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--- In nashvillepredatorsclub@yahoogroups.com, "Joe Thordsen"
<jthords@h...> wrote:
> Who will replace him for pre and post-game?
>
> Joe
>
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>
> WGFX to air afternoon sports talk
> By Terry McCormick, tmccormick@n...
> August 05, 2003
>
> According to sources, local radio sportscasters Willy Daunic and
> Darren McFarland will finalize a deal this week to join WGFX-FM
104.5
> and bring an afternoon sports talk show to the station, which would
> revamp its format to include both news and sports talk.
>
> Daunic and McFarland resigned Friday from their evening sports
> show "The Total Sports Experience" on WWTN-FM 99.7, and since both
> were working without contracts at that station, were free to
> negotiate a deal anywhere in the market without penalty or time off
> the air.
>
> WGFX currently airs a classic rock format except for the mornings
> when it runs the syndicated "Rick and Bubba Show." The station is
> owned by Citadel Broadcasting, which also holds the flagship rights
> to the Tennessee Titans games.
>
> Daunic and McFarland had worked the 7-10 p.m. shift together at WTN
> for 16 months, but apparently will be on from 3-7 p.m. on WGFX,
with
> a best-case scenario of Aug. 11 as a launch date. That would put
them
> head-to-head with WTN's "SportsNight," now hosted by Blake Fulton,
> Joe Biddle and Nashville Predators play-by-play man Pete Weber.
>
> Also, former "SportsNight" anchor George Plaster is expected to
join
> Daunic and McFarland on the new WGFX show as soon as any
contractual
> issues with his former employer Gaylord Entertainment are resolved.
>
> Plaster last month declined to have his contract assigned to
Cumulus
> Broadcasting, which purchased WTN and WSM-FM from Gaylord for $65
> million, and thus left the station and "SportsNight."
>
> Also, Daunic is giving up his duties as pre-game and post-game host
> of the Nashville Predators' broadcasts on WTN