These pages are dedicated to the morning show "The Sports Guys" that was broadcast on 102.7 WNEW-FM in New York City from the Spring of 2000 to early 2003. The show never had great ratings and suffered from poor station management and direction. In fact, this show had one of the most busy revolving door of hosts of any morning show. It was very common for a host to go on "vacation" and then never return to the show. It was however, the personalities of the show that made this a great show.
This site is meant to give my views and perspectives on the show. Please correct me on any inaccuracies.
For almost 3 decades, 102.7 WNEW was the station where "rock lived" - Album Oriented - Classic Rock at its bbest. It boasted such personalities as Scott Muni, Carol Miller, and Pat St.John. In the mid 1990s, the AOR Classic Format was not succeeding and the station switched to what is called "Alternative Rock" (does anyone actually know what Alternative Rock is. Suddenly the home where Rock lived was now "New York's Rock Alternative". The format did not work as they lost most of the core audience and failed to attract a new audience. They attempted to blend the classic rock format back in, but it was too late.
In the Spring of 2000, the station went to a talk format. In an effort to gear the 18-35 male demographics, they decided to use a Sports "Guy Talk" format in the mornings. In Philadelphia this had been largely successful with 610 WIP's Morning Guys Show. WNEW lured the successful syndicated team of Scott Kaplan and Sid Rosenberg from Florida to New York City. In Florida "Scott and Sid" had syndicated show that was on the internet called "The Drive". Thus the Sports Guys was born.
WNEW's Sports Guys never achieved the ratings they had hoped for. In fact, WNEW as a talk station never took off. Only the afternoon duo of Opie and Anthony really had any ratings success. By the time Scott Ferrall had taken over the Sports Guys, the name "Sports Guys" was dropped. Following the departure of Opie and Anthony, WNEW never recovered and eventually dropped the talk format in early 2003.
