It’s an emotional time at WFAN right now and Gregg Giannotti has had just about enough of it. On Wednesday morning, the Boomer & Gio co-host said that the upcoming lineup changes at the station have lead to a string of emotional shows for the past two weeks.
“Oh, my God! They’re never-ending,” he said of what his partner, Boomer Esiason, called “the goodbye shows” at the station.
Friday will be Craig Carton’s last day at the station. He will leave to focus on his FS1 TV show. As a result, Tiki & Tierney are being split up. Tiki Barber is joining Evan Roberts in afternoon drive. Brandon Tierney will stay in middays with Sal Licata as his new partner. The new afternoon show will also feature Shaun Morash, who is leaving CBS Sports Radio’s The DA Show.
“This is a unique situation where you’ve got one person leaving with the blessing of the company and everybody is happy for that person, even though you don’t want to lose him in Craig,” Gio said. “So it’s not like he’s leaving like Dog left in the middle of the night, like the Baltimore Colts. He basically faxed in his resignation from the Jersey Shore somewhere and then called in crying. It’s not like that. It’s not like Mark Malusis getting fired right before Christmas. It’s not like that. You know, these are things that happen in radio.”
It is all good for the employees of WFAN. With no one getting fired, the only news the station staff has to share is about promotions and raises. Gio says it is clear radio people don’t know how to do planned goodbyes.
“The shows that everybody are still on are still going on as opposed to a clean break that usually happens. ‘Bang! The show is over,’ and you move on. So now you’ve got these weeks of goodbyes and weeks of I love yous and weeks of the ass kissing that’s going on.”
The emotion coming through the speakers is not the same as the emotion that Giannotti says he sees in the halls of WFAN. That has him a little perplexed.
“Nothing negative has happened to anybody. Everybody’s getting good things happening for them. Like why are we so sad? So many people got promoted. This is supposed to be a good thing.”
WFAN’s new lineup will make its debut on air on July 24.
