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ESPN’s Latest Layoffs Continue the Slow Death of Sports Media’s Middle Class

"After 30 years in sports media, the most valuable lesson I've learned is also the simplest. The audience falls in love with people. The business falls in love with numbers, and the numbers always win."

The Subscription Question Hanging Over SiriusXM’s Deal With Audacy

"The real challenge isn't adding great content. It's convincing consumers to change habits they've spent years developing. Netflix is learning in real time that paying for exclusive access to content people already enjoy elsewhere doesn't automatically persuade them to open their wallets. SiriusXM now faces a similar test."

92.5 WXTU’s Nicole Michalik Discusses Crossing Over From Pop to Country

"If vinyl records can have a sexy comeback so can radio."

Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Holds a Radio Strategy Secret

Shark Week works because it's built, engineered, and marketed

Stephen A. Smith: ‘Reigniting Things with Skip Bayless is Not What I Want My Future to Be’

"Skip Bayless and Stephen A. Smith together as partners, working across from each other on a debate show is over. It's been over."

Stephen A. Smith: I Will Not Talk About Skip Bayless Like He Has Failed

"I hope in the end when all is said and done, my career will be as long as Skip Bayless’ career has been."

Fred Toucher: Stephen A. Smith and ESPN Don’t Want to Upset LeBron and Bronny James’ Agents

"Even Stephen A. Smith, who had been very, very critical of Bronny James after the Draft, changed his tune."

JJ Redick the ESPN Broadcaster Showed Us What He’ll Be Like as Lakers Head Coach

Redick looks the part, talks the part, and will play his part perfectly in this Hollywood premiere.

Stephen A. Smith on Journalism: ‘You’re Not Supposed to Be Here to Be Liked’

"I’m on the air to bring sizzle with facts, with perspectives, and with the kind of content that makes you stop, pause, listen, inhale before you disseminate a perspective."

Burke Magnus: Stephen A. Smith is a Great Personality, Works Hard, Has a Hit Show and Fills Hours

“It’s different, and there’s a different calculus there for sure, but again, to compliment Stephen A. because I’m sincere when I say this – he’s the best right now. And so, we’re balancing the difference between game and studio, but we’re also talking about the guy who’s at the absolute top of the heap.”

Dan Dakich: ‘Stephen A. Smith is a Race-Baiter, That’s All He Has’

"Stephen A. Smith is the Joe Biden of television."

Stephen A. Smith Reportedly Looking for a ‘Pat McAfee Agreement’ with ESPN

"...Smith covets the blockbuster deal that the network used to persuade McAfee to decamp last year from FanDuel."

Clay Travis: I Hope Stephen A. Smith Gets Paid; ‘Your Boy Will Be a Free Agent Again and I Want to Get Paid’

"Anybody that is in daily media, I want to be paid as much as possible."

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