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After previously hosting shows three days a week for digital outlet OutKick, Tomi Lahren is expanding her program to five days a week, Barrett News Media has learned.
Beginning on Monday, May 13th, Tomi Lahren Is Fearless will now be seen each weekday at 1 PM ET, moving up in the day from her previous 7 PM ET timeslot.
“I’m so thrilled to take TLIF to five days a week. There’s so much chaos and craziness going on in the world today, it’s impossible to fit it into 3 days a week and I have a lot to say! The new time and expansion will give me the opportunity to dive into the news of the day in real-time. Get ready for 5 times the hot takes and 5 times the fearlessness!”
The expansion comes as Lahren approaches her two-year anniversary with the digital outlet founded by Clay Travis. Lahren joined the brand in June 2022.
Tomi Lahren Is Fearless will air live on OutKick.com. The show will also be available on YouTube, X, and the FOX Nation streaming platform.
The digital video program will continue to be based at the company’s Nashville studios.
In addition to her now daily program, she will continue hosting her Fox News Commentary vignettes for Fox News Radio.
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What better way to kick off the new year than to make an announcement. We’ve been working on our plan for the 2024 BNM Summit for months and I’m stoked to share the news today with the news media industry.
In 2023, we had an excellent debut event in Nashville. I recognize that I’m a new face to many in news talk radio and television. For that reason, I wasn’t sure what to expect last time. Would folks make the trip? What would our sponsor support look like? Could I create the right agenda for those in attendance? There were a lot of questions to answer. Judging from the feedback, I think we passed the test.
As we talked about the next one and reviewed industry responses, I knew we’d have to raise our game in an election year. We listed New York City, Chicago, Dallas, and Washington D.C. as possible destinations, and all were attractive for different reasons. But we can only pick one, and I’m excited to share that the 2024 BNM Summit is coming to the nation’s capital, Washington D.C..
The dates of the show will be Wednesday September 4th and Thursday September 5th. We’ll have more details leading up to the show. One thing you’ll want to take advantage of now is our special sale on tickets. Our regular price will be $299.99 but for the month of January tickets are on-sale for $199.99. Prices will not be this low after February 1st. We have 250 seats in the venue so it’s first come, first served.
When we considered the possibility of bringing the Summit to D.C., we knew it had a ton of benefits. There were great options for speakers, and numerous brands and networks operating locally. Being accessible to politicians, the NAB, and other businesses was also appealing. All that was needed was the right venue with nearby hotel options. Fortunately, we found it.
The Jack Morton Auditorium at The George Washington University will serve as our location for September’s show. It’s an awesome venue, which has been used before for high profile events. There’s also great parking and an awesome food court nearby, and it’s close to the main local landmarks. Having 3-4 hotels within walking distance was another advantage. Speaking of which, we’ll have more details on our hotel options soon.
The key information to be aware of for now are the dates of the show, and the special January ticket price. We’ll add speakers in the upcoming months and email attendees for insight on what they wish to learn at our next event. We expect this to be a strong conference, and I’m excited to bring the industry together a half a mile away from the White House.
If your group sponsored last year’s show or didn’t and would like to, reach out to Stephanie Eads. She has this year’s sponsorship deck now available. We had outstanding support last year, and expect demand for this one to be even higher. Stephanie can be reached at Sales@BarrettSportsMedia.com or 415-312-5553.
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The battles between Hamas and Israel have been ongoing for nearly two weeks. 95.5 WSB host Eric Von Haessler said he hasn’t spoken much about them, but that also doesn’t mean he’s avoiding the topic, either.
During The Von Haessler Doctrine earlier this week, the Atlanta-based host said while listeners might want him to talk more about the conflict, but said that’s not something he’s going to do just because it’s the expectation.
“We’re on WSB and we’re talk station and when something like the Middle East thing breaks out, and I talked very little about it. I mentioned it on Friday. And I’ll go into it more today. I’ve just decided the way this country is in love with censorship,” Von Haessler surmised.
“The largest topics that happen in society, within 24 hours, there is this guide stylebook that says ‘If you want to be deemed a good person, these are the facts. This is what you say. And here’s a swath that is an area that not only do you not say it, you don’t imply it because we have people on college campuses, who can decipher your words from what you really meant and will tell’.”
