'The Michael Kay Show' moves to a 2 p.m. start time on ESPN New York Radio
ESPN New York Radio's "The Michael Kay Show" team of, from left, Peter Rosenberg, Michael Kay and Don LaGreca on Sept. 28, 2015. Credit: ESPN Images/Lorenzo Bevilaqua
"The Michael Kay Show" on ESPN New York radio will be heard from 2 to 6:30 p.m. instead of 3 to 7 p.m., effective Monday, Kay announced on Friday.
Kay said the move was prompted by the start of the baseball season in general and the Yankees’ 6:30 p.m. early season starts in particular, which force Kay – YES Network’s play-by-play man – to leave his show early.
Chris Carlin’s show will expand to 6:30 to 10 p.m., and Max Kellerman’s national show, currently heard on 98.7 FM from 2 to 3 p.m., instead will be heard in its entirety from 2 to 4 p.m. on ESPN’s AM outlet at 1050 on the dial.
The move to 2 p.m. will expand the time during which Kay’s show, with co-hosts Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg, is head-to-head against WFAN’s Evan Roberts and Craig Carton, who are heard from 2 to 7 p.m.
Carton and Roberts had been crushing Kellerman in the ratings race from 2 to 3 p.m.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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