Gainesville’s first local radio station and one of the oldest in Florida, ESPN Radio 850 serves 14 counties daily with SEVEN hours of locally-hosted sports talk shows featuring Steve Russell, Larry Vettel, Jeff Cordozo, Adam Schick and some of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications’ finest sports students. The station also features Gator sports and ESPN Radio. ESPN Radio 850 went on the air in 1928 and celebrated its 80th anniversary in 2008.