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Thursday, April 8, 2021 TALKERS | April 8, 2021 Cumulus Fires PD and Morning Hosts in Aftermath of Racist Bit at WGRF, Buffalo. As reported by WGRZ-TV, Buffalo, Cumulus Media has taken further action after the March 24 morning program radio bit by “The Morning Bull” personalities in which the three cast members discussed the color of Black female celebrities’ skin, comparing them to burnt toast. On that day, WGRF-FM, Buffalo “97 Rock” morning host Rob Lederman was fired and co-hosts Rich Gaenzler and Chris Klein were suspended. Now, the station has fired Gaenzler and Klein as ...

April 5, 2021 In January, we at FanGraphs put out a call for radio broadcast ratings. Over the past few days, we’ve released a compilation of those rankings, as well as selected commentary from each team’s responses. This is the last installment of that compilation. As a refresher, our survey asked for scores in four areas. If you’d like a thorough explanation of them, you can read the introductory article, but I’ll also recap them briefly here. If you’d like to see the rest of our results, those can be found here and here. The “Analysis” score covers the frequency and quality o...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 TALKERS | February 23, 2021 Cumulus Media Reports 2020 Q4 Net Revenue Down 13.9%; Net Revenue for Full Year of 2020 Declines 26.7%. The second major radio company to report financial figures from the fourth quarter and the full year of 2020 ( Beasley was first back on February 10), Cumulus Media reports net revenue of $245.8 million for the fourth quarter – a decline of 13.9% compared to the same period in 2019 – and full year 2020 net revenue of $816 million, down 26.7% from $1.1 billion reported in 2019. For Q4, Cumulus posted a loss of $249,000 a year afte...

share-square-611118 HOUSTON -- Two of the most memorable debut seasons in Astros history came from hotshot sluggers who went on to win Rookie of the Year -- Jeff Bagwell in the National League in 1991 and Yordan Alvarez in the American League in 2019. But it would be hard to top the impact three legendary pitchers had in their Houston debuts. After coming out of retirement in 2004, Roger Clemens helped launch Space City into the baseball stratosphere. And there were the blockbuster trades to acquire former Cy Young winners Randy Johnson (1998) and Justin Verlander (2017), where both aces work...

share-square-1489075 HOUSTON -- Yogi Berra is synonymous with the Yankees, the team with which he won 10 World Series titles as a player and three Most Valuable Player Awards en route to the Hall of Fame. He’s one of the greatest Yankees to wear pinstripes and was one of the most recognizable sports stars of the 20th century, but did you know Yogi also wore an Astros rainbow jersey, as well? Hal Lanier hadn’t been on the job very long, hired by owner John McMullen to manage the Astros in the winter of 1985, when McMullen informed him that he would have a new bench coach: Yogi Berra, the Y...