Eric Von Haessler continued by noting the situation is often a difficult one to guide his career and radio program through.
“To me, it’s just like, ‘Jeez, I hope this is an era in the United States of America’. I hope this doesn’t last forever, but I’m going to try to navigate my show in my career through it. So whenever these things come up where somebody somewhere has decided, ‘If you say these things, you’re great, and if you even imply any of these things, you’re the worst person in the world’. For the most part, we’re not going to dwell on those things on the show, because — the word fun is wrong — but even good debate is interesting and compelling. But more and more we are told on certain topics,” Von Haessler revealed.
“Even the desiring of a debate says more about you and what you truly are made of than anything you’ll find on the debate. And that’s 100% wrong and it’s anti-American, but you know, it’s where we are.”
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Former AM 1380 The Answer host Eric Hogue was named President of Colorado Christian University earlier this year. Salem Radio Network is slated to present a weeklong special series profiling the university and its new leader.
The 5-part special will be presented both by SRN News and Townhall News, detailing Hogue’s tenure as a talk host and news anchor in the California capital, as well as his rise to President of the university.
“In a tumultuous time for Christ-centered education in America, we wanted to highlight President Hogue, a Salem alum and ordained minister whose communication skills and passion for the Lord are unequaled,” said Salem Radio Network Vice President of News & Talk Programming Tom Tradup. “He is a gifted orator who reflects a Christian worldview that will electrify the campus in suburban Denver.”
Hogue joined the college in 2018 as its Vice President of University Advancement. He is embarking on his first academic year as the school’s president.
The first installment was aired today, which you can hear by clicking here.
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Retired Navy Captain Don Walsh joined Ashleigh Banfield on her NewsNation show earlier this week, and his grim outlook on the likelihood of finding the missing submarine exploring the wreck of the Titanic has gone viral.
Banfield introduced Walsh as one of the foremost experts in U.S. deep-water exploration and ocean navigation. He served as the country’s first submersible pilot and a former submarine commander.
The very first question Banfield asked Walsh was “Do you have optimism that they are going to be able to find this vessel?”
“No,” Walsh simply replied.
“That’s a very hard answer to hear,” admitted Banfield.
(Courtesy: newsnation)The cold response from Walsh led many to share the interview on social media, with the interaction gaining traction on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
NewsNation has been under fire for the tone of its coverage surrounding the Titan submersible vessel going missing. The network showcased an “Oxygen Remaining” countdown on the screen for several hours before ultimately removing the banner. Many observers called the graphic “sad”, “classless”, and “insensitive”.
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Late last year, I wrote a column on the power of radio station events and promotions.
I lamented the lack of big events by radio stations these days. I concluded: “Radio brands must continue to create events. Radio will have more commercials and compete against more narrowly targeted competitors. Podcasters, streamers, and satellite radio can’t do local events. Few, if any, will ever create communal experiences the way radio has for over 100 years. The combination of personalities and events remains radio’s best bang for the buck.”
So it was with great excitement that I opened Sean Ross’ “Ross on Radio” email a couple of weeks ago to find out his “Ten Best Radio Promotions in the World.”
I experienced a mix of sadness and resignation when Ross revealed that not a single entry was from the United States.
The list included stations from the U.K., South Africa, Australia, Slovenia, Netherlands, and New Zealand. Some are cute, others funny. I’ve done versions of a few, and others are new to me. They got me thinking of the ten best promotions I’ve participated in over my career.
These aren’t all my creations or ideas, just promotions I participated in on some level. I’ve been fortunate to have worked with incredible promotions and marketing people.
Scott Segelbaum, who I worked with at WYSP, Philadelphia, and KLSX, Los Angeles, and Cindy Webster at the CBS Radio cluster in Philadelphia, either created or made many of the promotions on my list happen. Both always knew somebody and could get literally any ridiculous idea that either I or one of the airstaff came up with.
I once challenged Scott to produce an elephant in a radio station t-shirt at a city event that every radio station in town would participate. He did. It worked. The call letters wound up in all the news coverage. Cindy has a knack for getting people to do the unimaginable. No better testament exists than the tributes to Angelo Cataldi she obtained for his retirement, including kind words for people he insulted for years, such as Charlie Manuel and Andy Reid.
