The Podcast About Sports Radio : Chats With Industry Leaders

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/aldukes

WFAN producer Al Dukes is my guest. I thought it was about time to get a producer slant on things.  For some of our listeners, the behind-the-scenes work is what they want to know more about.  Al gives great insight into that.

Plus, many of us (me included) got  our start producing or at least running a board for someone else before we got “called up.”

Al’s trek to the executive producer’s chair for Boomer & Carton (Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton) is one the involved very little sports along the way, but now there isn’t but one thing he doesn’t like about his job.

Al delves into a little of the formula his show uses to succeed and the relationship he has with his hosts.

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/arniespanier

Fox Sports Radio's Arnie Spanier is my guest today.  Not just because he's got one of the biggest energy tanks that I've heard in the business ever, but also because he was the first guy I can ever remember listening to when I was a kid.

Arnie's rarity is that he got his sports talk radio start IN NETWORK RADIO.  Sports talk radio was in it's infancy then and Arnie talks about how it'd be so much tougher for him if it started now.  But, the journey he takes us on is like a roller coaster that keeps on going up at 90 miles an hour.

Arnie got his start at Sports Entertainment Network in the early 1990s.  SEN was the first all-sports radio network that lasted more than two full years.  He has had local stints in Phoenix, Los Angeles and Atlanta, among others, and is now at Fox Sports Radio.

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/kentsterling

My guest is my former boss (well, one of them) from my old stomping grounds at 101 ESPN in St. Louis, Kent Sterling.

Kent has worked in Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis and now back in Indianapolis.

Kent has programmed both news and sports talk stations and now, is strictly a sports talk host at CBS Sports 1430 AM in Indianapolis.  That is certainly a arc within this industry that you don’t see all that often.

But it makes sense for Kent. 

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/marchochman

Marc Hochman, in my ears, is one of the most creative sports radio hosts in the industry today.  While I don't get to sample him near as much as I used to, back in the mid-to-late 2000s when I was doing sports talk myself in Louisville with no real mentoring and I somehow found him and the show he produced at the time, The Dan Le Batard Show.

Now, he's got his own afternoon drive show on WQAM in Miami and is doing awesome, despite his former colleagues and great friends still across the street being syndicated now on ESPN Radio.  Fun interview. Great guy.

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/davezirin

My guest is longtime columnist and SiriusXM Sports Radio host Dave Zirin.

As many people who have worked with me will tell you, I am far more interested in the psychology of sports (Dave calls it the “politics” of sports, which might be more accurate).  Don’t get me wrong, I’m interested in the X’s and O’s and “how” it happened.  But I’m far more interested in “why” it happened.  What might the people involved had been thinking.  What are they thinking now after the result of their actions?  What are the social repercussions? Dave goes even deeper. I love it.

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/johnkincade

John Kincade is a rarity in this business.  Not only because he's been employed by multiple national sports talk radio networks (he's currently solo-hosting weekends on CBS Sports Radio), but moreso because he's somehow been able to co-exist with the same co-host in a major market for 15 years!  That's insane and awesome.  Which is probably a lovable definition for his show, "Buck and Kincade" on 680 The Fan in Atlanta.

Show Notes: aboutsportsradio.com/jasonbarrett

This is it. This is my first Podcast About Sports Radio and I am super pumped. And I’m nervous.

Why? Because what if it sucks? I operate out of fear of failure and I don't want to fail. But, I got to just start, right? Even if it's not perfect right out of the gate.

And that's exactly what my first guest would tell me.

Jason Barrett was the first person to really believe in me outside of my small circle in my first radio market (Louisville). And he was certainly my first sports radio coach. I'm lucky to have crossed paths with him.

Accompanying page: aboutsportsradio.com/about

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