For the first time in over two decades with ESPN New York, Michael Kay is hosting a solo show on the station. Kay had been part of a trio in afternoon drive with Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg on The Michael Kay Show, the longest-running afternoon drive program in New York City within the sports talk radio format. La Greca and Rosenberg are now hosting with Alan Hahn in afternoon drive as Kay moves to a two-hour solo venture in middays. In an interview with Barrett Sports Media last month, Kay explained that he had thought about an exit strategy from the previous iteration of the show because of having to balance the show with his play-by-play job on YES Network for New York Yankees baseball.
As he opened his first show in the new timeslot on Monday afternoon, Kay expressed that it was a pleasure to be on the air and would address how the show was going to be different. With La Greca and Rosenberg in the afternoons, Kay stated that the show has lost about 400 pounds and evinced the similarities between the programs.
“I say that this show, the new Michael Kay Show, is the old Michael Kay Show on Ozempic, but without any of those nasty side effects, so that’s the way we’ll be rolling from now on,” Kay said. “We’ll have a good time, we’re going to have great guests, we’re going to have great features – all of that, and we are so excited to get the new show rolling.”
The debut of Kay’s show in middays is part of a new, local lineup on the station from ESPN and Good Karma Brands with familiar personalities and new voices. The morning show with Rick DiPietro and Dave Rothenberg remains in tact, followed by the return of Chris Carlin to the ESPN New York airwaves with Bart Scott. Kay hosts the ensuing two hours followed by Don, Hahn & Rosenberg in afternoon drive until 7 p.m. EST.
Under his new agreement with ESPN, Kay will continue hosting on the New York radio station while also fulfilling his obligations on Yankees television broadcasts. Good Karma Brands entered into a local marketing agreement with Audacy towards the end of last August that allows it to place ESPN New York programming on the 880 AM frequency.
“There’s a lot of stuff going on,” Kay said of his new show. “Again, it’s the old show on Ozempic without any of the nasty side effects.”
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