By 1987, Jeff Smulyan was living his dream. The company he founded in 1980, Emmis Broadcasting, had just purchased three radio stations. Smulyan converted one of them, an AM country music station in New York City, into a 24-hour all-sports format. He first envisioned the format while daydreaming during one of his classes at the University of Southern California. Although… Copyright ©2026 Investor's Business Daily, LLC. All rights reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8