The former opinion editor and contributor Barie Weiss bemoaned the decline of the newspaper during an appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” on Friday, reports the NY Post.
In her remarks, Weiss offered additional context to her scathing resignation letter from the paper last month.
“The reason that Twitter is the assigning editor of The New York Times is because the printing press isn’t the printing press anymore. It’s because the printing press is in each one of our pockets,” Weiss said.
“What I meant in that letter when I wrote that Twitter is the assigning editor,” she continued, “what I mean by that is in order to do our job well, writers and editors, we need to have a level of bravery and thick skin and fearlessness,” she added. “And when you’re living in fear of an online mob, you know, all it takes is a dozen people to repeat a lie about you — that you’re a racist, that you’re a transphobe, that you’re a bigot — for that lie to become true and that’s extremely dangerous.”
After months of tension and the unceremonious removal of her boss, James Bennet, Weiss bolted from the Times in spectacular fashion, citing a constant drumbeat of workplace harassment and feckless management.
“I was always taught that journalists were charged with writing the first rough draft of history. Now, history itself is one more ephemeral thing molded to fit the needs of a predetermined narrative,” she thundered to opinion editor A.G. Sulzberger. “New York Times employees publicly smear me as a liar and a bigot on Twitter with no fear that harassing me will be met with appropriate action. They never are.”
The start of the Major League Baseball season, which came more than 100 days later than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic, drew significantly higher TV ratings than it did last year, a boon for sports networks that have had very little live content to run for months, reports The Wall Street Journal.
Games that aired on national TV during the opening weekend—July 23 to 26—had more than twice as many viewers as a year ago, according to data from the MLB Network. Walt Disney Co. ’s ESPN said the first 12 games it aired through late Thursday averaged 1.16 million viewers, up 34% from last year. Fox Corp.’s Fox Sports also saw a double-digit rise in ratings.
ESPN said the league’s season opener on July 23 between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals—which was played in an empty stadium, with infectious-diseases expert Anthony Fauci throwing a much-discussed opening pitch—had four million viewers, making it the most-watched regular-season game since 2011 on any network.
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One reason baseball games drew such strong ratings is that they had very little competition from other major U.S. sports leagues, Mr. Mulvihill said. Traditionally the baseball season begins when the National Basketball Association and National Hockey League are in the final stretch of the regular season ahead of the playoffs. Baseball also attracted younger viewers than usual as a result, Mr. Mulvihill said. The NBA restarted its season on July 30 and the NHL on Aug. 1.
Fan enthusiasm comes against the backdrop of the continued spread of the virus among baseball players, which threatens the MLB season.
Nearly two-thirds of the Miami Marlins’ roster has tested positive, a surge that has already resulted in 14 postponed games involving six East Coast teams.
The Philadelphia Phillies, who played the Marlins last weekend, have reported no positive cases except for a coach and clubhouse attendant. The Phillies haven’t taken the field since Sunday as a precautionary measure. On Saturday, the St. Louis Cardinals organization reported four new positive coronavirus tests, people familiar with the matter said.
On Friday, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred indicated on a call with Major League Baseball Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark that the season was in danger of collapsing if the sport couldn’t control the virus.
The rise of social media has changed the information landscape in myriad ways, including the manner in which many Americans keep up with current events. A new Pew Research Center analysis of five surveys conducted between October 2019 and June 2020 finds that Americans who rely most on social media for political and election news stand apart from other news consumers demographically and in their attention to and knowledge of current events.
As part of the American News Pathways project, the Center has gathered data over the past nine months on how Americans’ most common pathways to political and election news (news websites or apps; social media; local, cable and network TV; radio; and print) connect to what they hear and perceive in the news. Overall, 18% of U.S. adults say social media is their most common pathway to political and election news. That’s lower than the share who use news websites and apps for news (25%), but about on par with the percent who say their primary pathway is cable television (16%) or local television (16%). But how do the characteristics of U.S. adults who rely on social media for political and election news compare with those who rely on the other six pathways?
Key findings from the report among U.S. adults who rely most on social media for political and election news:
Demographically, those who get most of their political news on social media tend to be younger and are less likely to be white than those who mainly use other platforms. Those who use social media for news also tend to have lower levels of formal education and less household income than those who turn to other news pathways. (These patterns are likely tied to the young age of this group.)
