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stephen a. smith

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saraswati

saw the stephen a. smith at fsr news. wow. now he's back to more than one of his former employers this year... weird.

my money is on him replacing the train wreck of hartman/myers or maybe fsr just giving him an hour (a la espn) as a lead in to another show.

in any case, smith can be decent and hopefully this past year brought some needed humility to him and it will be reflected in his show.
 
Hope Steven A replaces Petros and Money or Myers and They get rid of Vic the Brick. I can feel either case
 
steve czaban show is my favorite moring show i hope epsn radio or sporing news radio pick him up he make a good edition.
 
Czabe just posted an open letter to his fans over at his website regarding his being replaced by Smith. According to Czabe, FSR believes Smith will help get them cleared in NYC and Philly in the mornings. Whatever....good luck with that, idiots.

This is a travesty of swap-Van Earl-for-Bruno proportions.
 
facetheslayer said:
Czabe just posted an open letter to his fans over at his website regarding his being replaced by Smith. According to Czabe, FSR believes Smith will help get them cleared in NYC and Philly in the mornings. Whatever....good luck with that, idiots.

This is a travesty of swap-Van Earl-for-Bruno proportions.
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Even more bizarre was this OTHER part of Czabe's open letter:

The “un-official” reason why the show was cancelled – or at least what was relayed to us - was that “affiliates” were saying that we sounded “too much like Mike and Mike.”

Yep. That's what FSR told us.

Ohhhhhkaaayyyy then.
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WHAT so-called "affiliates?" The 24/7 all-satellite turnkey operations in Podunk, Iowa, Walla Walla, Washington or Cleveland, Tennessee? What programmer in their right mind equates Czaben's show to that of Mike & Mike? The most boring, un-original show that ESPN lo-o-o-o-o-o-o-oves to shoves down our throats - not just on radio, but on ESPN2, ESPN the Magazine, ESPN Radio's online stream, and forcing for clearance in nearly all ESPN Radio affiliates save for WGR/Buffalo?
 
Seriously, I can't think of anyone more reviled by the average sports fan than Stephen A. Smith. At best, he's nothing more than a punchline to a bad joke. Here in San Antonio, one of the local hacks runs an annual "D-Bag of the Year" contest, and Smith was crowned the winner by the listeners in the 2008 contest....and this was based solely on his TV appearances, as his ESPN radio show never aired locally.

The additions of PMS, Bruno, and Dan Patrick were great moves in my opinion, but this move is just mind-numbingly atrocious.
 
Just to clear up any confusion caused by my earlier post and Nathan's post, it looks like Czabe's open letter was edited pretty heavily overnight. So if you look at it now, be advised that it has been "sanitized."

Gone now are the references to the alleged similarities to Mike & Mike (what a freaking joke that is in the first place), and FSR's attempt to gain clearance in Philly and NYC.
 
First, I am a regular listener to Czabe's show; frankly it's a heck of a lot more entertaining than Mike and Mike, and this is coming from someone who would watch M&M every morning getting ready for classes when I attended college, Steve is way better than Mike and Mike will ever be. Second, I really hope that Czabe gets picked up by another network, a show like his is too good to not be on national radio. Lastly, replaceing it with Stephen A Smith? FSR had better get someone entertaining to be on that show with him because Stephen A alone would be about as exciting as watching a faucet dripping, how can Fox put that shift in the hands of someone who has bombed with shows on radio and tv already, both on ESPN(remember Quite Frankly? ::) ) Also how the heck will this get FSR cleared in NYC or Philadelphia? Last I checked those markets only sports stations are long running ones or ESPN affilates(WFAN and WEPN for NYC; WIP and WPEN for Philadephia), Stephen will be lucky if he lasts a year in this slot; by December of 2010 FSR will realize their folly when the ratings tank in that slot and bring in someone entertaining. This is definitely like swapping Van Earl for Bruno, maybe even worse.
 
facetheslayer said:
Just to clear up any confusion caused by my earlier post and Nathan's post, it looks like Czabe's open letter was edited pretty heavily overnight. So if you look at it now, be advised that it has been "sanitized."

