Brent Johnson is out at Cumulus in Columbia, SC. He served as the morning host on the cluster’s AC station B 106.7. He also co-hosted the midday show on 107.5 the Game. Johnson said in a series of tweets that he will stay on with IMG and remain apart of University of South Carolina football broadcasts.
Thank you @B1067 listeners for waking up with me for 27 amazing years! And thanks to @1075thegame fans for all 11 years. I believe we did some good things together. I love and miss my co-workers already. They are a special and talented group of people. #family
But I am stoked to continue as @GamecocksIMG Network host for @GamecockFB with my great friends! It’s going to be a victorious year! Also stoked to be able to drive my daughter to school. See y’all on September 1st!
One more thing…the online picture @thestate used for the article looks like it was taken from a camera hidden in a pocketbook for @DatelineNBC. I could hear in the background, “Everything was going great. Or was it?”.
Johnson is nominated for a Marconi for Medium-Market Personality of the Year. Cumulus Columbia market manager Rick Prusator told The State newspaper “We were going through some programing-lineup changes on B106.7 and The Game 107.5, and last Friday, Brent decided he wanted to move on.”
Fred Segal, the creator of the popular Freezing Cold Takes Twitter account, didn’t hold back when it came to talking about some sports media personalities who are kings of the freezing cold take.
Talking to Dan Patrick on Wednesday, Segal said if there was a Mount Rushmore for hosts who are often wrong or point out the obvious, FOX Sports host Skip Bayless would be one of the faces.
“There’s things that he posts that are completely obvious that he can’t possibly think those things rationally,” he said.
Segal has a new book coming highlighting some of the best cold takes centered around the NFL.
“And he also has what feels to be a gimmick, his schtick, where he zeroes in on a player and decides, ‘I am going to constantly berate and say negative things about him and spin any positive into a negative.”
Segal thought of LeBron James and Aaron Rodgers as two athletes in particular that Bayless likes to rip on.
He also said he’d add Mike Francesa to that Mount Rushmore as well, but for different reasons. Patrick said the difference is that Francesa is just trying to be right and not troll.
“Out of all the people who try to be provocative on-air and are really concerned about being entertaining, Francesa is completely honest with everything he says,” Segal said. “But he’s so defiant about what he says.”
He added that Francesa has this ability of being so confident in what he’s saying, only to end up wrong nearly instantly after saying it.
“He has a knack for saying things defiantly and within a real brief period the opposite happens,” he said.
Segal mentioned Francesa saying the New York Jets would never get two first round draft picks in a trade for Jamal Adams in 2020. Well, the Seattle Seahawks gave two first rounders to the Jets for Adams and a fourth round pick.
Patrick at least credited Francesa for owning his takes.
“He’s genuine in how bad some of his opinions are,” Patrick said.
The Pat McAfee Show is breaking another barrier with his program. Today he revealed that his show will be teaming up with NFL Films to feature league footage on the show. They will also team up for at least one feature element between the two.
On the show, McAfee was discussing the debut of Hard Knocks: Training Camp with the Detroit Lions with two of the coordinating producers of the show, Keith Cossrow and Ken Rodgers. After talking about the first episode, McAfee made the announcement.
“We will have NFL footage rights for the show every single day,” McAfee began. “We will also be creating, probably an Emmy-winning Mic’d Up type thing on the side with NFL Films. I don’t think this has ever happened before. I think this is one of the first times that something like we run has teamed up with NFL Films and the NFL.”
BREAKING: We will be partnering with @NFLFilms for this upcoming NFL Season.. we will have NFL footage rights for the show
McAfee then told the two how happy he was to be partners with the group. “You’re going to make our show better and hopefully we make NFL Films a little bit better as well. We are very lucky and pumped to be a part of it, Keith.”
“Seeing you guys work, seeing how committed you are it reminded me of the way we are back here,” said Keith Cossrow. “What you guys have all built together is really special. What you’ve built Pat, is special. We could not be more excited at NFL Films to help build your show into something bigger. We are going to produce a weekly feature every week all season with you about the brilliance of our players in the NFL.”
Dave LaGreca: WWE Will Improve Without Vince McMahon
“I don’t think Vince McMahon ever truly loved pro wrestling. He loved that term, ‘sports entertainment.’ He looked at pro wrestling the way a lot of mainstream people look at pro wrestling.”
Wrestling fans have connected with SiriusXM’s Busted Open, because they trust host Dave LaGreca to be honest with them about what is good and bad in the sport. One target that he has never been afraid to go after is former WWE boss Vince McMahon.
One of LaGreca’s most famous rants is about the appearance of zombies at a WWE pay-per-view event last year. During that rant, Dave LaGreca shouted over and over that Vince McMahon hates pro wrestling.
He told Barrett that he doesn’t regret the rant and still believes every word of it.
“I stand by that statement. I don’t think Vince McMahon ever truly loved pro wrestling. He loved that term, ‘sports entertainment.’ He looked at pro wrestling the way a lot of mainstream people look at pro wrestling.”
Dave LaGreca is a wrestling fan. He said he and people like him have plenty of reason for optimism with McMahon’s son-in-law Triple H taking creative control of the company’s storylines.
“Triple H looks at pro wrestling as an art form. He’s said it before. He appreciates it. He respects it. He grew up an NWA fan. I am very high on the next 3-6 months with Triple H at the helm of creative.”
Barrett followed that up by asking what could come next for Vince McMahon. Dave LaGreca had a simple answer.
“Watches!”
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