Americans who rely on social media are the least likely to be following news about the 2020 presidential candidates “very closely,” at only 8%, compared with those who turn most to cable TV (37%) and print (33%) who say the same. Only the local television news group, at 11%, has a comparably low share following the election very closely. Indeed, those in the local TV group tend to be closest to the social media group in their lower levels of news engagement and knowledge.
Those consumers turning mainly to social media are also the least likely to be following coronavirus news very closely. Only about a quarter (23%) of U.S. adults who rely most on social media for political and election news say they are following news about the COVID-19 pandemic very closely, according to a June survey. Higher shares of every other news group studied say this, including those who get most of their news from cable TV (50%), national network TV (50%), news websites and apps (44%) or local TV (32%).
Only about half (48%) of those who mostly get their political news through social media said that they understood “very well” or “somewhat well” what was “happening in the Democratic presidential primaries"; 49% said the same about “the facts and events surrounding the impeachment proceedings.” In late February and early March, every other group expressed higher levels of confidence, including U.S. adults who rely most on local TV: 56% and 58%, respectively, said they understood these stories.
Americans who depend on social media have lower political knowledge than most other news consumer groups. Across the nine months of study, respondents were asked 29 different fact-based questions that touched on a variety of topics related to the news, from economics to Donald Trump’s impeachment to the COVID-19 outbreak and more. Across these 29 questions, the average proportion who got each question right is lower among Americans who rely most on social media for political news than those who rely most on other types of news sources, except for local TV.
Social media news consumers are more likely than most to report seeing made-up news related to the coronavirus pandemic. Fully 68% of those who rely on social media for political news say they saw at least “some” misinformation about the pandemic. This is slightly outpaced by those turning to news websites and apps (73%) and radio (72%) who say the same.
Despite this, U.S. adults relying on social media for political news express less concern about the impact of made-up news. Just over a third of this group (37%) say they are very concerned about the effects of made-up news on the 2020 election, lower than every other group except for those who turn mainly to local TV (at 35%). Those who rely on other platforms express higher levels of concern, including 58% of those who mainly turn to cable TV
Alongside lower awareness of current events, these social media news consumers are as aware (and in some cases more aware) of misinformation about COVID-19. For example, roughly eight-in-ten U.S. adults (81%) who get most of their news through social media have heard at least “a little” about the conspiracy theory that powerful people intentionally planned the pandemic, including about a quarter of this group (26%) who have heard “a lot” about it. That is more than among those who turn to any of the other six platforms for their political news.
Suzyn Waldman made good on an old promise Friday night. The Yankees broadcaster sang the national anthem before Friday’s home opener in the Bronx. It was the completion of a deal she made long ago with a young pitcher named Gerrit Cole.
The NY Daily News reports Waldman had been impressed with Cole way back when the Yankees drafted him in the first round in 2008. Listening to him talk on a conference call, Waldman told Yankees executives she thought he was eloquent, smart and interesting. She was looking forward to meeting him. While it didn’t work out that time — with Cole spurning the Yankees and their reported $4 million signing bonus to play college baseball for UCLA — Waldman remembered her first impression. She got to meet Cole a few years later after he had been drafted by the Pirates and was in his first big league spring training.
“You’re gonna make a great Yankee when you get to be a free agent,” Waldman said she told the young right hander.
Cole was not shy either. He’d done his homework and shot back: “If I do, you have to sing the national anthem on Opening Day.”
After the Yankees signed him and Cole made his first appearance at the Stadium, he made it known he was not letting her off the hook.
Tonight's National Anthem was performed by Suzyn Waldman. Suzyn was the very first voice ever heard on WFAN radio. She has been a beat reporter, TV analyst, play by play broadcaster, and is the first and only woman ever to have a full-time analyst job with a Major League team. pic.twitter.com/9IEmHzzv6D
Waldman, a former Broadway actress renowned for her singing voice, has sung the national anthem many times before, including many times before Yankees home games. But this one was special. Not only was it keeping a long-held promise to the Yankees’ new ace, but it turns out that Waldman had never sung the national anthem in the new Yankee Stadium.
Amazon has received authorization from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to proceed with Project Kuiper, its initiative to launch a fleet of low-orbiting satellites that would be used to provide broadband internet access to underserved communities in the U.S.
