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unusual facts about Sports radio


Mara Davis

In October 2012 the radio station WZGC 92.9 retired "dave fm" and turned to a 24-hour sports-talk format.


Foster Hewitt Broadcasting

The company ended with the sale of the station by Hewitt in 1980 to Telmed Communications Limited and the station was later renamed CJCL-AM 1430 in 1981 and all sports radio (FAN-1430) in 1992.

Let's Talk Penn State

Let's Talk Penn State was an afternoon drive sports radio program based out of WKPS in State College that featured O. Richard Bundy and Jon Nese.

Mel Karmazin

He is currently the principal owner of Good Karma Broadcasting, which owns eleven radio stations in four states, including eight sports radio stations.

Terrell Buckley

Sports Talk radio host Jim Rome refers to Buckley as T-Buck and credits him as one of the The Jungle's first guests who appeared consistently on the program.

Tony Casillas

Casillas is currently the host of Casillas and Company a sports talk show on Oklahoma City radio station 107.7 The Franchise KRXO.

V Deep

The song "Up All Night" from this album is used as the bumper music for the final segment of the U.S. sports radio show The Jim Rome Show.

WSML

The station is part of the "Triad Sports Network," a sports trimulcast with WCOG from Greensboro and WMFR from High Point.


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2013–14 Wichita B-52s season

The team's games are broadcast locally by KGSO (1410 AM, "Sports Radio 1410") and over the internet via America One Sports.

A. J. Godbolt

Godbolt is the son of Michael "Bucky" Godbolt, a popular Austin sports radio personality on 104.9 The Horn and former University of Texas running backs coach.

Andy Gresh

While in college, Gresh interned for various sports radio stations including WFAN in New York City and ESPN Radio in Bristol.

Andy Jacobs

Andrew Carl-Magnus "Andy" Jacobs (born Reykjavik, 26 November 1946) is a British sports radio personality presenting the Hawksbee and Jacobs show alongside Paul Hawksbee on talkSPORT in the UK, every weekday from 1-4pm.

Blast Lacrosse

The game is voiced by play-by-play man, and sports radio host, Scott Ferrall.

Bob Valvano

His show also features the Sports Radio Match Game regularly, based upon the 1970s edition of Match Game, complete with audio from the show.

Brad Hopkins

He currently works as a sports radio personality for WPRT-FM in Nashville.

Christian Argenti

In 2010 and 2011, Argenti hosted the national drive sports radio show 'The Home Straight' with former AFL player Peter 'Spida' Everitt and former NRL player Scott Sattler on the Southern Cross Austereo 'Localworks' network across Australia.

Craig Shemon

In addition to Yahoo Sports Radio, he also served as a talk show host for Fox Sports Radio and has called play-by-play for NFL on Fox, NFL Europe on NFL Network, and college football and basketball for the Big Ten Network.

Dan Manucci

He is currently co-host of the sports radio talk show "Calling All Sports with Roc and Manuch;" the show was previously a weekend show on Sporting News Radio, but is currently a daily local show on KDUS in Phoenix, Arizona.

Dan Wetzel

He cohosts a weekly radio show on Yahoo Sports Radio with Pat Forde.

Geber

Nick Geber, England-born, American sports radio and television personality

Greg Ritchie

He played a comedy character, a supposed Punjabi Sikh with a full beard and turban called Mahatma Cote on Channel Nine's The Footy Show as well as other sports radio comedy chat segments.

Jack Mildren

Mildren served as the Vice-Chairman for the Arvest Bank Group, and as an announcer for Jox 930 WKY - Oklahoma's oldest radio station - which is an all-sports radio station in Oklahoma City.

Jacqueline Bracamontes

A soccer aficionado, in August 2008 she became host of a Mexican sports radio show on Vision AM, and was later invited by univision to be a host and correspondent of the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Jeff Rickard

At Fantasy Sports Radio he co-hosts with former NFL great LaDainian Tomlinson during football season and former MLB General Manager Steve Phillips during Baseball season.

Kall

KALL, an all-sports radio station in the Salt Lake City, Utah area

Kansai Telecasting Corporation

Osaka International Ladies Marathon (大阪国際女子マラソン, Hosted by Japan Association of Athletics Federations, Kansai TV, the Sankei Shimbun, Sankei Sports, Radio Osaka and Osaka City)

KEJO

In addition to its regularly scheduled sports talk programs, KEJO airs select local high school football games plus Oregon State Beavers football, men's basketball, and baseball as part of the Beaver Sports Radio Network.

Larry Izamoje

Widely traveled, he was the only African journalist that covered the historic Marvin Hagler/Sugar Ray Leonard bout in Las Vegas in 1987, and with his wife the only Africans that attended the global Sports Radio Conference, San Diego in 2002.

Maine Diner

The Maine Diner has served some famous guests, including boxing announcer Bob Sheridan, a Boxing Hall of Fame member; and Eddie Andelman, a sports radio talk host.

Michael Landsberg

He is a regular guest on the TSN Radio 1050 show Macko and Cauz, where he is referred to as the Darcy Tucker/Leo Komarov of radio, in a segment dubbed "the fastest half-hour in sports radio".

Mike Mayock

Additionally, Mayock has experience covering college football for Prime Network, NCAA Productions, Prime Sports Radio and the Big East Conference.

Murph

Mike Murphy (sports radio personality), nicknamed Murph, a Chicago sports radio talk show host on 670 The Score.

Nathan LaFayette

On April 10, 2008, he was interviewed on the Team 1040 BMac & Rintoul sports radio morning show on the "Where are they now" feature.

Randy Karraker

He currently hosts The Fast Lane, the top-rated sports radio show in St. Louis, on 101 ESPN, along with former St. Louis Rams defensive tackle D'Marco Farr and former St. Louis Cardinals player Chris Duncan.

Tom Tolbert

In 1996, Tolbert was hired by KNBR, a San Francisco-based local sports radio station, to co-host a radio talk show titled The Razor and Mr. T with longtime Bay Area sports radio host Ralph Barbieri.

Troy Stradford

Stradford currently works as a Sports talk show host on WFTL 640 Sports radio weekdays from 10AM-12PM and as the host of the Gameday Insiders heard weekends on WFTL 640 and WFTL 850 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

WSKX

On January 10, 2008, it was noted that the station had dropped country and was simulcasting sister station WQSO 96.7 (oldies) with WUBB's website stating "Coming Soon! Sports Radio" with a link to MSN's Fox Sports page, implying that the new format would be Fox Sports Radio, seeing as the station is owned by Clear Channel Communications, which, in turn, owns Fox Sports Radio.

XHPRS-FM

From 2006 to 2008, this station simulcasted XEPRS-AM as XX (pronounced Double X) Sports Radio.