{"id":210867,"date":"2025-10-13T22:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210867\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:28:07","slug":"sports-talk-station-97-3-the-game-switches-to-music-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/210867\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports-talk station 97.3 The Game switches to music format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/86672378007.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the Brewers clubhouse celebration after clinching the NLDS<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Brewers clubhouse celebration after clinching the NLDS on Saturday, October 11, 2025 at American Family Field in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 12, Milwaukee sports fans heard the Green Bay Packers&#8217; radio broadcast on 97.3 The Game.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 13, they heard \u2026 adult contemporary music?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/2025\/10\/09\/steve-czaban-brian-butch-no-longer-on-97-3-the-game-morning-show\/86600154007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Following layoffs<\/a> of high-profile members of its sports-talk roster,<a href=\"https:\/\/barrettmedia.com\/2025\/10\/13\/iheartmedia-drops-sports-talk-on-97-3-the-game-milwaukee-following-layoffs-last-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> parent company iHeartMedia changed the format of the station <\/a>as part of a restructure, turning it into B97.3 FM at noon Oct. 13, starting with &#8220;Happy&#8221; by Pharrell Williams.<\/p>\n<p>A source said the remaining sports personalities remain employed and will continue with their regular lineup of shows on the online iHeartRadio app and in 1070 The Game in Madison. The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/milwaukee-brewers\/232\" data-autotag=\"2e988874-d41e-4a95-b9a5-02e215dd7d41\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> postgame show hosted by Tim Allen will air in the Milwaukee market on Oct. 13 on WOKY AM-920.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely jaw dropping,&#8221; former morning-show host Steve Czaban <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/czabe\/status\/1977793833099497668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted on social media<\/a>, mere days after Czaban and co-host Brian Butch were let go. &#8220;In the middle of the Brewers historic feel good World Series run, and a possible Super Bowl season for the Packers. Wow. My heart hearts for everyone. Thank you to all of our listeners. We\u2019re sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>WISN reported that all Packers and Badgers broadcasts that had previously aired on 97.3 FM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/green-bay-packers-radio-games-to-957-fm-after-iheart-media-ends-sports-radio-on-973-fm-milwaukee-nfl\/69021141\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">will now air on the radio at 95.7 FM (WRIT).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(This story was updated to add new information.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch the Brewers clubhouse celebration after clinching the NLDS Watch the Brewers clubhouse celebration after clinching the NLDS&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1338,159,3050,76,7671,49,48,75,527,1465,102605,1337,1348,7670,493,341,44,514,8827,1333,1345,1334,1893,82,865,39,1335,12112],"class_list":["post-210867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-affiliate","tag-american","tag-american-football","tag-arts","tag-brewers","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-football","tag-hub","tag-iheartmedia","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-music","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-hub","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-radio","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-top-stories","tag-u0026","tag-wi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}