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Once you listen to a good podcast you realize just how awful the sports talk radio format is for listeners. I’m not sure anyone will ever make $500k per year in local sports talk radio again. There is way too much uncertainty in the business now for that trend to continue. All the guys mentioned above, along with Tony Bruno, Al Morganti, Rhea Hughes and Michael Barkann, all pull or pulled in pretty decent incomes.

Besides the overall lack of talent, the days of making big money in local sports talk radio are pretty much done.

I’m not passing judgement on them – many of them are quite good and some I’d consider friends – but consider the career track of the first wave of sports talk radio stars (journalist, columnist, radio host) and the second (radio station intern, producer, host). That means the current crop of up-and-comers, largely, are people gunning to become radio stars without actually doing the part of being a sports journalist. All those folks – writers – took a leap and made sports talk radio into the medium that it is today.

Now, each of them has carved out their own niche and become a character (or caricature of themselves in some cases), which makes up both the best and worst of sports talk radio, but all of these guys and many others are quite good at their jobs because, to put it bluntly, they know what the hell they’re talking about. Angelo Cataldi, Mike Missanelli, Glen Macnow, Anthony Gargano– all writers who went to radio. Like them or hate them, their opinions carry some weight because they’ve been there.

Previously, you had journalists become sports talk radio stars.

I’ve had radio people mention this to me, and I think it has some merit.

The quality of local sports talk radio has largely shit the bed, and I think there’s a few reasons for it: Per the site’s 13-year run, reaction to Gawker’s death has been greeted with grace, gossip and snarky posts on social media.Same boat, had it on non stop up until about 2006 (27 years old), now can’t get through a segment.Īctually listen to a lot of Fantasy Sports channel on Sirius XM. No buyer could be found for the Gawker site. The other six websites owned by Gawker Media will continue under the auspices of the Spanish-speaking media company, Univision, which bought them for $135 million. The multi-million-dollar fine raised questions among Gawker’s defenders about the ability of well-funded litigants to, in essence, litigate publications into submission.

Thiel told the New York Times that he had paid $10 million in legal fees for Bollea and others suing the publication. The venture capitalist said he was openly gay at the time, but he took issue with the publication's other articles that he said had "ruined people's lives for no reason." In 2007, Gawker published an article that discussed Thiel's sexuality. Petersburg, Fla.ĭuring the course of the lawsuit, it emerged that Peter Thiel, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and early Facebook investor, had been paying for Bollea's legal fees because of his own grievances against the site. In this Maphoto, Hulk Hogan, whose given name is Terry Bollea, center, looks on in court moments after a jury returned its decision in St. A judge ruled against the company with a $140 million judgment, sending the publication into bankruptcy. Gawker refused to remove the video, and Bollea sued for defamation, loss of privacy and emotional pain.

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In 2012, Gawker published a video of Terry Bollea, a professional wrestler and entertainer popularly known as Hulk Hogan, having sex. That edgy approach turned out to be exactly what put Gawker out of business.

Some experiments, such as a part of the website that once helped people "stalk" celebrities in real time in Manhattan, were later abandoned after criticism. That included chasing scandalous news in the private lives of high-profile entertainers, bold opinions published with profane words and merciless takedowns on any institution, person or trend its writers deemed deserving. Denton set out to create a website that prided itself on breaking with mainstream news media over what qualifies as news.

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FILE - Gawker Media founder Nick Denton attends Hulk Hogan's trial against Gawker, in St.