The merging of satellite radio providers XM and Sirius made big news around the country for quite a while. What you might not have heard, though, was that the resulting management decided to dump all daytime fantasy sports programming.

That move left RotoWire’s Fantasy Focus baseball show, hosted by two-time FSWA baseball writer of the year Jeff Erickson, homeless after a four-year run on XM. Loyal listeners needn’t worry, however, as the show will appear on The Fantasy Sports Channel on BlogTalkRadio.com beginning Monday.

“We’re excited the show will to continue to run at the same time and format since it built a loyal audience over it’s four-year run on XM and really became the place to hear all the industry’s top experts,” RotoWire.com president Peter Schoenke told FSB.com. “The show will continue to be able to interact live with listeners through call-ins or a chat room via the BlogTalkRadio platform.”

The change will also make the shows available in podcast form via RotoWire’s podcast page, BlogTalkRadio.com and iTunes. Fans who couldn’t catch the show at airtime didn’t have that luxury when it appeared on XM.

“The show was very popular [on XM] and had a strong audience, but the new management team decided to go another direction with the MLB Home Plate channel,” Schoenke said. “During it’s run it was perhaps the most high-profile fantasy show on radio, as it preceded ESPN’s buildup of fantasy content and even later still did the most shows per year of any fantasy sports radio or television program.”

RotoWire’s Fantasy Focus will broadcast live from noon to 1 p.m. every weekday.

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