The big guy is going national, according to Neil Best of Newsday:
Mike Francesa, whose 12-year simulcast run on the YES Network ended on Super Bowl Sunday, soon will bring his WFAN radio show to Fox Sports 1, a radio industry source with knowledge of the agreement said Sunday.
Terms of the contract could not be determined, nor could a starting date. But Francesa said on the air last week that an official announcement could come early this week, and that he could be back on TV in time for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament in March.
It is an interesting move by the new sports network. How much whining about the Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, etc. will a national TV audience tolerate?
Then again, a simulcast of a local radio show will be much cheaper to produce than the national shows on ESPN.
Fox and ESPN…two peas in the same pod. All Eastern sports all the time regardless of whether you care or not!
To answer your question Ed, I suspect strongly most American sports fans won’t care a tinkers cuss about his show…I know I won’t.
I guess if you’re a NYer you may like listening to this loud mouth. It’s bad enough Chicagoians have to hear him on the Score on sundays.
Petros Pappadakis and Matt Smith are fare more insightful and entertaining.
And Dino Costa would beat ’em all!