With Craig Carton on his way out of WFAN for a full-time, seven-figure FS1 contract, what does that mean for the radio station’s crucial afternoon drivetime show?
According to The Post’s Andrew Marchand, Carton’s partner, Evan Roberts, will remain on the 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. program and will be in the driver’s seat, and as of now, there are two candidates to form a new duo with Roberts.
Tiki Barber, the former Giants running back who hosts WFAN’s 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. show with Brandon Tierney, is the leading internal candidate, and Jerry Ferrara, known for playing Turtle on the HBO hit series “Entourage,” is an external candidate in consideration.
One person who is not a candidate, Marchand reports, is Mike Francesa, the twice-retired longtime WFAN afternoon host who currently hosts a podcast for BetRivers.
Barber, 48, spent his entire 10-year NFL career with the Giants and was a three-time Pro Bowler.
He had a run on “The Today Show” after his retirement and previously was a host for CBS Sports Radio.
Ferrara, the 43-year-old Bensonhurst native, hosted one show with Roberts earlier this year, and WFAN executives liked how it went, according to Marchand.
WFAN has been through a whirlwind with its afternoon drivetime slot since Francesa’s initial retirement in 2017.
The trio of Chris Carlin, Maggie Gray, and Bart Scott were the first replacements, but Francesa came out of retirement months later, returning for a 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. show and bumping Carlin, Gray, and Scott to earlier in the day.
When Francesa retired again at the end of 2019, Roberts and his longtime partner, Joe Benigno, took over the 2 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. slot before Benigno retired in 2020.
Carton, who previously hosted WFAN’s morning show with Boomer Esiason, then became Roberts’ partner in late 2020 after being released from federal prison, where he was serving a sentence for fraud.
