Jim Rome announced back in February he was ending his simulcast with the CBS Sports Network and that his show would go dark on video “for a short period of time.” That short period turned out to be about three months and will end on May 28 when the show launches a video stream on X.

Rome announced on his show today, “Tremendous news, tremendous news and I’ve been waiting but I am finally ready now to announce it…This radio program is going to launch on the X platform a week from tomorrow, May 28th…That’s how you can watch the show going forward on the live stream on X.”

Rome stressed that nothing changes as far as how people can listen to the show on one the many radio affiliates across the country or on SiriusXM. “But, if you want to watch this show, the live stream begins a week from tomorrow on the X platform,” he said.

Rome introduced the hashtag, JimRomeOnX, and told his fans they “have a much better chance of getting your post read and seeing your post on the stream as it is impossible for us to get to all of them anyway.”

“Tuesday, a week from tomorrow is the big day,” Rome said. “It is go time. We are all fired up. It is finally going to happen. We have been building this thing since the end of Super Bowl, we are finally ready to roll it out, or we will be a week from tomorrow, I am hyped. Make sure you’re a part of this. It’s going to look great. If you’re seeing this now you are getting a taste.

“We will be streaming for the first time ever. As many of you know, I have been on cable, some national TV, but we have never even streamed our content, ever.”

Rome then gave his fans a quick look at what the studio will look like for the X live stream, a screengrab of which is the featured image on this story.

Caleb Hatch, who was the Program Director and morning show co-host at 1380 The Fan in Fort Wayne, Indiana, announced via his LinkedIn page that he is no longer with the Federated Media station and has not been since May 8th.

“May 8th was my final day at 1380 The Fan and Federated Media,” he posted. “I’m grateful to have had so many opportunities provided to me over the past 7 years, from starting as a news anchor and talk show producer to eventually serving as a sports talk show co-host and program director.” He thanked several people and then added, “Now, I am looking forward to growing into a new role this summer as my family also grows this fall.”

Hatch had been the Program Director since August of last year. He was co-host of Caleb and Kenny in the Morning which aired weekdays from 7 a.m.-9 a.m. ET since September 2022.

BSM has been told by a source close to the situation that WOWO Assistant Program Director Josh Williams is now programming 1380 The Fan.

Sean Pendergast and Seth Payne spent time during Payne and Pendergast on SportsRadio 610 in Houston talking about Netflix broadcasting the two Christmas Day games the NFL carved out for them. The Houston Texans will be one of the teams playing as they host the Baltimore Ravens. The first game of the day will feature the Chiefs at the Steelers.

“I’m very anxious to see how Netflix executes on this Christmas Day game with the Texans,” Pendergast said. “Netflix has never done a live football game before. They’ve started to get into more live events…they’re doing the Tyson-Jake Paul fight in July, that’ll be interesting.”

Pendergast referenced an article written by The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch which discussed not only who might announce the game but also who will produce it as Netflix is not set up for a live NFL broadcast from a production standpoint. Deitsch quotes NFL vice president of broadcast planning Mike North, who was a guest of Sports Illustrated’s Jimmy Traina on his podcast.

“…They’re probably going to end up working with existing NFL crews, existing NFL talent, similar to the way Amazon (did) when they picked up the NFL rights a few years ago. They didn’t have a remote production house. They didn’t have people on staff. So, they went and hired NBC.

North said he would guess CBS and Fox production folks would be who they would go with. As far as talent, North said, “I’m sure you’re going to have some regular names that, you know, we’re used to seeing, whether it’s NFL Network talent or former players. Maybe there’s some guys coming out of retirement, coming out of other network broadcast booths. Maybe it’s guys we haven’t heard of. I’m sure there’s time to figure that out, but I would feel pretty confident as we sit here today that it’s going to look and sound like an NFL game by the time we get there.”

Pendergast asked Payne, “Do you have a preference, like if you could pick any announce team to do this Ravens-Texans game?”

“I like Kevin Harlan for everything,” Payne replied. “I want my all-time play-by-play to be Kevin Harlan. I want him to do every game that I care about.”

Pendergast didn’t pick a broadcast team, he just opined on who he does not want. “I just don’t want Tony Romo anywhere near that game, that’s all,” he said. “Just keep Tony Romo away. I don’t want Tony Romo on Christmas. Keep him away from my Ravens and Texans.”