{"id":8341,"date":"2015-07-30T17:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=8341"},"modified":"2015-07-30T17:33:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:33:30","slug":"marathon-week-for-espns-waddle-silvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/07\/30\/marathon-week-for-espns-waddle-silvy\/","title":{"rendered":"Marathon week for \u2018Waddle & Silvy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> Marc Silverman and Tom Waddle<\/p><\/div>\n

Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman better rest up now. By the end of next month they\u2019ll be working overtime.<\/p>\n

In addition to their local sports\/talk show from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday on ESPN Radio\u00a0WMVP AM 1000,<\/a> \u201cWaddle & Silvy\u201d will be going national on the ESPN Radio network from 9 a.m. to noon the week of August 24.<\/p>\n

That means they\u2019ll be on the air for seven hours each day that week. \u201cFantastic for us, since they are currently the No. 1 sports show in Chicago,\u201d said program director Adam Delevitt.<\/p>\n

Waddle & Silvy are among hosts from ESPN stations in Chicago and Los Angeles filling in next month while the network seeks a replacement for the departed Colin Cowherd.<\/p>\n

\u201cESPN Radio has an extensive pool of talent from our national network, local stations and ESPN television,\u201d David Roberts, vice president, network audio content, said in a statement Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to take advantage of this opportunity to give national radio exposure to our local hosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the latest Nielsen Audio survey, afternoons on ESPN 1000 tied for 23rd place with CBS Radio sports\/talk WSCR AM 670<\/a> with a 1.9 share and cumulative weekly audience of 256,000. But ESPN 1000 was way ahead among men between 25 and 54, ranking fourth in afternoons \u2014 the best showing for any talk station \u2014 with a 4.0 share and 134,900 cume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Waddle and Marc Silverman better rest up now. By the end of next month they\u2019ll be working overtime. In addition to their local sports\/talk show from 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday on ESPN Radio\u00a0WMVP AM 1000, \u201cWaddle & Silvy\u201d will be going national on the ESPN Radio network from 9 a.m. to... 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\/8341"}],"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=8341"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8348,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8341\/revisions\/8348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}