WFAN host Craig Carton is leaving the network with the radio show ending June 30 to join FS1

Longtime WFAN New York radio host Craig Carton is leaving the network.

The 54-year-old is focusing on his cable TV role on FS1, where he will earn seven figures, according to the NY Post.

Carton confirmed his departure by starting his afternoon show an hour earlier than usual so that he had time for a lengthy monologue about his career before his announcement.

“Have a great day and a very sad day for me, it’s one of the hardest days I’ll ever do on radio, because I’m leaving WFAN,” Carton said.

He will now focus solely on his show which debuted last September and is known as ‘The Carton Show’.

Carton, whose last day on the local radio station will be June 30, has reportedly debated long and hard about accepting the lucrative offer due to his loyalty to FAN.

In November 2020, the station gave Carton a second chance to work for FAN.

He was sentenced to 42 months in prison in Manhattan in April 2019 for his role in a $5.6 million card fraud scheme.

Carton, the former radio co-host of 1988 NFL MVP Boomer Esiason, was convicted of wire and securities conspiracy and fraud and faced up to 45 years in prison.

Carton resigned from his radio show following his 2017 arrest when he was accused of defrauding investors in a ticket resale company.

Carton reportedly made about $2 million when he was paired with ex-NFL quarterback Esiason on a popular WFAN “Boomer and Carton” radio show before his 2017 arrest forced him to leave.

At his 2019 sentencing, Carton said memories of sexual abuse he suffered at age 11 were triggered by revelations of sexual crimes by Jerry Sandusky, a former Penn State assistant football coach who was convicted of child sexual abuse in 2012 .

He said he turned to blackjack and became a gambling addict, oblivious to winning and losing.

“I didn’t celebrate winning $4 million in three days… in the Bahamas. I wasn’t complaining about losing $700,000 in less than 24 hours in Atlantic City a few weeks later,” he said.

He called his arrest a “lightning bolt of consciousness” that led him to Gamblers Anonymous and therapy.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Carton attended Syracuse University in 1991 with a degree in broadcast journalism and began working in Buffalo, before eventually moving on to radio jobs in Cleveland, Philadelphia, and eventually New York.

Carton suffers from Tourette’s syndrome and was previously involved in charitable efforts to tackle the disease.

FS1 reportedly has faith in Carton and his abilities, and despite the fact that ‘The Carton Show’ hasn’t had good ratings since its inception, the network believes that will improve once it no longer divides attention between TV and radio.