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Adam The Bull to Launch New YouTube Show
“We’re gonna talk and scream and laugh and have fun and cry and I don’t know what else,” Bull promised for the new show, “but it’s gonna be awesome!”.

Published
1 year agoon
By
BSM Staff
Adam the Bull finally broke his silence on Thursday. He is launching a new program on YouTube titled The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. It will debut on May 9.
The show will run in middays. The former afternoon drive host at 92.3 The Fan in Cleveland says he will not be alone.
“We got a great panel of hosts that will be entertaining you every single weekday,” Bull said. “This is the future of sports entertainment in Cleveland!”
The wait is over! I'll be RIGHT HERE on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. M-F, 11am – 1 pm. Find us on Youtube by clicking this link: https://t.co/fQCRJjQjNT
— Adam the Bull (@AdamtheBullFAN) April 28, 2022
Make sure to follow us on twitter & IG the rest of the day to find out who else is joining me on the set @ultCLEsports pic.twitter.com/vJ3y3OIu2O
Bull is bringing a former co-worker with him. Garrett Bush, who played his college football at the University of Ohio and hosts shows on 92.3 on weekends, published a video saying he would be a part of The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show too.
Exciting News! I will be joining @AdamtheBullFAN as a co-host on the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show! This is a game changer in the Cleveland sports scene. @ultCLEsports will be streamed M-F, 11am-1pm starting May 9th. Subscribe & watch the show on YouTube: https://t.co/ymduqt4nvc pic.twitter.com/DZnXDcGoZk
— Garrett Bush (@Gbush91) April 28, 2022
Later in the day Brad Sellers and comedian Mike Polk Jr released videos of their own revealing their involvement in the show.
What's up Cleveland? I'm excited to announce I'm joining the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show Team. We're live on YouTube every weekday from 11am – 1pm, breaking down all the things you need to know. @ultClesports starts May 9th – follow along right here: https://t.co/8TdWBLo6Ci pic.twitter.com/qT4v71KxsN
— Brad Sellers (@ForBradSellers) April 28, 2022
Attention Friends, Enemies, Frenemies and Spambots:
— Mike Polk Jr. (@mikepolkjr) April 28, 2022
Beyond stoked to announce that I'm joining the Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show Team.
Starting May 9th we'll be live on YouTube, weekdays 11am – 1pm.
It should be a real corker!🐎
follow: https://t.co/SvkuGW9rr5 @ultClesports pic.twitter.com/rO0KJcgqxF
Finally, the fifth star of the show was revealed late Thursday afternoon. Former SportsCenter host and current WKYC-TV anchor Jay Crawford revealed that he would be part of the show.
ATTN CLEVELAND SPORTS FANS! Starting May 9th be sure to join us daily as we launch The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show. Be sure to follow us @ultCLEsports and follow our YouTube page for details on how to watch! https://t.co/3dYWwgUViv pic.twitter.com/Y8nQw2WYVC
— Jay Crawford (@JaycrawfordCLE) April 28, 2022
On April 1, Adam the Bull hosted his last show on the Audacy sports talk station. At that time he told the listeners “I truly appreciate the way you embraced me. You have meant so much to me.”
Now he will be asking those listeners to spend a couple of hours with him each day during their lunch breaks.
“We’re gonna talk and scream and laugh and have fun and cry and I don’t know what else,” Bull promised for the new show, “but it’s gonna be awesome!”.
The Ultimate Cleveland Sports Show will be live every weekday from 11am to 1 pm.
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Chase McCabe Named Director of Operations & Sports Programming at Cromwell
“Our owner, Bud Walters, opened the door for me almost 12 years ago as an intern and I’m honored to continue to be a key member of the Nashville leadership team.”

Published
7 hours agoon
June 2, 2023By
BSM Staff
Congratulations are in order for Chase McCabe. He is adding a new title to his already full plate at Cromwell Media in Nashville. He has been promoted to Director of Operations & Sports Programming at the company.
