadcasting history and make some new history of our own."
In 1998, Zimmer was honored for being the only broadcaster in the country to broadcast the same professional team and the same college team for 25 years on the same radio station.
That year for my birthday in December, my parents gave me a subscription to Sports Illustrated. For the next 30 or so years that subscription would continue, and I would excitedly pull the magazine out of the mail each Thursday.
Marks said he "almost immediately heard from Audacy that they were very unhappy, at the corporate level, regarding that line and the interview that I did."
"The show also climbed past its record September audience of 464,000. Additionally, viewership among adults 18-49 rose 20% from last October on linear TV."