Because sports radio has become part of the establishment while blogs and podcasts have assumed the role of alternative sports media. You can't give a meaningful daypart to a producer any more than you can give a column to a copy editor.

In industry after industry, Christensen discovered, the new technologies that had brought the big, established companies to their knees weren’t better or more advanced—they were actually worse. The new products were low-end, dumb, shoddy, and in almost every way inferior. But the new products were usually cheaper and easier to use, and so people or companies who were not rich or sophisticated enough for the old ones started buying the new ones, and there were so many more of the regular people than there were of the rich, sophisticated people that the companies making the new products prospered. Christensen called these low-end products “disruptive technologies,” because, rather than sustaining technological progress toward better performance, they disrupted it. After studying a few exceptions to the pattern of disruption, Christensen concluded that the only way a big company could avoid being disrupted was to set up a small spinoff company that would function as a start-up, make the new low-end product, and be independent enough to ignore what counted as sensible for the mother ship.

Because sports radio has become part of the establishment...

Mike Greenberg was a producer on the SCORE before hitting the big time. Jud Sirott was a producer for the Heavy Fuel Crew back in the day.

Good points. Although that was probably a really long time ago and those guys worked a lot of jobs in-between their current gigs. They advanced their careers, but not at the Score.

The talent just isn't there to make money for the station.

I would rather see Rozner, Rosey or Hub get a full-time gig than any of the producers

He has the same smooth tenor as Cory Provus, for those who remember him. He'll do well.

Thought about the original question for quite a bit the other day when during a transition there was some Heavy Fuel Crew reminiscing. Today, not even a handful of a producers host: Abbatacola, Finfer, Joe O, Shep. And out of those four, I only see Finfer being a full-time host, at least relatively soon compared to the other three. Abbatacola seems content being an EP, and if that's the case fine, we're not him.

In contrast...here are some producers at the Score from back in the day that are now reporters/hosts. Help me out here.

McNeil and Boers: Greenberg, Sirott
Murph and Fred: Spiegel, Abbatacola, Holmes
McNeil and Jiggets: Rogers, Holmes
Boers and Bernstein: Hood, Goff
McNeil and Spiegel: Finfer, Shep, Zawaski
Holmes: Joe O

Greenberg producing for Mac and Boers blows my mind every time given where Greenberg is now.

I think someone like Herb Lawrence could do well as a weekend host, but Mitch tends to give those spots to Rodewald and Hub, etc.

Andy Masur went to the Padres after '06. He was replaced by Cory Provus, who went to the Brewers to do Uecker's off-innings (Jim Powell, who is very good, had left for Atlanta) and then went to the Twins to work full-time.

I liked Masur, but not Provus, who was just too whitebread. That he's the lead voice for the Twins really surprises me.

I think someone like Herb Lawrence could do well as a weekend host, but Mitch tends to give those spots to Rodewald and Hub, etc.