Why WFAN's Mike Francesa Is The Maestro Of Sports Talk Radio
NPRWhy WFAN's Mike Francesa Is The Maestro Of Sports Talk Radio Midway through the baseball season, commentator Mike Pesca offers this ode to a sports radio talk show host who can turn even the most dismal game into high stakes drama. PESCA: Sports radio station WFAN'S Mike Francesa was on the air doing his daily show. Now, no player, coach or general manager has lasted as long in the New York market as Francesa, who, over the decades, has attempted to enforce some accountability to all those who wear the uniform of any New York team, and as the dean of sports talk radio, watched this game on a monitor inside his radio studio. He continues to describe the action to his radio listeners, who, to be clear, could listen to the regular official game broadcast just one click away on the radio dial but would rather stick with Francesa's show, an alternative universe of heightened stakes.
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