BPM Sports: Tony Marinaro and Martin Lemay not sure if they’ll be back in the fall

And this morning, on his last show of the year, Tony Marinaro also talked about all this to conclude his show. Basically, he took the opportunity to thank listeners in turn, but also to note that he doesn’t know what’s in store for next season.

He noted that he hopes to be back next year… and to prove that his heart is with BPM Sports, he confessed that he turned down offers from other stations during the last radio season.

Interestingly, Marinaro also used the end of his show to criticize some of the station’s ways of doing things. In fact, he explained that the station’s contracts are usually not renewed until two or three weeks before the start of the season… and that, for him, is unacceptable.

He doesn’t want to wait that long to find out about his future (he says he has his own timetable), but he also wants the practices to change for the other resort employees. If he can change that, he says it would be a victory in his eyes.

We’ll see what the next few weeks hold in store for the station, but I wonder if Marinaro’s words, which were a home run hire for BPM Sports this year, will mean that people’s contracts at the station will be signed earlier this summer.

Because we all agree that if Marinaro leaves, it would hurt the station more than the host, especially since the latter will certainly be in high demand if he becomes a “stand-alone host”.

Extension

It’s worth noting that this lunchtime, the station published a message on X to highlight the very big season it has just had.

Do we really want to change such a recipe? I’d like to think not… but we’ll have to change the way we do things when it comes to contracts if we want to succeed. Because losing Marinaro and Lemay (and possibly some of the station’s other big names) would hurt.