“I’m very fortunate to have been to be able to grow into this opportunity under one roof,” McCabe said in a press release. “Our owner, Bud Walters, opened the door for me almost 12 years ago as an intern and I’m honored to continue to be a key member of the Nashville leadership team. I am forever grateful, but none of this could have happened without the great group of people we have here at Cromwell Media.”
McCabe has spent his whole career with 102.5 The Game and its sister station, now called 94.9 The Fan. He was named Program Director and Brand Manager of the stations in January of last year. He has maintained an on-air presence as well. He hosts Chase & Michelle weekdays at 9 AM on The Game.
In his new role, Chase McCabe becomes the number two man in Cromwell’s Nashville building. Shawn Fort was recently named the cluster’s general manager.
“Chase and I have developed a great working relationship in the two and half years since I’ve joined Cromwell Media,” Fort said. “We share similar visions on how to create compelling sports programming all while driving revenue growth. I’m excited to have Chase as my right-hand man as we move forward together with this new chapter of leadership at Cromwell Media Nashville.”
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Mark Schlereth: People Outside of Denver Aren’t Paying Attention to NBA Finals
“There was not one group of people – they’re all in there together – that was paying attention to the NBA Finals.”

Published
8 hours agoon
June 2, 2023By
BSM Staff
The Denver Nuggets took to the National Basketball Association’s largest stage on Thursday night as they defeated the Miami Heat for the organization’s first-ever NBA Finals victory. Early reports reveal that the game had a 2.21 demographic rating between people ages 18-49, attracting a total of 7.62 million viewers on ABC. The figure is considerably lower than the audience for Game 1 between the Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors last year – which averaged 11.9 million figures across ABC and ESPN2. Ratings for the alternate NBA in Stephen A’s World broadcast Thursday night on ESPN2 have not yet been released by Nielsen Media Research.
Sports fans in the Denver market have felt as if the play of the Nuggets was largely being neglected by the national media throughout these playoffs. Now that the team is the last one standing in the Western Conference, there is no one else to focus on and their play is beginning to be realized by basketball fans throughout the country. It is a narrative that Denver Sports 104.3 The Fan’s Mark Schlereth and Mike Evans felt was especially obvious by watching the press conferences after the game. The duo was able to deduce as such through the questions posed to Nuggets players and head coach Michael Malone by members of the media cohort.
“The national media – it’s like, ‘Oh, wow. We’re just kind of becoming aware of how these guys play,’ and they keep asking the Nuggets about their unselfishness and how everybody is willing to share the ball,” Evans said. “Nikola Jokić [is] being asked about not taking a lot of shots, and they’re all just kind of shrugging their shoulders like, ‘Yeah, this is who we are. We’ve been doing this for a long time.’
Schlereth was curious to find out the ratings from the game last night because he watched the game from a sports bar in Chicago. He is away from Denver, Colo. to help his son’s family move there for the summer and surmises there were about 50 people in the bar with him. What he noticed was that their interest was fixated elsewhere.
“I’m the only person that was watching the Nuggets,” Schlereth said. “There was not one group of people – they’re all in there together – that was paying attention to the NBA Finals.”
“Their loss,” Evans pithily replied.
Denver ranks 19th on Nielsen Media Research’s metropolitan market size list, but the Nuggets have been a contending team for the last five seasons. Most media analysts expect diminished ratings for the NBA Finals this year because of the lack of a storied franchise, even with the Miami Heat as the team’s opponent.
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Nielsen Releases List of Markets Where Most People Use AM Radio
“In a recent survey, Nielsen Media Research found that AM radio still reaches over 82.3 million Americans on a monthly basis”

Published
9 hours agoon
June 2, 2023By
BSM Staff
Amid concerns regarding the future of AM radio, Nielsen Media Research has unveiled a list of 141 markets where at least 20% of consumers regularly listen to programming on the medium. The list is reflective of the percentage of monthly total radio listening being funneled to AM as opposed to total radio listening as a whole. The top three markets are all in the Great Lakes region, and Westwood One has found large proportions of these listeners are derived from the upper Midwest.