The FCC approved of the tech giant's ambitious project by a vote of 5-0 on Thursday, reports The Hill.
With the commission's green light, Amazon will now be able to begin the deployment of its 3,236 satellites. In total, Amazon is spending $10 billion on the project based in a new Amazon development facility in Redmond, Wash.
“We have heard so many stories lately about people who are unable to do their job or complete schoolwork because they don’t have reliable internet at home,” Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president, said in a statement. “There are still too many places where broadband access is unreliable or where it doesn’t exist at all. Kuiper will change that."
Many school districts in the country that are located in areas without widespread internet access have struggled to reach their students during the coronavirus pandemic.
Taylor Swift’s surprise eighth album Folklore makes a shimmering debut atop the Rolling Stone Top 200 Albums Chart this week with 852,700 units, surpassing Juice WRLD’s Legends Never Die for the biggest first week of any album so far in 2020 by over 300,000 units.
The album, which was largely produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, saw over 627,000 album sales and nearly 260 million on-demand audio streams during the week of July 24th through July 30th. The album also saw over 86,000 song sales, which was aided by the sale of physical singles of “Cardigan” on her website. (Relatedly, a knit cardigan was also available for purchase along with a digital download of the album.)
While Folklore didn’t surpass the 991,800 first-week units of Lover — largely because Folklore didn’t come with partnerships with the likes of Target and Amazon — it did out-stream it by nearly 50 million on-demand audio streams.
The Rolling Stone 200 Albums chart tracks the most popular releases of the week in the United States. Entries are ranked by album units, a number that combines digital and physical album sales, digital song sales, and audio streams using a custom weighting system. The chart does not include passive listening such as terrestrial radio or digital radio. The Rolling Stone 200 Albums chart is updated daily, and each week Rolling Stone finalizes and publishes an official version of the chart, covering the seven-day period ending with the previous Thursday.
Beck worked at various radio stations around the Rochester region for more than four decades — most notably, he spent 24 years at WBEE 92.5 FM, where he acquired the name "Big Daddy Dave," hosted a weekly request show on Saturday nights and was Rochester's last live overnight radio personality.
His overnight work "was something he was extremely proud of — and he took that responsibility seriously — especially when it came to breaking news, emergency weather information and the like," said Bob Barnett, vice president and brand manager for Rochester's Entercom radio stations. Barnett hired Mr. Beck as a part-timer at WBEE in 1988.
"Looking back over the years, I’m proud of what he accomplished professionally and grateful to have had him in my life for so many years," Barnett said. "He was just a good man."
Barnett described Mr. Beck as a "quirky, outspoken, old-school curmudgeon" who was beloved by local listeners. "He was straight-forward, honest, real…he was one-of-a-kind," he said.
Beck started his career in the mid-70s at WNYR, Rochester's first country station, Barnett said. He worked at numerous local radio stations before leaving broadcasting in the early 80s to work for Bausch & Lomb and later Rochester Gas & Electric Corp.
Beck's most recent radio job was at Legends 102.7-FM and lasted one year, said longtime colleague and friend Terry Clifford, also a radio personality at WBEE. He broadcast one weekend shift per week and ended the part-time gig earlier this month, she said.
"He was a consummate professional," Clifford said. "Who you heard on air was exactly who he was...and he was a genuine, honest and faithful man."
➦In 1902...Ray Bloch born (Died at age 79 – March 29, 1982). He was a composer, songwriter, conductor, pianist, author and arranger. He is best remembered as the arranger and orchestra conductor for The Ed Sullivan Show during its entire run from 1948 to 1971.
With Ed Sullivan
Bloch and his orchestra were featured on numerous radio variety shows of the late-1930s and 1940s. These included: Johnny Presents (1939-1946), The Gay Nineties Revue (CBS, 1939-1944), Let Yourself Go (CBS, 1944-1945), The Continental Celebrity Club (1945-1946), The Milton Berle Show (NBC, 1948-1949), and The Mary Small Revue (1945).
From 1943 to 1956 Bloch and his orchestra also performed on Here's to Romance, a weekly musical variety show broadcast by the American Forces Network. In 1951 Bloch hosted his own show, The Bloch Party, a 60-minute variety show on CBS Radio featuring Judy Lynn, the Russ Emery Chorus, and the Ray Bloch Orchestra.
