The Doug Gottlieb Show

The Doug Gottlieb Show is a weekday sports talk and debate radio show on ESPN Radio, that airs Monday-Friday from 4pm ET for three hours till 7pm ET. It replaced SportsNation on ESPN Radio and Gottlieb's former show, The Pulse. Since debuting on November 13, 2006, the host of the program has been hosted by former Oklahoma State Cowboys guard and current ESPN college basketball analyst Doug Gottlieb along with ESPN Radio SportsCenter update anchor, Jon Stashower. Stashower was the SportsCenter anchor for the show in the 8pm-11pm slot until 2008, when he was moved to the afternoon spot allowing anchors Marc Kestecher and Neil Jackson to split the time between 8pm–11pm. He rejoined the show on February 2, 2009 when it was moved to its earlier slot.

The debuting of The Doug Gottlieb Show, caused a major shake up in the ESPN Radio lineup, as SportsNation on ESPN Radio was dropped completely from the airwaves and The Brian Kenny Show was created to take up the later slot, from 8pm-10pm.

Since joining ESPN Radio in September 2003, Gottlieb had co-hosted GameNight along with personalities such as Chuck Wilson, Jeff Rickard, John Seibel and Freddie Coleman. Due to Gottlieb's extensive work for ESPN's college basketball coverage, the primary fill-in host for the program during the evening was Andy Gresh but since Gresh's departure from ESPN Radio, Jason Smith is the regular substitute for Gottlieb.

Design

The design of The Doug Gottlieb Show has been very caller friendly with many segments and features containing calls and e-mails from listeners. Gottlieb, with his unique opinions, often includes pop culture and personal commentaries in the show. The move to the earlier slot replaced the GameNight and The Pulse segment called the Scoreboard Update every ten minutes, where the SportsCenter anchor would deliver the most up-to-date scores from games across the country. So far, weekly guests on the program have appeared as well as special guests daily.

Segments

• Friend of Doug: Also known as "FOD", this segment appears almost every show, when Doug is joined by one of his "friends" on ESPN. Some of them include:

• Josh Elliott of ESPNEWS and SportsCenter
• Dan LeBatard of The Miami Herald
• Colin Cowherd of The Herd

• The Pulse of America: In this segment, Gottlieb is joined by sports writers and broadcasters to report on the news from their respective cities.
• Stark Raving Doug: This is when Gottlieb performs his rant of the day.
• The Three: This segment appears at the end of each program, when Doug runs down the three things that the listeners need to remember from the days show.
• What Does America Think?: Gottlieb poses questions to the listeners to give them a chance to participate on the program.

References

• ESPN This Week: “THE PULSE” WITH DOUG GOTTLIEB JOINS ESPN RADIO LINEUP

External links

• The Pulse show page
• ESPN Radio official website