Monday, July 22, 2019

ESPN 97.5 and AJ HOFFMAN has no fear of 610's new "Line Up"

Written By: LM



AJ Hoffman is a cohost of The Blitz ESPN 97.5 4-7p, partnered with Fred Faour.  AJ came up through the ranks as an on-air personality but now he's an on-air personality and a Program Director.  If you do not know him, AJ  is not the person for public chatter and social talk.  AJ has made it known, he's not fond of the riff raff but in his new role as a Program Director, he's been listening.

Long story short, Sports Radio 610 has made some changes. Sports Radio 610 fired Rich Lord and Mike Meltzer.  The Morning Show for 610 is Seth Payne and Sean Pendergast.  The Afternoon show is Clint Stoerner and some dude from Atlanta from NBA TV.

As a Program Director, AJ (who is also a personality in afternoon drive) wanted to see what he was against. AJ scouted 610 new afternoon show and completed obliterated them.

Honestly, I like Clint Stoerner, that down south flavor but this show does not have a chance.  Although Clint is from the Houston area and has the "hood slang" , he is not a name in Houston and this other dude is not even worth a Google search.



Check this out on Chirbit

AJ going in on 610

The Blitz are cruising, HOWEVER

I believe The Bench may have some problems.  Damn near 100% of people who listen to Lance Zierlein and John Granato at 7am, tune in to 610 programming at 6am Including John Granato.  You can hear Granato piggyback off of 610's topics in the am.  But fuck that, I like Granato, the point is, when it was MAD Radio with Seth Payne and Mike Metlzer, a lot of fans used the 6-7a to cross over to LZ and Granato.  On average, I listen to 2-3 shows a day at once but most listeners are not like me. I believe with Sean and Seth, there will be a whole lot of fans staying.

Seth is good, the only thing I do not like about Sean, is his smacking lips (and A lot of local personalities has the SMACKING LIPS) transition to other takes, seems like he should be on Montrose Blvd blowing dick but that's besides the point, the dude is good.

Will be interesting to see how AJ will roll.  It appears as if AJ do not see a need to move "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".   Interesting 

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