#10) Twenty Songs or $20,000 Music Marathons (WYSP, Philadelphia; KLSX, Los Angeles). We did this successfully in Philadelphia and Los Angeles to establish music quantity images. Once each daypart, the station played 20 songs without commercial interruption, backed up by a $20,000 guarantee. In those days, stations in the largest markets had budgets that allowed us to give away $20,000 in cash several times annually. We built the giveaway around a specific personality, as we did in this fun promo from WYSP.
http://barrettnewsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Andy_Music_Marathon.mp3The only negative was that person inevitably actually did screw up and unintentionally give away the $20,000 at least once. The best part was going to the bank, getting $20,000, and bringing it to a staff meeting where I dumped it out on the table and gave each jock a chance to hold twenty-large in their hands.
Nobody in radio for under 20 years believes that stations gave away $80,000 in cash in a single year. That’s when radio was fun, and listeners had many reasons to listen.
#9) Live In It And Win! (WRQC, Minneapolis, WYSP, Philadelphia, Slager Radio, Budapest, Hungary) – One of the most entertaining promotions ever is putting four contestants in a car with limited breaks. Contestants aren’t allowed to bring anything into the car to entertain themselves.
They have each other and the station. They can bring food into the car, but nothing that goes in the car comes out. Usually, there is a tiebreaker because some contestants may never come out.
Then WYSP morning host Danny Bonaduce awarding car to the winner.
This promotion was so good that I brought it to Budapest, Hungary, where Slager Radio did it with smashing success.
#8) The Turkey Drop (WYSP, Philadelphia) – If you’ve been in radio any length of time, “WKRP In Cincinnati” must be one of your favorite television shows. The most famous episode is the seventh episode from the first season, “Turkey’s Away.”
Feeling left out by the changes at WKRP, “The Big Guy,” Arthur Carlson takes the Thanksgiving promotion into his own hands with comically disastrous results.”
At WYSP, we did a safer version of the turkey drop, resulting in listeners receiving certificates they could redeem for Thanksgiving turkeys. The first year we did it with Les Nessman (Richard Saunders), who re-enacted his role in the episode “Oh the Humanity!” The following year, we brought Saunders back and doubled the fun by adding actor Gordon Jump, “The Big Guy,” allowing us to end the event with the line: “With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
#7) The Ultimate Sports Ticket (WIP, Philadelphia) – This turned out to be a once-in-a-lifetime promotion. For a brief moment, WIP was the flagship station for all four of Philadelphia’s major sports teams: The Eagles, Phillies, 76ers, and Flyers. That’s the first step toward giving away a team’s season tickets.
Each league has a labyrinth of archaic rules we had to follow to the letter. It turns out that you can’t mention one team when giving away another team’s tickets. More than one league insists on that rule. It took some fun out of the promotion, as this promo demonstrates.
Still, it’s an impressive prize for a sports station to giveaway tickets to every home game for all four major sports franchises for an entire season – and one I don’t think I’ve heard any other station duplicate.
http://barrettnewsmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ultimate-Sports-Ticket-promo-2.mp3#6) Rock Art Show (KLSX, Los Angeles) – When Scott Segelbaum noted that musicians were creating other art, the station began sending out pitches requesting submissions for a charity art show. It was before eBay, so there was no one-stop to see musicians’ artwork. It was also at the height of the AIDS crisis, which many musicians supported, and became our charitable cause.
On opening night, the station hosted a party that Elton John, Stevie Nicks, Brian Wilson, Robby Krieger, Brian Setzer, Jon Anderson, Graham Nash, and others attended. CNN, Entertainment Tonight, and local media covered The Rock Art Show. It raised over $500,000 for charity in its first year and won a NAB award for “Best of the Best for Promotions.”
The Rock Art Show had unintended consequences. It launched the art careers of many musicians and became Segelbaum’s full-time passion and occupation. He is currently touring with an art exhibit by May Pang, John Lennon’s lover, during his 18-month “Lost Weekend.”
The show features intimate photos of John Lennon. Pang appears live at these exhibitions. Radio stations are welcome to partner with the show in their market. Check out the Rock Art Show: at rockartshow.com or contact Segelbaum: at scott@rockartshow.com
#5) Multiple Car Giveaways (WYSP, Philadelphia) – I’ve given away a car lot worth of cars over my years at various radio stations. Usually, a radio station is lucky to get one vehicle to give away. We got on a roll and had multiple car giveaways for three consecutive rating periods.