The orchestra was a fixture on several game shows, including Take It or Leave It (CBS, 1940-1947). Quick as a Flash (1944–1949) – during which "clues were elaborately dramatized or were musically illustrated by Ray Bloch's orchestra"– and Sing It Again (1948–1951). Bloch also worked on Philip Morris Playhouse (CBS, 1939–1943), and in several Orson Welles drama presentations.
➦In 1907... Irene Tedrow born (Died from a stroke at age 87 – March 10, 1995) was a character actress in stage, film, television and radio.
Irene Tedrow
Among her most notable roles are Janet Archer in the radio series Meet Corliss Archer, Mrs. Lucy Elkins on the TV sitcom Dennis the Menace and Mrs. Webb in the stage production Our Town at the Plumstead Playhouse.
Tedrow's work in radio dated back at least to 1929. As a drama student at Carnegie Institute of Technology, she was master of ceremonies and student director for "Carnegie Tech Day at Gimbel's," which was broadcast on WCAE. A 1937 radio listing shows her as one of the actresses in George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah when it was broadcast on NBC Blue.
During the 1940s and 1950s, Tedrow had quality acting roles in radio productions, including The Baby Snooks Show. ➦In 1918...Actor Larry Haines born (Died at age 90 - July 17, 2008) was an American actor.
Larry Haines
He had been active in dramatics in high school, and while he was in college, he was advised to try acting. After a few months of instruction in dramatics, he passed an audition with CBS radio He dropped out during his sophomore year of college and "went right into radio working on little stations all around New York City," beginning at WWRL.
Haines first became known in the 1930s as an actor on the radio crime series Gangbusters. Playing Joe Lincoln, he was the star of Treasury Agent on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1947-48, and he had the title role of Mike Hammer in That Hammer Guy on Mutual in 1953-54. He also was featured in The Chase, Cloak and Dagger, Inner Sanctum Mystery, The Man Behind the Gun, and This Is Nora Drake. It was estimated that he acted in more than 15,000 radio programs in the 1940s and 1950s.
Four decades later, he would return to radio, starring in 82 episodes of the CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
WGY Transmitter 1922
➦In 1922...WGY in Schenectady, NY aired the first drama series on radio. The first play was “The Wolf” by Eugene Walter, adapted into a 40-minute radio script by local actor Edward H. Smith. When two 2 X 4’s were slapped together to replicate a door slam, radio sound effects were born.
➦In 1958...Billboard magazine launched its Hot 100 music chart.
➦In 1984...legendary Dick Biondi, joined WJMK-FM, Chicago - an oldies-formatted station.
➦In 1986...William B. Williams died of acute anemia and respiratory failure. (Born - August 6, 1923, was a disc jockey on New York City radio station WNEW for over four decades. He hosted the popular program Make Believe Ballroom. Williams is particularly noted for coining the title "Chairman of the Board" for Frank Sinatra.
Willie B.
Born William Breitbard in Babylon, NY, attended Syracuse University for one year before dropping out. In 1944, he was hired as a staff announcer at WAAT in Newark, New Jersey while visiting a friend at the station. According to Williams "the guy who did the all-night show had just been fired for being bombed on the air." Six weeks later, a staffer at WNEW heard Williams on the air and invited him to apply for a job at the station. He was hired at WNEW and worked several time slots before being fired by station manager Bernice Judis in 1947. An article in the New York Daily News suggested that Williams was fired for his aggressive tactics with management in his role as shop steward; however, WNEW's official story was that he was fired after Judis caught him one evening in the studio with his feet propped on the desk clad in bright red socks. She was apparently horrified by his lack of style.
Williams worked at several other stations, including WOR, but was rehired at WNEW in 1953 following a management change. He hosted the William B. Williams Show in the morning hours, and Music in a Sentimental Mood in the afternoon from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.
In 1954, the originator of the Make Believe Ballroom program in New York, Martin Block, left WNEW for a new job at ABC Radio. Jerry Marshall took over the show for three years, after which Williams returned to host the program. He marked the broadcast as his own, using the distinctive sign-on, "Hello, world", and occasionally identifying himself as "Guilliermo B. Guilliermos" or "Wolfgang B. Wolfgang," although to listeners and friends he was known simply as "Willie B." He combined intimate knowledge of music with his personal anecdotes to create a smooth style that captivated listeners. By 1965 Billboard reported Williams was earning $105,000 a year, tops for the station at that time.
