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New Hamilton live show lends voice to American football

Ask sports fans in Hamilton to describe sports in the city and one thing becomes clear; Hamilton is a football city.

Whether it’s CFL (the city’s obvious affection for the hometown Tiger-Cats is on display all the time) or the NFL (the Buffalo Bills are only an hour away across the border), it’s clear that football has had a major impact on our sporting community for decades.

Rob Spehar has become one of the preeminent voices covering professional football in the city. His weekly radio show The Roster Spot – which airs every Sunday at noon on TSN 1150 – has become a hit amongst football fans. The program focuses on the Buffalo Bills, but also ventures into other prominent topics to do with the league south of the border.

“It’s an hour-long show, a perfect lead-in to kickoff every Sunday,” said Spehar. “I’m a new voice in Hamilton on sports. I’m looking towards bigger things, such as a Youtube channel and other on-camera content.”

Spehar is a lifelong sports fan. Growing up in the city’s east end, Spehar followed and played sports religiously growing up and developed an encyclopedia-like knowledge of everything he could get his hands on, with a particular love for the NFL.

Wanting to share his knowledge with the city, Spehar got in touch with TSN 1150.

“I reached out to TSN 1150; they wanted to do an NFL show covering the Buffalo Bills because there is a large contingency of Bills fans in the area,” Spehar said. “The NFL is my niche.”

This year, things are a little bit different. The program airs every Sunday at noon for one hour, perfectly commencing the NFL week which usually starts at 1 pm on Sundays.

“This season we have a better time slot with a bigger audience. It’s pre-game and people are more invested in receiving this information leading straight into the game.”

As the only NFL-focused show in the city, Spehar believes that he and co-host Ian Domenegato are bringing an entirely unique voice to football talk in Hamilton.

“I like to think that I bring something different; we bring humour along with in-depth information,” Spehar said. “The show is an hour, but I could talk for hours about sports. It’s hard to fit everything into that time slot, so I try to share as much information as I possibly can to the listener.”

Along with the weekly show on TSN 1150, they will be hosting a live, in-person aspect to the show. Once a month, The Roster Spot will host a live show at Shoeless Joe’s on Upper James St. Those shows will take place October 13th, November 24th, December 8th, January 12th, as well as a live show the day of the Super Bowl.

“We just want to get in front of the people and let people know who we are,” Spehar said. “We are Hamilton’s only NFL talk show, and there is no other show like this in the area. We want people to be aware of us. Come listen to local radio by local people.”

The Roster Spot is one of the many aspects of Spehar Sports Media that is taking off in the city. The show will be released each week as a podcast and Spehar has intentions of launching a Youtube channel and more video content in the near future.

For more information, you can follow Spehar Sports Media on Instagram @speharsports or on his website at speharsports.media

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