The first was an eight-car giveaway of a new model called the Sterling. After restructuring British Leyland, Austin-Rover Cars was one of two new companies. Rover tried to enter the U.S. with a joint project with Honda. The idea was British luxury and Japanese quality. Philadelphia was one of their target markets, presumably because then Eagles owner Norman Braman had majority ownership of Austin Rover Cars of North America (ARCONA), the distributorship for Sterling.
At the time, Coca-Cola wasn’t an advertiser, but the Account Executive, Jeanie Feeney, was persistent and had built an excellent relationship. She knew they were interested in car giveaways. In the end, Sterling provided eight cars to give away. Coke became a significant advertiser and provided the side panels of 17 million cans of Coke and Diet Coke that featured WYSP and the Sterling auto. Unfortunately, the quality didn’t live up to the hype, and that’s why you have never heard of the brand.
I recall going to grocery stores and turning six-packs of Coke around so the panels would face the aisles. It’s impressive when your logo is on every Coke can for three-plus months.
We did the promotion a couple of more times, once with five Nissans and once with five Classic Cars. I also remember taking the airstaff to the garage where we had the Classic Cars refurbished and letting them each drive one or two of them. These were the cars that many of the jocks grew up dreaming about driving. When they finally got to drive the Porsche, they longed over as a teenager or sit in the car with “gangster doors” they had seen in the movies, it helped them to really sell the promotion on the air.
I wrote about 4, 3, and 2 in “The Power of Events and the Electronic Campfire.”
I’ll just mention them again here.
#4) Smashing Pumpkins plays the Hennepin Ave Block Party (WRQC, Minneapolis, 1998 – I’ve done every kind of concert imaginable, but nothing beat 125,000 people in downtown Minneapolis for a free Smashing Pumpkins concert.
#3) Wing Bowl (WIP, Philadelphia) – The creation of Al Morganti in the days when the Eagles season was over before the playoffs. Mardi Gras meets a chicken wing eating contest. A Philadelphia unofficial holiday before it ended in 2018. Listen here.
#2) Howard Stern buries the competition (WYSP, Philadelphia 1989; KLSX, Los Angeles, 1992; WNCX, Cleveland) – We put the FUN back into funeral!
#1) Tim “The Rock N’ Roll Animal” lives on the ledge to bring the Who to Milwaukee (WQFM, Milwaukee). The best promotion I’ve ever witnessed is Tim the Rock N’ Roll Animal crawling onto the ledge 21 stories above Milwaukee. He vowed to stay there until The Who agreed to play Milwaukee for its (first) farewell tour.
This promotion was the genius of Lee Arnold, one of my mentors. It was incredibly risky because Lee had no idea if it would work – and how to end the bit if it didn’t.
Of course, eventually, Tim received a phone call from Roger Daltrey telling him it was okay to come in and that The Who would make its first stop in Milwaukee. But it required an enormous cash contribution from the station.
The station benefited from a true “presents” that included call letters on the tickets, which had to be mail ordered through the station – in the pre-Ticketmaster days.
The Who concert was the final straw in the Rock-war between WQFM and WLPX, which would change format less than a year later.
I was a mere spectator. Still a part-timer and more than two years from my first programming gig. The ledge ordeal taught me a couple of important lessons:
Big rewards require big risks, and big radio stations do big things. They are lessons that I never forgot whether programming a radio station or in life.
Here are two stories with accounts of the sit-in. The first one shows you the setup (while it took guts and stamina, it wasn’t dangerous. The “ledge” had a wall). There is also a recording of Daltrey calling Tim.
Can you picture pitching any of these ideas today? We dreamed up these things to make our stations stand out and be memorable. It’s a sad commentary on the industry that no station would do any of these promotions or events anymore, and no programmer would suggest them.
What are the best promotions or events you ever did?
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Demetri Ravanos welcomes Garrett Searight to Media Noise to discuss what opportunity might exist for Outkick now that it is the exclusive home of Dan Dakich’s show.
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Angelo Cataldi, Bob Iger and Deion Sanders are in the spotlight this week. Demetri Ravanos welcomes Ian Casselberry and Eddie Moran to Media Noise.
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Demetri is joined by Derek Futterman and Garrett Searight this week as Media Noise does a deep dive into ESPN Radio’s lineup change, taking both a national and New York-centric view.
