The show thus could resemble another version of the “Steve Czaban Show,” which had a long run on Fox Sports Radio, and then ran mornings for six years on Sporting News Radio, which then became Yahoo Sports Radio, which then became SB Nation Radio. That show was canceled last fall. (Kids: Don’t go into radio. I’m not kidding. Don’t do it.) That previous Czaban morning show — which had a national focus, and was carried for a time on ESPN 980 — also featured Linn and Solomon.

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The new show “is gonna be different” from “The Sports Reporters,” Czaban said on-air on Friday. “It’s gonna be a little less mature, and it’s not going to have Andy, and it’s going to make a lot of people still say boooo. And I get you. I’m with you on the boos, okay? And by the way, it’s going to be at least 40 percent local sports by volume, if not more, depending on the season, unlike the morning show that we used to do together. So you have to realize that. But all I can say is I hope you give it a chance, and I would hope you realize that I would have preferred Andy had stayed right where we were, because I absolutely had a blast doing it.”

Czaban and Pollin’s short-lived reunion on “The Sports Reporters” also had been a reunion for their regular stable of guests, including Wizards play-by-play man Steve Buckhantz, Maryland basketball analyst Chris Knoche and Washington Times columnist Thom Loverro. Czaban said Friday to not expect those guests on his new show.

“Sorry to say it doesn’t look like they’re going to be part of the show going forward,” he said. “It is what it is. Maybe we can wrangle them on for no money. . . . They’re not dead to us, but they are not part of the plan going forward, and that also sucks, the biggest one ever. Because these guys became my best friends. . . . I’m going to miss all of those guys.”

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Weinstein, meantime, will continue doing his afternoon show, only without Linn as his on-air sounding board. Also, a trio of younger ESPN 980 staffers — Tim Murray, Nick Ashooh and Tim Shovers — also are out at the station. Ashooh and Murray had co-hosted “DMV Game Time,” a weeknight program that focused on local sports, giving 980 17 hours of weekday local content, running from 5 a.m. until 10 p.m. A schedule posted on the station’s website now shows syndicated ESPN Radio programming beginning at 7 p.m. most weeknights, after Czaban’s show ends.

Czaban offered a lengthy on-air tribute to Pollin on Friday, thanking him for kick-starting his local radio career and calling him “the consummate pro.”

“He is so deeply knowledgeable about D.C. sports, in every area, it’s crazy,” Czaban said. “And nobody can touch him when it comes to Redskins history. Nobody. He started the station 25 years ago, and he’s done more and seen more at this station than you can possibly imagine. . . . He’s seen it all. He’s been through it all. And I owe everything to him.”

As for the ending? Well, that’s how radio shows end: in a poof. I’m telling you, kids, don’t go into radio.