As of this year, fantasy football players have been tuning in to “Fantasy Football Weekly” on KFAN radio for 25 years. But as the show hits the quarter-century mark in longevity, it’s also undergone a change in format.

All but the show’s “boot camp” at Canterbury Park in mid-August have been taped the Friday night before airing on Saturday morning.

The move was made necessary when iHeartRadio, which owns KFAN, wanted to pick up the show as a signature podcast, which means significant promotion.

“The show is really expanding two ways, as a nationally promoted podcast and as a show that will be syndicated in many markets” says Paul Charchian, the show’s host. “That’s the other part of what’s going on and what ended up driving a lot of what the change is about.”

Initially, Charchian says, he broached the idea of syndicating a live show, but iHeart officials recommended the dual approach.

“If you’re going to have the show available to be carried nationally anytime between Friday night and Sunday morning, you pretty much only have one option and that’s to record it,” he says.

That ended up being fine with Charchian and his fellow hosts once they recognized that it wasn’t going to force them to significantly alter the show.

“We tried to find ways to minimize the change to the format,” he says. “The impression we’re under is that people really like the format we’ve developed over 25 years.”

Charchian says he and the show’s rotating crew of co-hosts Brian Johnson, Christian Peterson, Mat Harrison and Scott Fish, wouldn’t take any calls during a typical preseason show and would only take a handful during the regular season outside the show’s final segment, the “Lightning Round,” when for five-to-seven minutes, players could call in for a “who to start” question.

“From the feedback we got it seemed like most of what people got out of it was enjoying me getting worked up when people didn’t follow the rules,” says Charchian, who, even in a phone interview got a bit animated about people’s inability to follow directions. “There aren’t that many rules. Ask one question between two players is not a lot of rules.”

The interaction with listeners, he says, will be missed. “We enjoy communicating with listeners and we like to try and help listeners, even one on one, but the reality is, when you’re answering one person’s ‘who do I start’ question, you’re helping one person. Anyone who doesn’t have that exact same scenario would get a different answer about their scenario.”

The other change some die-hards might notice is the disappearance of the different parody versions of ABBA’s “Take A Chance on Me,” which led into the show’s “Take A Chance on Me” segment, where each expert suggested under-the-radar possible starters for that week’s games. That was a royalty issue. Charchian says the segment will still be a part of the show, just with different music.

The relatively minor changes to the show have left Charchian with no real concerns about making the change. “The show doesn’t have to change all that much,” he says. “If we’d had to really sacrifice the content of the show, we just wouldn’t have done it,” he says.

He expressed gratitude toward KFAN, especially Program Director Chad Abbott, for the time and effort staff have put into producing the new podcasted version of the show.

“They’ve been great to us,” he says. “This whole thing would not happen if Chad Abbott does not help iHeart know we are a product worthy of this level of promotion.”