The Third Shift was a daily radio program broadcast nationally on Fox Sports Radio

Fox Sports Radio

Fox Sports Radio, abbreviated FSR, is an international radio network consisting of sports talk programming. The network is a service of Premiere Networks...

 (FSR) from 2–6 AM ET. The program was hosted by FSR's Ben Maller

Ben Maller

Benjamin "Big Ben" Maller is an American sports radio host, for Fox Sports Radio where he hosts a program on weekend nights, and previously The Third Shift. Maller is also one of the original sports bloggers, with his popular website BenMaller.com, Ben has broken numerous stories over the...

 with Karen Kay. The show was produced by Greg Bergman. Clear Channel Communications laid off seven percent of its workforce and therefore Maller, Kay and Bergman were dismissed in January 2009.

Hosts

• Ben Maller
  Ben Maller
  Benjamin "Big Ben" Maller is an American sports radio host, for Fox Sports Radio where he hosts a program on weekend nights, and previously The Third Shift. Maller is also one of the original sports bloggers, with his popular website BenMaller.com, Ben has broken numerous stories over the...
  
  : host of show
• Karen Kay: anchor, updates
• Greg Bergman: producer/call screener
• "The Amazing" Vladimir: (2008 - ????)

Former hosts

• Jorge Sedano
  Jorge Sedano
  American Sports Broadcaster and Talk Show Host Jorge Sedano is the host of The Jorge Sedano Show on 790 The Ticket which airs from 6am-10am ET.. He's also currently a sports anchor at CBS4 WFOR-TV in Miami. He's also a contributor for the Miami Herald online Sports section...
  
  : host on weekdays from 2004-2007
• Josh Gears "Lord of the Board": (until 2008)

Coach, Player, or Entertainer

Coach, Player, or Entertainer was a segment that briefly ran in place of the TWIST in early 2007, and also for one week in September 2007. The format was nearly the same as the TWIST, but the trivia and scoring was slightly different. Ben gave a name of a coach, professional sports player, actor or musician. The player received 10 points for guessing the correct category, and 5 bonus points for saying what team or television show/movie/band the person was in. The caller with the most points at the end of the timed segment won.

Ben Versus The Coin

On Saturdays during the NFL season, Ben competed against a coin toss on picking the winners of each game that week. In 2006 Ben was outscored by the coin by almost 40 games. The segment was moved online and is available on iTunes

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 as a podcast

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.

The Challenge Line

This is a poor man's version of Jim Rome's "Smackoff". Topics ranged from sport rants to personal gripes. The game was played between two callers, and each was given two chances to each other. In the first round, each caller got 30 seconds, one after the other. The crew briefly discussed it, and then the second round begins. The second round is in the same format but given only 15 seconds. At the end of the second round the crew voted the winner, and took text or email votes from other callers and declared a winner.

Password

Password was the "word game of the stars" held every Friday on The Third Shift on FSR. The game was based upon the American television game show that had been airing periodically since 1961. Live callers were teamed-up with the celebrity hosts and asked to guess the password based upon one-word clues administered by the hosts of the show. The game play was alternated between the two teams.

Sports Jeopardy!

On Tuesday mornings, two callers competed in a sports themed contest similar to the game show Jeopardy!

Jeopardy!

Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...

. The questions were usually written by one of the hosts or occasionally by one of the famous callers. Karen Kay acts as a life line for the contestants. Julio or a caller on hold may also be used as a life line.