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The Return To KNBR I Never Saw Coming

"I'm excited to be back in the game, grateful for another opportunity. I'm confident I can earn the trust of Bay Area listeners all over again. More than anything, I'm hopeful my friend Greg Papa wins the only battle that really matters."

20 Brands In 20 Days: Mike Street, WPGC, Washington D.C.

"For a while, especially with mainstream hip hop and R&B, if it was new, you could just play it and it worked. But you have to be a bit more discerning these days."

Spotify’s Skip Ahead Feature Isn’t The Threat Podcasting Thinks It Is

"If a single button is enough to break the relationship between a creator and an audience, then that relationship probably wasn't as strong as we thought."

38 Years After Rush Limbaugh, Is News/Talk Radio Stuck in the Past?

Some may interpret my conclusion as a slight against Limbaugh. Actually, it's the opposite — it's admiration for what Limbaugh built: a wildly successful format across the country. But at the same time, it feels like there hasn't been much, if any, evolution over four decades.

105.3 The Fan’s Gavin Dawson: Texas Rangers Shifting Telecasts To BZZR “Bizarre”

"The business of baseball is great. It's just the business of cable television really got complicated when all this on-demand streaming services started taking up all their viewers."

WFAN’s Craig Carton: MLB All Star Game Feedback Shows American Sports Fans “Suck”

"Being a Northern American sports fan makes us losers. Last night's a prime example of it. What's the first thing we all talked about? Oh, the game was boring. Boys To Men sucks. Patty La Belle's old."

ESPN West Palm’s John Martin Returns To Work Following Battle With Cancer

"Literally two days ago, for the first time in a year, on Monday of this week, he walked back into ESPN West Palm as a member of the team again."

Barstool Sports Ends Unnecessary Roughness Podcast With Brandon Walker, Kaycee Smith

"You and I agreed on this. If you can end it on your own terms, then that's what you should do. Because a lot of times it runs it into the dirt, and we're not running it into the dirt."

Myron Medcalf Reflects on the Long Road From Sunday Morning’s to Primetime at ESPN Radio

"You see so many people doing multiple things across the network under the ESPN umbrella. I’ve certainly benefitted from that... The fact that people believe I can do this in addition to everything else, that to me why I feel so validated."

Tony Reali: Goal Was To Invent His Next Job Following Around the Horn Cancelation

"I thought I was going to be the type of person I said goodbye on one show, I'd be doing the next show the next day. Every fiber of my being wanted that to be the case too. This is when I decided to listen to other people in my life, and I'm so grateful I did."

Jon Gruden Hints At Desire To Transition Into NFL Play-By-Play Role

"I want to be play-by-play. Frank Gifford, he transitioned into the play-by-play role. I would like to transition. I had nine years of watching these guys — [Mike] Tirico. And I’d like to give that a shot, man."

Why Radio’s AI Disclosure Debate May Already Be Dead Air

"Disclosure only matters if consumers believe there's meaningful value in knowing the difference. Based on the latest research, they're already showing they don't."

Mike Golic Jr: Opportunity To Return to ESPN Radio “Invigorated” His Father

"There weren't really a lot of bad feelings that had to be parsed through going back here [ESPN]. There wasn't a lot of that because I think he's always handled his business the right way."

Dave Portnoy: Dan Patrick Had Every Right To Call Out WNBA Commissioner Over Missed Appearance

"You're the commissioner of the WNBA. What do you mean your PR people won't let you go on? It's your decision. You're their boss. So that's a total lie, total cop out."

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20 Brands In 20 Days: Mike Street, WPGC, Washington D.C.

"For a while, especially with mainstream hip hop and R&B, if it was new, you could just play it and it worked. But you have to be a bit more discerning these days."

Spotify’s Skip Ahead Feature Isn’t The Threat Podcasting Thinks It Is

"If a single button is enough to break the relationship between a creator and an audience, then that relationship probably wasn't as strong as we thought."

38 Years After Rush Limbaugh, Is News/Talk Radio Stuck in the Past?

Some may interpret my conclusion as a slight against Limbaugh. Actually, it's the opposite — it's admiration for what Limbaugh built: a wildly successful format across the country. But at the same time, it feels like there hasn't been much, if any, evolution over four decades.

Lynn Barstow: Alternative Radio Programming Legend

"The station does enjoy top of mind awareness from having that tentpole morning show. It gives us a connection to the audience that just being a music jukebox can't provide."