SiriusXM has confirmed that the Pat McAfee Show will be moving to its platform as the show will air from 12-3pm eastern on Mad Dog Sports Radio (channel 82) starting Wednesday, September 9.
McAfee ended his program on Westwood One and CBS Sports Radio last week while a video version of the show will remain on YouTube.
To make room for McAfee on the Mad Dog Sports Radio lineup, “The Morning Men” hosted by Evan Cohen and Mike Babchik will now run from 6-9am eastern, while Schein on Sports with Adam Schein moves up an hour to run from 9am-12pm. The 1-3pm show Dog Day Sports with Steve Torre and Danny Kanell will end but both remain with the channel in other roles. Chris ‘Mad Dog’ Russo’s Mad Dog Unleashed will continue in the 3-6pm slot now following McAfee.
SiriusXM announced today that Pat McAfee, who since his retirement in 2017 from an All-Pro NFL career has become one of sports media’s most popular and compelling personalities, is making SiriusXM’s Mad Dog Sports Radio channel the exclusive radio home of his daily The Pat McAfee Show. McAfee announced the news on his show today.
McAfee will make his SiriusXM debut on Wednesday, September 9, and will host the show live from his studios in Indianapolis, IN every weekday from noon to 3:00 pm ET.
“I’m very thankful and honored for the chance to be on Mad Dog Sports Radio,” said McAfee. “SiriusXM is such an incredibly massive platform and the freedom it allows is perfect for our style of show. To say we’re grateful to Scott Greenstein, Steve Cohen, Andrew Moss and all of the other awesome folks at SiriusXM for this opportunity would be an understatement. Let’s do the damn thing. We hope you’ll join us daily.”
“Pat is absolutely a one-of-a-kind talent,” said Scott Greenstein, SiriusXM’s President and Chief Content Officer. “His experience as an athlete, his perspective on sports and the larger world around it, his skill as an interviewer, and his ability to relate to and entertain an audience, are just some of the things that set him apart from so many others in media. We’re very excited to have his energy and personality on SiriusXM. There are no limits to what he’ll be able to do on the Mad Dog Sports Radio channel.”
After an eight-year NFL career with the Indianapolis Colts that saw him voted to two Pro Bowls and be named a First Team All-Pro in 2014, McAfee retired in 2017 to embark on his media career. McAfee joined Barstool Sports, where he developed the “Heartland” division of the company in Indianapolis, and hosted The Pat McAfee Show on the Barstool Power 85 channel on SiriusXM. In 2018, McAfee joined Fox in a broadcasting role for their college football and NFL broadcasts. In 2019 McAfee signed with ESPN, where he serves as the color analyst for their Thursday Night College Football broadcasts and makes regular appearances on other ESPN programs.
In 2018, McAfee began appearing on WWE programming as a pre-show analyst for the companies’ NXT Takeover events, and signed a multi-year contract with WWE the following year. He performed in his first NXT TakeOver bout on August 22. McAfee is also a stand-up comedian, small business owner, and hosts his own daily podcast.
With the addition of The Pat McAfee Show to the Mad Dog Sports Radio lineup, Morning Men with Evan Cohen and Mike Babchik will air from 6:00-9:00 am ET daily, and Schein on Sports with Adam Schein will air from 9:00 am-noon ET daily. Christopher Russo hosts the channel’s anchor program, Mad Dog Unleashed, every weekday from 3:00 – 6:00 pm ET.
Mad Dog Sports Radio’s Steve Torre and Danny Kanell, hosts of the 1:00 – 3:00 pm ET show Dog Day Sports, will continue to contribute to the Mad Dog Sports Radio channel. Kanell will also continue to host The First Team every morning on the ESPNU Radio channel on SiriusXM.
Original Report 8/26: Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee is moving his radio show from Westwood One and CBS Sports Radio to SiriusXM.
McAfee’s final day on broadcast radio will be Friday, August 28 before debuting on a SiriusXM channel still to be determined on Tuesday, September 8. The show will move from 10am-12pm eastern to 12-3pm once it leaves Westwood One.
McAfee launched the radio show in August 2019 on 40 Cumulus Media owned Sports stations in partnership with the DAZN streaming sports network. The show was added to the CBS Sports Radio lineup in January. McAfee has since left DAZN for FanDuel moving the video portion of his show to YouTube.
In explaining to listeners the reasoning behind the changes, McAfee stated “I didn’t think I could continue to be an FCC regulated person without really hitting my max potential. No offense to the people that can do that tt is much easier to speak naturally and calmly.” He claimed it was a mutual parting with Westwood One.
CBS Sports Radio has yet to set plans for the 10am-12pm timeslot.
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Good news.. The show will be moving to 12-3pm EDT on @SIRIUSXM starting September 8th #PatMcAfeeShowLIVE pic.twitter.com/wb2BGLyiLm
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 26, 2020
