ESPN Radio 101.7 The Team

Specialties

ESPN Radio Albuquerque 101.7 FM The TEAM is your station for Dallas Cowboys Football, Los Angeles Dodger Baseball, University of New Mexico Lobo Baseball, New Mexico State Aggies Basketball, and the Flagship Station for APS Athletics!

We are Your Hometown Radio Station!

History

Established in 2008.

It’s taken plenty of work, but the pieces keep settling into place for Joe O’Neill at ESPN Radio 101.7 The TEAM.

O’Neill and his investors — Scott and Laura Grady, Jim and Jacque Smart & Turner & Margaret Branch — first needed a broadcast frequency.

Once they secured the signal (101.7 FM), O’Neill, business manager David Dominguez and operations manager Sal Ortiz went to work filling the content. FM Sports Radio 101.7 The TEAM went on the air in August of 2008, as a Fox Sports Radio affiliate. For early local content, O’Neill interviewed New Mexico radio legend Mike Roberts. «A Few Minutes with Mike» was born. Some of the early segments were produced in O’Neill’s kitchen.

ESPN, the biggest name in sports media, eventually took notice of that The TEAM was doing, and eventually asked the new station to become an affiliate. The TEAM became ESPN Radio 101.7 The TEAM on June 24, 2010, a major coup and shift in the local sports talk radio landscape.

And it’s not stopping any time soon.

Meet the Business Owner

Joe O.

Business Owner

It’s taken plenty of work, but the pieces keep settling into place for Joe O’Neill at ESPN Radio 101.7 The TEAM.

O’Neill had been a fixture in the Albuquerque sports scene for several years. He was the sports marketing director for a prominent station and Lobos basketball color analyst for eight years. A switch in the landscape of UNM sports broadcasts presented an opportunity for the energetic O’Neill.

It was a chance to start and run his own sports station and the station started broadcasting a sports talk format as «The TEAM» as of August 1, 2008.