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Demetri Ravanos has questions about Disney going back to the future with Bob Iger. This entire episode of Media Noise is all about what the change at the top of the Walt Disney Company indicates about the future of ESPN.
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On this special holiday edition of Media Noise, Demetri Ravanos dives into the controversy and criticism surrounding FOX’s coverage of the World Cup in Qatar.
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Demetri Ravanos welcomes Stephen Strom and Jason Ence to Media Noise this week. They talk about TNT’s future relationship with the NBA, the history of New York sports radio rivalries and what FOX and sportsbooks are counting on from this World Cup.
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This week’s Media Noise sees Ryan Brown join Demetri to talk about future greatness and Andy Masur drop by to remember a legend that has left us. Check out conversations about Boomer Esiason, Fred Hickman and Pat McAfee.
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Demetri opens this episode of Media Noise by giving an update on his health. Then Jessie Karangu and Garrett Searight join the show to discuss supposed geniuses Elon Musk and Kyrie Irving. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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Demetri Ravanos is flying solo this week and taking a deep dive into the Inside the NBA crew’s new contracts. What does Charles Barkley mean to TNT? What does TNT mean to the NBA? We cover it all in this episode. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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Cumulus has embraced sports betting in California with their new San Francisco station 810 The Spread. Jason Ence talks about it with Demetri. Then we stay in the Bay Area as Ian Casselberry joins the show to talk about what the leaked video from Warriors practice could mean for Draymond Green’s budding media career. ITunes: […]
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Media Noise is all about game broadcasts this week. Where can alternate broadcasts go next? Arky Shea stops by to talk about the possibilities. Did the traditional broadcasts get everything right in Aaron Judge’s big moment? Andy Masur weighs in. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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Demetri Ravanos has some thoughts on how the NFL Media views Peyton Manning, but the real attraction this week is Jason Barrett and what he has to say about 97.1 The Freak in Dallas. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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On this episode of Media Noise, Demetri is joined by Brian Noe to talk about the wild year FS1’s Marcellus Wiley has had and by Garrett Searight to discuss the tumultuous present and bright future of NFL Sunday Ticket. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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Football broadcasting is experiencing a lot of changes right now. This week on Media Noise, Demetri Ravanos talks to Andy Masur about how those changes are working out in the NFL and then talks to Tyler McComas about what changes could be coming to college football. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp […]
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Demetri welcomes Jessie Karangu to look at the new normal at FS1 and Danny O’Neil to check in on how Brian Kelly is doing making new friends in the media at LSU. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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All week long Demetri Ravanos, Arky Shea and Garrett Searight have been discussing their favorite things in the college football media on our Countdown to Coverage series. They keep it going here. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx Amazon: https://buff.ly/3cbIOpX
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Demetri Ravanos is flying solo this week. He dives deeper into his column on Urban Meyer’s return to Big Noon Kickoff and wonders if it is a shot in the arm that could have people leaving ESPN’s pregame show in favor of FOX. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx […]
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This week’s episode of Media Noise is all about familiar names doing new things. Demetri Ravanos welcomes Garrett Searight and Jessie Karangu to the show to talk about the future of ESPN, Stephen A. Smith’s new book, Nielsen’s venture into streaming ratings and more. ITunes: https://buff.ly/3PjJWpO Spotify: https://buff.ly/3AVwa90 iHeart: https://buff.ly/3cbINCp Google: https://buff.ly/3PbgHWx […]
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It’s golf, college football and history on Media Noise this week as Demetri talks about the LIV Tour’s media future, Arky Shea wonders if the Big Ten made a mistake exiting ESPN and Peter Schwartz talks about the next legend from WFAN to get the call from the Hall of Fame. ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-noise/id1203576506?i=1000569222383 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1meEteEjZbXWt4j9SjoY6A?si=YDFfVLC4Q1Sc-imAztuHLw […]
