I was from the Northeast and trying to make my way as a first time talk show host in a completely foreign city. You just want to be able to dig into the whole thing. Brock, who’s the nicest human being in the world, had never done talk either. Maybe Salk’s talked about it on radio and I missed it? Prior to launching BSM he served as a sports radio programmer, launching brands such as 95.7 The Game in San Francisco and 101 ESPN in St. Louis. I’m really proud of the stuff we’ve done at 710 this year.”I’ll never forget during the first couple of shows I did in Bristol.
I listen to a lot of guys around the country when I’m watching games. The Globe reported last Wednesday that Salk, a … Executive producer Jessamyn McIntyre takes care of so many little details. He also describes how jealousy can limit the growth of hosts, and that viewing a rival sports station as the only competition is shortsighted. Twitter; Facebook; Brock Huard & Mike Salk To End KIRO Morning Show; Move To Weekly Podcast. Previous career stops include Albany, NY and Fresno, CA. It’s refreshing when men act like men by owning their shortcomings.I’m really focused on the city I live in and my life here — a work-life balance, raising kids, being a good husband, trying to be a good leader for 710 and just push the station forward. Heather my wife will be like, “Hey when are you coming home?” I’ll say, “I’ll be home soon.” Then I just sort of dawdle on my way out the door because I keep running into people that I want to talk to. I’m not going to host a big-time national show. He is so well prepared every single week for that.
Instead of pointing the finger at WEEI in Boston for a relationship that didn’t work out, Mike points the finger at himself. Wherever you are, I think immersing yourself, doing the types of things people in that region do is pretty important to feeling like you truly belong there. In many ways Mike Salk is the anti-OBJ. I hope that they’d show more improvement. I listen to a lot of guys around the country when I’m watching games. You’ve got to find a way to put them together while handling all of the day-to-day parts of running a radio station — things that just have to be done every day.I also learned a lot about how to enter new into a situation. They have such a unique ability to relate to professional athletes in a way that the rest of us simply can’t.Finally this year we worked together as a whole group — and I’m talking everyone from hosts, producers, sales, promotions — everybody kind of got together and decided to work with this group called Coaching Boys Into Men. I think that’s — I’m learning — more and more important to management.It’s a hard question for me to answer because I just didn’t do it very well. Honestly it’s the people. Prior to launching BSM he served as a sports radio programmer, launching brands such as 95.7 The Game in San Francisco and 101 ESPN in St. Louis. Then just all the way through with producers and hosts. I hope they’d sound different. I feel an immense sense of debt — a responsibility to a station and to my boss who’s taken a chance on me twice. It’s a really incredible team that makes it so much easier to do all of those things.I think that being a first-time manager is hard. Can I host a big-time national radio show? I didn’t make enough of an adjustment. You learn kind of your place in this landscape. The station has been incredible to me. That’s the work during the week preparing at home, but then the amount of time he spends really thinking about the questions and taking stuff out of the in-person interviews they do leading up to it, he’s incredible at it.I think trying to ask as many people as possible about it — immerse yourself in whatever the local culture is. Following Mike Salk’s recent promotion to Director of Programming for Bonneville Seattle, he and Brock Huard are ending their daily morning show on “710 ESPN” KIRO Seattle and launching a weekly podcast. Cathy Cangiano will take on the position of director of sales for 710 ESPN Seattle, KIRO-FM, KTTH-AM, and Seattle Mariners Radio.
In terms of being a co-host, they have so many stories. Just the adrenaline rush of it was hard to forget.I think over time ratings stop defining shows, so I’m really proud more for the whole package. Wherever you are, I think immersing yourself, doing the types of things people in that region do is pretty important to feeling like you truly belong there. I know that’s sort of a cop-out answer, but it’s been really important to me, to my predecessor Brian Long, to my boss Dave Pridemore. There are a lot of people who are really good at it.