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Meet The Leaders: Dan Granger, CEO, Oxford Road

"The North Star is to honor the relationship between audience and creator. If we’re going to tap into that commercially, we need to respect that foundation and not cheapen it just to try to push stuff out in a more efficient way, or to substitute."

The Industry According to: Fred Jacobs, Jacobs Media

"The industry may be past its prime, along with other legacy media like print, over-the-air TV and cable. But it's not on death row either."

Richie Incognito Is Building His Own Lane in Football Media

"With football, we wanted to ride the roller coaster and let football lead the way. Let the film lead the way. We're not coming up with crazy hot takes. What we will give is informed opinion on where your team is and can get better."

Why Tony Katz Isn’t Putting All His Eggs in the YouTube Basket

"If you ask me, am I recreating my financial future with this? The answer is no. If you ask me, is it clear that I'm reaching people who I wasn't reaching before because I have more content out there? The answer is yes."

Sometimes Listeners Just Want Sports Radio Comfort Food

"The stuff that we find boring isn't always useless. Look, sometimes your audience just wants to hear you talk about special teams or shooting percentages."

Parker Hillis Upped To APD At 104.3 The Fan

"Hillis has been at The Fan since April of 2019."

OutKick 360 Isn’t Just Talking To The South Anymore

"We came in with an understanding of Nashville, North Alabama, Southern Kentucky, East Tennessee, West Tennessee and then they email us saying, 'let's go for everywhere and see how this thing can grow'."

Jeff Rickard Out At WEEI (Update)

"In the memo, new Audacy Boston market manager Mike Thomas says that the station will be naming a new brand manager in the future."

Reflecting On 30 Years of ESPN Radio

“There is an intimacy in the relationship you develop with your audience in radio that is unlike anything I’ve found in any other medium.”

Sports Are Learning To Meet Gen Z Where They Are

"The crux of the issue is that Gen Z is the first generation of kids who are truly free to find their “thing” in a way previous generations never could thanks to modern connectivity."

How Soon Is Too Soon To Lean Into The NFL Draft?

"I think there will be even more hype and content leading up to Draft than last year."

Chicago Legend, 670 The Score Overnighter Les Grobstein Dies

"Grobstein's presence in the Chicago sports media far predates his time on The Score."

What Should Radio Be Thinking About On Martin Luther King Day?

"Shouldn't we be doing more than just waiting for resumes with "black-sounding names" on top of them to come across our desks?"

How Good Can iHeart’s AdBuilder Solution Be?

"It was slick, I admit."

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The Industry According to: Fred Jacobs, Jacobs Media

"The industry may be past its prime, along with other legacy media like print, over-the-air TV and cable. But it's not on death row either."

Richie Incognito Is Building His Own Lane in Football Media

"With football, we wanted to ride the roller coaster and let football lead the way. Let the film lead the way. We're not coming up with crazy hot takes. What we will give is informed opinion on where your team is and can get better."

Why Tony Katz Isn’t Putting All His Eggs in the YouTube Basket

"If you ask me, am I recreating my financial future with this? The answer is no. If you ask me, is it clear that I'm reaching people who I wasn't reaching before because I have more content out there? The answer is yes."

Is Sports Media’s Dallas Cowboys Obsession Finally Starting To Backfire

"When talent starts publicly pushing back against the direction, narrative and formula that executives have relied on for years, perhaps it's time for those executives to listen."