{"id":420273,"date":"2026-01-20T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420273\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:00:11","slug":"iheartmedia-completes-shutdown-of-the-game-wisconsin-network-launches-new-morning-show-on-woky-wtso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/420273\/","title":{"rendered":"iHeartMedia Completes Shutdown Of The Game Wisconsin Network; Launches New Morning Show On WOKY &#038; WTSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-od-removed-loading=\"lazy\" data-od-replaced- data-od-xpath=\"\/HTML\/BODY\/DIV[@class='jeg_viewport']\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[5][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::DIV]\/*[2][self::DIV]\/*[1][self::P]\/*[1][self::IMG]\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/huddle-200x200-jpg.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"The Huddle Drew Olson Bill Schmid  Armen Saryan\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-335169\"  \/>After flipping Sports \u201c97.3 The Game\u201d WRNW Milwaukee to AC <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/312732\/the-game-gives-way-to-b97-3-in-milwaukee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in October<\/a>, iHeartMedia is shutting down its statewide \u201cThe Game\u201d network across Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>iHeart had continued providing twelve hours of daily programming to affiliates across Wisconsin including their own \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/1070thegame.iheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1070 The Game<\/a>\u201d WTSO Madison and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefanec.iheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">98.7 The Fan<\/a>\u201d 1400 WBIZ\/98.7 W254CN Eau Claire as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/973thegame.iheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">streaming in Milwaukee<\/a>. Midwest Communications\u2019 three affiliates <a href=\"https:\/\/wnflsports.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1440 WNFL<\/a>\/101.9 W270AJ Green Bay and 99.7 WDKF Sturgeon Bay, Wausau market \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/939thegame.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">93.9 The Game<\/a>\u201d 1390 WRIG Schofield\/93.9 W230BU Rothschild, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/wdsm710.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">710 The Game<\/a>\u201d WDSM Superior WI\/Duluth MN had switched to Audacy\u2019s Wisconsin Sports Network following the demise of WRNW.<\/p>\n<p>With the end of the network, current 6-10am hosts Bill Schmid and Armen Saryan will be joined by former afternoon host Drew Olson for a new show on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/fsr920.iheart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Fox Sports 920<\/a>\u201d WOKY Milwaukee and WTSO. \u201cThe Huddle\u201d will air on the two stations from 5-8am. Both WOKY and WTSO will feature Fox Sports Radio national programming the remainder of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown of the network has led to the end of the 10am-2pm \u201cDND\u201d show hosted by Doug Russell, Nick Bruesewitz and Dave Gasper and afternoon show most recently fronted by Olson and Hunter Baumgardt following the recent exit of Kevin \u2018KB\u2019 Brandt.<\/p>\n<p>iHeartMedia had launched the statewide network <a href=\"https:\/\/radioinsight.com\/headlines\/200898\/97-3-the-game-expands-across-wisconsin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in November 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After flipping Sports \u201c97.3 The Game\u201d WRNW Milwaukee to AC in October, iHeartMedia is shutting down its statewide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-420273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420273","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=420273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}