Entercom's Sports WFAN 660 AM / 101.9 FM is tweaking its on-air line-up, effiective today.
Jerry Recco and Al Dukes will be heard from 5 to 6 a.m. and Mike Francesa from 6 to 7 p.m. as part of a revised lineup for WFAN effective May 26. The 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. portion of the daily lineup will be unchanged.
Newsday reports Mark Chernoff, senior vice president for Entercom New York, the parent company of WFAN, said the idea was to provide listeners with "a sense of normalcy and comfort" from familiar voices during the COVID-19 interruption of most live sports.
"By extending the programming time of our trusted hosts, we aim to provide fans with more of the compelling sports and entertainment content they want as they navigate the changes and await the return of live events," Chernoff said in a statement.
Recco and Dukes had their show expanded from 20 minutes to an hour, and Francesa from 30 minutes to an hour.
As part of the new weekday lineup John Jastremski will be heard from 7 to 11 p.m., Steve Somers from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. and Amy Lawrence from 3 to 5 a.m.
As a result, Francesa’s 5 to 6 p.m. hour, which has been heard exclusively on Radio.com since January, will go on hiatus.
The changes – and the others on the station – will be in place through June, in hopes that the Yankees return to action in July, allowing the station returns to its normal routine.
Francesa said he told the station he preferred to start his show on WFAN, so it was agreed that he would appear from 6 to 7 p.m. on both WFAN and Radio.com until live sports return in earnest.
He will continue to do his Sunday morning show, heard on both WFAN and CBS Sports Radio, until July.
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