Williams developed lasting relationships with the top singers of the Great American Songbook, including Lena Horne and Nat King Cole. Early in his career, he befriended Frank Sinatra when the crooner recorded broadcasts at WNEW. On one broadcast, Williams mused that since Benny Goodman was the "King of Swing" and Duke Ellington was a duke, then Sinatra must have a title as well, suggesting "Chairman of the Board." Sinatra learned of the comment and embraced the title.
➦In 2007...Personality Ron Lyons died at age 69. Lyons was a San Francisco "Good Guy" on station KEWB-AM in the 1960s (aircheck: Click Here) and also worked stints at KNBR, KFBK, KNEW, and KCBS.
Lyons was born in Asheville, North Carolina. His radio career began in 1955, when he was in high school, spinning rock 'n' roll records, his KCBS. He hit the San Francisco airwaves in 1962 after the Army drafted him and assigned him to the Presidio.
The artists he interviewed over the years included Frank Sinatra and the Beatles.
➦In 2008...Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. died (Born - August 12, 1939). He was a sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the MLB Atlanta Braves. He was the son of baseball announcer Harry Caray, and the father of fellow Braves broadcaster Chip Caray; another son, Josh Caray, a news reporter.
Skip Caray
Skip Caray grew up in baseball as the son of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray, who would routinely refer to his son at 8:30 p.m. during every broadcast by saying, "Good night, Skippy", a phrase for which he was teased throughout his adolescence.
He studied television and radio at the University of Missouri where he received a degree in journalism and was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. He began his career in St. Louis calling Saint Louis University and St. Louis Hawks basketball. In 1968, Caray moved with the Hawks to Atlanta, where he also called Atlanta Flames hockey games and did morning sportscasts on WSB-AM.
In 1976, he was added to the broadcast team for the Braves, a position he held until his death. Caray was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame in 2004 alongside long time Braves broadcaster Pete Van Wieren. He has been recognized with six Georgia Sportscaster-of-the Year awards from the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, as well as a Georgia-area Emmy award.
On December 18, 2006, the Braves organization announced that Caray (and partner Van Wieren) had signed three-year contracts to continue doing Braves game broadcasts on their radio network. However, Caray only announced ten games on TBS in the 2007 season.
On the final broadcast of Braves TBS Baseball (September 30, 2007), Caray thanked fans saying, "To all you people who have watched the Braves for these 30 years ... thank you. We appreciate you more than you will ever know. ... Thank you folks and God bless you. And we're going to miss you every bit as much as you miss us."
➦In 2013…Classical music announcer/narrator Lloyd Moss, who entertained listeners of WQXR-New York for 33 years during two stints (1955-1971, 1989-2006) at the station, died of Parkinson’s disease at age 86.
Lloyd Moss
Moss came to WQXR in 1954 and by his retirement on Sept. 29, 2006, was one of the longest-serving classical music hosts in the United States. Like many radio personalities of the era, he worked as a voiceover artist and actor, with various credits in television and radio during the 1970s and '80s. Moss was also known for his eclectic outside pursuits: as a children's author, editorial cartoonist, classically-trained trombonist and even a one-time model.
"He was one of the first irreverent announcers. No one did that in the '50s on WQXR," said Anne Moss, referring to the somber, serious reportorial manner of the day. "Lloyd was a segue to a more relaxed and conversational style.”
WQXR host Jeff Spurgeon said Moss's subtle deadpan style could made you sit up and listen. "My favorite example is something he tossed off one day after a cheese commercial,” said Spurgeon. “The spot ended, and Lloyd opened the mic and said, 'What a friend we have in cheeses.' And then he simply gave the weather forecast and introduced whatever piece of music came next, never even winking an eye to the audience."
Moss's interest in music began as a child in Brooklyn, where his father owned a beauty shop that played WQXR on the radio. Starting in 1946, Moss worked as a radio announcer for stations in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Long Island, as well as WNYC, before joining Voice of America. Because Moss had learned Japanese during his stint in Korea, he was able to get a job as a producer for the Japanese desk. That came to an end when the network moved to Washington, DC. Moss auditioned for WQXR, was hired a relief announcer in 1954, and joined the staff in June 1955.
