{"id":66698,"date":"2025-10-09T00:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T00:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T00:51:07","slug":"milwaukees-97-3-the-game-parts-ways-with-steve-czabe-czaban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66698\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee&#8217;s &#8216;97.3 The Game&#8217; parts ways with Steve \u2018Czabe\u2019 Czaban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sports-talk station \u201c97.3 The Game\u201d has parted ways with Milwaukee sports-talk personality Steve \u201cCzabe\u201d Czaban, according to our partners at the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/news\/2025\/10\/08\/steve-czaban-exits-973-the-game.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Business Journal<\/a> (MBJ).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm we parted ways with some employees yesterday, including two on the morning show,\u201d Dan Lenz, Milwaukee market president for the station\u2019s owner iHeartMedia, said in a statement to the MBJ <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/milwaukee\/news\/2025\/10\/08\/steve-czaban-exits-973-the-game.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MBJ, when asked whether the two morning-show employees were Czaban and his co-host Brian Butch, Lenz said, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/973thegame.iheart.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Game<\/a>\u201d has carried Packers game broadcasts since the 2022 season and also carries Wisconsin Badgers football, basketball and other sports broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>TMJ4 received confirmation from Czaban regarding his dismissal on Wednesday, but he did not provide a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining \u201cThe Game\u201d in Milwaukee, Czaban was a regular contributor for 20 years to the popular Bob and Brian morning show on Saga Communications Inc.\u2019s \u201cThe Hog\u201d (102.9 FM) in Milwaukee, according to MBJ.<\/p>\n<p>He also made appearances on TMJ4 News Today to discuss the latest sports headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk:<\/p>\n<p>Hey there! At TMJ4 News, we&#8217;re all about listening to our audience and tackling the stuff that really matters to you. Got a story idea, tip, or just want to chat about this piece? Hit us up using the form below. For more ways to get in touch, head over to tmj4.com\/tips. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s about time to watch on your time. Stream local news and weather 24\/7 by searching for \u201cTMJ4\u201d on your device.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmj4.com\/apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Available for download on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmj4.com\/reportatypo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Report a typo or error<\/a> \/\/ <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmj4.com\/news\/submit-news-tip\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Submit a news tip<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sports-talk station \u201c97.3 The Game\u201d has parted ways with Milwaukee sports-talk personality Steve \u201cCzabe\u201d Czaban, according to our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-66698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}