“My job is to make you guys rock stars.”

I love this conversation because even though we've never met Gavin Spittle and I are in sync radio programmers a generation apart. He’s the captain and daily inspiration behind Audacy’s 105.3 The Fan in Dallas, the best sports talk station I’ve ever heard. Yeah, I’m a Fan fan. I didn’t even bother to edit this. I just enjoyed it. Here, Gavin is understandably in promotional mode and hits all the company talking points but his genuine love of it all is infectious and inspiring. That’s why 105.3 The Fan works. Recorded May 10, 2024, during the NHL playoffs. Gavin is a hockey nut and host of his own podcast via Audacy: Spits and Suds.

Dallas radio listeners were recently shocked by the news that MIKE RHYNER, also known as The Old Grey Wolf, had been fired by iHeartRadio and that the talk station known as The Freak would flip back to rock and roll as it had been just 16 months earlier. Rhyner is a radio legend in Texas. Over his 26 years at The Ticket in Dallas, he created the most unique and popular sports talk format in America. To date, the station has won four Marconi Awards as the Best Sports Station in America. Rhyner was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame on July 3, 2014. In this conversation, he talks about how both stations evolved through him and what went wrong with The Freak.

ROBIN BERTOLUCCI has been Program Director of KFI, Los Angeles, for 22 years and the station has never fallen out of first place. The thing that's remarkable about Robin is she hasn't got a lot of complicated philosophies about her job or her station. She just gets the best people in the news and talk business and lets them do their thing.

STEVE BEHM lives in the Texas Hill Country and has a million friends. He also has bladder cancer, a positive prognosis and a fabulous attitude. Steve makes the world happy wherever he goes.

In 1985 GARY GEROULD, DAVE GROSBY, and I were all in attendance for the birth of the NBA Sacramento Kings. 39 years Later The G-Man has been the only play-by-play radio voice the team has ever had. This episode is a reunion for the three of us as we relive the glorious history of my hometown's still beloved and only major league team. - Dave Williams, Feb. 25, 2024

Everybody who ever worked with CRYS QUIMBY adores her. She's smart, sensitive, a great leader and she knows news radio. Crys started her broadcast career doing TV news in Macon, Georgia. She soon found herself writing and editing at CBS news giant KNX in Los Angeles. She joined WBBM in Chicago, before returning to L.A. to oversee news and programming at KNX and KFWB. Eventually, CBS Radio bosses called her to New York, where she programmed WCBS until 2008.

Is radio dead? Don't suggest that to KJ ALLEN. He and his longtime radio partner BENJI KURTZ have assembled a fleet of stations in small Georgia markets and they are flourishing. Their motto is BETTER LOCAL RADIO. Their company, OCONEE COMMUNICATIONS is doing what radio has always done best: serving their local communities.

DAVE WILLIAMS and AMY CHODROFF were selected individually to co-host the KLIF Morning News in Dallas. Having never met they were thrown together in a small studio to sink or swim. In radio, as in life, forced partnerships don't always work. In this case, it worked wonderfully well for nearly 12 years. They started together and in 2023 retired together. But they're still friends. Here they are, together again. Sequels may follow.