Jon “Stugotz” Weiner, a well-known sports media personality and author, has signed a long-term multiplatform partnership with iHeartMedia. The agreement will see Stugotz launch a new weekday afternoon program on FOX Sports Radio starting in January. Broadcasting from iHeartMedia’s studios in South Florida, the show will air Monday through Friday from 3 to 5 p.m. ET on more than 270 stations across the country.
The new program will also be available through FOX Sports Radio’s channel on iHeartRadio and on FOXSportsRadio.com. The show is designed as a live radio extension of Stugotz’s podcast “Stugotz and Company,” featuring his usual team and guest co-hosts.
In addition to the radio show, the Stugotz Podcast Network is launching immediately with iHeartPodcasts. This network will offer original sports talk programming, including “Stugotz and Company” and “God Bless Football.” Listeners can access these shows on the iHeartRadio app, other podcast platforms, and Stugotz’s YouTube channel.
“There was a ton of interest and a lot of great conversations, but it became obvious to me rather quickly that iHeart and FOX Sports Radio were going to be the landing spot,” said Stugotz. “I miss doing live radio, and I was looking for a partner to grow my two existing podcasts and help us build out a network. To be able to partner with the biggest and best digital company on the planet – and host a daily, two-hour live radio show with two Hall of Famers, Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd, as lead-ins – is a place, quite frankly, I never imagined arriving at, and an opportunity I wasn’t going to pass up.”
Scott Shapiro, Senior Vice President of Sports Programming at FOX Sports Radio, commented: “This is a very exciting day for iHeart and FOX Sports Radio. I can assure you there is no one in the world like Stugotz — and I’m not entirely sure whether that’s a compliment or not. His uniquely bold, and sometimes outrageous, takes on the world of sports and culture will create a wildly unpredictable yet always entertaining destination for sports fans everywhere. Cannonball!”
Will Pearson, President of iHeartPodcasts, added: “Stugotz has built one of the most passionate and engaged communities in sports audio and bringing that energy into a larger multiplatform universe is exactly the kind of expansion we love to champion. We’re thrilled to welcome him to the iHeartPodcasts family and excited to grow his audience with our unmatched scale and reach.”
Jon “Stugotz” Weiner began his career by starting 790 The Ticket (WAXY) in South Florida before co-hosting “The Dan LeBatard Show with Stugotz,” which gained national attention on ESPN Radio. After leaving ESPN in 2021, he continued working with Dan Le Batard under Meadowlark Media while expanding into podcasts and streaming platforms.
FOX Sports Radio Network operates as part of Premiere Sports Network—a subsidiary of iHeartMedia—in partnership with FOX Sports. The network reaches over 17 million monthly listeners across more than 630 stations nationwide.
