It was a gamble for Lance Taylor, Jim Dunaway, and Ryan Brown when they left Jox 94.5 in Birmingham to launch their own digital company. On Wednesday, DBL Down Media celebrated its second anniversary by with some major announcements and a rebrand on the trio’s show The Next Round.
“We finally have the vision we want,” said Taylor.
DBL Down Media will now be Disrupt Media. The trio is cutting an hour off their own show to make room for a whole lot of new content and there are some big names attached.
Peter Burns will partner with Ryan Brown for a weekly show called The Burn Out. The SEC Network star told The Next Round hosts that he has been a fan of theirs for a long time and often tunes in when his own show ends.
“I love the idea because it is what I did almost a decade ago,” Burns said. “I didn’t like the job I was doing, and I was like ‘Okay, I gotta bet on myself and do it’ so I have been champing you guys since day one and any opportunity to get on board, and here it is!”
Tom Luginbill is also coming on board. The ESPN college football analyst will host three shows each week for Disrupt Media. Monday Morning Live with Tom Luginbill will air at 7 AM central time each Monday during the football season and feature Jim Dunaway. Luginbill’s other shows will be the more nationally-focused Spittin’ Loogs and the scheme-heavy Ball.
Dunaway will also be hosting Unlocked with FOX Sports’s Brock Huard. Dunaway said that it felt like a full circle moment for him, considering that when he was in college he used to read the weekly column Huard wrote for USA Today when Huard was a coveted recruit.
The new additions to the lineup are not all about college football. Daniel Jeremiah of NFL Network will have a show too. DJ Football will focus on the NFL each week.
“Learning more about the lineup, and I won’t say any names here, I think I’m hitting in the eight hole with this set up here,” Jeremiah joked. “I’m just trying to get us back to the top of the lineup!”
Neil McCready and Tyler Siskey are bringing their McCready & Siskey podcast to the company as well. It will run three days per week.
Brown says that the company has so many announcements as the lineup expands, that there is not enough time to reveal them all in a single day. The company will add more details on Thursday’s edition of The Next Round.
