NYC Radio: Craig Carton Launching Podcast

NYC Sports Personality Craig Carton has been publicly silent for nearly three months on sports and other subjects, a circumstance he said “has been much more difficult than I ever thought it would be.”

To at least partially address it, the former WFAN 660 AM / 101.9 FM host announced on Monday a new podcast and website, both called “Hello, My Name is Craig,” that went live at 10 a.m.

According to Newsday, it will feature a new podcast interview every Monday starting on Dec. 4 plus commentaries by Carton during the week.

“Having a voice and opinion on issues of the day, sports or otherwise, is what I’ve done every day for the past 25 years,” he said in an interview with Newsday via email, “and not doing that for the past few months has been hard.

“I’ll be able to do that on a weekly basis with the podcast and I’ll be posting a variety of content on the site throughout the week as well.”

Carton was arrested on Sept. 6 on federal charges of wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy and resigned a week later. WFAN announced last week that Gregg Giannotti will replace him alongside Boomer Esiason starting on Jan. 2.

Carton pleaded not guilty at his arraignment earlier this month.