1986. I arrived at wbal radio as a general manager and from the 50s to the mid70s, wbal retial at keillor at the orioles game and one of the objectives when i got there was to repatriate the orioles. Then and now finnmark really staggering at their expense level and its hard to run these things at a profit and you hope that you can create a halo effect and the overall benefit of having the game on the radio in baltimore. It eliminates the whole station. As a, i had it in my mind that we wanted these games. I went up to new york and i sold my pants off. Frank benet who was the ceo of the Hearst Corporation like my enthusiasm and they liked my passion. They put me through the hoops every Business Model that you could look at and i have an answer for everything. I went back home and we made a deal with the orioles and i thought now we are really going to be able to go on. That was the year that they started 022. [laughter] and i was dying. You couldnt sell advertising to anybody. There wa
Ied a hire whats going on here and in a lot of other institutions, the inner disciplinary approach to things. When we interview younger people they have a very broad set of skills and i think i continue to encourage that to be the case. The intersection between media law and practicing journalism is very important and through wade and a lot of other peoples effort thats an initiative that needs to continue in a significant way. Nowadays people have to understand technology and they have to understand they have to have deep subject matter expertise and i think i would encourage this university and other universities people are trained with depth and not just shallow knowledge thats imagine or active. But limited knowledge of subject matter which is how some people white wash tv reporters. We need more subject matter certain tease and expertise and i think there is a lot more room for that. We can think about subject matter expertise but something that is sort of one of the prerequisites
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