Buffalo-Niagara Falls leads the list with 56% of its audience tuning into AM radio in a month. It is a figure that makes sense based on the variety of AM stations, including leading news talk outlet WBEN and leading sports outlet WGR. The city of Chicago is ranked second, complete with 670 The Score, WGN and WLS. Nearby Milwaukee, Wis. ranks third on the list, another city with various AM stations such as WTMJ and WISN.
In a recent survey, Nielsen Media Research found that AM radio still reaches over 82.3 million Americans on a monthly basis – a measurement that equates to one-third of AM/FM radio listeners as a whole. Fifty-seven percent of the audience listens to stations in the news and/or talk format, utilizing the public service the outlets provide to learn of breaking news and other concerns.
There is a wide variety in market size represented throughout the list, but a trend of markets with undulating topographies tends to have larger shares of AM listeners because of the challenges the landscape presents to FM signals.
The full list compiled by Nielsen Media Research can be found below:
Metro market rank | Market name | Percentage of radio audience that listens to AM radio |
---|---|---|
59 | Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY | 56% |
3 | Chicago, IL [PPM] | 48% |
43 | Milwaukee-Racine, WI [PPM] | 48% |
245 | Sheboygan, WI | 45% |
253 | Grand Forks, ND-MN | 45% |
241 | Bismarck, ND | 44% |
39 | San Jose, CA [PPM] | 43% |
33 | Cincinnati, OH [PPM] | 42% |
11 | Seattle-Tacoma, WA [PPM] | 42% |
192 | Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN | 41% |
187 | St. Cloud, MN | 41% |
160 | Lincoln, NE | 40% |
130 | Macon, GA | 40% |
196 | Danbury, CT | 39% |
75 | Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA | 39% |
4 | San Francisco, CA [PPM] | 39% |
137 | Youngstown-Warren, OH | 38% |
244 | Sioux City, IA | 38% |
83 | Boise, ID | 38% |
25 | San Antonio, TX [PPM] | 38% |
7 | Atlanta, GA [PPM] | 38% |
60 | Rochester, NY | 37% |
186 | Columbus, GA | 36% |
65 | Dayton, OH | 36% |
176 | Wausau-Stevens Pt (Centrl WI), WI | 36% |
114 | Johnson City-Kingspt-Brstl, TN-VA | 36% |
62 | Tucson, AZ | 36% |
159 | Rockford, IL | 36% |
55 | Louisville, KY | 36% |
27 | Salt Lake City-Ogden-Provo [PPM] | 36% |
202 | Cedar Rapids, IA | 35% |
34 | Kansas City, KS-MO [PPM] | 35% |
70 | Albuquerque, NM | 35% |
88 | Spokane, WA | 35% |
16 | Puerto Rico | 35% |
67 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY | 34% |
124 | Morristown, NJ | 34% |
204 | Duluth-Superior, MN-WI | 34% |
71 | Des Moines, IA | 34% |
53 | Richmond, VA | 33% |
145 | Eugene-Springfield, OR | 33% |
252 | Jackson, TN | 33% |
149 | Shreveport, LA | 33% |
52 | Monmouth-Ocean, NJ | 33% |
73 | Metro Fairfield County, CT | 33% |
231 | Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA | 32% |
13 | Phoenix, AZ [PPM] | 32% |
12 | Miami-Ft Lauderdale-Hollywood [PPM] | 32% |
9 | Philadelphia, PA [PPM] | 32% |
96 | Reno, NV | 32% |
28 | Sacramento, CA [PPM] | 32% |
209 | Rochester, MN | 32% |
