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To me and many others, Radio Row at Super Bowl is what it will always be called. Like the name change at the former Tappan Zee Bridge…now the Mario Cuomo…or the switch of a stadium name…old habits are hard to break. But alas, as USAA has done with the second biggest live media gathering each …
It’s Super Bowl Sunday, but before we get to all the amazing content and storytelling we enjoyed during our three days on what used to be Radio Row, now Media Row in New Orleans, here are three recent pods of impact that touch on everything from grit to entrepreneurialism to the growing space of collectibles …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. That being …
There is always a feeling the competition stirs the competitive juices in the bets of businesses…adjust, or fail, or even worse, be swallowed up by the disruptor. We have seen this constantly in sports when expansion comes along, or a challenger league steps up to fill what they see as a need to force the …
A while ago an MSG executive named Bill Jemas wanted to test a theory he had. If you priced the second row at a Knicks game more than the first, what would people buy first? The answer when it was tested was clear…people gravitated to the highest price with the idea that the best cost …
This past Monday as I started the undergraduate spring class I do at Fordham I took literally ten minutes to whiteboard “stuff.” Just list out the things that are on the top of peoples minds, and what lies ahead and what that alphabet soup looks like. WOW. Lots of initials like PIF, TGL, GFL, USL, …
This past week I spent time in Milwaukee, Green Bay and back here in New York, even going to the Rangers-Devils game at MSG Thursday night. All of those teams are reflections of their community and have spent years weaving themselves into the fabric of their cities and towns. It is such a key part …
In 2007, when my colleague John Genzale asked me to come up with a class on communications for a fledgling program that had just launched at Columbia in the School of Professional Studies AND did I want to write a book about the topic, I laughed. I had taken a stab at teaching at NYU…a …
Most times I have no idea where nuggets of curious learning are coming from. Case in point was a story I rewatched from a few years ago on CBS Sunday that talked about comedians who have embraced TikTok to expand their reach, including one of the best, Adam Waheed, who has focused entirely on the medium …
One of the best…and the worst…parts of being in the sports industry on the team and league side is its cyclical nature. Although there is rarely an offseason these days, you have a start date, at least some fashion of an end date, dates of events along the way and a cadence that can be …
