Get ready to hear more Colin Cowherd on ESPN’s local stations. That could mean you, Chicago.

It’s a definite possibility. Much like it does with the Greenberg-Golic morning show, there is talk that ESPN wants to give Cowherd more visibility on its locally-owned stations.

Chicago could be the next major market to get “The Herd,” whose show airs from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET. Last Thursday, WMVP-AM 1000 fired Harry Teinowitz from its afternoon team that also includes Carmen DeFalco and John Jurkovic.

It is expected that ESPN 1000 will shift the Tom Waddle-Marc Silverman duo from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. to afternoon drive. That would leave an opening to slide in Cowherd’s national show in the morning slot.

If that is the start of their shakeup to the station then they will likely slip further down the ratings.
5am - 1pm national radio for the Chicago Market? Real bad.

I want to campaign to get Skip Bayless a daily radio show. No, I'm not joking. I disagree with 97.665% of everything he says, but I do find him entertaining.

This is essentially a return to what they were before Mc Neil arrived. He dragged that station kicking and screaming into a ratings success. I think it is just as profitable for them to have bad national shows and much less of a hassel.

Yowza...

I want to campaign to get Skip Bayless a daily radio show. No, I'm not joking. I disagree with 97.665% of everything he says, but I do find him entertaining.

I want to campaign to get Skip Bayless a daily radio show. No, I'm not joking. I disagree with 97.665% of everything he says, but I do find him entertaining.

I'm a big Jurko fan, but I'm not sure a Mac & Jurko show would be that great.

I want to campaign to get Skip Bayless a daily radio show. No, I'm not joking. I disagree with 97.665% of everything he says, but I do find him entertaining.

What about Mac, Jurko & Speigel? Like it or not, Mac won't turn his back on Speigs.

Early contender for tournament of bad posts.

Was just getting ready to posit this. 3.5 man booth , if you think Candy is insecure now what till Jurko gets there.

Miss a little miss a lot..... Harry was finally fired???

It's not up to Spiegel. Mac will do what he wants and Spiegel will have to shut up. Cuz Spiegel realizes that he was saved by Mac. So he can't bitch if Mac wants to save Jurko.

That being said, I don't know if Mac wants to split the money of his show 3 ways. I know I wouldn't if I were him. That's a factor that you have to consider. Mac already has a 2nd place show. How much better would they be with Jurko? Why would Mac want to see 100 or 150k of his show's money go to Jurko?

Mmmmmmm, pie

If I'm not mistaken, when ESPN Radio 1000 AM was born in 1998, they only had 1 local show on its daily lineup at the beginning. I remember WMVP used to stay national following "Mike & Mike in the Morning" with Tony Kornheiser, based in Washington, DC, from 9A-Noon followed by Dan Patrick from Noon-3P Monday-Friday.

That also included the king of dead air, Jim Rome, cutting into the final hour of Kornheiser's old show & the first 2 hours of Patrick's show from 11A-2P. Rome's show, which was syndicated via Premiere Radio Networks and based in Los Angeles, received so many complaints from BOTH Tony & Dan as well as so many listeners that ESPN 1000 bosses started to air Rome's show on tape delay and banished it to latenights. It was removed a few years ago entirely from WMVP's lineup while Rome ended his long-term partnership with Premiere Radio Networks. Jim has since relocated to the new CBS Sports Radio Network.

what?

I remember ESPN 1000 was more national than local at the outset. It might soon be that way again.