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John Feinstein gets full show on CBS Sports Radio, weekdays 9am-12pm ET

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Nate Wesley

John is pretty good but 3 hours every day? No way this works long term. He needs a team of personalities to work off of or this will not be good. Rome pulls it off day after day but he has got that gig down - silliness, seriousness, silliness, seriousness, etc. - Feinstein will be all over the seriousness but where will the levity come from to fill 15 hours each week?
 
Here is an excerpt from the article about John Feinstein going on CBS Sports Radio:

“John is known for his encyclopedic knowledge of and passion for all aspects of sports,” said Eric Spitz, Director of Programming, CBS Sports Radio. “As a best-selling sports author and journalist, he has relationships with, and an open line to, some of the most fascinating names in sports. John has a way with words, a trademark sense of humor and is never is shy to offer an opinion, which will engage listeners and translate on the radio.”

link to entire article: http://rbr.com/cbs-sports-radio-adding-the-john-feinstein-show/
 
I would half-imagine the typical Feinstein show to regularly stray from sports or the usual 'sports talk subjects', while still staying a sports-dominated show. It might blatantly have the same conversational, semi-high-brow style as his friend Tony Kornheiser's (once distributed nationally on ESPN Radio, now locally on D.C.'s WTEM "ESPN 980").

Upper90 said:
John is pretty good but 3 hours every day? No way this works long term. He needs a team of personalities to work off of or this will not be good. Rome pulls it off day after day but he has got that gig down - silliness, seriousness, silliness, seriousness, etc. - Feinstein will be all over the seriousness but where will the levity come from to fill 15 hours each week?
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You could be right. Let's not forget that Feinstein isn't totally inexperienced at this--he's done fill-in-host work for Rome, coincidentally.
 
The assumption seems to be he'll be there alone, but as Dan Patrick, Jim Rome, and Glenn Beck in the political talk arena all have side kicks, so may John Feinstein.
 
Yes, he has done great as a fill in on Rome no doubt. Believe me I hope it is entertaining, the more sports talk shows that are on that work the better. He has written some great books. I grew up in an era where the bookmobile and book fairs at grade school always had those cheesy sports bio books where it was nothing but a mere skeleton of a persons life. I still have an OJ Simpson one in my hoarding zone. His books go into such great detail, if he can bring that to radio on a consistent basis he might have something.
 
Upper90 said:
Yes, he has done great as a fill in on Rome no doubt. Believe me I hope it is entertaining, the more sports talk shows that are on that work the better. He has written some great books. I grew up in an era where the bookmobile and book fairs at grade school always had those cheesy sports bio books where it was nothing but a mere skeleton of a persons life. I still have an OJ Simpson one in my hoarding zone. His books go into such great detail, if he can bring that to radio on a consistent basis he might have something.
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I think the last thing John Feinstein will have is a lack of something to talk about. For his sake, he's gotta keep it engaging enough to keep people tuned in.
 
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