➦In 2014...New York free-form FM radio legend Steve Post, author of Playing in the FM Band, died at age 70.
Steve Post
Post was a pioneer and a trailblazer in freeform radio at WBAI-FM in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a ‘wry, one-of-a-kind’ personality', a ‘creative genius’ who showed ‘extreme personal courage’, who presented a ‘combination of warmth, bitterness, intelligence, mordant humor, and brilliantly on-target observations’, who ‘didn’t care about fairness, objectivity, balance, the canons of journalism’, who ‘just said whatever the hell came into his mind’, and who formed a deep ‘personal connection… with… listeners scattered around the New York area.’
Post, who was 'the undisputed king of on-air fund raising', 'raised millions for public radio.'
He also formed an extraordinarily close, seemingly personal, link with his listeners. 'In a radio age when personality means rant, hysteria, terminal adolescence and unrelieved, unbelievable perkiness, Post is a person. He’s depressed. He kvetches. He whines.' His resonant voice, his skill, his talent, his connection with his listeners, meant that 'as is true with some of the best radio people', his fans had the sense that 'they were the only one or members of a very small group.'
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Mamie Gummer is 37
Singer Tony Bennett is 94.
Actor Martin Sheen is 80.
Singer Beverly Lee of The Shirelles is 79.
Lifestyle guru Martha Stewart is 79.
Bassist B.B. Dickerson of War is 71.
Movie director John Landis is 70.
Actor JoMarie Payton (“Family Matters”) is 70.
Actor Jay North (“Dennis the Menace”) is 69.
Actor Philip Casnoff (“Strong Medicine”) is 66.
Actor John C. McGinley (“Scrubs”) is 61.
Bassist Lee Rocker (Stray Cats) is 59.
Actor Lisa Ann Walter (“Bruce Almighty”) is 57.
Singer-guitarist James Hetfield of Metallica is 57.
Singer Ed Roland of Collective Soul is 57.
Actor Isaiah Washington (“Grey’s Anatomy,” ″Soul Food”) is 57.
Keyboardist Dean Sams of Lonestar is 54.
Guitarist Stephen Carpenter of Deftones is 50.
Musician Spinderella of Salt-N-Pepa is 49.
Actor Brigid Brannagh (“Army Wives”) is 48.
Actor Michael Ealy (“Think Like A Man,” ″Barbershop”) is 47.
Violinist Jimmy De Martini of Zac Brown Band is 44.
Detroit radio personality Jamie Samuelsen died Saturday night after a two-year battle with colon cancer.
He was 48, according to mlive.com. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Earlier last week, the WXYT 97.1 The Ticket host revealed to listeners he was diagnosed with colon cancer nearly two years ago.
According to The Ticket, Samuelsen said he waited to make his fight with cancer public because he wanted his relationship with listeners to be business as usual.
“Each morning since my diagnosis, I got up, turned on the radio mic and got to talk sports,” Samuelsen said. “I needed the escape from cancer, just like so many of our listeners who face hardships, grief and illness, too, they turned to us in the morning for some levity in this crazy world. So I wanted to continue to have fun and not let cancer get in the way of doing what I loved. Connecting with listeners, laughing, teasing Stoney, all of it, it helped me be normal, while continuing to fight this disease.”
Samuelsen had been on the airwaves of Detroit sports talk radio for 25 years. He’s been with 97.1 the ticket since 2012.
One of Samuelsen’s co-hosts on radio and television, Detroit News columnist Bob Wojnowski, announced the death on Twitter on Saturday night on behalf of the family.
I am so sad and sorry to pass this along, at the family's request. Jamie Samuelsen, the best damn friend you could ever have, a tremendous broadcaster on @971theticketxyt passed away tonight at 48. He was surrounded by his wonderful family, and he went peacefully.
The official Detroit Tigers Twitter account joined in the community support for Samuelsen’s family on social media.
Class act by @tigers to recognize @JamieSamuelsen before the game. One of the kindest souls in Detroit sports media and a great professional who will be sorely missed by all. pic.twitter.com/7w5tKMZajf
“Jamie was dedicated to his craft and we will miss his enthusiasm for our city & sports franchises. Our thoughts & hearts are with Jamie’s family & friends at The Ticket,” the team tweeted Saturday night.
