WFAN's Mike Francesa will host his final afternoon drive time show on Friday, but he will remain in the Entercom family and on WFAN itself with a "mini-show starting in January" from 6:00-6:30pm ET, and with a "daily, 90-minute show on Radio.com," according to Neil Best of NEWSDAY. The details still are "being worked out," but Francesa "expects his online show to last 90 minutes, split roughly two-thirds sports and one-third politics." It would be "posted at various times of day and might include callers and/or guests." The WFAN show will be live most days, but Francesa said that he is "planning an innovative format that he would not reveal." For Francesa, Friday will "end a tumultuous 19 months since he returned." Francesa said that he had an "offer to do a show on another station, which he would not name, but WFAN executives persuaded him to return and assured him there was support from management for him to do so." By returning, Francesa "put at risk his long ratings winning streak over" ESPN Radio 98.7 N.Y.'s Michael Kay, a streak that "almost certainly will end when the quarterly autumn figures are released on Dec. 23." Francesa: "Right now, it looks like I'm going to lose, unless I have a miracle." He added, "I would have rather left with a perfect record, but how upset am I going to get about finishing 60-something-and-1? Let's be serious" (NEWSDAY, 12/4).