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Demetri Ravanos and Andy Masur discuss the style and legacy of Vin Scully following his death earlier this week. ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-noise/id1203576506?i=1000569222383 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1meEteEjZbXWt4j9SjoY6A?si=YDFfVLC4Q1Sc-imAztuHLw iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-media-noise-99061203?cmp=ios_share≻=ios_social_share≺=false&autoplay=true Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9iYXJyZXR0c3BvcnRzbWVkaWEuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d3c79ba0-e042-4078-b43e-eb4aa6fb60c8/media-noise
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Demetri welcomes two new voices to Media Noise as Jessie Karangu comes on to rip NFL+ and Garrett Searight advocates for a second Radio Hall of Fame induction for Mike Francesa and Chris Russo. ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-noise/id1203576506?i=1000569222383 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1meEteEjZbXWt4j9SjoY6A?si=YDFfVLC4Q1Sc-imAztuHLw iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-media-noise-99061203?cmp=ios_share≻=ios_social_share≺=false&autoplay=true Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9iYXJyZXR0c3BvcnRzbWVkaWEuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8 Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d3c79ba0-e042-4078-b43e-eb4aa6fb60c8/media-noise
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Demetri welcomes the man who broke the news that Charles Barkley would be meeting with LIV Golf about a media role, BSM’s own Ryan Brown. The two discuss the money that could be at stake and just how much sense it makes for both Chuck and LIV. ITunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/media-noise/id1203576506?i=1000569222383 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1meEteEjZbXWt4j9SjoY6A?si=YDFfVLC4Q1Sc-imAztuHLw iHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-media-noise-99061203?cmp=ios_share≻=ios_social_share≺=false&autoplay=true Google: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9iYXJyZXR0c3BvcnRzbWVkaWEuY29tL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8 […]
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Demetri Ravanos goes off on rumors of Amazon considering an alternate Thursday Night Football broadcast built around Drew Brees, talks to Stephen Strom about the reaction to the Adam Schefter profile in The Washington Post, and connects with Andy Masur to discuss the lucrative future awaiting Matthew Berry on this week’s episode of Media Noise. […]
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Demetri Ravanos welcomes Danny O’Neil and Arky Shea to the show this week. They talk about the week in media trolling, exactly what the ceiling on Draymond Green and the lifespan of the new media are, and the lasting influence of Hank Goldberg.
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Demetri is flying solo this week in an Emergency Podcast about UCLA and USC making the jump to the Big Ten. What does it mean to FOX? What does it mean to rights negotiations for both the Big Ten and the PAC-12?
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Demetri Ravanos welcomes the two newest members of the BSM Podcast Network to the show. Brady Farkas and Stephen Strom join for a roundtable discussion that includes the new media, Sage Steele and Roger Goodell telling Congress that Dave Portnoy isn’t banned from NFL events.
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Demetri Ravanos looks at the role fathers play in their sons’ broadcasting careers. He is joined by Mike Golic Jr, Wes Durham, and Spike Eskin to talk about the conscious and subconscious influences their famous fathers had on their respective approaches to the industry.
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Demetri welcomes Tyler McComas and new BSM writer Arky Shea to the show this week. They discuss John Sterling’s new schedule, Big Ten media rights, and the broadcasting future of Drew Brees.
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What is sports radio’s role in times of crisis? Demetri Ravanos and Brandon Kravitz had opposite views in columns this week and talk about it on this week’s episode.
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A new episode of Media Noise is all about reaction. Demetri reacts to the ManningCast’s big win at the Sports Emmys. Danny O’Neil reacts to people reacting to Colin Kaepernick’s workout in Las Vegas and Andy Masur reacts to John Skipper’s comments about Charles Barkley.
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This week, Demetri is joined by Ian Casselberry and Ryan Brown. Demetri talks about the NBA Draft getting an ABC simulcast, Ian talks about Patrick Beverley’s breakout week on TV, and Ryan reminds us that Tom Brady may be the star, but Kevin Burkhardt is the story we shouldn’t forget.
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What do you think we are going to talk about today? Of course, it is going to be Tom Brady’s deal with FOX! Demetri breaks that down with Brady Farkas. Brian Noe pops by to talk about the NFL’s schedule release strategy, and Demetri weighs in on Bally Sports+.
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This week, Demetri is joined by Danny O’Neil and Brandon Kravitz. They talk about Urban Meyer, Draymond Green, and the NFL Draft.
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This week, we deliver what is mostly a USFL-themed show. It is draft week in the NFL though, which inspires Demetri Ravanos’s opening monologue. Then Jason Ence and Andy Masur join the show.
