Eagles

RADIO WARS – Betrayal?

By Kevin Kinkead

Published: Aug 2nd, 2018 · 3:17 PM EDT

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I don’t really know if this qualifies as a “RADIO WARS” post, but I’ll brand it that way just for the hell of it.

Some news from the Bleeding Green camp this afternoon:

The BGN Radio as you knew it is dead. I’ve been forced off the podcast I originally reached out to create back in 2013. It’s a long story that I plan to address in a post on @BleedingGreen at some point soon. For now, I feel incredibly betrayed, demoralized, and defeated.

— Brandon Lee Gowton (@BrandonGowton) August 2, 2018

Wait, what?

John Barchard explains the split (after the jump):

Full details here! pic.twitter.com/jmrpIK4CzH

— John Barchard | Monetize Philly (@JohnBarchard) August 2, 2018

It's an incredibly long story but @BrandonGowton is going to stick with @BleedingGreen and keep giving everyone the amazing content that he has continued to do for the last 5+ years now. We are committed to some how uniting once again in the future. https://t.co/8tl0JLLrIK

— John Barchard | Monetize Philly (@JohnBarchard) August 2, 2018

So BGN Radio is basically being rebranded as “Go Birds” and moving to Radio.com under the Entercom umbrella. You can still hear Barchard and James Seltzer on 94 WIP Saturdays as well. Jack Fritz and Vince Quinn will also be involved.

I don’t know why Gowton is not part of this. My understanding is that SB Nation had the copyright to “BGN Radio,” which explains the name change, but I was under the assumption that Brandon would just continue with the group in the same role. It might have been an Entercom decision that Barchard and the others had nothing to do with. I guess we’ll get BLG’s side of the story in the near future.

For what it’s worth, I like the show and I listen to the WIP version when I’m in the car on Saturday afternoons. Brandon does good work at the Bleeding Green website and is always pumping out a ton of content on a daily basis. He also had a short stint at Birds 24/7 before Philly Mag made the dumb ass decision to axe the blog.

Time’s yours.