Dan Snyder At It Again
Those of us in the DC area already know what I’m talking about, but the DC Dictator has reached out now to squash a part of the local radio market.
That’s right, Danny Snyder has purchased the DC Sports Talk Radio station - Formerly Sports Talk 980, and this morning I turn it on and find it is “ESPN 980″.
Yeah, that was me in my car this morning with the confused look on my face.
That’s right, like many in the Maryland area who can get Baltimore and DC radio, now we can get Mike and Mike’s national show (hard-hitting as usual) on TWO stations and now have zero alternative.
For those not familiar with 980, it is also (or was also) the primary station for Fox Sports Radio’s Morning Show with Steve Czaban (”The First Team on FOX”). Can you imagine being a national show host and having your local station rip you off the air? I can’t, and Steve does his best to hold his tongue (something he’s NOT known for, thankfully) at The Daily Czabe.
Other local radio hosts (not a fan of them) are now gone as well, but I just couldn’t believe that they took FSR’s morning show off the air.
Every time a local market gets less diverse, there is a problem - but to lose a national radio host seems like a big hit, especially in a big market like the DC Metro area.
Local sports fans are not that happy with the decision either, as you can imagine, as all local hosts were nuked except for The Sports Reporters (also with Czaban) in the afternoon. Yeah, I’m sure that will be uneventful once Czaban blasts management again.
Fans of FSR’s Morning Show can still listen on XM Satellite radio (and possibly Sirius down the line after XM and Sirius merge), but to make everyone hunt for another option seems like a bad move. Which leads me back to the owner of the Redskins, so I guess I shouldn’t be so surprised.
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