TALKERS magazine Publishes the 2017 Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk. Yesterday (3/13) marked the publication of the fifth annual
TALKERS Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk – formally known as the 100 Most Important Sports Talk Radio Hosts in America. This annual list is compiled and ranked by the editors of
TALKERS magazine – with input from industry leaders. As with our publication's "sister list," the 100 Most Important Talk Radio Hosts in America, the criteria are a number of hard factors – including ratings and revenue – as well as such soft factors as talent, recognition, impact, service and more. Executive editor
Kevin Casey states, "This annual ranking of the most important sports talk radio hosts is one of the most difficult – but enjoyable – projects we undertake at
TALKERS. The reason for that is the partially subjective nature of the criteria combined with the enormous number of talented and successful sports talk hosts working in America. Paring that pool of talent down to 100 is no easy task!" Casey also notes that
TALKERS will be publishing the 2017 Heavy Hundred of News/Talk Radio in April. See the 2017 Heavy Hundred of Sports Talk
here.
PodcastOne Executive Chairman Norm Pattiz Guests on Harrison Podcast. The executive chairman of
PodcastOne and noted industry pioneer,
Norm Pattiz joins
TALKERS founder
Michael Harrison for an in-depth conversation about the general state of radio, podcasting and audio media on this week's installment of the award
-winning series, "Up Close and Far Out." The compelling dialogue was recorded this past Friday, inspired by the Thursday release (3/9) of the annual
Edison Research/Triton Digital 2017 Infinite Dial Study. Pattiz sums up his impression of the study as follows, "I was very encouraged relative to the audio medium as a whole by the information that came from the study. There's good news in it for almost everybody that's in the audio space." Pattiz and Harrison cover a lot of ground touching upon advertising trends, the evolution of audience measurement metrics, in-car listening habits and much more in this conversation that is a must-listen for radio and audio media professionals. To listen to the podcast in its entirety, please click
here or click on the "Up Close and Far Out" player box located in the right-hand column on every page of Talkers.com.
GOP ObamaCare Alternative, Obama Wiretapping Accusations, Trump's Budget Proposal, North Korea Missile Threats, Tennessee Sues Federal Government, Northeast Snowstorm, and March Madness Among Top News/Talk Stories Yesterday (3/13). The Trump Administration/GOP's alternative to the Affordable Care Act; the ongoing debate over what President Trump meant by his accusation that President Obama wiretapped the Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign; the Trump Administration's federal budget proposal and its effort to shrink Washington's administrative power; North Korea's nuclear missile program and related tensions between China and the U.S.; Tennessee sues the federal government over the latter's refugee resettlement program; the late-winter blizzard hitting the Northeast today; and the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament were some of the most-talked-about stories on news/talk radio yesterday, according to ongoing research from TALKERS magazine.
