Michael Kay closes the ratings gap on Mike Francesa further, but ESPN PR’s “beats” claim is flat-out wrong
ESPN PR put out a release that Michael Kay's show "beats" Mike Francesa's. But that's only if you count ESPN's streaming and discount WFAN's.
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Final-day ratings book battle sees Mike Francesa book Bill Simmons while Michael Kay books Mad Dog
Francesa's old partner, Chris "Mad Dog" Russo, will be appearing on ESPN New York instead of WFAN in the final day of the ratings book battle.
After criticisms of Kyler Murray, NFLN’s Charley Casserly revealed “I train over 100 players a year for combine interviews”
On The Michael Kay Show, Casserly revealed that he annually trains prospects for combine interviews. That should have been disclosed when he started passing along anonymous critiques of Kyler Murray's interviews.
Michael Kay beat Mike Francesa in the January ratings book, his second-straight monthly ratings win and his third ever
Francesa's audience has declined since his April return to WFAN, and Kay's has risen to surpass him. If that trend continues, that's a big shakeup in New York sports radio.
This Week In Hot Takes: Michael Kay blames Phil Jackson, who wasn’t with the Knicks in 2013, for missing on Giannis Antetokounmpo
Giannis Antetokounmpo was drafted in 2013, and Phil Jackson was hired in 2014. The only way to blame Jackson is if you think he has a time machine.
ESPN New York radio host Don La Greca loses it on co-hosts and caller after caller suggests Matt Forte will score for the...
"Well, keep picking! Keep picking! I don't know...Sid Luckman! I'll go with Sid Luckman! Gimme Joe Namath! Don Maynard! Let's go with Don! Morons! I can't take it."
Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier not happy with Michael Kay’s “facetious” comment
“You know I was being facetious” didn’t come across well with Frazier.
YES Network reportedly agrees to extension with Michael Kay, baseball’s highest-paid local announcer
Kay will continue to call about 125 Yankees' games a year for YES while also hosting his ESPN New York radio afternoon show.
Mike Francesa leads the ratings in his first month back on the air, Michael Kay ranks fourth
Kay topped the New York sports show radio ratings for much of the period with Francesa gone, but the Sports Pope is now back on his throne.
Media reactions to Mike Francesa’s impending return range from Mad Dog’s “horse’s fanny” to Steve Politi’s “jerk” to Michael Kay’s “Leno”
"You can't do a long goodbye, because if you do a long goodbye, it gets a little tedious, number one, and number two, if you change your mind in five or six months, you look like a horse's fanny."
J.D. Martinez and Michael Kay were both surprised by a Gary Sanchez home run over the Green Monster
"High fly ball, left field. Martinez... and that ball is over the wall, a home run! A two-run shot for Sanchez, and it is 4-0 Yankees."
Mike Francesa finished second in final full ratings period…behind the station that plays holiday music
Francesa beat Michael Kay, but was no match for the holiday stylings on Lite FM.
New York radio host Don La Greca unloaded on a caller who wanted the Yankees to pinch-hit for Aaron Judge
"Life is too short, too important to waste time on this filthy human piece of garbage."
A holiday discussion on the Michael Kay show gets animation treatment and it’s hilarious
The Michael Kay Show on ESPN Radio in New York is known as the other show hosted by...
