News/talk has produced Marconi winners and finalists for years. Hosts who've been recognized before -- or who've built shows around exactly the kind of local connection and audience loyalty the Marconis are meant to honor -- don't typically forget to apply.
"When everybody has the music, the music itself no longer separates one service from another. This is starting to make streaming look a lot like radio."
"That's the tenor of social media, and I'm all good with it. You know why I'm all good with it? Because all I have to do to avoid it is put my fu**ing phone down."
"I grew up in a family where Saturdays revolved around SEC football and I was fortunate enough to experience the conference firsthand as a student-athlete."
"What are the networks doing? You have literally an individual that maybe used to work at ESPN that covers our league at the highest level. And there's a major scandal, and it's just like nobody can fu**ing talk about it. What are we doing?"
"When everybody has the music, the music itself no longer separates one service from another. This is starting to make streaming look a lot like radio."
"Baseball has plenty of unwritten rules. Sports radio partnerships do too. One of them is understanding that a flagship station still has an obligation to call it like it sees it, hold teams accountable, and deliver the type of coverage local fans expect."