Skolnick And Gutierrez Get Own Show

     Longtime basketball writers Ethan J. Skolnick and Israel Gutierrez will begin their run as the afternoon co-hosts on 790 The Ticket WAXY-AM on Wednesday. Skolnick has been a fill-in co-host during the early afternoon show with Eric Reed, Leroy Hoard and The Beast for a couple of years. Gutierrez has been a guest co-host on the morning show with Jonathan Zaslow and Joy Taylor for several months.
     Josh Friedman and Chris Wittyngham return their show back to nights on the station. They co-hosted evenings on The Ticket from late July 20l4 until late July 20l5. They received the interim tag when they replaced Colin Cowherd as the midday co-hosts for over one month before the Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz was shifted from afternoon drive to middays. Friedman and Wittyngham held the afternoon spot for just one week.
     Skolnick, a Johns Hopkins University grad, started his professional career with the Baltimore Sun as an agate shift staffer. He moved to South Florida and worked at the Palm Beach Post as a sports reporter. Skolnick left for the Miami Herald where he worked in the same role. He then joined the South Florida Sun-Sentinel as a sports columnist. Skolnick began a second reign with the Palm Beach Post in 20l0 as the Miami Heat beat writer.
     He was an NBA columnist for Bleacher Report until he left that position this week. His other additional duties was as a frequent contributor at NBA TV and Turner Sports. Skolnick did have prior radio broadcasting experience in South Florida for James Crystal Enterprises where he was a weekend co-host on 640 Sports WMEN-AM and a morning co-host on 850 WFTL-AM.
     Gutierrez first got noticed in South Florida as a Miami Heat beat reporter for the Miami Herald during the 2000s. It led him to the ESPN family in a variety of roles. He became a panelist on different shows which included The Sports Reporters and Around The Horn. Gutierrez, a University of Florida grad, joined ESPN.com as an NBA columnist. He later added duties as an sideline reporter for NBA games on the television network. Gutierrez began to host an NBA weekend show on ESPN Radio in January.