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MIKE GREENBERG REPORTEDLY LEAVING MIKE & MIKE FOR A NEW MORNING TV SHO

posted 7 years ago by NobodymournstheWicked
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MIKE GREENBERG REPORTEDLY LEAVING ‘MIKE & MIKE’ FOR A NEW MORNING TV SHOW ON ESPN
Posted by Alex Putterman on Jan 12, 2017 13:00

Even the most successful bands sometimes break up, and it appears that Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic are going their separate ways after 16 years hosting Mike & Mike on ESPN Radio.

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According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, Greenberg is leaving the show to host a new morning show on ESPN. The new program will reportedly feature elements of the SportsCenter program it’s replacing, as well as a traditional morning show.
This move, which had been rumored for a few months now, has a number of implications.

1. It shows that ESPN values Greenberg as a brand and sees him as someone who can drive viewership, beyond his chemistry with Golic. That’s no surprise after Jim Miller reported last month that Greenberg recently agreed to a deal with ESPN that will pay him $6.5 million a year.

2. It reinforces ESPN’s shift toward making SportsCenter a personality-driven show as opposed to a highlight-driven show. Every SportsCenter is getting its own schtick, from Scott van Pelt’s one-man commentary show to David Lloyd and Cari Champion’s Coast to Coast version to Michael Smith and Jemele Hill’s yet-to-be-unveiled 6 p.m. iteration. Whether or not Greenberg’s show gets SportsCenter branding, it sounds like it will be another take on the SportsCenter model.

3. The dissolution of Mike & Mike will force ESPN to reconstruct its radio lineup. Mike & Mike was a powerhouse for the network, serving as both a steady presence amid swirling turnover and as a cash cow with a healthy audience and numerous sponsored segments. Deitsch speculates that Trey Wingo could replace Greenberg and that Mike Golic Jr. will have a role in any new show. Conceivably, ESPN could just plop someone new in Greenberg’s chair and hope the magic doesn’t disappear, though you’d imagine the show will get a new name.

Deitsch says there is no timetable for currently for the end of Mike & Mike or the beginning of Greenberg’s new show.

[–] jharmon64 7 years ago

The only source I see is 'awfulannouncing.com'.

I'm not buying what they are selling.

Any sources?

"Every time I walk into my office I walk past 5 Lombardi Trophies not 5 rushing titles" .

[–] NobodymournstheWicked 7 years ago

I don't know where the news leaked out from originally, if you had read all the replies that on the sports posts, you would have seen that a poster replied that Sports Illustrated has covered it to. But here is the first place that I have seen it made, this is from Robert Seder's website, who is a Chicago reporter that posts as much news as he can on his website

It’s a terse “no comment” from ESPN Radio and sports/talk WMVP AM 1000 on reports of the imminent demise of Mike Greenberg and Mike Golic’s syndicated morning show. SI.com says Greenberg will host a new television show for the ESPN cable channel, leaving Golic to team with another radio partner or seek a new venture. “Mike & Mike,” who’ve been paired since 1998, air from 5 to 9 a.m. weekdays on ESPN Radio 1000. In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, the show ranks 17th with a 2.1 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 256,700.

If Sports Illustrated is the first to post the news, I don't know how they got word of it.