Gone now are the references to the alleged similarities to Mike & Mike (what a freaking joke that is in the first place), and FSR's attempt to gain clearance in Philly and NYC.
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Interesting... it's very similar to when WTEM flipped to ESPN Radio and dropped "The First Team." An open letter he wrote to the WTEM audience when that occurred was also heavily sanitized to the same effect.
 
This move may be the worst EVER for FSR! Much worse than the Van Earl for Bruno fiasco.

This can only be happening for 2 reasons. 1. He's willing to work for next to nothing just to have a job and comes a lot cheaper than Czabe and his gang. 2. Fox has a bad minority hiring situation and they needed to get a minority host on?

Not only will they NOT get Philly(ESPN and WIP stations already set) or NY(FAN and ESPN) to sign on, they will LOSE a lot of markets who will probably settle for whatever crap Sporting News has on as an alternative. Why wouldn't they just put Bruno's night show on in that slot since he's already under contract and just put anything else on in that meaningless night slot? Moves like this just show how little quality matters any more. The few overpaid guys like JT the Brick and Chris Myers will probably be the next to go at FSR once their deals are up. Why would Fox pay JT 3x more than Jason Smith on ESPN when Smith is on more stations. Smith isn't good, but you don't need anyone good on in that slot, do you?
 
radiogodzilla said:
2. Fox has a bad minority hiring situation and they needed to get a minority host on?
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So Smith is a token hire that's just there for window dressing? Surely that would have kept James Washington employed...forgot him, didn't we? Fail.

radiogodzilla said:
Why wouldn't they just put Bruno's night show on in that slot since he's already under contract and just put anything else on in that meaningless night slot?
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An old night show as your national morning show? Of course that would do well, especially on Monday mornings...not. Epic fail. :D

I'll go on the record as looking toward giving the new Stephen A. Smith morning show a hearty try. He's impressed me as Steve Harvey's fill in, and its possible that his new show might follow that lighter pop culture mold (not to mention sports). Here's to some good co-hosts, and I hope FSR adds a podcast.
 
I was plenty ticked at FSR when Ben Maller was canned the first time, at least he was brought back. I was shaking my head after hearing this news the other day, simply unreal. BOYCOTT FSR!

THIS STUPIDITY WILL NOT STAND!

I hope there is enough outrage.

Sports radio has gone to hell.
 
Mr Wesley,

Stephen A Smith is going to be a major disaster and you can book it!

The "old night show" as a national morning show happens to be a guy who is a proven morning drive talent, unlike Smith who has failed in every job - radio and tv.

Filling in for an african-american based show is not the same as trying to do a mass appeal show and being the driver of that show.

So you sir have failed miserably at attempting to break down this impending fiasco.
 
Czaban gets good numbers. Why is it when NEW idiots in charge take over they have to jack with something that is working.?
 
radiogodzilla said:
Mr Wesley,

Stephen A Smith is going to be a major disaster and you can book it!

The "old night show" as a national morning show happens to be a guy who is a proven morning drive talent, unlike Smith who has failed in every job - radio and tv.
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Are you serious? Tony Bruno's a bigger failure in radio than Stephen A. Smith! ESPN's The Bruno-Golic Morning Show? Long forgotten. FSR's The Tony Bruno Extravaganza? Dead. SNR's The Tony Bruno Show? Aborted! How he suckered The Content Factory into giving him a night show, I'll never know--but we all know what got him back big time national syndication: Desperation by Premiere and Fox Sports Radio for cheap fill-in programming.

If Bruno were so great, he wouldn't have burned bridges at three radio networks--nor would he be competing for an audience against the likes of George Noory, Jason Smith, Todd Wright, and human sleep.


radiogodzilla said:
Filling in for an african-american based show is not the same as trying to do a mass appeal show and being the driver of that show.

So you sir have failed miserably at attempting to break down this impending fiasco.
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Except when that show IS mass appeal, featured on mainstream Hip-Hop/R&B stations (a platform a lil bigger than sports radio): More than 60 market clearances, over 7 million listeners daily. Can Steve Czaban brag about that or any contributions to MSNBC? Not on your life.

You don't have to like it, but there's much more upside for the Stephen A. Smith show than you want to admit.
 
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