"At some point, ESPN has to decide whether it wants the conversation surrounding its first Super Bowl to be about the broadcast it has assembled or the one it might be losing."
"When we go back to 2024, Donald Trump was making lots of podcast appearances. That was easy to watch and monitor. It was very easy to compare his appearances with those of his opponent, Kamala Harris. That’s one of the reasons we’re probably not seeing as much hubbub about it this year.”
There are things that the streaming platforms can never do that Country excels in. Community connection, cultural relevance, and making the music feel like your music.
There will be plenty of time to examine what Stern's radio legacy, both at SiriusXM and on terrestrial radio, looks like. But there's a more pressing question: Where does Howard Stern go next?
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"A simple truth for sports radio talent is this: if you haven’t developed a strategy to get on video and create outside of your show, the hourglass is running out of sand"
"I fear that young talent are missing out on the conversations and experiences that teach you how to go from a sports talk radio guy to a guy on sports talk radio."
"Fire everyone around you -- and I mean literally everyone around you -- who told you this was a very good idea for you to be the first sitting first lady of a country to file a lawsuit against a journalist of another country."
"When we go back to 2024, Donald Trump was making lots of podcast appearances. That was easy to watch and monitor. It was very easy to compare his appearances with those of his opponent, Kamala Harris. That’s one of the reasons we’re probably not seeing as much hubbub about it this year.”
“The role of modelling is not to replace measurement, but to enhance it. By extrapolating listening from Radio Local+ to virtual respondents, we can provide better insight into reach and frequency, resulting in better value for the radio industry.”