Sad to hear. I hate seeing people lose their jobs. It has been a rough year.

Over many years when Ohio would play at Akron, I would listen to Steve French on the post-game show. And consistently I wondered how many - or how few - people were listening.

Given Akron's paltry attendance, I'm thinking that Steve's listenership numbered in the 100s, not the 1,000s.

I often wondered the same thing when I was doing high school games in Indiana back in the '70s -- especially the games we ran on tape delay. Then I'd stop in a local restaurant on the way home and they'd have the tape-delay game on or I'd get some comment about the broadcast during the week from someone I'd meet. One of the basketball coaches told me that they'd listen to the tape delay of their game in the bus on the way home. I imagine that high school games still get a fair amount of radio listenership but with ESPN+ becoming more pervasive, college games on radio are probably limited to convenience stores and other shops.

The change at Akron is due to a change in flagship stations. Akron alum Dave Skoczen will do pbp: https://gozips.com/news/2020/10/30/general-skoczen-tabbed...

Play by play team is employed by the school, not the station. Zips have moved around over the years from 1350 to 640, etc., but French was always part of the package.

Either they cut him for financial reasons or he decided to step back. I'm guessing the former.