Leaving 104.5 The Zone in Nashville was not an easy decision for the show that used to be called Midday 180. Jonathan Hutton, Chad Withrow, and Paul Kuharsky accepted an offer from their friend Clay Travis to join Outkick and rebrand as Outkick 360. It would offer them the chance to grow their show’s impact beyond Nashville.
In an interview with the Nashville Post, Hutton said that the time was right for the show to try something new.
“The timing was perfect but we also had a chance to grow what we were already doing,” he said. “We didn’t have to leave Nashville. We own our intellectual property; you don’t have that with radio companies. We’re able to form our own show company, so to speak, and we’re part of the much larger grand scheme of Clay’s vision.”
Hutton told the site that he has no regrets about making the move. There was one professional casualty though that disappoints him.
Jonathan Hutton had been the sideline reporter for the Tennessee Titans Radio Network since 2005. The Titans’ flagship was 104.5 The Zone. He knew leaving the station likely meant leaving the Titans.
He says his work for the team is “the one thing I miss the most.”
“I had been with them for 16 seasons, my mentors brought me up through that space, and it was [more of] a team and company decision than it was their decision in the booth,” he said. “But I understood it. I knew whenever I left, it probably wasn’t going to go over very well.”
It took nearly a year before Outkick 360 returned to the Nashville airwaves. The show can now be heard on 94.9 The Fan.
