670 The Score makes adjustments, adds Marshall Harris middays
Laurence Holmes now paired with Matt Speigel in afternoons
Audacy’s 670 The Score (WSCR-AM) announced Monday morning changes in midday and afternoon shows.
Starting today, Laurence Holmes is moving from middays to afternoons from 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays, joining Matt Speigel. Holmes is replacing the since-departed Danny Parkins, who left the station last month for FS1’s new weekday morning show Breakfast Ball.
Holmes was previously Dan Bernstein’s on-air partner in middays. Succeeding Holmes is former CBS 2 sports anchor and director Marshall Harris, who left the station in July (he was replaced by Ryan Baker, who returned to the sports beat at WBBM-TV.) He’ll start next Monday, Sept. 30.
I’m genuinely excited for the opportunity to do something different full-time. My first broadcasting job was in radio and I can’t wait to talk sports for 4 hours every day w/@dan_bernstein, @ReyMDiaz and @trislerstudz in this amazing city!
— Marshall Harris (@mharrisonair) September 23, 2024
?️DAYSIDE! (IYKYK) https://t.co/DJswR4sgRk
NBC 5 sports anchor Leila Rahimi will continue to appear on Wednesdays. Rahimi and Harris once worked together in Philadelphia.
One person who won’t be with the station in this lineup shakeup is Jason Goff, as he was in the running to replace Parkins. However, Audacy executives wanted Goff to give up his Ringer podcast – something Goff wouldn’t agree to as he and 670 The Score parted ways last week.
“It’s an old-school way of doing things that I can respect. Business is business,” Goff said on the podcast. “There’s also some other things that a person who got let go six years ago would have to have in a contract that just simply, they just simply weren’t there. I’d like to feel invested in, and The Ringer and Spotify have done that.” Goff hosted middays with Speigel until 2018, just after Entercom (Audacy’s previous name) acquired CBS Radio. According to several sources, Audacy generally frowns on its talent hosting podcasts not produced by the company, as they consider them competition. The Ringer is owned by music and podcast streamer Spotify, which bought it from founder Bill Simmons in 2020 for $195 million. Like other radio conglomerates, Audacy expanded its presence in the podcast arena as terrestrial radio’s audience and revenues continue to decline.
670 The Score had been filling Parkins’ open spot with guest hosts, but it nearly turned into a debacle of Jeopardy!-like proportions two weeks ago when a person named Barstool Eddie (from Barstool Sports, of course) made the mistake of calling Bernstein by his last name. This enraged Barstool head honcho Dave Portnoy, who went after Bernstein on social media and continues to do so.