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As always when the conversation turns to sports talk radio, I'll give a strong, strong recommend for Steve Czaban on Yahoo Sports Radio.
If you want something unashamedly different, check him out.

 

Rome is entertaining when he is not interviewing boring athletes. He still does the trademarked tearing up of the fax soundbite, LOL

 

On the subject of sports radio, KFWB in L.A.was sold and is moving to a non-sports talk format. They were actually pretty good, they played up the local angle and hired good local talent.

Hoffarth: What killed ‘The Beast 980’? The nature of the radio business

 

Odd - I'd heard Moonves was looking to cut CBS radio down, - any word on where the Rams will land on the dial?

 

They also cut loose a number of writers working on contract basis.

 

at least FOX dumped Jimmy Hack Traina

 

Looks like according to Traina's twitter bio that he is still employed by Fox. Just curious who got cut since I heard Rick Jaffe left last month.

 

Major turnover at Fox sees Jimmy Traina, over 20 others exit, more USA Today vets in

Still no mention of the 9 editors let go. Hey, offensive lineman have lives, too!

 

One writer who was let go in this move was upset with how Fox handled this. “I just got a call saying my services were no longer needed and I was finished effective immediately,” the writer said. “I had some time left on a contract I always knew could be terminated at any time, but it seems like normal human decency calls for giving some sort of notice other than to call near the end of the week to say essentially, ‘It’s been fun, but we just turned off all your logins.'”

A reminder that the biggest pieces of shit on the planet work for Fox.

 

No argument that the people who did it that way are pieces of shit, but it doesn't seem all that different from the way employees are whacked at all sorts of companies, including newspapers and other media.

 

And in the NFL for that matter

 

I don't understand all the love for FTW. It's not a money-maker - the traffic it gets isn't from loyal users so it doesn't sell any big sponsorships. All the site does is accrue scale, which is now a commodity. So it's CPMs are extremely low.

Fox may increase its traffic but it's not going to make any money. Then in two years the FTW team will find another digitally illiterate company to pay them for cheap inventory and bad journalism while the site falls down otherwise. Much like they did at Y!, then USAT.