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Francesa and Russo The Mike and the Mad Dog sports show is filling the slot vacated by Imus In the Morning for two weeks. The hosts were asked to do so in order to help stabilize CBS-owned WFAN - but, according to The New York Times, they’re not happy about it.
Filling in for Imus means the duo is on-air for eight hours a day, which is no mean feat even for veteran radio hosts like Mike Francesa and Chris Russo (Mad Dog). Both Francesa and Russo believe that the firing of Don Imus, following his sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team, was unnecessary.
Francesa points out that the women on the basketball team were the only ones with the right to forgive Imus, and that they did forgive him. “Everyone else had an agenda,” he adds, and includes CBS management in that group. “This was a decision made by the corporate suits. They caved.”
Radio stations in the U.K. reacted with outrage when they learned of a report by researchers from the University of the West of England which accused them of promoting excessive drinking.
The study looked at 1,200 hours of radio output,…
General Motors posted sales of 308,817 vehicles in August. That’s a drop of 20 percent from August of last year - but 31 percent better than July.
In order to boost sales as much as possible during a time when…
A new digital out-of-home network to reach golfers is launching to 100 retail locations in the next two months. The network will be available in Dunham’s Sporting Goods, Golf Etc., Golf USA, Pro Golf, and ParMasters, among others.
Fox says that viewers’ attention to commercials is higher when fewer commercials are aired. The revelation comes as a result of testing the network has done for its freshman thriller, Fringe, which will premiere Sept. 9 with limited commercials and shorter…
Worldwide sales of mobile phones will reach 1.28 billion units in 2008 - up from 1.15 billion units in 2007 - an 11 percent increase from last year, according to Gartner, Inc - (via MarketingCharts).
While the mobile phone market is poised for…
Consumers in all income segments are cutting back spending, and doing so to a greater extent recently than at the beginning of the second quarter, according to a comScore study examining changes in consumer attitudes and perceptions about the U.S. economy…
