Longtime host Joe Benigno bemoans the state of…
Joe Benigno made a daring declare about the current state of WFAN.
During an look on “The Jake Asman Show” on Friday, Benigno, who still works part-time at the station, was fast to say WFAN is on the decline.
“The Fan will never be what it once was,” Benigno said. “I do know I work part-time there, the days of Imus, the days of ’Mike and the Mad Dog,’ the days of Steve Somers and myself in a single day, all of that, Eddie Coleman and Dave Sims — those days — we’ll never see something like that again…
Joe Benigno still has a part-time gig at WFAN, internet hosting a weekly show on Saturday.
“The heyday, we’ve all seen the heyday of the Fan and sports talk radio in general.”
Benigno still hosts a weekly Saturday morning show but insists that he doesn’t at all miss being at the community full-time.
“I don’t miss it at all,” Benigno said to host Jake Asman. “I’m comfortable I do my little show on Saturday, I do my little podcast, I don’t miss my commute into the metropolis, thank God I’m not going into the metropolis these days, that’s for sure.
“No. I did it for 25 years, it was a great run, I was fortunate to be able to do what I did, but I really don’t miss it, to be very honest with you. It ran its course for me as far as an everyday thing.”
Benigno’s feedback come a short time after WFAN mainstays Erica Herskowitz and Rich Ackerman departed from the community in December.
Both Herskowitz and Ackerman have been at the community for almost three a long time, working as 20/20 “sports flash” update anchors.
“After 29 years, this is my final update on WFAN. I just want to thank the listeners for always being so nice to me, especially when I first started as a 20-year-old. I was terrible and I knew it. Probably not much better right now. Happy holidays to everybody. It’s been a good run,” Herskowitz said as she signed off.
During his log off, Ackerman said that feelings bought the best of him and that he “shed a lot of tears.”
“It’s very emotional. It’s been a very tough day, and I’m like Dick [Vermeil] — I cry a lot. And I’ve shed a lot of tears today,” Ackerman said.
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