Dan Le Batard Moves To Middays

     The national broadcast of the Dan Le Batard Show with Jon Weiner, a.k.a. Stugotz, will be moving from afternoon drive to middays on 790 The Ticket WAXY-AM and ESPN Radio as of September 8. They replace Colin Cowherd who ended his show on both stations in late July.
     Le Batard and Stugotz have co-hosted the afternoon show on ESPN Radio since late September 20l3 and on 790 The Ticket since August 2004. Their national show will now be simulcast on ESPNU. It has been simulcast live on Fusion since the spring and will appear on that network on a tape-delayed basis.
     The weekday lineup will change at 790 The Ticket as of Tuesday. The morning show with Jonathan Zaslow and Joy Taylor will now begin thirty minutes earlier at 5:30 am and end one hour earlier at 9 am. Le Batard and Stugotz host a local one-hour show from 9 a.m. to l0 a.m. before they start their national show from l0 am to l pm. They will also have a Best of Dan Le Batard one-hour show at 3 pm. Josh Friedman and Chris Wittyngham leave the midday slot after over one month on an interim basis and go to afternoon drive from 4 to 7 pm. Evening hours will be hosted by a slew of people which includes current weekend host Craig Mish, Rich Herrera, Zack Duarte and Trevor Murray.
     Le Batard, a University of Miami grad, has written for the Miami Herald as a sports columnist since l990. He got his first opportunity to host a radio show when he worked Sunday mornings on ESPN Radio during the early 2000s. Le Batard later was a panelist on The Sports Reporters and filled in as a co-host on Pardon The Interruption on ESPN. He was given a television show to host on ESPN2 with his father called Dan Le Batard Is Highly Questionable in October 20ll. The show added Bomani Jones as a co-host and later was shifted to ESPN in March 20l5.
     Weiner began in the South Florida market as the afternoon producer for the Hank Goldberg Show and a weekend host on Sports Radio 560 WQAM-AM. He moved on to 940 Fox Sports Radio WRFX-AM as a weekend host with Toast from 2003 to early 2004. After he joined Le Batard as an afternoon sidekick on 790 The Ticket in August 2004, he later picked up the titles of general manager and vice president at that station. Weiner was a show contributor on Miccosukee Sports Rap on Fox Sports Net Florida during the mid 2000s. He has co-hosted Sports Bang on WFOR-TV Channel 4 with Steve Goldstein since October 20l2.