"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."
"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."
"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."
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.
“When I was coming up, you had three TV stations. And people were getting a similar sense of what is true and what isn’t, what was real and what was not."
That is not to say that NBC News won't cover Trump or look to feature him in its coverage of the run-up to the Republican primary, only that a town hall-style event is unlikely to happen.
Carlson is expected to launch the programming within the next month, with Justin Wells -- who was also ousted from Fox News -- on board to serve as the program's executive producer.
"Instead of reacting as they did, they should have acknowledged the tremendous ratings they received that night, one of the best in many years, and celebrated their accomplishment."
CNN spokesperson Matt Dornic affirmed Darcy's position at the network, stating that he has no intention of resigning and that his newsletter will continue as usual.
After averaging more than 3 million viewers for each episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the program has seen audiences of less than half of that figure since Carlson's exit.
"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."
"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."
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.
"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."