A 98.5 The Sports Hub fan favourite who had been floated as a attainable alternative for host Rich Shertenlieb on “Toucher and Rich” is adamant that he received’t be switching to the “miserable” morning hours.
Jim Murray, often known as “Big Jim,” says he’s “comfortable and happy” within the afternoons because the third chair on “Felger and Mazz.”
So even when Beasley Media Group supplied Murray double the cash for him to fill the Shertenlieb function within the mornings, Big Jim says he would go.
On Wednesday, Murray was requested if he was within the working for the open “Toucher and Rich” function, and if he would begin waking up at 3:30 a.m.
“I’ve had a conversation with my agent about it. I told him I’m 100% not interested,” Murray stated on Facebook Live in the course of the “Off-Air Show” with Mike Felger.
“Why not?” Felger requested.
“I’m comfortable with where I’m at,” Big Jim responded.
“What if it’s double the money?” Felger requested.
“So this is what makes my agent very upset because there’s been another opportunity before,” Murray stated. “He’s like, ‘This is what the money is.’ I’m like, ‘Cool. Great. I’m not interested.’ ”
Murray’s agent has known as him a “different client” prior to now after turning down more cash.
“I’m about being comfortable and happy, so yeah, it doesn’t really matter what the money is,” Murray stated. “It’d be nice, but I’d be miserable.”
“If I’m ever going to do mornings, it’s going to have to be my thing,” he added. “That’s just a me thing because those hours will destroy your life. I last did them 10 years ago, and that was what I put in my brain at the time — if it were to ever happen again, it’s 100% my terms, my thing, how I want to do it.”
Last week, Shertenlieb left the morning present after a longtime run with Fred Toucher.
“I’m stunned,” Felger stated in regards to the morning present shakeup. “Like, these jobs are uncommon and they’re well-paying, and it’s a profitable present. I imply, it’s simply you don’t see a man stroll away from a profitable radio present like that. You simply don’t see it.
“So I’m hoping, I believe he’s got to have something as good, if not better, in his back pocket or something,” Felger stated to Murray. “Maybe like you’re thing: Maybe it’s not as well-paying but is more interesting to him and more challenging to him and would make him happier, but he’s got to have something.”
Other than Murray, a high title being talked about as a alternative on the morning present has been Rob “Hardy” Poole, who’s on the noon 98.5 present “Zolak and Bertrand.”
Both Felger and Murray agreed that Hardy could be a great match for the morning present, along with his manufacturing work and music background.
Murray known as it “logical” for Hardy to fill the morning present opening.
Hardy has been floated for months as the brand new morning co-host whereas rumors swirled about Shertenlieb’s future.
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