Tiki Talks Sports For CBS

"I really feel good about this gig," he said of his week-old job hosting CBS Sports Radio's new national morning show, alongside Brandon Tierney and Dana Jacobson ("TBD in the AM"). The show currently airs on 75 stations.

Neil Best at Newsday writes the radio gig is not as visible or as lucrative as the one NBC hired him for in 2007, when he was to be a crossover personality who would talk football on Sundays and everything else on weekday mornings.

It did not work out on either front. That, combined with the very messy, very public failure of his marriage, damaged his image in addition to his employment prospects in broadcasting.

Then about six months ago he heard of CBS' plan to launch a national sports network to complement local powerhouses such as WFAN.

Chris Oliviero, CBS Radio's senior VP of programming, said Barber's long history of outspokenness made him attractive.

"Tiki has proven he will speak his mind," Oliviero said. "It might upset some people sometimes. It might cause some aggravation sometimes. But if you want to be a sports commentator you need to give your opinion. Tiki definitely gives his opinion."

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