About Empty The Bench

The original idea of Empty the Bench began when Nick Morgasen, Tom Albano, and Nick Fodera met in a journalism class at Hofstra University. Nick Morgasen had the vision for his own media website that would host podcasts and written articles. While the website idea didn't fully come to fruition, Tom and Nick Fodera, both of whom were originally brought on for Nick Morgasen's site, committed to the idea of hosting a podcast.

About six years and many changes later, they are still going strong. And what started as one podcast has turned into a network. While the Empty the Bench Network still holds its roots in sports (as seen through programs like ETB Sports, Game On & The MMA Outsiders), it has added other kinds of programming over the last year or so that highlight different focuses from pop culture to lifestyle.

No matter your taste, ETB has something for you. And no matter the show, the hosts of ETB come together for the same purpose: To entertain, to engage, to inform, and to leave nothing on the bench!

A jack of all trades some may say. 

Under the ETB Network, Nico serves as The Head of Social Media, Co-Head of Content alongside Nick Morgasen & Tom Albano & Director of Programming along with Tom Albano.

Early 2021 still in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic Nico and Nick Morgasen met through mutual friends and realized we were very similar and shared the same work ethics, goals and aspirations in this industry. From then we grew a great friendship as well as becoming frustrated with how things started to turn out professionally for the both of us.

Mid October of 2021 Nick shared his thoughts to go forth and create the ETB Network and from then on we have been assisting each other to our maximum abilities to get the Network to where it is today and more to bring it where we envision it to be.

Outside of all this Nico is from Livingston New Jersey and after graduating from Livingston High School in 2015 was dealt his hand at life and like the rest of us had a far fetched dream to be in this industry that he knew he could obtain and was willing to hurdle over all those obstacles to reach them.

After Graduating from The Connecticut School of Broadcasting Nico worked hard to obtain an internship at SiriusXM Radio with the Jim and Sam Show and from there on made his way to becoming and Associate Producer having served under many Channels such as Barstool Sports Radio, Faction Talk, Radio Andy, Fight Nation, NFL Radio, The Howard Stern Channels and so much more.

Nick Morgasen is the co-host and Executive Producer of Empty The Bench and Beyond The Bench. Nick is also the Head of Content and Programming.

 Nick formerly worked for 770 WABC in NY as a board operator, producer, phone screener and editor. He also worked for Westwood One as a backup producer, board operator editor and social media manager for, “The John Batchelor Show”.

 Nick got his Associate’s Degree from Nassau Community College and worked at the campus radio station WHPC. He hosted a show called, “All in With Nick Morgasen” where he had the chance to interview celebrities from: ESPN, ABC, CBS, A&E, TruTV, Food Network and more.

Nick received his bachelor’s in Broadcasting from LIU Post in 2015. He worked for the college radio station WCWP as the sports director and hosted sports talk shows.

When Nick isn’t being a workaholic, he loves to spend time with his family and his niece and nephew. He also likes to exercise and be social. Nick is also a huge New York Yankees, New York Jets and Brooklyn Nets fan.