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WFAN Daily

Mike Francesa Afternoon Drive Farewell

WFAN Daily

Audacy

Sports

3.8795 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Mike says his goodbyes and bids farewell to his afternoon drive show on WFAN.

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0:00.0

I can't, I'm not going to mention anybody by name now when I say thanks to everybody here because I can't, I don't want to leave anybody out and I don't want to, you know, on my last show, have someone think that I slide them because I didn't.

0:13.3

So for all the people we currently work with, my guys here right now and all the people here behind the scenes at the fan in all the different

0:23.2

departments that I've worked with through the years. I mean, you're talking about, you know, countless

0:30.2

hundreds of, hundreds of different people who have come through all the different facets

0:36.5

that make up a radio station, you know, from all the different people who have come through all the different facets that make up a radio station, you know,

0:39.3

from all the different people who have been our board ops and our producers,

0:47.3

many of which have gone on to their own broadcasting careers, you know, most of them are in our business, you know, whether it's

0:57.0

behind the scenes or as broadcast of themselves, most of them all that in their own vein.

1:04.0

I mean, a lot of them, I mean, the most noteworthy from this program, as someone who worked

1:08.3

for a while on this program, we had people, you know,

1:11.2

worked for a small amount of time, but as far as working for a while, like Iron started with

1:16.0

us and has gone on obviously to a tremendous broadcasting career. So we've had a bunch of guys

1:23.8

who have done that, you know, through the ranks and have moved up and done that.

1:28.2

A lot of them still here, as a matter of fact. So a lot of the same people are here, but I want

1:33.1

to thank all the update people through the years, led by obviously Mink and Eusler, who were with

1:38.1

me from the beginning, all my producers and board ops and everybody who's been part of the

1:42.3

program, part of the station, the program directors, and all the countless people.

1:47.0

Because, you know, there's so many people who've come through the fan through the years.

1:50.0

When you're at a place, as long as I've been here, you know, 30 plus years, 30 some on years, you know, a lot of the guys have come and gone.

1:59.0

I mean, they have. But everybody, you know,

2:03.0

feels a connection to the fan because the fan was first. The fan was the first all-sports

2:08.1

station. It was a grand experiment that was supposed to fail. And it turned out to be a colossal

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