WGR 550 AM morning sports co-host Howard Simon announced Monday that he is cutting his schedule from five to three days a week, reports The Buffalo News.
Howard Simon
The days – Monday, Tuesday and Friday – appear to be designed to focus on sports talk with Jeremy White, his co-host for the last 18 years, before and after Buffalo Bills games.
In a brief telephone interview, Simon gave multiple reasons for the decision to cut back: He turned 60 in June, has been in sports radio for 30 years and the job isn’t as easy as many listeners believe it is to talk about sports for four hours daily.
“I’ve been thinking about this for a long time,” said Simon. “It has been difficult to live up to the demands of the job. It’s a lot of work, a lot of preparation.”
Simon’s immediate future is to “sleep in” past 4 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursdays.
His long-term plans are unclear. He applauded the station’s bosses for being very understanding and added he and they will talk at the end of the football season “to figure out the next step.”
Among the options: Leaving broadcasting to do something else.
“Everything has to come to an end at some point,” said Simon.
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