When you’re Stephen A. Smith what goes around comes around. According to a New York Daily News report the former “Quite Frankly” host and 1050 ESPN radio talker, is on the verge of signing a new deal that would return him to the New York radio outlet. The News quotes a source as saying, “This is the first step to Stephen A getting back in the ESPN family, which means he’ll will also be …

This makes one wonder just what Stephen A. Smith wants to do. Smith who in his broadcast career has been through a variety of roles on CNN/SI, ESPN and debuted his Fox Sports Radio morning show less than a year ago, will now move on to play a new position of roving “NBA expert” for Fox Sports Radio. Since late July Fox has been producing two separate morning shows, offering affiliates a choice …

Fox Sports Radio, celebrating its 10th anniversary this fall, has inked a long-term extension of its distribution agreement with Premiere Radio Networks. FSR, a division of Premiere, was launched in 2000. Under the new long-term deal, Premiere will continue producing and distributing the Fox Sports Radio Network. Terms were not disclosed. In addition, the Fox Sports Radio Network is enhancing its distribution platform, synchronizing the audio, digital, online and …

Veteran sports radio and TV host Stephen A. Smith will join the Premiere Radio Networks distributed FOX Sports Network as both a daily talk host and regular contributor. Along with lending his analysis and commentary on various FSR shows, Smith will host a new daily show for the network beginning January 4th. He’ll also retain his job as a sports columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer and continue to serve as a regular fill-in host on …

Tom Joyner has responded to a challenge by syndicated sports radio hosts  The 2 Live Stews‘ to use his influence and star power to encourage Black men to mentor. This month, The 2 Live Stews, Doug and Ryan Stewart, biological brothers who are also mentors with Big Brothers Big Sisters, are urging their sports and urban media peers to use the airwaves and websites to help them spread the word about the need for African …

It was just a little sad to listen to Stephen A. Smith‘s final show on ESPN Radio last week. Supposedly he is moving on to “concentrate more on the television side of things”, but that sounds an awful lot like what was said when he exited the show “Quite Frankly” on ESPN 2 to move over and “concentrate on the radio side of things”. It makes you wonder what happened to his rising star, they …