Columbus MS Radio: WNMQ Launches New Weekday Afternoon Show

Cumulus Media announces the debut this week of the new weekday sports talk show, “The Drive w/ Steve & The Professor”, sports talk WNMQ 103.1 FM The Team in Columbus, MS.

The show airs weekdays from 4PM-6PM and covers all things related to local SEC teams Mississippi State Bulldogs, the Ole Miss Rebels and Crimson Tide, along with local high school athletics from Columbus High Falcons to the West Point Green Wave and Starkville Yellow Jackets. The show will feature news and opinions from Lautzenhiser and Rogers, as well as sports history and trivia, local guests, and listener call-ins.

On-air hosts Steve Rogers and Glenn “The Professor” Lautzenhiser kicked off the show Monday afternoon, November 28, to positive listener response.

Rogers is a veteran of more than 40 years in journalism and related businesses. A native of Demopolis, AL, he was previously a city editor for the Commercial Dispatch in Columbus before becoming assignment editor and assistant news director at WCBI and later news director at WTVA. Rogers lives in Columbus where he is active in community and social service groups. He currently serves the community as chairman of the Columbus-Lowndes County Library Board.

Lautzenhiser is deeply involved in local community service work, and is the recipient of the 2016 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Columbus-Lowndes Chamber of Commerce. He has served for many years as a member of the Society for American Baseball Research, and is the co-founder of the Possum Town Toastmasters Club of Columbus. Lautzenhiser is also an instructor and member of the advisory board of the Life Enrichment Program at MUW. He has been a volunteer teacher for many years at the Juvenile Detention Center.

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Chris Stryker, Operations/Programming Director, Cumulus Media-Columbus/Starkville said: “We are very excited to welcome The Drive w/ Steve and The Professor to our Cumulus programming line-up here in Columbus, MS. Steve Rogers and Glenn Lautzenhiser have an intimate knowledge of sports from the local to national level and will be great assets to our station and listeners.”

Greg Benefield, Vice President/Market Manager, Cumulus Media-Columbus/Starkville added: “This entertaining new sports talk program will help advance the growth of WNMQ-FM, while extending our ‘live and local’ platform to 103.1 The Team’s passionate audience of local sports fans.”

Rogers said: "It seems only natural to do this kind of show in a sports hotbed like the Golden Triangle. You are in the middle of Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Alabama and five community colleges. And that doesn't even include some of the best high school sports traditions anywhere,"

"We're very excited about it because we think it has great potential," said Lautzenhiser, who has lived in Columbus since 1974. "We know the people in North Mississippi and West Alabama love their sports. I love sports and sports history. We're going to give people an opportunity to talk about their passion."