Stoney Stepping Back At Detroit’s Ticket
• Mike Stone yesterday announced that he’s in his final season as co-host of the Stoney & Jansen with Heather morning show on Audacy’s WXYT (97.1 The Ticket)/Detroit, the radio flagship of the NFL’s Detroit Lions.
Stoney (right) will maintain his current seat next to Jon Jansen (left) and Heather Park (center) through the upcoming NFL season, before stepping down into a reduced role after the Super Bowl.
Stone, who turns 65 in December, will stay with The Ticket as a regular fill-in host for at least the next two years and, starting this season, as co-host of the Lions postgame show with Fox 2‘s Jennifer Hammond. Stone’s replacement on the morning show will be announced at a later date. “I’m still gonna be around,” Stone said. “People are still going to have to put up with me for probably half the year, if you add up all the vacation days that everybody has. And I’ll be doing Lions postgame the next three seasons, hopefully.”
Stone joined The Ticket in 2009 after a 15-year run with WDFN, the first sports-talk station of its kind in Detroit. Stone originally hosted mornings with Bill McAllister, and later, with the late Jamie Samuelsen, whose legacy lives on at The Ticket in the form of The Jamie Samuelsen Studio.
