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It is easy to imagine a new afternoon sports radio ratings war pitting the current champ Michael Kay versus Craig Carton. It would be a worthy sequel to Kay-Mike Francesa. Entertaining verbal shots would surely be fired and, to borrow an old friend’s phrase, there would be no pea shooters. Upon Carton’s early release from …

Former WFAN radio host Craig Carton was released from federal prison on Tuesday morning, The Post has learned. Carton, 51, will either enter home confinement or a halfway house to finish out his sentence, according to sources. Carton’s release is unrelated to COVID-19. Carton went to prison on June 17, 2019, so he served a …

Mike Francesa blasted Jamal Adams on Monday, saying the All-Pro safety who has publicly asked for a trade, isn’t a “great player” who makes “life miserable” for the Jets. The WFAN host thinks the team should either have Adams — who has been frustrated by a lack of extension talks — play out his rookie …

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 …

When Craig Carton is released from prison, a highly coveted job could be waiting for him. Longtime ally Chris Oliviero, who was hired on May 6 to run WFAN as Entercom New York’s senior vice president and market manager, isn’t ruling out eventually bringing back the disgraced former radio show host, who is serving a …

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 …

Chris Russo, former WFAN Mike Francesa partner on “Mike & the Mad Dog,” launched his own SiriusXM channel in 2008, Mad Dog Sports Radio, where he hosts “Mad Dog Unleashed” from 3-6 p.m. on weekdays. He is never short on opinions, and gave Post columnist Steve Serby plenty of them in a Q&A. Q: Who …

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. Did Steve Somers turn down a buyout? — @Justlucky32181 Steve Somers was not presented with a buyout …

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. Why does WFAN broadcast Yankees games and spend so little (talk show) time on the Bombers? Most …

Mike Francesa is unamused by CC Sabathia’s stunning weight loss that has been the talk of Yankees fans. “Everyone getting crazy about Sabathia losing weight, alright Sabathia lost weight — it doesn’t mean he could pitch better,” the WFAN blowhard said on his daily show, lamenting that it doesn’t take much to make sports headlines …