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June 12, 2018
10 Questions with ... Chris BroussardBRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
Sportswriter, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, The New York Times, ESPN The Magazine; ESPN NBA Insider and analyst; Fox Sports commentator; Fox Sports Radio. Also a motivational speaker.
1. When did the sports reporting bug bite you? When did you decide that writing (or talking) about sports was what you wanted to do?
The first time the thought of being a sportswriter crossed my mind was during my sophomore year of high school. A friend of mine, who wasn’t a great student, mentioned that he wanted to write for The Sporting News one day. I was at the age where I was beginning to think about what I wanted to do with my life, and nothing (no career) was "tickling my fancy.” So when he said “sportswriter,’’ I thought, “That sounds like a fun job. I love sports and I’m a good writer. I write better than my friend, so if he can be a sportswriter, I know I can.”
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June 5, 2018
10 Questions with ... Rick Ungar
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Lawyer; Television writer & producer; President, New World Television Domestic; President, Marvel Character Group; Political Opinion writer at Forbes; Talk show host, “Steele & Ungar” 1. Your career trajectory is, to put it mildly, ...
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May 15, 2018
10 Questions with ... Chris Plante
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Prior to making my way to hosting a talk radio program, I worked as a journalist for CNN Washington for 17 years, briefly as a researcher, then as an assignment editor, producer and reporter. For the first seven years with CNN, I was on the ...
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April 10, 2018
10 Questions with ... Bomani Jones
1. You didn't start out on a media-centric track, at least not in college or grad school... or did you? What led an economist to, first, writing about music and sports, and then into radio and TV? Was doing radio and TV always the plan, or did that come about a ...
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April 3, 2018
10 Questions with ... Brad Carson
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: (Brad Weiss)1994-1997: WONC (North Central College)/Naperville, IL., WSMI-AM-FM/Litchfield, Illinois 1996: Intern at KYKY (Y98)/St. Louis (Brad Kelly) 1998-2000: KMXB and KMZQ/Las Vegas, NV (Brad Carson) 2000-2004: WKOE-FM and WIXM/Atlantic ...
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March 13, 2018
10 Questions with ... Mary Walter
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I started my career at New Jersey 101.5 hosting a relationship show in the evening. After that, I landed at WCTC as Mary In The Morning. That show was a politics and local news show based in Somerset, NJ. I left WCTC to go back to New Jersey ...
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March 6, 2018
10 Questions with ... James Rapien
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I host a daily show on ESPN 1530 and various weekend shifts on 700 WLW. I also produce and hosts two podcasts: Locked on Bengals and Locked on Reds. I also write for multiple websites and maintain a blog for iHeartmedia. 1. What drew you ...
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February 13, 2018
10 Questions with ... Johnny Angel Wendell
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Had never listened to talk radio before being hired at KFI in 2002 which explains the unorthodox style for the last 15 1/2 years. Been on WRKO, KERN, KMJ, KIFR (Boston, Bakersfield, Fresno, San Francisco), Air America, Fox Network, Sirius XM as ...
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January 30, 2018
10 Questions with ... Eric Johnson
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: Radio’s been in my blood after seeing a remote broadcast when I was 12 in 1974. With the money I made from my paper route I would buy sound equipment and set up a bedroom radio station. Got my FCC license at 16 and went on the air at WRDR in ...
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January 16, 2018
10 Questions with ... Brett Holcomb
BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS: I began my career at 91.5 WDBK Blackwood, NJ in 1997 as a DJ and then became Program Director. In 2000, I worked at WRTI-FM as a sports/news reporter, and did overnights playing jazz. Also in 2000, I started at SportsRadio 610 WIP-AM (now ...
