Another ESPN Radio show will get a national television simulcast, but instead of being aired on a member of the ESPN Family of Networks, this one goes to a different Disney platform. ESPN has announced that the Dan Le Batard Show which airs from 4-7 p.m. ET on many ESPN Radio stations will be also aired on Fusion at the same time.
If you’re not familiar, Fusion is a joint venture between ABC News and Univision providing news, pop culture and entertainment programming that is targeted to multicultural millennials. The network began in October 2013 and has been slowly picking up distributors including DirecTV last month, AT&T U-Verse, Dish, Cablevision, Charter, Cox, Verizon Fios and Google Fiber.
Le Batard’s show has aired locally in Miami since 2004 and was picked up nationally by ESPN Radio in 2013. The radio show airs live from the Clevalander Hotel and has a regular cast of characters including regular co-host Stugotz and rotating guest co-hosts like his Highly Questionable co-hort Bomani Jones and Miami Herald writer Greg Cote.
And speaking of Highly Questionable, the show will continue to air at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN2 which means that Le Batard’s live simulcast on Fusion will air opposite the taped TV show on its sister Disney network. It will be all Le Batard, all the time between 4-7 p.m. on ESPN/Disney platforms
This marks the 5th ESPN Radio show to get a TV simulcast following Mike & Mike (ESPN2), Colin Cowherd (ESPNU), SVP & Russillo (ESPNews) and the Paul Finebaum Show (SEC Network).
So the entire ESPN Radio daytime lineup is simulcast on various platforms. Perhaps Sedano & Stink and the Freddie Coleman Show are next.
[ESPN]
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