Cote: Stugotz has major new iHeart deal, but says isn’t done with Le Batard Show
Fans of the Dan LeBatard Show have been wondering and asking for months if it would ever be the Dan Le Batard Show With Stugotz again like it was before.
Looks like the unsurprising answer came Monday when iHeart Media revealed the news that Jon “Stugotz” Weiner will soon have his own new nationwide radio show and podcast network.
But that does not mean Stugotz will no longer appear with Dan.
“Naturally people, on the heels of this, are going to have questions, rightfully so,” said Stugotz on his own Stugotz And Company show Monday. “All I can tell you on that end is that the people I have partnered with have all been incredibly flexible and understanding of a 20-year relationship with me and Dan. They know how much the relationship with Dan, that show and that audience means to me.”
There is a plan, for example, for Stugotz to reappear on the Le Batard Show for nine shows in January.
Stugotz and iHeart agreed to a multiplatform long-term deal that includes the Stugotz Podcast Network as well as his hosting a new show on Fox Sports Radio every Monday through Friday afternoon from 3 to 5 beginning in January. The show will emanate from iHeart studios in South Florida and be heard on more than 250 stations around the country.
The new radio venture is designed as an extension of the Stugotz And Company podcast. The new network also will include his God Bless Football podcast “and countless other shows on the way,” Stugotz said. “I want to build a [bleeping] empire.”
He added, “There was a ton of interest but it became obvious to me that iHeart and Fox Sports Radio were going to be the landing spot.” Stugotz called it “an opportunity I wasn’t going to pass up.”
The major career turn happens in the wake of Stugotz’s apparent gradual departure from the Le Batard Show that he’d been cohost of for the past 20 years, on ESPN and later independently. Stugotz has not appeared on the main Meadowlark Media podcast since July, though he said as recently as October that he’ d be returning. On his own podcast earlier this month Stugotz declined to elaborate on the Le Batard Show situation, saying he would “share that when I feel like sharing it.”
Seems as if he shared it Monday with the news of his new fulltime venture.
The news did not catch Le Batard by surprise. His show has been planning for several weeks to move on without his regular presence, but now, apparently, with at least his occasional presence.
“Thrilled for him,” Le Batard told the Herald on Monday. “He wanted to build his own world, and he has. He’ll always be a sports radio giant.”
This story was originally published December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM.
