SOUTH FLORIDA SPORTS BUSINESS & GOLF RADIO SHOW REVIVED AT FOX SPORTS 640 WITH FAMILIAR FACES AT THE MICROPHONE
The Sports Business radio team is back together.
Ken Kennerly, the former Executive Director of The Honda Classic and now the Executive Director of the new PGA TOUR Champions James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame invitational, is creating a new sports business show at Fox Sports 640 AM featuring The Sports Professor Rick Horrow and on-air personality Ken LaVicka.
The show, to be launched October 30 and be broadcast Wednesday nights from 6-7 p.m., will be called The Sports Business and Golf Boardroom presented by The James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational.
The trio teamed to bring sports business to the South Florida airwaves for 16 years through a partnership with The Honda Classic. The new show will be owned by Kennerly’s K2 Sports Ventures.
“We are bringing together talents that complement each other perfectly to create an entertaining weekly discussion on the business of sports and golf,” Kennerly said. “Rick Horrow has been the preeminent voice of sports business and law issues nationwide. His knowledge and relationships with the power brokers of sports is well documented. Coupled with Ken LaVicka and his tremendous career as a leading sports broadcaster, the show pulls together a winning duo on the only sports business talk show in Florida.
“Our new PGA TOUR Champions event, The James Hardie Pro Football Hall of Fame Invitational, will be our presenting sponsor showcasing the Legends of Golf together with the Legends of Football playing this March in Boca Raton.”
Horrow has been the architect of 100+ deals worth more than $20 billion in sports, performing arts, and other urban infrastructure projects. A popular speaker, writer/author and commentator on the business, law, and politics of sports, he is nicknamed “The Sports Professor” and has provided regular sports business content to broadcast outlets throughout the country. Each Boardroom show will include Horrow interviews with some of the leading figures in sports. The first will be an interview Horrow did with Pete Rose before his recent death.
“It’s very exciting to bring the $1.3 trillion world of sports business to the South Florida audience in a bigger and better way,” Horrow said. “We will mix local stories with national interviews to bring a fresh perspective that listeners don’t get in other places. We are excited to work with Fox and Ken LaVicka to emphasize the highlights of 50 years of sports business in South Florida to our audience.”
LaVicka has spent nearly two decades as a prominent sports talker and play-by-play broadcaster. He is the play-by-play voice for Florida Atlantic University game broadcasts, the vocal soundtrack to the biggest moments in the school's history dating back to 2007. From Florida Atlantic's two Conference USA football championships under head coach Lane Kiffin and the basketball team's dream run to the 2023 Final Four, LaVicka has produced several of college sports' most prominent calls over the past decade. In addition to his work with Florida Atlantic, he is a national radio host with ESPN Radio, broadcasts MLS, USL & NWSL soccer matches and was named South Florida's Best Sportscaster in 2024 by Miami New
Times.
Fox Sports 640 is the home of two of the biggest names in sports talk radio, Dan Patrick and Colin Cowherd, a wide-ranging lineup of NFL and college football games as well as the flagship station for all Florida Atlantic University teams. The station has a coverage area from Key Largo to Stuart.
“We are proud work with Ken LaVicka and Rick Horrow in bringing this topical local show to our South Florida community,” said Elizabeth Hamma, SVP/Market Manager, Hubbard Radio South Florida which owns Fox Sports 640. “Combining this talented broadcast team with content that is unique and very relative to our audience is certainly a winning combination and we are proud to be a part of it.”