In a series of tweets last night, Josh Innes said he is joining ESPN 97.5 KFNC next week.
Here are those tweets compiled together:
Starting Monday I’ll be bringing “The Josh Innes Show” back to radio on @espn975 in Houston. I’ll be on from 2p-4p Monday-Friday.
How long the show continues depends on the listeners and the sponsors.
Just to be clear, I am working on @espn975 until they find their permanent solution.
I heard they were airing national programming, so I offered my services. We came to an agreement and I’m back on the radio.
View this as a long term fill in.
I’m really looking forward to this opportunity with @espn975.
As Lloyd Dobbler once said, “I’m just looking for a date to be great situation”.
I have nothing to lose. Everything to gain.
His return is after last week's departure of ESPN 97.5 FM hosts Raheel Ramzanali and Barry Laminack. The station told the Houston Chronicle's David Barron that departure was due to the economic downturn associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
CultureMap, and sister property to ESPN 97.5, columnist Ken Hoffman asked Innes about lessons he has learned during his radio career:
CM: On your podcast, you often talk about "past mistakes" and how you've learned from them. What mistakes are you talking about, and what did you learn?
JI: The mistakes I reference are usually those that involve inner-office politics. I’m not a bad guy. But too often I’ve let petty BS derail my career path. I rarely started the drama with co-workers, but I always felt the need to finish it. That has been my biggest downfall. What I’ve learned in my time away is that none of that matters. Petty, small people will always be there to try to tear you down. Why make it easy for them?
This is not the first time Innes has appeared on ESPN 97.5. Last November he did some fill-in work there. It was the first time he had been Houston radio in eight months.
That was because in March of 2019, SportsTalk 790 KBME let go Iness, his wife Jilly and producer Jim Mudd.
“The Sean Salisbury Show” took over his morning slot. .
Innes had been doing mornings on KBME since June of 2017.
He was hired by 790 to return to Houston from Philadelphia's Sports Radio 94 WIP in October 2016.
He replaced Charlie Pallilo in the afternoons. Now he and Pallilo will be on the same station. Pallilo is on ESPN 97.5 at 11am in "The Press Box" show along with Joel Blank and Nick Sharara.
Before Philly, Innes was an afternoon show host with Rich Lord on SportsRadio 610 KILT.
Innes said on Facebook that the Josh Innes Show podcast will continue.
Innes talked more about his new ESPN 97.5 show on his Twitch stream last night (embedded below).
