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Harp To Lead 930AM In Jacksonville

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Seth Harp loves challenges and he has found a big one. Harp is the new Program Director and Afternoon Drive Host at Sports Radio 930 in Jacksonville, FL.

“Sports Radio 930 was the big player in Jacksonville until budget issues a few years ago,” says Harp. “It’s the chance to resurrect a historically great brand. Being able to essentially program the station and host the afternoon drive show we can constantly gear the station to what’s best for the listener and bottom line.”

Harp has been a Host/PD for the past seven years. From 2009 to 2010 he was at ESPN Radio in Charleston, SC. Since then, he has been at ESPN in Savannah, GA.

Hosting and programming are both full-time jobs. Harp nimbly juggles them both through organization and detail.

“I try to plan out each day by the hour,” Harp says. “From 9-10AM I work on imaging, 10AM-11AM meetings and promotions. 11AM – Noon sales concepts and executable events. I always have my notepad and I am always writing everything down. It’s meticulous but it is the only way to make sure the engine stays running.”

Harp started his radio career in 1994 in Auburn, IN. He has also made stops in Kalamazoo, MI, Lincoln, NE, Huntsville, AL and Mobile, AL. In Jacksonville, he is working in a PPM market for the first time and programming his show accordingly.

“Jacksonville is a phenomenal city. It deserves intelligent, entertaining and relevant sports talk.”

Credit to STAA Talent who originally published this article

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Sports Media Reacts to Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo Taking THC Gummies & Watching College Football

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Over on First Take on Wednesday, Chris “Mad Dog” Russo turned some heads when he was given the floor by Molly Qerim to talk about his plans for this weekend.

Mad Dog, host Stephen A. Smith and Marcus Spears were talking about Saturday’s matchup between Colorado and Oregon, when Qerim told Russo to share with Stephen A., Marcus and America what he told Molly about the weekend.

Russo proceeded to lay out his tentative schedule for Saturday, which involves taking a THC gummy, drinking cocktails and betting $10,000 on the Buffaloes to beat the Ducks in Eugene.

Naturally, Russo’s moment captured the attention of plenty in sports media.

But almost seemingly more so than what Russo actually said, social media had some fun with the facial expressions of Spears.

Even Spears had to chime in himself.

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Travis Rodgers: ‘I’m a Little Skeptical’ of Netflix Sports Documentaries

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Netflix on Wednesday released a trailer for an upcoming four-part docuseries on soccer legend David Beckham, and 710 ESPN host Travis Rodgers isn’t sure how to feel about it.

On Travis & Sliwa on Wednesday, Rodgers explained that on the one hand, he’s going to check the series out so that he can potentially learn something new about a superstar athlete he wasn’t all that familiar with. On the other hand, not having that familiarity will prevent him from maybe looking at the show with a little more critical eye.

“I don’t know anything about him other than he’s wildly famous and married to a Spice Girl,” he said. “That’s really all I know about him. So I won’t have the base of knowledge to say, ‘Ehh that’s not quite how that went.'”

Travis added that other Netflix series like Untold has made him leery of having high expectations.

“They’re so deeply flawed that I just can assume that this one will be too,” he said. “I’m a little skeptical when that brand is on it, what’s actually in it.”

Rodgers explained that he would much rather have a series that tells stories from different angles rather than perhaps a one-sided story from one person.

“We’ve entered this phase of sports documentaries where the participants are involved in them I’m instantly skeptical of what’s in it,” he said. “Because do you think Michael Jordan would have ever done something like The Last Dance if he didn’t have sign-off on it? Of course not he’s Michael Jordan and he probably doesn’t need to. But the biographies that we see of famous people that are not just unauthorized hatchet jobs but that take a story and tell it from this side, that side and the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.”

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104.5 ESPN Partnering with LSU, LHSAA for Suicide Prevention Walk

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104.5 ESPN in Baton Rouge is getting out in the community to raise money for a cause – suicide prevention.

The station, LSU and the Louisiana High School Athletic Association have teamed up to organize the Out of the Darkness Walk on October 7. The walk is going to benefit The Rain Will Bring Flowers Foundation.

The foundation was started by the family of Owen Tabor, a young man who took his own life earlier this year. Owen was a high school football player and a devoted LSU fan. The family began the foundation as a way to help make an impact on suicide awareness and prevention.

To learn more about the walk or to donate, check out this link.

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