![]() ![]() "I’m not sure if we would be able to make all these changes without the 22-year relationship that they’ve had with ESPN," Thomas said of his bosses. Thomas credited Good Karma Brands CEO Craig Karmazin and president Steve Politziner with securing dispensation from the network to drop the last two hours of "Keyshawn, Jay and Zubin." Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman will continue to air from 2 to 6 p.m., followed by a new evening show hosted by producers Chris Bleck and Adam Abdalla from 6 to 8 p.m. to noon - followed by a new ESPN Network show hosted by Mike Greenberg, the former ESPN morning host with close ties to Chicago since his days at Northwestern University and numerous broadcast outlets here. The midday duo of Carmen DeFalco and John “Jurko” Jurkovic will move up to a new time - from 10 a.m. Under ESPN 1000's new weekday lineup, the first two hours of the new ESPN Network morning show, hosted by Keyshawn Johnson, Jay Williams and Zubin Mehenti, will air from 5 to 7 a.m. "From a local standpoint, it’s going to put us in a strong competitive position." every weekday," Mike Thomas, ESPN Chicago market manager, told me. "We are really excited to give our fans a chance to have a local interactive show starting at 7 a.m. still holds the license for the Chicago station, it's been under the management of Milwaukee-based Good Karma Brands since September 2019. Rival WSCR 670-AM (the Entercom sports/talk station known as The Score) has been local in mornings since its inception. It's widely believed that ESPN 1000's ratings growth has been stymied by the network's national morning shows. In July, the network pulled the plug on syndicated morning hosts Mike Golic and Trey Wingo, whose show aired here from 5 to 9 a.m. Hood" will provide the station with its first local morning show in more than 20 years under ESPN ownership. to noon, and Hood hosts "The Baseball Show" followed by "Under the Hood" from 6 to 9 p.m. Kaplan currently hosts "Kap & Company" from 9 a.m. as part of a new Monday-through-Friday programming lineup announced today. Starting Monday, Kaplan and Hood will be heard together from 7 to 10 a.m. David Kaplan and Jonathan Hood, two longtime Chicago sports/talk personalities, are teaming up to co-host a new local morning show on WMVP 1000-AM, the ESPN Radio station managed by Good Karma Brands. ![]()
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