Brett McLean Done With Canucks

      The Vancouver Canucks have dismissed assistant coach Brett McLean. The team let go the entire coaching staff.

      McLeanspent two seasons playing with the Florida Panthers in 2007-08 and 2008-09. He compiled 21goals and 35 assists for 56 points i 147 games with the Panthers.

Joey Reynolds Misses Radio Hall Of Fame

      The Radio Hall of Fame announced their 2026 inductees on Wednesday. Former Miami on-air personality Joey Reynolds was not named. 

     Reynolds had a short stint while in South Florida. He was the morning host on 560 WQAM-AM from January 1992 until early 1993. 

Braves xxxx Marlins

     The Atlanta Braves xxxx the Miami Marlins x-x at loanDepot park on Wednesday night. Their four-game series will conclude tomorrow.

     Atlanta(33-16)

     Miami(22-27)

Good Karma Brands In Radio Ratings

     ESPN West Palm 106.3 WESP-FM parent company Good Karma Brands has registered with the Nielsen radio ratings. Their owned radio stations of WEPN-AM in New York City, KSPN-AM in Los Angeles and WMVP-AM in Chicago appeared in the April 2026 ratings results on Monday. 

     All three stations were purchased by Good Karma Brands and the acquisitions were eventfully completed in March 2022. Their registration with the radio ratings lasted until December 2023. 

     It will be known on Thursday if ESPN West Palm Beach 106.3 WESP-FM will show up in the West Palm Beach ratings for April 2026. The last time a Good Karma Brands West Palm Beach radio station was registered was ESPN Radio 760 WEFL-AM in the Arbitron radio ratings back in February 2012. 

     There are several reasons why Good Karma Brands had stopped registering with radio ratings services. Their sports radio stations were usually second to their main competitor in each individual media market they were located in. It was an additional expense for them to pay to have access and use a ratings company data. They expanded into the digital area of marketing along with other forms of advertising and no longer relied on radio ratings. 

Miami Ratings April 2026

     The ratings were issued for sports talk format radio stations in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area. The time span was from the first week in April to the last week in April. 

     104.3 Sports WQAM-FM moved from a 0.8 to a 0.9 in the period. The Miami Marlins had a 15-16 record one month into the 2026 regular season and were second in the National League East Division. The Miami Heat reached the NBA Play-In Tournament as the 10th seed in the Eastern Conference and were eliminated by the Charlotte Hornets. The Florida Panthers finished off their two-time Stanley Cup title reign and 2025-26 campaign not making the postseason for the first time in seven years. 

     Fox Sports 940 WINZ-AM rose to a 0.4 after two months at a 0.3. It was unusual for the increase because this was the first complete month since September 2013 that WINZ did not air Miami Marlins contests. WZTU-FM-HD2 with the WINZ stream improved to 0.4 following three months at 0.1. 

     Fox Sports 640 South Florida WMEN-AM remained at a 0.1 for the third straight month. They did not have any play-by-play radio game broadcasts. The addition of a new afternoon show with Ken LaVicka and Josh Cohen back in January has not helped matters. 

Braves Ride By Marlins

     The Atlanta Braves dropped the Miami Marlins 8-4 on Tuesday at loanDepot park. It was a rare Tuesday mid-afternoon game held in South Florida. 

     Atlanta(33-16) broke out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first. Ozzie Albies hit a sacrifice fly to right field and Ronald Acuna Jr. scored. Two batters later, Michael Harris II singled through the right side and Mauricio Dubon reached home. 

     Miami(22-27) responded with three runs in the bottom of the first and were up 3-2. Xavier Edwards led off with a solo home run to left field on a 1-0 count for his sixth homer of the campaign. Five batters later, Kyle Stowers doubled into the right-field corner for Otto Lopez and Esteury Ruiz to cross the plate.

     The Fish expanded their lead to 4-2 in the third inning. Ruiz knocked in Lopez on a sacrifice fly into center field.

     The Braves picked up one run during the top of the fifth and trailed 4-3. Matt Olson drove in Acuna on a double into right-center field.  

     The Bravos tied it up 4-4 with one run in the top of the sixth. Harris smashed a solo homer to center field on the first pitch for his ninth home run of the season. 

     Atlanta reclaimed the lead 7-4 in the eighth inning. Dubon hit a fielder's choice with the bases loaded to the right side of the diamond and Ha-Seong Kim touched home. Olson followed with a two-run single through the left side which scored Kim and Acuna. They made it 8-4 in the ninth inning when Kim singled into center field and Austin Riley scored. 

Ross Mahoney In Arizona

     Ross Mahoney has returned to the radio business. He has been given the role of regional vice president of executive production and programming with the Dave & Mahoney morning show at Compass Media Networks and KSLX-FM in Phoenix. 

     Mahoney is associated with a groundbreaking change in South Florida radio history. He was the program director at WMSF-FM until late August 2012. The radio station was flipped to a sports talk format and became the first FM sports radio station in the South Florida area. It began to simulcast Sports Talk 790 The Ticket WAXY-AM on its airwaves and was eventually rebranded as Sports Talk 104.3 The Ticket WAXY-FM.