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“I’m stepping away from sports radio and sports podcasting, sports columns completely and I’m heading in another direction completely because I think the timing is right,” told WTTW-Ch. 11’s Phil Ponce on Monday’s “Chicago Tonight.”
A former hot dog stand owner who parlayed his penchant for hot water and everyman perspective into a lucrative media career, North parted company with WSCR-AM nine years ago.
North, who helped launch the all-sports station 25 years ago, gave The Score its identity in its early days and, at his peak, was pulling down $1.5 million a year from the station plus endorsement cash.
Since then, North got entangled in Chicago Sports Webio, a digital media venture that turned out to be a Ponzi scheme. The scam earned mastermind David Hernandez a 17-year-sentence for bilking investors out of millions of dollars.
More recently, he had a nationally syndicated radio program for Fox Sports, a podcast and a column with the suburban Daily Herald. But he turned 65 last month, is ready to live part-time in Las Vegas and told Ponce he has come to view sports differently than he once did.
@RobertFeder @PhilRosenthal @670TheScore @FoxSportsRadio So long everybody... #sportstalk pic.twitter.com/bwvHMkzTfw— Mike North (@North2North) August 29, 2017
North said that he can say everything about sports he wants to say on Twitter, and bemoaned what sports radio has become.
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