15 | Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN [PPM] | 31% |
178 | Anchorage, AK | 31% |
199 | Salina-Manhattan, KS | 31% |
2 | Los Angeles, CA [PPM] | 31% |
89 | Madison, WI | 31% |
5 | Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX [PPM] | 31% |
68 | Grand Rapids, MI | 31% |
223 | Eau Claire, WI | 30% |
74 | Allentown-Bethlehem, PA | 30% |
86 | Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, PA | 30% |
20 | Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island) [PPM] | 30% |
249 | Brunswick, GA | 30% |
139 | Appleton-Oshkosh, WI | 29% |
14 | Detroit, MI [PPM] | 29% |
239 | Harrisonburg, VA | 29% |
30 | Orlando, FL [PPM] | 29% |
10 | Boston, MA [PPM] | 29% |
189 | Bryan-College Station, TX | 29% |
106 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | 28% |
154 | Montgomery, AL | 28% |
136 | Reading, PA | 28% |
18 | Denver-Boulder, CO [PPM] | 28% |
188 | Kalamazoo, MI | 28% |
41 | Hudson Valley, NY | 28% |
17 | Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater [PPM] | 28% |
228 | Pueblo, CO | 27% |
230 | Monroe, LA | 27% |
116 | Ft. Wayne, IN | 27% |
35 | Cleveland, OH [PPM] | 27% |
22 | Portland, OR [PPM] | 27% |
183 | Green Bay, WI | 27% |
227 | Bloomington, IL | 26% |
190 | Waco, TX | 26% |
6 | Houston-Galveston, TX [PPM] | 26% |
193 | Binghamton, NY | 26% |
201 | Topeka, KS | 26% |
81 | Stockton, CA | 26% |
54 | Hartford-New Britain-Middletown [PPM] | 26% |
200 | Tuscaloosa, AL | 26% |
175 | Sioux Falls, SD | 25% |
100 | Syracuse, NY | 25% |
44 | Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket [PPM] | 25% |
195 | Manchester, NH | 25% |
180 | Lima-Van Wert, OH | 25% |
1 | New York, NY [PPM] | 25% |
119 | Corpus Christi, TX | 25% |
237 | Grand Island-Kearney-Hastngs, NE | 25% |
51 | Memphis, TN [PPM] | 25% |
142 | Canton, OH | 25% |
151 | Ann Arbor, MI | 24% |
90 | Columbia, SC | 24% |
208 | Las Cruces-Deming, NM | 24% |
178 | Traverse City-Petoskey, MI | 24% |
111 | York, PA | 24% |
87 | Colorado Springs, CO | 24% |
218 | Columbia, MO | 24% |
140 | Savannah, GA | 23% |
163 | Evansville, IN | 23% |
121 | Portsmouth-Dover-Rochester, NH | 23% |
247 | Williamsport, PA | 23% |
221 | Joplin, MO | 22% |
197 | Charleston, WV | 22% |
126 | New Haven, CT | 22% |
120 | Modesto, CA | 22% |
234 | Sussex, NJ | 22% |
69 | Sarasota-Bradenton, FL | 22% |
79 | Wilkes Barre-Scranton, PA | 22% |
29 | Austin, TX [PPM] | 22% |
24 | St. Louis, MO [PPM] | 22% |
23 | Baltimore, MD [PPM] | 22% |
127 | Jackson, MS | 22% |
77 | Baton Rouge, LA | 21% |
66 | Fresno, CA | 21% |
206 | Chico, CA | 21% |
104 | Huntsville, AL | 21% |
205 | Santa Barbara, CA | 21% |
166 | Poughkeepsie, NY | 21% |
157 | Peoria, IL | 21% |
224 | Muskegon, MI | 20% |
63 | Honolulu, HI | 20% |
50 | New Orleans, LA | 20% |
19 | San Diego, CA [PPM] | 20% |
236 | Parkersburg-Marietta, WV-OH | 20% |
32 | Las Vegas, NV [PPM] | 20% |
37 | Raleigh-Durham, NC [PPM] | 20% |
115 | Worcester, MA | 20% |
207 | Laurel-Hattiesburg, MS | 20% |
95 | Akron, OH | 20% |
117 | Lancaster, PA | 20% |