iHeart & Stugotz In Serious Relationship

• iHeartMedia and veteran sports media personality Jon “Stugotz” Weiner announced a long-term, multiplatform partnership. As part of the agreement, Stugotz will launch a new weekday afternoon show on FOX Sports Radio this month. Originating from iHeartMedia’s studios in South Florida, the show will broadcast weekdays from 3-5pm ET on more than 270 stations nationwide and will also available on FOX Sports Radio’s channel on iHeartRadio and on FOXSportsRadio.com.

“There was a ton of interest and a lot of great conversations, but it became obvious to me rather quickly that iHeart and FOX Sports Radio were going to be the landing spot,” said Stugotz, who got his start at WAXY (790 The Ticket)/Miami and in 2004 famously joined forces with Dan Le Batard to co-host The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz, which quickly grew from Miami to national prominence on ESPN Radio.  Since leaving ESPN in 2021, Stugotz continued with Le Batard under Meadowlark Media, expanding into podcasts, streaming, and new platforms.

Stugotz added, “I miss doing live radio, and I was looking for a partner to grow my two existing podcasts and help us build out a network. To be able to partner with the biggest and best digital company on the planet — and host a daily, two-hour live radio show with two Hall of Famers, Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd, as lead-ins — is a place, quite frankly, I never imagined arriving at, and an opportunity I wasn’t going to pass up.”

“This is a very exciting day for iHeart and FOX Sports Radio,” said Scott Shapiro, FOX Sports Radio SVP of Sports Programming. “I can assure you there is no one in the world like Stugotz — and I’m not entirely sure whether that’s a compliment or not. His uniquely bold, and sometimes outrageous, takes on the world of sports and culture will create a wildly unpredictable yet always entertaining destination for sports fans everywhere. Cannonball!”

And there’s more: the Stugotz Podcast Network will also launch with iHeartPodcasts. The network will feature an upcoming slate of original sports talk programming, including Stugotz’s current podcasts, Stugotz and Company, and God Bless Football.

Will Pearson, President of iHeartPodcasts, noted, “Stugotz has built one of the most passionate and engaged communities in sports audio, and bringing that energy into a larger multiplatform universe is exactly the kind of expansion we love to champion. We’re thrilled to welcome him to the iHeartPodcasts family and excited to grow his audience with our unmatched scale and reach.”