The Washington Commanders will have a new radio broadcast partner in 2022, Kevin Sheehan of Team 980, announced Wednesday morning.
The announcement means Commanders games will not be carried on Team 980, 106.7 The Fan, or 910 The Fan in Richmond, Virginia. Audacy owns all three stations.
Sheehan made the following announcement on his show, “The Kevin Sheehan Show,” per Ben Krimmel of Audacy.com:
The Commanders and Audacy “disagreed on the value of the broadcasts [and] it is also very important for us as a sports talk station, even as a long-time flagship station for the team, it was important for us to continue to be able to provide honest, objective information and analysis about the [Commanders] on our talk shows,” Sheehan said.
The Team 980 has broadcast Washington’s games for years and was once owned by Commanders’ owner Daniel Snyder.
The Commanders released a statement, via Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post:
We initiated a formal RFP [request for proposal] process last fall for the Washington Commanders Radio Broadcast Agreement, which concluded last week. Multiple companies submitted bids as part of this process, including Audacy who was an active and aggressive participant and submitted multiple partnership proposals for the next three years of increased value over our previous deal. Based on the evaluation process, we selected a new partner who will bring a significantly larger deal, as well as new creativity and broader reach and scale, to programming. We shared with Audacy last week that we would not be moving forward as partners.
Sheehan noted that while the Team 980 would no longer broadcast Washington games, the station would have plenty of gameday content, such as up to four hours of pregame coverage, an in-game talk show focused on fan reactions, etc.
Julie Donaldson, Bram Weinstein and former Washington star DeAngelo Hall are the Commanders’ gameday broadcast team.
