• Sports media mailbag: Joe Benigno mailing it in as WFAN retirement feels near

    Sports media mailbag: Joe Benigno mailing it in as WFAN retirement feels near

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers & columnists to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. After the latest ratings book, how long until WFAN moves Benigno out the door? Going …
  • 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 …
  • Sports media mailbag: Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo’s future and WFAN landscape

    Sports media mailbag: Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo’s future and WFAN landscape

    You ask, we answer. The Post is fielding questions from readers about New York’s biggest pro sports teams and getting our beat writers to answer them in a series of regularly published mailbags. In today’s installment: sports media. Will Chris Russo ever be on local New York radio again? — Alice, Brooklyn I’d say that …
  • Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo almost at a loss for words over ‘totally different’ WFAN

    Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo almost at a loss for words over ‘totally different’ WFAN

    Chris “Mad Dog” Russo, alongside Mike Francesa, helped build WFAN into a sports-talk giant, having the No. 1 afternoon drive-time show in the area for years. Now, watching from a distance, he isn’t sure what to make of the station’s direction. So many of its big names are gone, Russo pointed out, from Don Imus …