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Episode 70 features Demetri singing the praises of how Amazon is building its Thursday Night Football coverage. Then, he and Ian Casselberry talk about the legal action Jerry West is taking against HBO’s Winning Time and with more changes on the horizon at ESPN Radio, Peter Schwartz stops by to talk about his conversation with […]
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This has been a busy week in the sports media. Demetri Ravanos dives into the sports media ramifications of Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter, Brian Noe talks about what March Madness could mean for the future of gambling legalization, and Tyler McComas wonders why FOX would want Urban Meyer back.
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Plenty of new voices on the show today. Demetri talks about HBO’s new hit Winning Time. Plus, he welcomes Jason Ence to talk about Las Vegas and Brady Farkas to look at a new baseball season from a sports media perspective.
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The future is at the center of a new episode of Media Noise. Demetri Ravanos talks about the future of ESPN, Jeff Caves talks about selling sports talk radio to our future audience and Derek Futterman talks about how the future of sports television is alienating people in the present.
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Demetri Ravanos welcomes Ian Casselberry and Brandon Kravitz to the show for what is a March Madness-heavy episode. The guys talk about the games and the tournament from a broadcast and audience perspective.
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Demetri Ravanos is joined by Andy Masur this week to make sense of who is going where and making what in the NFL broadcasting world.
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Bomani Jones joins Demetri to talk about his new show on HBO, Game Theory. The conversation includes talk about Bo’s time in local radio, why he knew his writing staff had a hard job, and he isn’t going to talk about racism at The Masters.
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It’s new broadcast teams, old broadcasters and the BSM Summit! Demetri talks about what Troy Aikman’s move to ESPN means to Amazon and welcomes Ryan Maguire to talk about ageism in sports radio and Tyler McComas to talk about the BSM Summit.
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We’re giving you the show a little bit early this week. BSM President Jason Barrett joins Demetri Ravanos on this episode to recap and react to this year’s BSM Top 20 lists. If you want to know what stood out, and how the process works, take a listen.
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Radio Row at the Super Bowl still isn’t back to what it was just three years ago. The Olympics have fallen on hard times and ESPN is going to test just how objective the NFL can be in the name of a cash grab. Demetri Ravanos welcomes Ryan Maguire and Ian Casselberry to the show today.
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It is an NFL-heavy episode this week. Demetri Ravanos and Brandon Kravitz discuss the media fallout from the Washington Commanders, Brian Flores’s lawsuit, and Tom Brady’s retirement.
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How much Alabama can we pack into one podcast? Demetri Ravanos talks to Paul Finebaum about Finebaum’s rise in radio, how he feels about his callers being used for content by other hosts, and college football’s year-round spot in the national sports conversation.
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Demetri welcomes Brandon Kravitz and Derek Futterman to the show this week. They talk about Hub Arkush, Aaron Rodgers, Michelle Tafoya, and Pete Thamel.
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Happy New Year! Demetri is back to discuss the goings on with BSM and welcome Andy Masur to talk about Ken Rosenthal and Ryan Maguire to talk about the death of Jeff Dickerson.
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It is just Demetri Ravanos this week, but he has a lot of thoughts to share. The final episode of the year wraps up with discussions of upward mobility in sports radio, Urban Meyer’s relationship with the media and his future in it, and what the NFL’s international marketing rights deals could mean for TV.
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It’s the second to last episode of 2021! Demetri talks about the bad look for ESPN and Kirk Herbstriet. Then it is all Brandon Kravitz. First, he and Demetri talk about the strange saga of legal sports betting in Florida, then they talk about why soccer is growing in the US and sports radio doesn’t need to worry.
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Demetri Ravanos welcome Jeremy Evans and Tyler McComas to the show this week. Topics include emergency programming, the streaming future of ESPN, and why the holidays is a good time to think about your upward mobility.
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This is part 2 of Demetri’s interview with Bob Costas. They talk about the fake Bob Costas social media accounts, if HBO Max changed the way he approached Back on The Record and Bob’s relationship with Bomani Jones.
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This is a real treat. It is part one of Demetri’s extended chat with the great Bob Costas! The two talk about the movie BASEketball, how Bob feels about the term “seam head” and so much more. Enjoy!
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Plenty to get into this week as Demetri Ravanos is joined by Brian Noe and Ryan Maguire to talk about digital audio, fair criticism and gambling.
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