With ProFootballTalk Live expanding from one hour to three hours in less than three weeks, it’ll be important to add some more voices to the mix because: (1) I may need to go to the bathroom during a segment; (2) the audience can only stand to hear so much of my voice; and/or (3) I can only stand to hear so much of my voice, especially when I’m trying to go to the bathroom.
There’s also plenty of actual work to do beyond merely talking, and I lack the skills, training, or desire to do most if not all of it.
And so the new radio show, debuting January 5, will have a full-time producer. He’s Rob “Stats” Guerrera. You may remember him from such shows as Mike & Mike in the Morning, where he spent six years performing various duties. Stats also helped launch the NBC Sports Radio Network, as the producer of The Erik Kuselias Show.
I’ve known Stats for more than two years. And yet, amazingly, he’s still willing to produce the show.
The NBCSports.com simulcast of the first hour of the program will continue to be produced by Kristen Coleman, who took over for Matt Casey when he unceremoniously dumped PFT Live for NBC SportsTalk, which eventually morphed into PFT on NBCSN. (Translation: He was able to run, but he ultimately couldn’t hide.)
There’s already a surprising amount of momentum for the new show, with NBC Sports Radio affiliates planning to broadcast it, some non-affiliates exploring how to pick it up, and the infrastructure being put in place for the entire show to stream quickly and easily via PFT. Also, companies want to give us money to talk about their goods and services. Which is nice.
If there are any features you’d like to see or ideas you don’t mind me stealing without compensation or acknowledgement, feel free to sound off in the comments. Otherwise, enjoy the holidays and make a New Year’s resolution to listen to the show when it debuts, four days after New Year’s Day.
