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(August 13, 2009) Two new voices have joined Birmingham sports-talk radio station WJOX 94.5 FM amid a flurry of programming changes at both WJOX and its sister station WSPZ 690 AM.
Mobile radio personality and STAA client Brien Straw (left) is coming to WJOX to replace the departed Ian Fitzsimmons on the midday show "The Roundtable," and former Auburn and NFL star Frank Sanders will be a regular contributor to the station several times each week, program director Ryan Haney said Tuesday. Also, at AM station WSPZ, "The Dunaway and Brown Show" with Jim Dunaway and Ryan Brown, which now airs weekdays from 2 to 6 p.m., will move to the 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. time slot beginning Monday. In another programming move that starts Monday, the afternoon drive-time show "The Paul Finebaum Radio Network" and the morning show "The Opening Drive," both of which air on the WJOX 94.5 FM signal, will also simulcast on the WSPZ 690 AM frequency, Haney said. Those shows will lead into and out of "The Dunaway and Brown Show" on the AM signal. Previously, that show went up against "The Paul Finebaum Radio Network" in the afternoons. "We are excited to be able to stay together, first of all, and to continue to do the show for as long as we have," Brown said Tuesday. "We believe in the way we do our show and we want to continue to do it together, and this was the best option to do that and to reach a new segment of people in a different time slot." WSPZ currently airs the nationally syndicated shows "Imus in the Morning" from 5 to 9 a.m., "The Herd with Colin Cowherd" from 9 to 11 a.m. and "The Jim Rome Show" from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The station will continue to air Don Imus' syndicated show for a few more weeks but eventually will replace it with the full four hours of "The Opening Drive," Haney said in an e-mail. Until then, "The Opening Drive" will air from 9 to 10 a.m. only on WSPZ and in its entirety on WJOX. At WJOX, Straw replaces Fitzsimmons as Lance Taylor's co-host on "The Roundtable," which airs weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Straw's first day on the air here is Aug. 24. Fitzsimmons left WJOX and "The Roundtable" two weeks ago to go to Dallas sports-talk station ESPN 103.3 FM, where he appears on "Galloway & Company" with host Randy Galloway. In Mobile, Straw has co-hosted a morning show on sports station WNSP 105.5 FM, and prior to that, he hosted the regionally syndicated talk show "The Sports Tap." Sanders, a Florida native, played wide receiver at Auburn and was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 1995 NFL draft. He played seven seasons for Arizona and spent the final two years of his career with the Baltimore Ravens before retiring in 2003. _______________________
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(August 13, 2009) Two new voices have joined Birmingham sports-talk radio station WJOX 94.5 FM amid a flurry of programming changes at both WJOX and its sister station WSPZ 690 AM.