Fox Sports Radio will add Steve Covino and Rich Davis to their weekday lineup from 5-7pm eastern/2-4pm pacific starting Monday, September 26.
The duo have been hosting a weekend show on Fox Sports Radio for the past year. They have been paired together since 2004 on what was then Sirius’ Maxim Radio and have also hosted for multiple SiriusXM channels as well as Sportsnet New York and ESPN2. Both Covino & Davis worked at multiple terrestrial stations, with Covino at 92.3 WXRK New York and Davis having stints at WWHT Syracuse, WHTZ New York and WIOQ Philadelphia. They will also continue to host their daily show on Patreon.
With the addition of Covino & Rich to the daily lineup, Doug Gottlieb’s show will lose its third hour with Gottlieb replacing it with a daily podcast separate from the live radio show. The network will also drop the 6pm hour Straight Outta Vegas hosted by RJ Bell.
FOX Sports Radio (FSR), a division of Premiere Sports Network providing 24/7 live programming, today announced that widely-popular broadcast duo Steve Covino and Rich Davis will join the network’s industry-leading weekday lineup.
Covino & Rich will take over the FSR’s 5 to 7 p.m. ET/2 to 4 p.m. PT weekday timeslot, effective September 26. This sports-focused program from the veteran radio and podcast personalities will feature their unique take on the hot sports topics of the day, injected with their brand of humor, fun and relatability. Covino & Rich will broadcast on more than 200 stations nationwide, in addition to FOX Sports Radio’s channel on iHeartRadio, which is available via iHeartRadio.com and the iHeartRadio app. The program will also be available as a podcast directly following each show.
With the addition of Covino & Rich to FSR’s weekday lineup, The Doug Gottlieb Show will transition from a three-hour program to two hours, broadcasting weekdays from 3 to 5 p.m. ET/12 to 2 p.m. PT. Expanding his ever-growing podcast, Gottlieb will also host a new original daily podcast featuring interviews with the latest newsmakers in sports. Launching September 26, the program will be available via The Doug Gottlieb Show podcast feed on iHeartRadio and other podcast platforms.Covino and Rich first joined FSR in September 2021 as part of the network’s weekend football lineup. In addition to their move from weekends to weekdays on FSR, the duo will continue to host the popular, long-running Covino & Rich live podcast, which debuted in 2004 on SiriusXM and is available via Patreon subscription. Visit https://covinoandrich.com/ for more information.
“We couldn’t be more excited to be working with Don, Scott and the entire FOX Sports Radio team,” shared Covino and Rich. “We all share the same vision and can’t wait to bring the fun and energy every day! To quote every athlete in 2022, ‘Let’s F’n Go!’”
“Covino and Rich will add a dynamic punch to an already rich roster,” said Don Martin, Executive Vice President of Programming for iHeartMedia Sports and Scott Shapiro, FOX Sports Radio Vice President of Sports Programming, in a joint statement. “They’re so talented we had to make room for them in what is the best sports talk lineup in the nation. We can’t wait to share this one-of-a-kind duo with even more listeners across the country.”
This story first appeared on radioinsight.com