Steve Czaban is an American sports radio personality. Czaban hosts The Steve Czaban Show on The Team 980 with Scott Linn. He also formerly hosted The Steve Czaban Show on Yahoo! Sports Radio and formerly hosted a daily sports segment for Bob & Brian. He was previously featured on Fox Sports Radio.
Upon graduating, Czaban served as the radio announcer for the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos' basketball and football teams in addition to hosting a local sports show on KTMS-AM 1260 in Santa Barbara, California until 1994. Czaban moved back to his hometown and was hired by Andy Pollin at WTEM to do updates as a part-timer for Team Tickers during Summer 1994.
In late 1994, Czaban moved to Chicago to host the morning show on the One-On-One Sports radio network. While in Chicago he met Bob Madden and Brian Nelson, the hosts of Bob & Brian, and added The Sports Report with Steve Czaban segment to their show under the title of "Original Sports Donkey". He hosted until his departure in 1997. In 1998, Czaban was hired by WFNZ based in Charlotte, North Carolina as their afternoon sports show host, but exited in June 1999.
Return to WTEM
''The Sports Reporters''
After six months at ESPN Radio, Czaban rejoined Pollin in 2000 for The Sports Reporters, which aired on Washington, D.C.-based WTEM. The duo raised controversy in December 2012 when commenting on then 50-year-old transgender Mission College basketball player Gabrielle Ludwig. The comments resulted in suspensions for both hosts.
''The Drive''
After a 13-year run, in July 2013 ESPN 980 announced that Pollin would be replaced as Czaban's co-host by former Washington Redskins tight end Chris Cooley. With the departure of Pollin, The Sports Reporters was discontinued while the new show, The Drive with Cooley and Czabe, debuted on August 1, 2013 and included Al Galdi. He signed a three-year extension to continue hosting the show on January 6, 2014.
Fox Sports Radio
While hosting The Sports Reporters, Czaban joined Fox Sports Radio in 2002 and hosted GameTime with Steve Czaban. In January 2005, he was moved to The First Team on Fox as part of their morning lineup, later renamed the Steve Czaban Show until its cancellation in December 2009.
It was announced in August 2010 that Czaban would return to Sporting News Radio. He was joined by his long-time sidekicks, including co-host Scott Linn, producer Steve Solomon and anchor Al Galdi and later, Tim Murray.
After Yahoo Sports Radio was re-branded into SB Nation in August 2016, The Steve Czaban Show continued its morning time slot until September 19, 2016 where listeners were informed via his website that his contract was not renewed and the show was taken off the air. In late October of 2018, he abruptly quit the Bob and Brian in the morning show on 102.9 the Hog in Milwaukee. He is still heard the afternoon drive with Scott Linn on ESPN980 in the Washington DC market.
Czaban has celebrated "Boo Ben Konop Day" on the day after the MLB All-Star game given that there's nothing else to talk about on that day in regards to sports. This is in reference to Konop being booed by a heckler when he announced his Mayoral campaign. The clip became popular and was later on mentioned and parodied in the show South Park where Cartman heckled Wendy.
Personal life
Czaban is married to Deana Czaban and resides on 10 acres in Round Hill, Loudoun County, Virginia. The couple has two daughters, Catherine and Megan.
