• The fall of Craig Carton: $30 million reveal ‘ruined what we had’

    The fall of Craig Carton: $30 million reveal ‘ruined what we had’

    Craig Carton’s rise and fall will soon be laid out for all to see in an HBO documentary. A trailer was released Thursday for “Wild Card: The Downfall of a Radio Loudmouth,” which will air on Oct. 9 and detail Carton’s journey from WFAN host to jail. Carton served a year in prison after he …
  • Craig Carton ‘deserves another chance’: Boomer Esiason

    Craig Carton ‘deserves another chance’: Boomer Esiason

    Now that Craig Carton is out of prison, he should be back on the radio, according to his former partner at WFAN, Boomer Esiason. The 51-year-old Carton was released early from prison on Tuesday after serving just over a year of a 3 ½-year sentence for his role in a ticket scam that also cost …
  • Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Some wrongs are not difficult to right. As my friend Mark Morley says, “It’s not rocket surgery.” Yet, and for no good reasons, we inexorably sink lower, every day, by pathetic design. Meanwhile, the modern marketing and TV content rational has become, “It’s no worse than this” or “It’s no worse than that.” But what …
  • WFAN’s lazy, dull programing is only getting worse

    WFAN’s lazy, dull programing is only getting worse

    Old gag: They call radio a medium because when it’s well done, it’s rare. WFAN is much like ESPN in that all these years later — since 1979 in ESPN’s case, 1987 in FAN’s — both by now should be much better than they are. Seems that every change in hosts turns WFAN flatter, less …
  • Craig Carton may have shot at WFAN return under new boss

    Craig Carton may have shot at WFAN return under new boss

    WFAN is getting a new boss — same as the old boss. And this could have huge implications for the potential return of Craig Carton to WFAN whenever he is released from prison. Sources have told The Post that Chris Oliviero is taking over as the head honcho at WFAN and all of the Entercom-run …
  • Mike Francesa and top WFAN hosts asked to take pay cut by Entercom

    Mike Francesa and top WFAN hosts asked to take pay cut by Entercom

    As part of its layoff and furlough plan, WFAN’s parent company, Entercom, has asked its top hosts from Mike Francesa to Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti to take 20-percent pay cuts and forgo bonuses through near the end of July, The Post has learned. Sources said Entercom’s COO Susan Larkin had a conference call with …
  • Robby Anderson denies Boomer Esiason’s Jets contract rumor: ‘False news’

    Robby Anderson denies Boomer Esiason’s Jets contract rumor: ‘False news’

    Robby Anderson’s time with the New York Jets is behind him, but the new Carolina Panthers receiver still made sure to point out he didn’t leave anything on the table. Anderson took to Twitter after WFAN’s Boomer Esiason said he was told the Jets offered Anderson a four-year, $40 million contract, which the former Temple …