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Is Netflix Preparing For A Sports Media Rights Shopping Spree?

"Perhaps the company's layoffs are simply about controlling costs. However, if they’re part of a larger strategy to redirect resources toward premium live sports, the next chapter of Netflix’s evolution could be its most significant yet."

Think Big, Ask Big: Doug Abernethy’s Radio One Playbook

"Our industry has transformed better than any other traditional media"

Ken Charles Explains How Trust Drives Ratings and Sales at 95.5 WSB

“The trust of your audience is crucial not only to long-term success but to being a long-term part of the community and a long-term part of their habits, so that when things happen, they go to the place they trust. And we want to be the place they trust the most.”

How Pete Sousa’s Road to Sobriety Led Him Back to a Sports Media Career He Thought He Lost

"When you get sober, the sky is the limit. I'm living, breathing proof of that. People thought I was extremely hopeless. I'm here to tell anyone with a problem, if you think you're hopeless, that is not true."

Radio Can’t Tell Its Story By Dictating How It Gets Told

Control. It's a word which is at the forefront of many conversations inside the sports radio industry. It's part of every contract negotiation, content...

WJOX Confirms Weekday Lineup Changes

WJOX is making major lineup changes. The radio station announced today that they've dropped their morning show "The Opening Drive" which featured the trio...

Michael Holley Announces Departure From WEEI

Michael Holley is leaving WEEI in Boston. The talented afternoon host has decided to exit the Boston radio station after 13 years. Chad Finn...

TSN Delivers Big Numbers with NHL Trade Deadline Coverage

TSN's 10-hour TradeCentre broadcast was Canada’s top-choice for NHL Trade Deadline Day coverage. Data for the broadcast day shows that from 8a-5p ET, TSN more than doubled...

Prime Time Sports Adds Deitsch, Brunt and Shannon

Sportsnet 590 The Fan is adding reinforcements to Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown. The Toronto sports radio station has announced that McCown's afternoon...

Limited Thinking Exposes Vulnerabilities

Forgive my absence in this space the past few weeks. Between listening and talking with clients, managing and editing the website's written content, and...

You Have Questions, I Have Answers

They asked, I answered. Over the last couple of weeks, I took note of some of the questions I’ve been asked by industry friends...

97.9 ESPN Strikes 10-Year Deal with UConn

The University of Connecticut will spend the next decade working with a brand new radio partner. After WTIC in Hartford parted ways with the...

ESPN Could Overhaul Monday Night Football Broadcast

ESPN wants Peyton Manning and is open to making wholesale changes in the Monday Night Football booth according to Andrew Marchand of the New...

UConn and WTIC to End Longtime Partnership

A relationship which has spanned 26 years is coming to an end. News/Talk 1080 WTIC-AM and the University of Connecticut are parting ways, opening...

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Think Big, Ask Big: Doug Abernethy’s Radio One Playbook

"Our industry has transformed better than any other traditional media"

Ken Charles Explains How Trust Drives Ratings and Sales at 95.5 WSB

“The trust of your audience is crucial not only to long-term success but to being a long-term part of the community and a long-term part of their habits, so that when things happen, they go to the place they trust. And we want to be the place they trust the most.”

How Pete Sousa’s Road to Sobriety Led Him Back to a Sports Media Career He Thought He Lost

"When you get sober, the sky is the limit. I'm living, breathing proof of that. People thought I was extremely hopeless. I'm here to tell anyone with a problem, if you think you're hopeless, that is not true."

Why News/Talk Radio Stations Must Preserve Their History Before It Disappears

I may be living in some sort of fantasyland that I frequently rail about in these columns. I don’t believe that these special moments are unusual or examples of confirmation bias. This is real life.