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There's a new Detroit sports talk radio station in town.

(Detroit Sports 105.1 FM)

DETROIT,

MI - It definitely wasn't the smoothest music to sports talk radio station transition in the business, but the new Detroit Sports 105.1 FM station launched Monday with a new drive-time show hosted by a familiar voice in the area.

This station, one that used to specialize in pop music, gave the mic to former "Drew and Mike" co-host Drew Lane at 3:09 p.m. He started taking callers at 3:38 p.m.

"Better get this right," Lane said in his opening comments, "the new Detroit Sports 105.1 ... with me ... Drew!"

Calls came in after 105.1 FM aired a series of raunch "Drew and Mike" show clips and an intro that billed the station as one "by Detroit sports fans, for Detroit sports fans" and played the beat to Eminem's hit song "Lose Yourself."

It took a little while for Lane to hit the hot Detroit sports topics of the past few days, and the station's website launched more than 20 minutes later than expected, but callers appeared to appreciate the new option on the radio dial.

Check out Lane's first five minutes on the air below and share your thoughts/reviews in MLive Detroit's comments section.

Lane explained the mission of the station, his transition from

WRIF

-FM (1011) to 105.1, and appeared to not recognize who did the radio call Sunday of two Miguel Cabrera home runs in the Detroit Tigers' game against the New York Yankees.

The voices of Tigers play-by-play announcer Mario Impemba and color commentator Rod Allen did the call that was played on the air.

Lane's response after the radio call: "Who were those people, by the way?"

When a caller mentioned other sports stations in Detroit, Lane playfully responded like he didn't know each existed.

"Is there another sports station?," Lane said. "Seriously?"

Yes, there is. There are now five sports talk stations in Detroit including WXYT 97.1

FM, WXYT

1270 AM (CBS Sports Radio),

WDFN

1130 AM and

WCAR

1090 AM (NBC Sports Radio).

Lane mentioned during the broadcast that his show will included several special guests including former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr, Red Wings color commentator Mickey Redmond and Fox 2 news personality Charlie LeDuff.

Are you a big fan of Lane and think the new sports station can make it in Detroit's crowded market?

Cast your vote in MLive Detroit's reader poll.