{"id":4868,"date":"2014-09-09T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=4868"},"modified":"2014-09-08T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:12:21","slug":"griffith-runs-out-of-time-for-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2014\/09\/09\/griffith-runs-out-of-time-for-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffith runs out of time for The Game"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Howard<\/a>

<\/a> Howard Griffith<\/p><\/div>\n

After little more than six months as midday co-host on WGWG LP 87.7,<\/a> Howard Griffith has cut back to a part-time role as college football insider for the Tribune Broadcasting sports\/talk station.<\/p>\n

Alex Quigley and Ben Finfer, who previously shared billing with Griffith, now co-host the show themselves from noon to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d Finfer told listeners Monday. \u201cWe loved working with Howard and hopefully he\u2019ll still be a part of things here on the station in some form. But he simply just did not have the time to dedicate to a daily radio show, and he felt it would be wrong for him to continue on if he can\u2019t be here a hundred percent of the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Quigley: \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely no bad-blood situation. . . . We like him a lot. But there\u2019s only 24 hours in a day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Game<\/a>Todd Manley, vice president of content and programming, said the change was prompted by an increased workload for Griffith at Chicago-based Big Ten Network, where he\u2019d been under contract as an in-studio analyst before joining The Game 87.7 FM at its inception last February.<\/p>\n

\u201cBTN has been expanding Howard\u2019s commitment to them and they asked us revise his role with us,\u201d Manley said. \u201cThe daily radio show proved to be too much for them, and we had originally sought their blessing to bring Griff on board.\u00a0He only appeared sparingly over the past month during his midday show due to covering the Big Ten caravan for BTN.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manley said Griffith made regular call-ins to Quigley and Finfer from the road, but BTN moved up his time for the network\u2019s shows, making it difficult to continue his daily work for the radio station.\u00a0In addition to his new role as college football insider with live appearances on all of the station\u2019s weekday shows, Manley said, Griffith also will serve as analyst for the Sunday morning NFL kickoff show.<\/p>\n

A University of Illinois graduate and two-time Super Bowl-winning full back for the Denver Broncos, Griffith retired from the NFL after 11 years to become a football analyst for Fox and NFL Networks.<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, The Game 87.7 FM tied for 42nd place overall with a 0.4 percent share and cumulative weekly audience of 141,600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After little more than six months as midday co-host on WGWG LP 87.7, Howard Griffith has cut back to a part-time role as college football insider for the Tribune Broadcasting sports\/talk station. Alex Quigley and Ben Finfer, who previously shared billing with Griffith, now co-host the show themselves from noon to 3 p.m. Monday through... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4873,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4868\/revisions\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}